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Film financiers zero in on Belgium
International productions are zeroing in on Belgium, the latest European hotspot for tax-driven production finance.Movision, the UK tax fund, is thought to be the first overseas operation to set up a fund in Belgium since it launched tax shelter regulations that can provide up to 50% of a budget. Movision, ...
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Nielsen boards Bier's Brothers
Connie Nielsen has boarded Susanne Bier's highly anticipated Brothers, which starts shooting on Monday Nov 10. The 38-year-old Danish actress, who has recently enjoyed a successful Hollywood career, had her breakthrough in Gladiator, and has appeared in One Hour Photo and The Hunted.Nielsen will play alongside Danish actors Ulrich Thomsen ...
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South Korean censors kill Bill's roll out plans
South Korea's Media Ratings Board has slapped an effective ban on Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 1, causing uproar among the film community and throwing local distributor CJ Entertainment's plans for a November 21 release into doubt.Cited by the board for its excessive violence and gore, the film was given ...
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Osama wins London's Sutherland prize
Days after illegal immigrant dramas Dirty Pretty Things and In This World won at London's British Independent Film Awards, a film directed by an exile from Afghanistan has triumphed at the London film festival.Osama, billed as the first film from post-Taliban Afghanistan, won this year's prestigious Sutherland Trophy, which is ...
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Irish tax authorities to chase Euros 17m
The Irish tax collection service, the Revenue Commissioners, has told a parliamentary committee that 6.4% of Section 481 tax relief over ten years had gone into non-compliant productions.The Irish Joint Parliamentary Committee on Finance spent nine hours yesterday (Nov 6) hearing presentations on the future of Section 481 tax relief ...
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The Matrix Revolutions - Day 2
With official first day figures in and second day figures starting to be reported The Matrix Revolutions looks set to follow previous instalment Reloaded with international earnings out performing domestic revenues.Indeed, a $24.3m first day gross in North America, where it launched at 06:00 in Los Angeles and 09:00 in ...
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Mambo Italiano becomes 2nd best Canadian performer
Canadian comedy Mambo Italiano has moved into second place among all-time Canadian box office performers, having earned $3.8m (C$5.1m) on release through Equinoxe Films. Its gross surpasses The Art Of War, which earned C$4.5m in 2000 but remains well short of top-placed Porkies, a 1981 release which earned C$11m. Produced ...
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European Film Award nominations announced
The European Film Academy has announced the nominations for the European Film Awards 2003. The winners will be announced during the Awards Ceremony in Berlin on Saturday, December 6. European Film 2003Dirty Pretty Things, UK, Dir: Stephen FrearsDogville, Denmark/Netherlands/Sweden/France/UK/Germany Dir: Lars von TrierGood Bye, Lenin!, Germany, Dir: Wolfgang BeckerIn This ...
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Bradley is appointed FFC chair
The Australian Government has named Graham Bradley as the new chair of the Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) board, effective from January 1 next year.For the eight years to September last year he was chief executive of Perpetual Trustees Australia Ltd, a publicly listed funds management and financial services group, ...
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Duffy's Man wins London's TCM Classic Shorts prize
The MostBeautiful Man in the World, directed by British film director Alicia Duffy and funded by theUK Film Council's New Cinema Fund, has won the TCM Classic Shorts best shortfilm of 2003 as part of the Times bfi 47th London Film Festival. Winning£10,000 in prize money, the best short film ...
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Sheridan's In America scores in Ireland
Jim Sheridan's In America's launched in Ireland over the weekend, helping to boost a phenomenal year for home-grown films at the local box office. Its UK gross, however, was disappointing - suggesting that the film will have to work hard to generate significant international returns.In America opened for 20th Century ...
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Fox strikes Mexican animation deal
20th Century Fox Mexico has struck a two-pic distribution deal with Anima Studios, an animation company founded by Fernando Perez Gavilan and Fernando de Fuentes. On Nov 19, Fox will release Anima Studio's Magicians And Giants (Magos Y Gigantes), the first-ever animated movie entirely made in Mexico. The 2D traditional ...
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Cage, Arclight go to War
Nicolas Cage is being lined up to star in Lords Of War, an international gunrunning thriller which overseas sales agent Arclight Films is handling.Directing the international co-production is Andrew Niccol, whose directing credits include S1mOne and Gattaca, and who was nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay for The Truman ...
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Scherfig double bill hits MIFED
Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig is to follow on from her successful Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself with another two English language features.What Wayne Didn't Know and Waltzing Griselda will be shot simultaneously next summer in Scotland, and buyers attending MIFED will be the first to have a chance to read ...
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Germany and France in industry Rendez-Vous
The first ever German-French Film Rendez-Vous was held at Lyon's Institut Lumiere on Nov 3 and 4.The two day event, an initiative of the German-French Film Academy and organised by French export body Unifrance, was an opportunity for directors, producers, politicians and executives to discuss issues currently facing the two ...
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Italian producers protest at Venice shake-up plan
Italy's association of independent producers (API) has officially voiced its concern over the threat of political interference on the Lido, which is already casting doubt over Moritz de Hadeln's position as artistic director of the Venice Film Festival. A new polemic erupted this week when the government's plan for a ...
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Kim Ki-duk starts Samaria shoot
South Korean director Kim Ki-duk has started shooting on his 10th film, a low-budget revenge story titled Samaria. Produced by Kim Ki-duk Films and financed by local distributor Show East, the film tells the story of a man who discovers that his teenage daughter is selling sexual favours to middle-aged ...
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MDC takes on Schultze sales
Berlin-based sales agent MDC International has picked up international distribution for Michael Schorr's feature debut Schultze Gets The Blues, which won the Special Director's Award at this year's Venice Film Festival.The tragicomedy produced by Filmkombinat Nordost has already secured theatrical distribution in the USA (Paramount Classics), UK (Paramount), Germany and ...
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Hero rules the Rooster at China's top film awards
Zhang Yimou's Hero scooped four prizes at this year's Golden Rooster Awards - mainland China's top film honours - including best director, best co-production, best sound recording and best production design. The martial arts blockbuster was excluded from competing for best picture as it's a co-production - between Beijing New ...
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Blethyn, Bonneville join cast of Myriad's Piccadilly Jim
BrendaBlethyn and Hugh Bonneville have been cast in the comedy Piccadilly Jim, joining Sam Rockwell and TomWilkinson in the adaptation of the P.G. Wodehouse classic novel scripted byOscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes.Set tobegin shooting this month in the UK under director John McKay (Crush), Piccadilly Jim is set in 1930's England, ...