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German media funds reel as cabinet agrees tax overhaul
German Minister of FinanceHans Eichel held out an olive branch to the German film industry on Wednesday(May 4) after the Federal Cabinet agreed on proposed tax legislation which willclose the door to the old-style German media funds (ScreenDaily.com, May 2).Eichel said that a workinggroup convened by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder earlier ...
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IFP/Los Angeles to rebrand as Film Independent
IFP/Los Angeleshas broken off from the IFP umbrella group and has relaunched as FilmIndependent [FIND], in a move that executive director Dawn Hudson said wouldallow the group to better serve its booming Southern California membership.FIND willcontinue to produce both the Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles FilmFestival, and work ...
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Screen Producers Ireland appoints CEO, chairman
Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) has announced theappointment of a new chief executive and a new chairman following their recentAGM. DavidMcLoughlin will take over as chief executive with effect from 9 May, whileRonan McCabe has succeeded Larry Bass as chairman. SPIrepresents over 225 independent film and television production companies inIreland, working ...
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Star Wars beats the record
Sony Pictures Parent co: Sony CorpHoward Stringer,chairman-CEO SPE:Sony Pictures Entertainment Michael Lynton,chairman-CEO, Sony Pictures EntertainmentAmy Pascal, chairman, SPEMotion Picture GroupJeff Blake, vice chairman,SPE & president, worldwide marketing and distributionYair Landau, vice chairman,SPE & president, Sony Pictures DigitalGeoffrey Ammer, president ofworldwide marketing, SPE Motion Picture GroupBob Osher, COO, ColumbiaPictures Motion Picture ...
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Cannes unveils competition screening schedule
TheCannes Film Festival (May 11-22) has unveiled the screening schedule for thefilms playing in its official selection this year.Festival watchers will scrutinise the schedule carefully tosee which films have secured strong screening slots. In recent years, most films that go on to win the Palme d'Or haveplayed in the second ...
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xXx sequel splutters into int'l chart lead
XXx: TheNext Level took the lead on theinternational table this week.However, The Next Level's lead was marred by its relatively weak performance($15m) given its 60 plus territory release count. The action title, the firstof the summer's major day-and-date releases, saw openings range fromfirst places (including Germany and Spain) to a ...
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George, Duhamel to star in 2929's Turistas
RisingAustralian actress Melissa George, who stars in the current North Americanremake of The Amityville Horror, has signed on to play the female lead in John Stockwell'sthriller Turistas.2929 Productionsand Stone Village are teaming up on the project, which is due to beginprincipal photography in Brazil on May 25, and are currently ...
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Levinson, Golchan team to acquire Peau remake rights
Barry Levinson and FredericGolchan have acquired the English-language remake rights to Daniel Roby's LaPeau Blanche (White Skin), the winner of the first Canadian feature prize atthe 2004 Toronto International Film Festival.Golchan told Screen Daily thepair are planning to produce the picture and are shopping the project to USstudios. He said ...
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Spyglass seals four year free-TV deal in Italy with RTI
SpyglassEntertainment has signed a four-year free-TV output deal with RTI, thetelevision arm of Italian communications giant Mediaset, that will include theupcoming Memoirs of A Geisha and The Legend Of Zorro.It's another direct relationship engineered by Spyglass followingthree existing long-term TV output deals in Europe with Canal Plus in France,with ...
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Depp, Initial, Heyday team on Hornby adaptation for Warner
Johnny Depp, Graham King and David Heyman are to produce NickHornby's latest novel A Long Way Down for Warner Bros, the studio announced yesterday [2].King will produce for InitialEntertainment Group, Depp for his production company Infinitum Nihil, andHeyman for Heyday Films. Kevin McCormick is overseeing the project for WarnerBros.Initial, which ...
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Cannes adds Hong's Cinema to competition line-up
The Cannes Film Festival hasannounced the addition of Hong Sang-soo's A Tale Of The Cinema (Geuk-Jang-Jeon) to its official selection. The film will compete forthe Palme D'Or along with the films originally announced on April 19.The latest film from the South Korean director is the storyof a man who sees ...
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Bishop charged with integrating MGM assets into Sony
David Bishop has been named president of worldwide brandintegration strategy for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), effectiveimmediately. He comes to Sony from MGM where he spent 15 years, most recentlyas president and chief operating officer of MGM Home Entertainment Group. In his new post Bishop, who will be located at SPE'sheadquarters ...
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International filmmakers triumph at Tribeca
International filmmakers and co-productionsdominated the prizes as the fourth annual Tribeca Film Festival wrapped onSaturday night. Chinese filmmaker Li Shaoshong's Stolen Life (Sheng Si Jie) won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature,with Italian Pietro Reggiani receiving a Special Mention for My Brother's Summer. Netherlands-Hungaryco-production El Perro Negro: StoriesFrom The ...
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Goblet Of Fire set for simultaneous Imax release
Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire will be released on Imaxscreens simultaneous with the picture's conventional release on November 18,2005. It is the second film in the$2.6bn-grossing franchise to be released day-and-date with the 35mm version; Harry Potter AndThe Prisoner Of Azkaban: The IMAX Experience,released in June ...
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Black Sheep leaps into Icon's arms
NZ Film has pre-sold six territories including the UK to BlackSheep, a first film from New Zealand aboutkiller sheep, ensuring the film will go into production this year. Icon hasacquired UK, Australian and New Zealand rights to writer/director JonathanKing's debut comedy horror. Jiants has taken rights in Thailand,Singapore and Malaysia.The ...
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Menemsha to sell Midnight Movies in Cannes
Stuart Samuels'documentary Midnight Movies, which screens in official selection in thefestival, is among four market premieres that Neil Friedman's Los Angeles-basedMenemsha Films will offer to buyers at Cannes.Midnight Moviescharts the rise of the late-night film craze that started with AlejandroJodorowsky's El Topo atthe Elgin Theatre in New York in December ...
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Vue swallows Ster Century's UK and Ireland circuit
The consolidation of the UK exhibition industry continuedapace last week as Vue Entertainment announced its acquisition of the SterCentury UK & Ireland circuit, comprising seven cinemas.The combined circuit will have 49 multiplexes with 496screens.Tim Richards, CEO of Vue said: "These high qualitycinemas perfectly complement Vue's current circuit of 42 cinemas ...
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Quinta to release Chromophobia in France
Quinta Distribution will release Cannes closing film Chromophobia in France, Quinta president Tarak Ben Ammarconfirmed last week. The company also has world rights to the film directed byMartha Fiennes; Ammar is also producer on the film. The film stars Martha's brother Ralph Fiennes and his EnglishPatient co-star Kristin Scott-Thomas. Alsoon ...
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Death knell tolls for German media funds
German media funds look set to be put out of business thisweek because of a proposed tightening up of tax fund legislation by FinanceMinister Hans Eichel.Eichel's plans to curtail tax breaks for media investmentfunds will be hugely painful for US producers. They will also be "acomplete catastrophe for the German ...