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Features
Editorial - Screen says - Investing in the future
Over the last three years, Screen International's annual tax guide has made for disturbingly fascinating reading. One might even call it, in newspaper parlance, sexy. What was originally intended as a useful and informative guide to the world's incentives, has in recent times dragged in widespread evasion, government finance ministers ...
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European film financing: a private phenomenon
A $500m deal between Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Bob and Harvey Weinstein raise $490m in equity through Goldman Sachs. A $500m deal between Virtual Studios and Warner Bros. A $600m equity deal between Relativity Media and Sony and Universal. The figures from the equity funding boom among Hollywood studios ...
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United States - Bridge To Smaller movies
Of the films he produced in the decade after leaving his job as president of production at Universal Pictures in 1996, Hal Lieberman is most closely associated with two super-expensive, independently financed megapictures - Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines and Around The World In 80 Days. These days, however, ...
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United States - Moving movies
Since it was launched in 2002 by Larry Meistrich, New York-based Film Movement has released more than 100 foreign-language and independent features and shorts from 27 countries through its website, where members and non-members can buy a DVD of the month and peruse the ever-expanding catalogue."We choose good titles that ...
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United Kingdom - Going to extremes
Write what you know, is the classic advice given to feature film writers. So where does that leave a documentary-maker, still stunned by the horrors of civil war in Kosovo, who wants to make his first feature in the UK'Filming the award-winning documentary The Valley in Kosovo at the end ...
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Pinewood: studio tour
No-one knows what caused the fire that burned down the famous 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios in July 2006, but its rapid rebuilding symbolises the upturn in fortunes at Pinewood Shepperton.The $15.7m (£8m) new stage was finished in March. Now, even before an official launch, the 007 stage is back ...
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Romance director turns to period piece
With a penchant for dealing in subjects sexual there always was a danger of wide exposure for French auteur Catherine Breillat.The director of the controversial film Romance has begun work on The Old Mistress (Une Vieille Maitresse), which is to be produced through Jean-Francois Lepetit's Flach Film. The story is ...
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Australia - Ward and peace
The Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) last week announced its intention to throw its weight behind the directorial debut of a familiar name in the acting world.Rachel Ward was a 1980s icon, starring in films such as Against All Odds, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and How To Get Ahead ...
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Germany - Enduring labour of love
Philippe Bober's sales, financing and production outfit The Coproduction Office is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The company was set up in 1987 in Berlin with the aim of supporting maverick auteurs with strong personal visions. Over the last two decades, Bober has championed the work of (among others) ...
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Industry moves
Fox's Robert Harper to head RegencyFox Filmed Entertainment vice-chairman Robert Harper has been named chairman and chief executive officer of Regency Filmed Entertainment. He replaces David Matalon who left the company earlier this month to return to his own production company. Harper will oversee Fox-based Regency's film production unit, New ...
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Features
Editorial - Screen says - Investing in the future
Over the last three years, Screen International's annual tax guide has made for disturbingly fascinating reading. One might even call it, in newspaper parlance, sexy. What was originally intended as a useful and informative guide to the world's incentives, has in recent times dragged in widespread evasion, government finance ministers ...
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Features
In Focus - European film financing - A private phenomenon
A $500m deal between Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Bob and Harvey Weinstein raise $490m in equity through Goldman Sachs. A $500m deal between Virtual Studios and Warner Bros. A $600m equity deal between Relativity Media and Sony and Universal. The figures from the equity funding boom among Hollywood studios ...
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Features
United States - Bridge To Smaller movies
Of the films he produced in the decade after leaving his job as president of production at Universal Pictures in 1996, Hal Lieberman is most closely associated with two super-expensive, independently financed megapictures - Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines and Around The World In 80 Days. These days, however, ...
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News
Film Movement: pick of the bunch
Since it was launched in 2002 by Larry Meistrich, New York-based Film Movement has released more than 100 foreign-language and independent features and shorts from 27 countries through its website, where members and non-members can buy a DVD of the month and peruse the ever-expanding catalogue.'We choose good titles that ...
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Features
United Kingdom - Going to extremes
Write what you know, is the classic advice given to feature film writers. So where does that leave a documentary-maker, still stunned by the horrors of civil war in Kosovo, who wants to make his first feature in the UK'Filming the award-winning documentary The Valley in Kosovo at the end ...
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Features
United Kingdom - Studio Tour
No-one knows what caused the fire that burned down the famous 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios in July 2006, but its rapid rebuilding symbolises the upturn in fortunes at Pinewood Shepperton.The $15.7m (£8m) new stage was finished in March. Now, even before an official launch, the 007 stage is back ...
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Features
Australia - Ward and peace
The Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) last week announced its intention to throw its weight behind the directorial debut of a familiar name in the acting world.Rachel Ward was a 1980s icon, starring in films such as Against All Odds, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and How To Get Ahead ...
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News
Sky Pictures adds to team, unwraps Angel
UK satellite operator BSkyB has bolstered staff at feature arm Sky Pictures and unveiled John Irvin's contemporary thriller The Fourth Angel, one of its biggest projects to date.Sky has appointed Emma Berkofsky and Chris Brock to the newly-created roles of head of development and senior business and legal affairs executive ...
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Features
Germany - Enduring labour of love
Philippe Bober's sales, financing and production outfit The Coproduction Office is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The company was set up in 1987 in Berlin with the aim of supporting maverick auteurs with strong personal visions. Over the last two decades, Bober has championed the work of (among others) ...
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Features
Industry moves
Fox's Robert Harper to head RegencyFox Filmed Entertainment vice-chairman Robert Harper has been named chairman and chief executive officer of Regency Filmed Entertainment. He replaces David Matalon who left the company earlier this month to return to his own production company. Harper will oversee Fox-based Regency's film production unit, New ...