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Marvel Studios names Douglas Finberg evp international marketing
Marvel Studios has appointed Douglas Finberg executive vice president of international marketing in a significant move that demonstrates its intent to broaden global awareness of the slate.
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Cayman Islands Film Commission launches 30% production rebate
International producers have a new location to consider after The Cayman Islands Film Commission announced its 30% rebate on film, video, commercial, and television productions that shoot in the Caribbean locale.
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Oscilloscope takes North American rights to Irish box office hit Kisses
New York-based Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Lance Daly’s Irish box office hit Kisses.
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NewsJane Wright and Christine Langan to head up BBC Films
Jane Wright has been appointed as managing director of BBC Films and Christine Langan has been appointed to the role of creative director of the division.Wright will oversee day-to-day responsibility for business, operations and marketing aspects of the division and will retain an executive producing role within BBC Films, while ...
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IFP Independent Filmmaker Lab announces ten documentary projects
Ten new documentaries at the rough cut stage have been selected to participate in IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Lab taking place this week.
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Eduardo Campoy named interim president of Spanish Film Academy
Leading film producer Eduardo Campoy has been named as the interim president of the Spanish FilmAcademy following the appointment of former chief, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, as minister of culture.
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Italian Film Commission presents new tax credit in LA
The Italian Film Commission is presenting the country’s first film incentive at a meeting in Los Angelestoday (April 16). It will be held at Shutters in Santa Monica this evening.
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NewsRicky Gervais' Cemetery Junction to start shooting in June
Cemetery Junction, the first film written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the award -winning team behind The Office, will start shooting on June 15.The project, which is filming in London, will star Gervais and Ralph Fiennes alongside newcomers Christian Cooke, Felicity Jones, Tom Hughes and Jack Doolan.Cemetery ...
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Vue to introduce 'mystery' cinema screenings
UKexhibitor Vue Entertainment is launching ‘mystery’ film screenings at 33 screens across England onMay 5.
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Film London pushes locations to review costs
Film London has started talks with the city’s locations and boroughs as part of a move to make the capital cheaper and more accessible to productions.
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Pretty Pictures acquires three Chinese features
French distributor Pretty Pictures has acquired three films produced by China’s August First Studios: My Long March, The First Of August and Night Attack.
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Tribeca Film Festival's World Premieres
Screen International’s lists of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival world premieres, with sales contacts.
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Medienboard boosts 2009 budget by $1.3m
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB), the German regional fund, will invest an additional $1.3m(Euros 1m) in the film projects this year.
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Roissy closes sales deals for Singing Nun tale Soeur Sourire
Shortly after announcing it had acquired Soeur Sourire; Roissy Films has closed sales with Canada andSwitzerland.
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Coach 14 acquires international sales rights for Police, Adjective
French sales house Coach 14 has acquired Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective for internationalsales. The film is running in the Un Certain Regard section of next month’s Cannes Film Festival.
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Piracy costs Italian industry about $700m annually
Italy’s cinema industry loses an estimated $699m (Euros 530m) to piracy annually, according to the first in-depth study of the impact of piracy in Italy. The findings were announced by Italy’s Anti Audiovisual Piracy Federation.
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UK's Intandem boards Humpty Dumpty
Intandem Films has secured worldwide sales rights to Humpty Dumpty, a sci-fi horror film featuring a 3D half-human, half-alien creature.The horror flick is the debut film from new writer Billy Majestic and it will be directed by David R Ellis (Snakes on a Plane).Former New Line Cinema executive, Mark Ordesky ...
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Huayi Brothers' Tracing Shadow sells across Asia
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers has tied up a slew of Asian sales on Hong Kong actor Francis Ng’s martial arts comedy Tracing Shadow, which is proving to be a hot seller in the run-up to Cannes.The $3m action comedy has been sold to Scorpio East for Singapore and Malaysia, New Action ...
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Filmax refinances debts to set aside $32m a year for new technologies
Major Spanish studio Filmax has closed a deal with 41 banking institutions to refinance its debts so that it can set aside $32.5m (Euros 25m) annually to expand and improve its new technology business.
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