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Bangkok festival unveils animation sidebar
The forthcoming Bangkokfestival (Jan 13-24) will dedicate a new sidebar to animated film. It willinclude a special tribute to animator, producer, director, Gabor Csupo.The Csupo retrospective will becomplemented by a series of animation seminars conducted by Csupo andexecutives from his Los Angeles-based firm Klasky-Csupo - Hal Waite, seniorvice president of ...
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Ontario boosts production tax credits
Ontario-based producers andservice providers received an early Christmas gift as the province increasedthe labour-based production tax credits for foreign and domestic productions.Effective Jan 1 2005, the Ontario Production Services Tax Credit for foreignproductions will increase from 11% to 18% and the Ontario Film and TelevisionTax Credit for domestic productions will ...
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China unveils tougher penalties for pirates
China has strengthened its anti-piracy laws to make iteasier to prosecute copyright violations and to allow tougher sentences to behanded out to offenders.Thenew rules cover many kinds of copyright and patent violations but are specificabout film and other software. Starting from Dec 22, anyone found copying anddistributing more than 5,000 ...
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Popular UK shorts get second outing at London's Curzon Soho
Ashowcase of popular UK shorts will get a second outing next month at Londonspecialist cinema Curzon Soho after a sell-out screening.Theten-title collection of naturalistic dramas, mathematicalpuzzles and a samurai film includes shorts by former WorkingTitle executive Amanda Boyle, British Independent Film Awards nominee SimonHookandBafta-nominated Carol Morley. The filmswill be screened ...
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Butler named as FilmFour development chief
FilmFour have appointed Katherine Butler as head ofdevelopment.Butler was executive producer with the New Zealand FilmCommission until 2002 where she developed projects including the Academy Awardnominated Whale Rider. Most recently she has been working as head of developmentwith Alison Owen at Ruby Films and Gwyneth Paltrow at Go Go Pictures, ...
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Irish censor introduces new ratings system
Two changes to existing film certificate categories arebeing introduced by Ireland's Film Censor, John Kelleher.A new '16'certificate will restrict admission to persons aged sixteen and over, and theexisting '12PG' and '15PG' certificates will be re-designated '12A' and '15A',where the 'A' denotes adult. The changes will take effect from Jan 1, ...
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Taylor parts company with UGC Cinemas
UGCCinemas UK and Ireland managing director Margaret Taylor has left the company,just weeks after the exhibitor was taken over by US buyout firm the BlackstoneGroup.Taylorwas in charge of the 42 UGC cinemas in the UK and Ireland. During her tenure,she was responsible for introducing the company's cinema loyalty card, theUnlimited ...
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Justice takes Taiwan doc festival top prize
Dutch director Maria Ramos was awarded the grand prize atthe Taiwan International Documentary Festival (Dec 11-17) for herfeature-length film Justice about daily life in a Brazilian courtroom.The film, which follows four characters either working in orpassing through the Rio de Janeiro court, also picked up best documentary atthis year's Visions ...
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The Incredibles nears $200m for BVI
TheIncredibles added an estimated $26.7m forBuena Vista International (BVI) at the weekend, raising the picture'sinternational cumulative total to $189.5m.Highlightswere first place debuts in Mexico and South Korea, where the picture took $3.5mon 680 screens and $1.8m on 221 respectively.Strongholds saw Japan add $3.2m in its third weekend for $20.1m, while ...
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SWEDEN 21 December
A slew of new releases hit the Swedish chart thisweekend, where Ocean's Twelve's all-star lineup unsurprisingly stole offwith the top spot.Its impressive $9,475 screen average on high 95 printsdwarfed all competition, but local newcomer Maria Blum did reasonably on secondwith a $3,324 average from 89 prints with her feature debut ...
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AVP approaches $80m for Fox International
FoxInternational's action title Alien Vs Predator opened in its final major market of Japan at the weekend, rankingfourth on an estimated $2.9m on 380 screens.Thepicture's international running total now stands at $77.1m.Elsewhere,the distributor released the cartoon adaptation Garfield in China, where itgrossed $384,000 for an undisclosed rank. The international cumulative ...
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Hay appointed Scottish Screen chief executive
ScottishScreen has confirmed the appointment of Edinburgh-born Ken Hay as their newChief Executive.Hay replaces Steve McIntyre who chose not to renew hiscontract when it ended in August.Thelengthy search for a successor had thrown a number of respected Scottish namesinto the ring, notably Edinburgh International Film Festival managing directorGinnie Atkinson.The 40year-old ...
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Wargnier's Man To Man to open Berlinale
The world premiere of French director RegisWargnier's anthropological epic Man To Man will be the opening film ofthe Berlin International Film Festival(Feb 10-20).Starring Joseph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas,Iain Glen, Hugh Bonneville and Flora Montgomery, the film is set in SouthAfrica in the 1870s and follows the search for the so-called ...
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WBITD signs Nordic deal with Viasat Broadcasting
Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a three-year deal withNordic media and telecommunications giant Modern Times Group's ViasatBroadcasting for the shared rights to a range of theatrical and televisiontitles.Under the termsof the deal Viasat gains rights to broadcast free-to-air television premieresof first-run titles in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish territories ...
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Oceans Twelve marches to top of int'l chart
Ocean'sTwelve opened inanother 22 territories in its second week on international release, helping itsteal pole position from The Incredibles.StevenSoderbergh's film is now playing in 27 territories and claimed number ones inmost new territories for a $28.9m weekend. The original film grossed $267.3mfrom international markets, 59% of the worldwide total.Anexception to ...
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Kino picks up The Rider Named Death, The Ninth Day
KinoInternational has picked up US rights to Karen Shakhnazarov's The RiderNamed Death and Academy Awardwinning director Volker Schlondorff's The Ninth Day.TheRider Named Death premiered at theMontreal Film Festival and is set to open in New York City in April 2005.AndreyPanin stars as the Russian terrorist Boris Savinkov, who was an ...
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Kidman, Shore to receive Palm Springs honours
Nicole Kidman will receivethe Chairman's Award and Oscar composer Howard Shore will be honoured with the FrederickLoewe Award for Film Composing at the 16th annual Palm SpringsInternational Film Festival (PSIFF).Alejandro Amenabar, who directed Kidman in The Others, will present thehonour at the awards gala on Jan 8. Shore will receive ...
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Montreal set for three film festivals in 2006
The Montreal World Film Festival officially has competition. Federal film subsidy agency Telefilm Canada and its provincial counterpart SODEC announced the winning bid to organize a new event in the city.But Montreal's ongoing film festival war got a little stranger when it was revealed the outcome resulted through a merger ...
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MGM shareholders approve Sony-led takeover
MGM shareholders have approved of the proposed studio takeover bythe LOC Acquisition Company consortium.The consortium comprises Sony Corp of America, Providence EquityPartners, Texas Pacific Group, Comcast and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners.The merger plan was adopted at a special meeting of stockholderson Dec 17. Consummation remains subject to clearance under the ...
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Coixet's Life wraps on Belfast oil rig
Production wrapped last week (Friday, Dec 17) in Belfast onIsabel Coixet's The Secret Life of Words, an El Deseo production starring Tim Robbins which shot for threeweeks in Madrid before coming to Northern Ireland.The El Deseo located in Northern Ireland because parts of the story areset on an oil rig ...