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Truly Indie teams with horse racing venue operator on Saturday doc
US horse-racing venue operator Churchill Downs is partnering with Wagner Cuban distribution division Truly Indie on the US theatrical release of Brad and John Hennegan's documentary The First Saturday In May which will open on April 18.The film chronicles the journey of a cast of six hard-working trainers as they ...
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Unifrance's Menegoz defends bodyagainst damning report
A report commissioned by the foreign affairs ministry has sent shockwaves through the French film industry since it was first leaked to French daily Le Figaro last week.The report, commissioned in October 2007 and handled by theMedia Consulting Group, examined Unifrance's missions over the period of 2005-2007 and found that ...
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Scottish Screen sets up Slate Fund for development
Scottish Screen has created a new $792,900 (£400,000) Slate Fund to provide financial backing for companies to develop marketable, high value projects over a two-year period.Up to four companies will benefit from investment awards designed to support the development of a range of projects including film, television and interactive digital ...
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Waisbren warns of impending calamity in US slate financing
In a prescient speech more than a month ago in Berlin, financier Ben Waisbren talked of impending calamity for the US wave of slate financing - banks won't touch such mega-deals again until there is more transparency and a better alignment of investor and studio interests.Click here for comment fromScreen ...
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Screen comment on US equity crisis: Monte Carlo And Bust'
Wall Street's death spiral has claimed its biggest victim so far with the collapse of investment bank, Bear Stearns. Like so many other financial institutions engulfed in the mortgage meltdown, Bear Stearns was also a film financer; as is its new owner, JP Morgan Chase. Now the question is when ...
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Desire to kickstart Mannheim-Heidelberg
The International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg has announced its line-up for this year's event (November 9 -18), which opens with the premiere of Desire, a German-Canadian co-production, directed by Colleen Murphy. Among the titles in the International Competition are Rafi Pitts' Sanam (Iran), Alain de Halleux's Pleure Pas Germaine (Belgium), Arto Paragamian's ...
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Yari Film Group drops Alliance for E1 as Canadian output partner
Bob Yari's Yari Film Group has dropped Alliance Films as its Canadian partner in favour of fast-rising Canadian entertainment group Entertainment One (E1).YFG and E1 have signed an exclusive all-rights deal that will see YFG's films released through E1's Seville Pictures subsidiary through 2010.The pact, which begins with the August-scheduled ...
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Vail Film Festival set for April 3-6 with (RED) collaboration
The fifth annual Vail Film Festival will take place April 3-6 in the popular US ski resort, and is continuing its collaboration with Bono and Bobby Shriver's (RED) initiative which aims to raise awareness and money for AIDS charity The Global Fund.(RED) and the festival will premiere the RED Vision ...
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Tribeca All Access announces 2008 programme, expansion
The Tribeca Film Institute has announced the 37 projects selected for Tribeca All Access, a programme designed to help foster relationships between film industry executives and filmmakers from traditionally under-represented communities.The programme takes place April 21-26 during the Tribeca Film Festival, which takes place April 23 to May 4. Participating ...
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Hyde Park's Street Fighter starts shooting in Thailand
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and Capcom have begun principal photography in Thailand on action film Street Fighter - The Legend Of Chun-Li which is based on the popular Japanese video grame franchise.20th Century Fox has domestic distribution rights through its first look, co-production deal with Hyde Park; Hyde Park ...
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Editorial - Screen says Monte carlo and bust
Wall Street's death spiral has claimed its biggest victim so far with the collapse of investment bank Bear Stearns. Like so many other financial institutions engulfed in the mortgage meltdown, Bear Stearns was also a film financer; as is its new owner, JP Morgan Chase. Now the question is, when ...
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In Focus - Slate financing - Storm Warning
By its nature, the film industry is predacious, but irresistible to investors. From its earliest days, the film industry has relied successfully on outsiders to spread its capital and mitigate the high risk of producing and distributing movies.Despite all the risks, and well-known stories of investor losses in the past, ...
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Mammoth Movie Man: Interview with Roland Emmerich
'I don't know why I'm the only one who does it,' laughs Roland Emmerich about the speculative auction process whereby he sets up his movies at particular studios. 'It's a perfect system actually.'Emmerich's latest deal was with Sony Pictures, which stepped in to greenlight and finance 2012, a script Emmerich ...
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United states - Profit Sharing
Nestled in the bustling West Los Angeles neighbourhood of Westwood lies a company that may well become a friend to stars, directors and producers long after their careers have waned.That is not to say that Content Partners, the 2006 brainchild of accountant and former Brillstein-Grey CFO Steve Blume and longtime ...
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United Kingdom - For the very first time
When Madonna unveiled Filth & Wisdom on February 13 in the Berlinale's Panorama programme, most critics were fairly harsh but the film's screenings were sold out and the project became one of the festival's talking points - not bad for a first-time director.Even as a household name, Madonna tried to ...
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House Of Mirth to open Rio festival
Terence Davies' The House Of Mirth will open the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (October 5-18), with the UK writer-director in attendance.The festival will also feature a UK Focus including titles such as Simon Cellan Jones' Some Voices, Peter Greenway's 8' Women, Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot and Nick Hurran's ...
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The Brit Pack beats box-office blues
While most of Europe reported a downturn in ticket sales in 2007, the UK (along with Italy and the Czech Republic) bucked the trend. British cinema-goers generated nearly $1.8bn (£904.9m) in ticket sales last year, up 8% from 2006, while admissions rose 3.7% to 162.4 million.Case study: St Trinian'sEven though ...
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Coming Attractions
The CottagePathe Distribution (UK release date: March 14)Dir: Paul Andrew Williams. Producers: Steve Christian, Hugo Heppell, Martin Pope. Key cast: Andy Serkis, Jennifer Ellison, Dave Legeno.Plot: Dark comedy with horror overtones about a farmer who goes on a killing spree in the English countryside. Box office: $600,000 (£300,000) in its ...
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Film finance: India INC extends its global reach
It has been a busy year for the Indian film industry's corporate players, what with floating on stock markets and signing content deals with local producers, not to mention forging partnerships with Hollywood.India's film finance giantsFICCI Frames line-upSince last year's Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce (Ficci) Frames conference in ...
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India's film finance giants
Eros InternationalOne of the first Indian film companies to float on London's AIM when it raised $41m in June 2006, Eros has been expanding from its base of international distribution of Hindi films to become a vertically-integrated studio spanning production and distribution across theatrical, video, TV and new media platforms.It ...