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Government announces details of UK film tax regime
With the UK's new film tax credit set to go into effect in just11 days, the government has finally provided details about its new tax regime.The most significant point for producers is a change to the qualifying threshold for tax relief - at least 25% of a film's budget must ...
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Korea's Tube Entertainment merges with media companies to form Mediacorp
Koreaninvestor/distributor Tube Entertainment has merged with stock exchange-listed publisherYoungjin Dotcom and entertainment-related firms Media 2.0 and Oi Music tocreate a "total media" enterprise called Mediacorp, which will be listed on thestock market.Mediacorpwill focus on entertainment, publishing, and digital content as its mainbusinesses this year. As the entertainment affiliate, Tube Entertainment ...
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Tartan starts DVD label for exploitation films
UK theatrical and home videodistributor Tartan has launched a new DVD label devoted to cult exploitationfilms, Tartan Grindhouse. The labelwill release double-DVD sets priced at $34.95 (£19.99). The label'sfirst release will be 1977's Last Houseon Dead-End Street, a horror film inspired by the Manson Family murders.That film was released with ...
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Pretty Pictures acquires three new features
Paris-based distributorPretty Pictures has announced the acquisition of three new films following theBerlin EFM.The company will releaseMaria Maggenti's Sundance competitor Puccini ForBeginners in fall 2006. The screwball sex farce stars Gretchen Mol, Elizabeth Reaser, Julianne Nicholsonand Justin Kirk and was acquired from Katapult Films.Spanish language title Rosario Tijeras, directed by ...
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Film Finance Corporation Australia to fund two new features
Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) today gavefinal approval on its investments in the animated feature $9.99 and a feature-length documentary investigating discreditedauthor Norma Khouri.The stop-motion animation for adults, $9.99, is the first officialbig-screen co-production between Australian and Israel.Israeli director Tatia Rosenthal wrote the scriptwith Etgar Keret and hasbeen working with ...
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Company 9 wins best film at 19th Nika Awards in Russia
The 19th annual Nika Awards ceremony took place in Moscow on Friday, March17. This year's awards yielded no realsurprises. Alexei Uchitel's character study Dreaming Of Space,Alexei Guerman, Jr.'shistorical drama Garpastumand Fyodor Bondarchuk's Afghan war epic and Company 9 managed to win multipleawards. Company 9, which was the box-office sensation of ...
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Showcase, Midnight, Restored sections unveiled at Tribeca 06
Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton'smockumentary Brothers Of The Head,Ward Serrill's female basketball documentary The Heart Of The Game, and Richard E Grant's directorial debut Wah-Wah were named today in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival'sShowcase line-up.Several world premieres areincluded in the Midnight section, among them Todd Stephens' gay teen spoof AnotherGay ...
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Filmko, Fortissimo come up for Air
Fortissimo Film Sales andHong Kong production company FilmkoEntertainment have boarded Zhang Yang's Air(working title), one of 25 projects participating at this year's Hong Kong AsiaFilm Financing Forum (HAF).Filmko announced today thatit is fully financing the $2.5m film while Fortissimo will handle world sales.Production is scheduled to start in southern China ...
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Fat Englishmen among winners at HAF
Lawrence Gray's Fat Englishmen, about a group ofbeer-swilling Brits who get cast as Sumo wrestlers in a Japanese beercommercial, was presented with the HAF Award for a Hong Kong project at the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) today. The cash award of $13,000(HK$100,000) was based on the creativity ...
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German producers look to the Balkans for success
Champagnecorks may have popped in Sarajevo after Jasmila Zbanic's debut feature Grbavicawon the Golden Bear at last month's Berlinale - but celebrationswere not confined to Bosnia and Herzegovina.Therewas also cause for jubilation in Germany: Didi Danquart's Karlsruhe-based noirfilm was one of the co-producers, along with Austria'scoop99, Zbanic's own company Deblokadaand ...
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UK hoping for tax break details in Budget
UK Chancellor Gordon Brown may announce tax break details in his Budget speech at 12.30pm (GMT) this afternoon.The UK film industry was cheered in December by an announcement about new film tax laws and they are hoping to have a clearer picture today.There is, however, no guarantee it will even ...
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Telefilm Canada closes Paris office
Telefilm Canada is closingits Paris office, effective March 31, 2006. The Canadian film and televisionfunding agency said the closure made sense because few clients were using theoffice and that what limited function is achieved there can be obtained throughother Canadian operations in the French capital and throughout Europe, such asembassies ...
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Noonan lands promotions and communications role at WBHEG
Jim Noonan has been promoted to the newly created post of seniorvice president of worldwide strategic promotions and communications at WarnerBros Home Entertainment Group (WBHEG).In the new post he will create strategic cross-platform, cross-divisionalpromotions for content distributed through the ambitious WBHEG's units, whichinclude home video, digital distribution, and interactive.He was ...
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Croatian Wonderful Night In Split wins at RiverRun festival
Arsen Anton Ostojic's Croatian drama A Wonderful Night In Split dominated the closing night ceremony atthe 8th RiverRun International Film Festival, winning four jury awardsincluding best narrative feature.The tapestry of interwoven stories also claimed the best directorand screenplay honours for Ostojic and the best cinematography award for MirkoPivcevic.James Burke's US ...
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The Works signs DVD deal with Universal Pictures UK
The Works UK distribution has just signed an exclusive home entertainment output deal with Universal Pictures UK. Universal will release The Works Distribution titles on video and DVD and the UK, while The Works will continue to handle theatrical distribution. One of the first titles under the new deal will ...
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Tribeca shorts lineup includes new work from Kiarostami, Sylvia Kristel
Short films from musician Laurie Anderson, Dutch actress SylviaKristel and young US actors Adrian Grenier and Melissa Joan Hart are amonginternational narrative shorts from 15 countries in Tribeca's short filmline-upDocumentary shorts cover subjects ranging from Don Cheadle'sfamily trip to Africa to Roseanne Cash's recollections of family and music to newwork ...
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Ossana, Moresco, Olson line up for Scriptwriters Showcase in LA
Oscar winners Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain) and Bobby Moresco (Crash) along with Academy Award nominee Josh Olson, who wrote A History OfViolence, are keynotespeakers at the upcoming Scriptwriters Showcase that runs in Los Angeles fromApr 7-9.The event comprises four separate panels on feature writing, TV writing,development, and writing for video ...
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Adrift finds safe harbour with Korean distributor
Summit Entertainment hasclosed a deal with Korean major distributor Showbox Mediaplex forEnglish-language thriller Adrift. About a groupof holiday-makers who get stranded in the water without a ladder to get back upinto their yacht - with a baby alone on board, the film was all but sold out inBerlin. Korean acquisitionsexecutives ...
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Antony Szeto's Wushu gets golden touch
Golden Network has picked up international rights to Hong Kong-based director Antony Szeto's Wushu, which is currently in pre-production.Produced by Hong Kong's Hippopotamus Films, the $1.5m drama is a coming-of-age story set in a martial arts school in a remote corner of China.Szeto is an award-winning action choreographer who recently ...
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Dragon Tiger Gate sells to major Asia territories
Mandarin Films' $10m DragonTiger Gate has been sold to a string of Asian territories including Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Taiwan, in addition to France, Benelux and the Scandinavia. Apan-Asian release is scheduled on July 28. A co-production with BeijingPolybona, the highly anticipated picture is based on TheGate of Dragon ...