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Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region to issue production cash
France's Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) region announced on Monday that it would set aside Euros 1.5m to aid productions shooting in the region. The funding will be open to French companies but also to Europeans in the case of a French co-production.Based on the National Cinema Centre's (CNC) advance on receipts ...
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UK's Film & TV School CEO returns to film-making
Stephen Bayly, chief executive of the UK's National Film and Television School (NFTS), is stepping down to return to film-making. Bayly, a producer-director whose producing credits include Marleen Gorris' Mrs Dalloway and Richard III, directed by Richard Loncraine, has been at the NFTS since 1998 and is a graduate of ...
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Haffa brothers fined for misrepresenting EM.TV finances
Former German stockmarket high flyers, brothers Thomas and Florian Haffa were found guilty yesterday (Tuesday) of misrepresenting their previous company, EM.TV's financial figures in 2000 in order to influence the share price.The Munich division for criminal matters imposed a fine of Euros 1.2m on Thomas Haffa and one of Euros ...
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UK tax fund First Choice backs 30% of Myriad duo, Purifiers
First Choice, the innovative UK tax fund launched by financier Grosvenor Park, is pumping approximately 30% of the budgets into two high-profile titles on MyriadPictures' international sales slate - Istvan Szabo's Being Julia and Trauma,director Marc Evan's next picture after UK horror hit My Little Eye.BeingJuliais being produced through Robert ...
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Harmony Gold picks up Going Down
International sales agent HarmonyGold has acquired global distribution rights - excluding North Americantheatrical - to fledgling production company Paia Pictures' teen comedy GoingDown.The picture, which centreson a seemingly unstoppable house party, is due to open theatrically in LosAngeles on Friday (Apr 11), followed by a 54-city domestic platform roll-out.The 20-year-old ...
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HBO plan US theatrical release for Elaine Stritch pic
Thefeature-length HBO documentary Elaine Stritch At Liberty will be released in theatres later thisyear, HBO original programming executive vice president Sheila Nevins announcedtoday (Apr 9).The documentaryis named after Broadway legend Stritch's Tony Award winning one-womanshow and features live footage and testimonies from friends and colleaguesincluding documentary film-maker D A Pennebaker.ElaineStritch ...
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Jackie Chan to join Mandarin's $10m Sword Searchers
Hong Kong's Mandarin Entertainment has lined up Jackie Chan and hot local singer-actor Nicholas Tse to star in The Sword Searchers, a $10m action adventure film to be directed by Tony Ching Siu-Tung.The film, which will be set up as a co-production with a Chinese studio, is based on the ...
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Adrian Wootton named CEO of Film London
Adrian Wootton, acting director of the British Film Institute, has been appointed chief executive of Film London, the new body charged with representing and developing the film and media industry in the UK capital.Film London takes over responsibilities of the London Film and Video Development Agency and the London Film ...
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Schepisi lined up for Australian project after 15-year absence
Two expatriate Australian directors, Fred Schepisi (Last Orders) and John Polson (Swimfan), may be among those to benefit from the second fundraising by Australian partners the Nine Network and Macquarie bank, it was revealed last night. Schepisi was presented with the highest honour at the Australian Screen Directors Association awards ...
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Bollywood star tipped for Cannes jury, Schwarzenegger for Cannes party
Although the official Cannes jury list will not be announced until April 23rd, the Times of India today reported that actress Aishwarya Rai has accepted an offer from Gilles Jacob to sit on this year's panel. Quoting sources close to the Bollywood star, the Times notes that Rai would be ...
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Canal Plus snaps up six from Japan's Suncent
France's Canal Plus is acquiring worldwide rights, excluding Japan, to six pictures from Suncent CinemaWorks, the film production arm of Japanese satellite broadcaster WOWOW.The first film in the deal is Sogo Ishii's Gojo Reisenki, a lavishly produced period action film set for an autumn release in Japan. The film is ...
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Hong Kong box office suffers from SARS
The Hong Kong box office has been so badly hit by the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that exhibitors are starting to cut shows and distributors are pulling films from Easter release schedules.Hong Kong's leading exhibitors reported that box office receipts plummeted between 30% and 55% in the ...
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Hope & Glory Pictures opens UK base
Berlin production house Hope & Glory Pictures International (HGPI) has opened a London-based outpost."We have set up the office in London since 95% of our projects are in the English language. The move is also a reflection of the company's development over the last three years through our work with ...
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Maynard, Kelly team for Australian/UK co-production
Film producer John Maynard, who has just been presented with an honorary degree from the Australian Film, Television & Radio School, is working with UK producer David Kelly on the financing of an adaptation of Randolph Stow's novel The Merry-Go-Round In The Sea. The co-production has been scripted by Peter ...
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European Cinema Exhibition conference to expand
The Danish Cinema Exhibitors' Association (Danske Biografer) is to host its third European Cinema Exhibition at the European Film College in Ebeltoft (Demark) from June 4-8 - and for the first time follow it up with another in Rome from Sep 24-28. The conference, European Cinema Exhibition - A New ...
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UK Film Council considers major digital cinema circuit
In a potentially groundbreaking move, UK Government support body the Film Council is hatching plans to pour close to $21.8m (£14m) into a nation-wide circuit of up to 250 digital screens.The move, which would leapfrog the UK to the forefront of the digital era, is aimed at fulfilling the council's ...
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Facing Windows shines at Italy's Oscar awards
Facing Windows by Ferzan Ozpetek was the big winner at this year's Donatello Awards, Italy's Oscars, scooping five awards including Best Film, Best Actor and Best Actress.The film, sold by Celluloid Dreams and produced by Tilde Corsi and Gianni Romoli's R&C Produzioni, is currently a major hit at the Italian ...
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Scorsese among new board members for Short Shorts Fest
Organisers atthe 2003 Short Shorts Film Festival today (Apr 10) announced the board ofdirectors for the second annual event, which runs in Los Angeles from Apr 29 toMay 1.The boardcomprises Martin Scorsese, Roger Donaldson, Edward Burns, Colin Farrell andLions Gate CEO Tom Ortenberg, as well as Toni Howard, Naomi Foner, ...
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Fox mounts 'global online chat' in advance of X2 mega-release
X-Men 2 director Bryan Singer and stars from the picture aredue to take part in a global online chat on Apr 15, two weeks before the Foxsequel goes out in what the studio is calling the largest day-and-date releasein industry.The picture is scheduled toopen in 93 international territories, including North ...
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Media Financial, Cascante team for Man Of The Year
Ari Newman'sdistribution and foreign sales outfit Media Financial International and salesveteran Gregory Cascante today (Apr 10) announced the acquisition of worldwiderights to Straw Weisman's Man Of The Year, with a platform theatrical US release scheduledfor this summer in Los Angeles.The improvisedensemble picture was shot in 12 hours with 25 actors ...