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Producers warn of uncertainty for UK film financing
UK film financing is stillploughing through choppy waters as the consultation period for the new taxbreaks comes to an end this Friday (Oct 21).And while producers andfinanciers at Screen International's UK Film Finance Summit in London onTuesday were hardly talking up doomsday scenarios, they did foresee uncertaintyahead, followed by new ...
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Spain finalises plans for new guarantee fund
The Spanish government hasformed a landmark new mutual guarantee fund for the audiovisual sector,unveiled Monday in Madrid under the banner Audiovisual SGR.Spain's Minister of CultureCarmen Calvo announced the initiative in sketchier detail at last month'sDonostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival while the project awaitedapproval from supervising entity the Bank of Spain.It ...
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AFI Awards to get makeover for TV debut
Organisers of the AFI(Australian Film Institute) Awards have revealed a major revamp on the heels ofthe recent announcement that the event is being hosted by Russell Crowe.The awards have been splitinto a craft and non-feature awards event on Friday November 25 at theWaterfront City Pavilion and a cocktail party and ...
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Cecchi Gori announces comeback - again
Almost fiveyears after his spectacular fall from grace, Italian former moviemogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori has announced - again - that he is back At a pressconference held in his luxurious Rome residence, Palazzo Borghese, theflamboyant producer said he expects several imminent legal victoriesthat will finally turn the tide and put ...
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Hollywood Classics launches InFrame sales agency
HollywoodClassics, a decades-old distributor of classic films, is launching a new salesagency devoted to contemporary independent films. Joe Dreier, headof Hollywood Classics and its new InFrame division, said that the new arm wouldwork with "new independent films from first or second-time directors who showgreat promise." He estimated the company's titles ...
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Fog remake takes lead at US box office with $12.2m
The horror genre returned tothe top of the charts over the weekend as Sony/Revolution's remake The Fog opened narrowly ahead of last weekend's championWallace & Gromit on an estimated $12.2m. Paramount's romantic comedy Elizabethtown opened in third place on a middling $11m, while NewLine's action biopic Domino disappointed in sixth ...
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Saudis open first cinema in 20 years
Saudi Arabia is to allow the opening of itsfirst cinema in two decades, according to reports.The cinemawill be located in the InterContinental Hotel in the capital Riyadh, and will have 1,400 seats. There areno signs of a wider thawing of restrictions.The newfacility will present only cartoons aimed at women and ...
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2929 launches US sales and marketing service
Continuing itsefforts to circumvent the traditional distribution model, Mark Cuban and ToddWagner's 2929 Entertainment has launched Truly Indie, a US sales and marketingservice for independent filmmakers.Truly Indie willsupply all basic marketing services offered by theatrical distributors,including publicity, promotion, press screenings and advertising.Each campaignwill be tailored to the filmmaker's needs and ...
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NBC Universal extends TV deals with Televisa, TV3
NBC UniversalInternational Television Distribution has announced two key deals at MIPCOM inCannes, extending licensing deals with Televisa in Mexico and TV3 in NewZealand.Televisa hasextended its exclusive multi-year licensing agreement for free terrestrialtelevision rights in Mexico to NBC Universal's current and library televisionprogramming and feature films.Titles in thedeal include the upcoming ...
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Were-rabbit casts its spell across the globe
Animation ruledthe international waves for the second consecutive weekend as DreamWorksInternational's Wallace and Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-rabbit grossed an estimated $26.4m through UIP,powered by a mighty $11.3m UK launch.The UK debut in502 sites did not include $4.9m in previews and according to UIP executivesgenerated 96% more than the ...
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Almodovar, Trier among heavyweights on GFI board
Pedro Almodovar,Lars von Trier, Cameroon's Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mexico's Carlos Reygadas areamong the Global Film Initiative's (GFI) new 15-strong film board of filmmakersand industry personnel.GFI heads hopeto spread the organisation's message of cross-cultural understanding throughthe appointees, a full list of whom appears below."Filmmakers inevery corner of the world bring the ...
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Trans-Pacific represents King Of Beggars
Internationalfilm consultant Trans-Pacific Media (TPM) has picked up Israeli theatredirector Uri Paster's multi-language historical drama King Of Beggars for worldwide representation, andexpects to announce a sales agent before AFM.Shot entirely inLithuania and based on Mendele Mocher Seforim's novel of the same name, KingOf Beggars charts therise of a Jewish hero ...
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Hard Candy sweeps prizes at Sitges
David Slade's Hard Candy picked up best film and script honors at Spain'sInternational Film Festival of Catalunya, better known as Sitges (Oct 9-17).Brian Nelson wrote thescript for Hard Candy, a shockingtale of sexual politics and revenge about a thirtysomething fashionphotographer and a 14 year-old girl who meet online then arrange ...
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Nikifor, Lazarescu win top Chicago prizes
Organisers at the 41stChicago International Film Festival announced jury prize winners yesterday,headed up by the Gold Hugo award in the International Film Competition section forKrzysztof Krauze's Polish drama My Nikifor (Moj Nikifor).Cristi Puiu's Romanian entryThe Death Of Mr Lazarescu (Moartea Domnului Lazarescu) took the Silver Hugo special jury prize, while ...
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IndiVision project West set to crank up in Sydney
West, the second film greenlit under the Australian FilmCommission's new low-budget initiative IndiVision, is scheduled to startproduction in Sydney next week. The first draft of the film waswritten by its writer/director Daniel Krige about 20 years ago when he was just16 years of age.The film stars young actorsNathan Phillips, whose ...
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Balkan films emerge as big winners at Warsaw festival
Balkancinema was the big winner at this year's Warsaw International FilmFest (Oct7-16) taking home three of the top prizes. TheInternational Jury headed by Polish-born UK director Pawel Pawlikowski gave theNescafe Grand Prix for Best Film in the 'New Films, New Directors'international competition to Croatian filmmaker Ognjen Svilicic's comic drama SorryFor ...
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Italian industry rallies behind cinema strike
Leading lightsin the Italian film industry joined a nationwide strike on FridayOctober 14, which closed down all cinemas, theatres and opera houses fora day and sent thousands to the streets to picketoutside theItalian Parliament. Those that tookpart included producers Aurelio De Laurentiis, DomenicoProcacci, RaiCinema chief Giancarlo Leone and actor-director Roberto ...
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Wolf Creek release hit by Oz murder trial
A murder trialthat starts on Monday (Oct 17) has led to Australian distributor Roadshowwithdrawing home-grown horror flick Wolf Creek from some cinema screens at the requestof the Director of Public Prosecutions. The film will nolonger be shown in the Northern Territory from November 3 but will be releasedeverywhere else in ...
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Shore leaves Kong after differences with Jackson
Citing creative differenceswith Peter Jackson, composer Howard Shore has "amicably" left the production ofKing Kong two months before itsNorth American release. Shore will be replaced byJames Newton Howard, the multi-Academy Award nominee whose credits include BatmanBegins, The Sixth Sense and RunawayBride. "I have greatly enjoyed mycollaborations with Howard Shore, whose ...
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Grain, Unforgiven take top awards at Pusan
Chinese-Korean co-productionGrain In Ear and Korean independent film The Unforgiven dominatedthe awards at the tenth edition of the Pusan International Film Festival (Oct6-14).Zhang Lu's Grain In Ear, which premiered in the Critics Week section at Cannes earlier this year, picked up the $30,000 NewCurrents Award for first and second-time Asian ...