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Puerto Rico confirms 40 percent tax break
ThePuerto Rico Film Commission revealed full details of its 40% tax credit schemeat an official industry launch here yesterday.Thescheme, which is believed to be the second-largest in the world behindManitoba's 65% facility, will offer a rebate of local spend on features,television productions, miniseries and soundtracks.Qualifyingproductions will need to shoot 50% ...
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Kim moves up at Lionsgate
ElizabethKim has been promoted to Lionsgate's senior vice president of internationalsales as the company continues to bolster its international operations.Kim, whois in Toronto with the entire international sales team and handling The USVs John Lennon andworld premiere Fido, oversees sales for Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and keyEuropean territories.Her ...
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Pirates 3 set for global day-and-date launch in 2007
On the weekend that Piratesof the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chestpassed the $1bn worldwide gross mark, The Walt Disney Company has revealed thatsequel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End will be released day-and-date around the world nextsummer."We're going to open onthe weekend of May 25 in every country around the ...
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For Your Consideration
Dir: Christopher Guest. US.2006. 86mins.The finest comedy stems from painfully truthful,accurate reflections of real life. That may explain why Christopher Guest'ssharply observed ensemble comedies have become such surefire guarantees ofhilarity. For Your Consideration isno exception as it captures all the inanity and indignity of the Hollywood Oscar season.Filled with quotable ...
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Catch A Fire
Dir: Phillip Noyce. UK-S Afr-US. 2006. 98minsThe desperate struggles against the apartheid regimein South Africa have inspired a distinguished body of cinema that stretches from Cry Freedom (1987) to Red Dust (2004). Phillip Noyce's Catch A Fire tells of Patrick Chamussoand his journey from acquiescent model citizen to radicalisedfreedom fighter ...
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Warner Bros whips up US Box Office Storm
Warner Bros' epic disaster movie The Perfect Storm was the champion at the North American box office over the Fourth Of July weekend, grossing $41.7m in the Friday to Sunday period, some $20m more than its nearest competition, Columbia Pictures' opener The Patriot.Playing at 3,407 screens, Wolfgang Petersen's true life ...
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A Good Year
Dir: Ridley Scott. U.S. 2006. 118mins.Ridley Scott's A Good Year, whichre-teams the director with Russell Crowe, should have been an easily likeableand amiable romantic comedy, adapted from the same-name novel by Peter Mayle, who has had a huge following since his 1989 memoir A Year In Provence.But this tale of ...
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All The King's Men
Dir: Steven Zaillian. US. 2006. 125mins.The queasy compromises of love, loyalty and bareknuckle politics are at the heart of a handsome, star-studded new version ofthe Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All The King's Men. The celebrated 1949 adaptation of theRobert Warren Penn epic is probably best remembered for Broderick Crawford's Oscar-winningperformance as ...
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Golden Door (Nuovomondo)
Dir/scr: Emanuele Crialese. Fr-It. 2006. 118mins.A moving but unsentimental film of mythic resonance aboutthe early years of mass Italian immigration to the United States, The Golden Door consecrates Sicilian directorEmanuele Crialese as a film-makerof global significance after his promising earlier features, Once We Were Strangers (1997) and Respiro (2002). Turningthe ...
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Barab named to run Bauer Martinez's Lucky 50 Productions
Martin Barab has been appointed president of Bauer MartinezStudios' production arm Lucky 50 Productions.Barab formerly served as the company's general counsel and priorto that had been the president of Bauer Martinez Distribution before it wasrenamed Bauer Martinez Entertainment (BME).He will work alongside BME chairman and chief executive officer PhilippeMartinez and ...
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Rich promoted senior vp at Warner Bros Pictures International
Blair Rich (pictured) has beenpromoted to senior vice president of marketing and creative advertising atWarner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).The new appointment will expand Rich's strategic role at thecompany. She will continue to direct and oversee creative campaigns fornumerous studio releases, including the upcoming Blood Diamond, 300, HarryPotter And The Order ...
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Former Disney executive Jongmans joins PHEI as vp of EMEA licensing
Former Buena Vista Home Entertainment International executive OnnoJongmans has joined Paramount Home Entertainment International (PHEI) as vicepresident of Europe, Middle East and Africa Licensing.He previously served as emerging markets director for Europe, theMiddle East and Africa at Buena Vista Home Entertainment International.Prior to that he held several roles in sales ...
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Newmarket boards US rights to Death Of A President
Newmarket Films has snappedup US rights to Death Of A President as a flurry of territory deals collectively worth $3m closed on the George W Bush assassination drama last night [11].Gabriel Range's hotly anticipated picture sold within 24 hours of its Sundayworld premiere, with rights also going to Maple Pictures ...
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Schumacher to direct Gold Circle's Town Creek
Joel Schumacher willdirect Gold Circle's upcoming supernatural thriller Town Creek, with Lionsgate on board for domestic and MandatePictures handling international rights.Production is set to begin on Mar 1 2007 on the story of former abductee andhis brother who return to the site of the kidnapping and become trapped in anoccult ...
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10 Items Or Less
Dir/scr: Brad Silberling. US. 2006. 82mins.The unpredictable career of Brad Silberlingtakes another left turn after the big budget spectacle of Lemony Snicket's A SeriesOf Unfortunate Events (2004) with his new feature 10 Items Or Less. More of a character-basedchamber piece than anything else, this virtual two-hander finds thewriter-director straying into ...
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Antonia
Dir: Tata Amaral. Br. 2006. 90mins.The third feature from film-maker TataAmaral, Antoniatakes a well-sung genre - the rap group from the wrong side of the tracks whotry to make it big in the face of ruptured friendships - and gives it theunique flavour of a Sao Paolo favela.It is further ...
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Baise-Moi banned from French cinemas
Following a lawsuit by Promouvoir, an association defending "judeo-christian and family values", controversial French title Baise-moi has been given an X rating by France's Conseil d'Etat effectively banning it from French theatres.Baise-moi, produced and distributed in France by former PolyGram subsidiary Pan Europeenne, had been rated PG-16 by the board ...
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AAM signs Newman deals for four more cinemas
UK-based film distributionservices company Arts Alliance Media (AAM), has signed deals to provide its Newman cinema management system tofour new cinemas. The Renoir, Chelsea Cinemaand Richmond Filmhouse (all part of the Curzon group) and the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley willall use the Newman solution, which manages businesses including booking, ...
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The Missing Star (La Stella Che Non C'e)
Dir: Gianni Amelio. It-Fr-Switz. 2006. 107mins.Gianni Amelio treads waterwith The Missing Star, an anti-hero quest moviethat has moments of emotional engagement but is marred by its genrefence-sitting and the muddiness of its final message. It's one of those filmswhose fascination lies not so much in the drama, whichis structured like ...
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European Film Academy to honour Polanski
The European Film Academywill give this year's lifetime achievement award to film-maker Roman Polanski. Polanski,who has been an actor, writer director and producer, will receive the honour atthe European Film Awards on Dec 2 in Warsaw.The director himself grew up in Poland. TheAcademy cited Polanski's "impressive contribution tothe world of ...