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Spanish producers will lobby to block US from subsidies
The Spanish Producers'Federation (FAPAE) said this week it would lobby the government to block themajor studios from accessing state subsidies for local film productions.Speaking at the Spanish FilmFestival of Malaga (April 22-30), where he laid out the production sector's toppriorities from the Socialist government, FAPAE president Pedro Perez said: "Wewill ...
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Canadian government pledges $20m to Toronto festival centre
The Canadian government haspledged to invest up to $20m (C$25m) in the Toronto International Film FestivalGroup's proposed Festival Centre. The much-neededcontribution, which was anticipated, takes TIFFG another large step towardreaching its goal of raising $160m. the projected cost of not only completingthe centre but of establishing an endowment fund and ...
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Production services outfit launches in movie boom state Louisiana
One-stopproduction services company Hollywood South Productions (HSP) launches inLouisiana today [April 27], aiming to boost in-state production with a range ofadvisory and training services including tax credit management.Headed up bychief executive officer Lonny Kaufman, president and filmmaker Chris Fink, andchief financial officer Ralph L Fletcher, HSP has partnered with LosAngeles-based ...
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Fricke's Buddha movie to shoot in Cambodia, Thailand, India
Ron Fricke hassigned on to direct Becoming Buddha, a dramatic narrative account of Buddha's spiritual journey thatis set to begin shooting later this year in Cambodia, Thailand and parts ofIndia.Tinker Lindsay and Peter Russell, are assembling theproject through their Pippala Productions banner, with the VisioneeringGroup/Awakened Media serving as co-producers.Lindsay andRussell ...
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Universal signs production deal with Berg, partners
UniversalPictures has signed a first-look production deal with writer-director PeterBerg and his partners John Cameron and Sarah Aubrey through their fledglingproduction company Film 44.Berg recentlydirected and co-wrote Friday Night Lights for Universal and is currently in development with thestudio on the Middle East thriller Kingdom, which Michael Mann is producing."Pete ...
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Platinum Studios plots second Dylan Dog spinoff
LA-basedPlatinum Studios is preparing a second feature film spinoff from Italian comicbook series Dylan Dogcalled Dead Of Night and it has hired Joshua Oppenheimer and Tom Donnelly to write the film.RelativityManagement is co-financing and arranging the international financing componentsfor the film which is being planned as a $35m production and ...
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Bac Majestic posts Euros 5.3m loss for 2004
French distribution group BacMajestic has announced a loss of Euros 5.3m for 2004 on revenues of Euros33.8m. This is compares with a net loss of Euros 11.5m in 2003 on revenues ofEuros 53.2m.The revenues were higher thanexpected - projected revenues had been in the Euros 28 to 31m range. Thecompany ...
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Flotation fear hits Indian film companies
Reflecting events in the US and Europe, several Indian film and TV companies have postponed their planned IPOs, in this case because of the decline in value of media companies on the Mumbai stock exchange. Twenty Indian film and TV companies have applied to the Securities and Exchange Board of ...
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Silent Hill embarks on Canada shoot
Shooting started this week on Silent Hill,the Samuel Hadida-produced adaptation of the hit horror video game.SeanBean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates and Jodelle Ferland, the young star of Terry Gilliam's Tideland, havejoined Radha Mitchell in the cast of the Canada-France co-production.Principalphotography started on Monday in Canada, with Christophe ...
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Cannes Market registration numbers on the rise
The number ofparticipants registered for the Cannes Film Market (May 11- 22) hasrisen to 6790, up 8% from last year's6260.Professionalsfrom some 73 countries will attend, a rise from 67 in 2003. For the first timeJordan, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Vietnam, Senegal and Nigeria will all berepresented. The number of Americans and British ...
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Dutch duo to launch new UK distribution outfit
The managing partners ofDutch distributor Bright Angel have sold their share of the business and areplanning to launch a new London-based distribution and production outfit calledYume Pictures.Chris Oosterom and PatriziaRaeli will launch Yume on July 1 and aim to acquire all rights to up to six toeight titles a year.Oosterom ...
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Film Council, Pact take 'Next Steps' towards breaking down barriers
Senior figures from theworlds of film and television are set to gather in London on 10 May for a 'NextSteps' brainstorm to look at action needed to tackle the barriers currentlyfaced by Minority Ethnic Led (MEL) independent companies.This follows up a recentreport carried out on behalf of the UK Film ...
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Fortissimo takes rights to Cannes pair
FortissimoFilms has acquired worldwide rights to Wang Xiaoshuai's Cannes competition filmShanghai Dreams andinternational rights to Tony Krawitz' Jewboy, screening in Un Certain Regard.Shanghai Dreams is a story of first love set inthe early 1980's against the backdrop of China's reform and opening. It stars Gao Yuanyuan, Li Bin, Yao Anlianand ...
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Interpreter rules international, North American charts
For the first timethis year the international and North American tables aligned to produce asingle champion: The Interpreter.This feat islikely to be the first in a string of such occurrences as the approachingsummer season brings with it a plethora of day-and-date global releasesstarting with Sony's xXx2: State Of The Union ...
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MDC takes on sales for Puipa's Forest Of The Gods
Berlin-based MDC International has taken oninternational sales for veteran Lithuanian director Algimantas Puipa's latestfeature Forest Of The Gods.The film has beenincluded in MDC's Cannes Market line-up and is set for delivery this autumn .A co-production between Lithuania's Baltic FilmGroup and the UK's IMS G LLP and starring Valentinas Masalskis, Steven ...
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Councillor emerges as latest Russian box office champ
TheRussian film industry has another hit film on its hands.TheState Councillor (Statsky Sovetnik) opened at the top of the Russian box officeover the weekend, grossing $2.5m in Russia and the CIS for distributor KaroPremier. It also opened top in Ukraine with $238,400 for Kinomania.Thesuccess follows recent Russian successes this year ...
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Summit lines up peak slate for Cannes
SummitEntertainment has lined up a potent slate of new pictures for Cannes this yearled by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's red-hot Babel, the Adam Sandler-produced comedy Nana's Boy and Beacon's upcoming coastguard actioner TheGuardian which has Kevin Costner andAshton Kutcher attached to star.Alsooffered for the first time is a new Summit in-house ...
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New Yorker buys US rights to Sundance doc Innocence
New Yorker Films has picked up theatrical and home video/DVDrights from Showtime Networks to Jessica Sanders' miscarriage of justicedocumentary After Innocence.The distributor plans an autumn domestic release in New York Cityfollowed by a nationwide roll-out. New Yorker Films also acquired broadcast andbasic cable television rights, with Showtime Networks retaining premium ...
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Steel Company to buy for Brazil's Playarte
Los Angeles-based worldwide entertainment consultant The Steel Company has signed on to handle acquistions and market liaison for Brazilian distributor-exhibitor Playarte, headed by president Otelo Bettin Coltro. According to Steel Company vice president Patrick Aluise, Playarte will be looking to acquire Brazilian rights to around ten high-profile theatrical features and ...
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Lonesome Jim heads to Cannes market with Dream
Los Angeles-based production and international sales company DreamEntertainment has acquired international rights to Steve Buscemi's comedy LonesomeJim, and will introducethe picture to buyers at the Cannes market next month.Starring Liv Tyler, Casey Affleck, and Seymour Cassel, LonesomeJim centres on therelationship between a nurse and an aspiring writer who is forced ...