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Canada to boost production tax incentive by 45%
Canada's federal government will boost the production tax incentive, which has made it so attractive to foreign producers, by 45%. Thanks to a new federal budget announced yesterday, the Film or Video Production Services Tax Credit (FVPSTC) will be increased so that foreign film and television productions will be reimbursed ...
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CJ strikes early deals at AFM
Korean major, CJ Entertainment sold German rights to two of its leading titles sci-fi fantasy Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl and cyber-thriller Unborn But Forgotten (pictured) to I-On New Media. The deals were struck at the end of last week's European Film Market in Berlin. An earlier Berlin deal ...
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Susan Sarandon to star for Andrew Stevens' Powerhouse
Susan Sarandon is in final talks to star in the drama A Whale In Montana for Powerhouse Entertainment, the multimedia outfit headed up by Franchise Pictures co-founder Andrew Stevens that is making its AFM debut this year.Whale In Montana centres on a widowed, small town doctor whose life is transformed ...
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Cancellations hamper India's biggest industry event
With the keynote speaker pulling out at short notice, the Indian Film Industry conference FRAMES 2003 is facing a daunting task of attracting speakers - and delegates, given the global economic and political climate. FRAMES, held between March 14 -16 in Mumbai, is promoted as Asia's biggest convention on the ...
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Bloody Sunday director prepares Jimi Hendrix project
Paul Greengrass, the award winning director of Bloody Sunday, is preparing to shoot a film about the last days of rock-legend Jimi Hendrix.Called Cross Town Traffic, the film is to be scripted by Oliver Parker (It Was An Accident) and produced by Number 9 Films' Elizabeth Karlsen (Little Voice, The ...
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Korea's Jail Breakers given new Dimension
Miramax Films has agreed a "mid six-figure" sum to buy remake rights to Korean comedy Jail Breakers. The comedy about two felons who break out of jail only days before discovering that they were to be pardoned, Jail Breakers was a hit that notched 550,000 on its first three days ...
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Mexican film industry stands up to MPAA
The Mexican film industry has responded angrily to news that MPAA chief Jack Valenti wrote to Mexico's President Vicente Fox warning that the one peso levy on admissions may jeopardise Hollywood's investments in local cinema (Screendaily.com Feb10).An open letter to President Fox, signed by producers, directors, actors ...
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New proposal to stem the flow of German tax money to Hollywood
Ahead of next week's 'Alliance for Film' industry gathering in Cologne, producer-director and fund initiator Uwe Boll has added his voice to the debate about German media funds by proposing the adoption of the Canadian tax credit points system for the tax assessment of German funds.As Boll pointed out, "in ...
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French Cinema Rendezvous announces 2003 lineup in NYC
The latest titles from Claude Berri, Benoit Jacquot and Raymond Depardon are among a line-up of 14 French pictures that will receive their New York premieres in the upcoming festival, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2003. The event, which runs from Mar 7-16 at the Walter Reade Theatre, also features Olivier ...
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Alcon, Summit team on talking zebra picture
Summit Entertainment has pacted with Alcon Entertainment, its partner on Insomnia and Affair Of The Necklace, to handle international rights on a major new family movie called Racing Stripes which Warner Bros plans to release domestically in the second half of 2004. Summit will pre-sell the film through IS Film ...
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Hyde Park attaches Jackie Chan to high-octane slate
Ashok Amritraj's production and financing outfit Hyde Park Entertainment has added two high-level pictures to its development slate - action adventure The Hidden Kingdom which is being developed as a project for Jackie Chan with MGM and an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs adventure novel The Outlaw Of Torn. Richard ...
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MDP to fully finance Spacey's Bobby Darin biopic
Kevin Spacey is going back behind the camera to direct the story of Bobby Darin, the legendary crooner who died tragically of a rheumatic heart in 1973. Spacey will also star as Darin in the film which is being fully financed by MDP Worldwide, Mark Damon's sales and financing outfit ...
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Senator boards Bridge Of San Luis Rey with De Niro
Senator International has acquired worldwide sales rights excluding France and Spain for The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, an epic new adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 1927 novel which will star an impressive ensemble led by Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne and Harvey Keitel. Mary McGuckian, the Irish director ...
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Screen Gems buys domestic rights to Senator's Boogeyman
After a fierce bidding war, Senator International announced has announced that Sony's Screen Gems has acquired North American rights to Boogeyman, the first film produced by Ghost House Pictures, the genre label set up by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Senator. Senator International president Joe Drake made the deal with ...
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Krentzman leaves CAA, forms new movie financier
Adam Krentzman, one of the most well-known Hollywood agents in international packaging and financing, is leaving CAA after 17 years to set up a new film financing entity which already has five producing deals in the bag. Although Krentzman wouldn't be drawn on the name or financial structure of the ...
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Wright to direct, Dorff to star in CDI's Mule
Geoffrey Wright has signed on to direct and Stephen Dorff to star in Mule, the $17m actioner about the drug trade in Los Angeles, which is being produced by Tony Ludwig and Alan Riche (The Family Man, Deep Blue Sea) represented here by Chris Davis International. Dorff will also act ...
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Gonzalo Marquez joins TM Systems as CFO
TM Systems, the Miami and Hollywood-based designer of a fully integrated dubbing and subtitling service, has named finance veteran Gonzalo Marquez as CFO. Marquez arrives with more than nine years of experience in private equity investing and investment banking and was a principal of Banc of America Equity Partners, a ...
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Kamchatka sells to Italy, Denmark, Switzerland
Kamchatka, the critically acclaimed Argentinian film which played in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, has been sold to Mikado Film in Italy, Gloria Film in Denmark, Ascot Elite in Switzerland, United King in Israel and LNK in Portugal by international sales agent Neil Friedman of Menemsha Entertainment. The film, ...
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Imageworks sells UK, New Zealand on Heaven
Just prior to the AFM, Imageworks International closed a UK P&A and distribution deal with Film Financial Services and a New Zealand theatrical deal with Roadshow Film Distributors on The Other Side Of Heaven, the family film which Walt Disney Home Entertainment will release in North America on April 1.Shot ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! - success at home and abroad
Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin!, this year's winner of the Berlinale's Blue Angel award for the best European film, has become the top German opener at this year's local box-office and has been sold to more European territories by sales agent Bavaria Film International (BFI).Becker's tragi-comic farce starring Daniel Bruehl ...