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Czech government rejects tax incentive for filmmakers
The Czech government has rejected a proposal to create a tax rebate for filmmaking, saying such an incentive would create special, beneficial tax conditions to a single industry.The proposal would have offered a 20% tax rebate on producers' Czech spend and would have allowed the government to specify what costs ...
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Rome Cinema Foundation's Bettini steps down
Rome's Cinema Foundation president Goffredo Bettini has resigned from his role presiding over the Rome Film Fest, which will be ushering in its third edition Oct 21-31.In a wave of shake-ups that are effecting the culture sector here after Silvio Berlusconi's right wing government took over from Romani Prodi's left ...
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Icon takes UK rights forKen Loach's Looking For Eric
Icon Film Distribution has acquired UK theatrical and home entertainment rights to Ken Loach's new feature, Looking For Eric, shooting now on location in Manchester.Wild Bunch is selling the film, which came about through a series of conversations between Loach, writer Paul Laverty, footballer Eric Cantona and producer Rebecca O'Brien. ...
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Moszkowicz elected to head European Producers Club
The European Producers Club has elected Martin Moszkowicz, from Constantin Film in Germany as its new president. Jean Cazès, who previously served as president, h as been elected vice-president.This move marks the first time since the EPC's founding in 1993 that the group has a non-French president. The group said: ...
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You Don't Mess With The Zohan
Dir: Dennis Dugan. US. 2008. 113 mins.A comedy built around the belief that people speaking in foreign accents is endlessly funny, You Don't Mess With The Zohan is - how you say' - not good. Aiming for an irreverent politically-incorrect tone with its story of an Israeli commando who leaves ...
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Suspicious River
Dir: Lynne Stopkewich. Canada. 2000. 92 mins.Prod co: Tartan Films/Okulitch Pedersen. Int'l sales: Beyond Films (61-2) 9281 1266. Exec prods: Hamish McAlpine, Erik Stensrud. Prod: Michael Okulitch. Scr: Stopkewich, based on the novel by Laura Kasischke. DoP: Gregory Middleton. Prod des: Don MacAulay. Ed: Allan Lee. Mus: Don MacDonald. Main ...
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Taormina lauds Turkish cinema, ramps up industry plans
Turkish cinema and an industry initiative that aims at uniting international buyers and distributors with the Sicilian Film Commission are all on the agenda of the 54th Taormina Film Festival, under the artistic direction of Deborah Young for the second year.Additionally, Young's line up reflects the 'Mediterranean and beyond' format ...
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TVE now on board for Almodovar's Broken Embraces
Spanish public broadcaster TVE has joined forces with El Deseo on Pedro Almodovar's new film Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos), which starts shooting this week in Lanzarote.TVE previously worked with Almodovar on his films Bad Education and Oscar winning Volver. The broadcaster also worked with El Deseo on Lucrecia Martel's ...
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Ten Empty
Dir: Anthony Hayes. Aust. 2007. 95 minsThis is the first feature from Aussie production company Roguestar and the company's principals Anthony Hayes and Brendan Cowell are to the fore here - Hayes directing with Cowell taking a small but showy acting credit and both writing. This family reunion saga struggles ...
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Joe Pavlo joins post house Men From Mars
Joe Pavlo has joined post-production company Men From Mars as senior VFX supervisor/head of 2D.He won an Emmy for BBC/HBO's Rome and has also worked on features including Batman Begins and The Da Vinci Code.In addition to on-set and in-house vfx supervision, Pavlo will spearhead the expansion of Men From ...
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Diving Bell writer Harwood joins Screenwriters Festival
The Screenwriters' Festival (July 1-3) continues to add high-profile speakes to its line-up. New to the programme is novelist/playwright/screenwriter Ronald Harwood, who will interviewed onstage by psychiatrist Raj Persaud. Harwood has worked on screenplays for Roman Polanski's The Pianist and Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly.This presentation, sponsored ...
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New Bondarchuk, Bychkova films to be presented at Sochi market
New films by such directors as Fedor Bondarchuk and Oksana Bychkova will rub shoulders with presentations of upcoming releases by Russian distributors and the US majors at this year's Russian International Cinema Market which is being held in the Black Sea resort of Sochi from June 5-10 to coincide with ...
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Dir: Patricia Rozema . US. 2008. 100 mins.Emotionally affecting but dramatically wobbly, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl was made with young girls in mind, but would have been far more effective had it shown enough courage not to play down to its audience. With that said, this adaptation of the ...
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European Commission consults on global entertainment industry plans
The European Commission is to hold a public hearing to explore ideas for a global programme to promote the European audiovisual industry.The programme would involve cooperation, for mutual benefit, with so called 'third countries' outside of the EU and represent a firm commitment in European audiovisual policy to engaging with ...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment buys Dutch games company
Sony Pictures Entertainment has closed its acquisition of Dutch entertainment company 2waytraffic.The company works on games, variety and reality shows.'The acquisition of 2waytraffic is part of our strategy to expand global production and distribution of light entertainment content,' said Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of SPE. 'This opens the door ...
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The Caregiver, Il Divo among international box-office hits
Filipino film The Caregiver proved a sensational local hit this weekend with a whopping $20,616 screen average in its first weekend, the highest by a long run over the three-day period. The top 40 international films generated $181.9m across 42,426 screens for the period of May 30-June 1. For the ...
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Winchester reteams with Wind Dancer on actioner
Winchester Entertainment has extended its relationship with US production outfit Wind Dancer Films to co-produce The Untitled Blake Masters Project, a "character-driven action film" to be produced and directed by Wind Dancer's Matt Williams. Williams made his directorial debut on Where The Heart Is, released domestically earlier this year by ...
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Yacovlef, Melocchi attach Leder, Fall to music-themed projects
Beverly Hills-based Little Studio Films partners Alexandra Yacovlef and Alexia Melocchi are fast-tracking the music-themed dramas Woody, Cisco And Me and Stalking Simon Le Bon.Mimi Leder will direct Woody, Cisco And Me from the novel of the same name by Jim Longhi is set during the second world war and ...
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IFP selects 11 narrative projects for Filmmaker Lab
IFP has selected the 11 narrative feature projects for the Independent Filmmaker Lab support programme set to run from June 10-13.Narrative Lab participants will also be eligible for the Independent Filmmaker Finishing Grant, a new $50,000 annual award courtesy of an anonymous donation.The juried award will be presented at the ...