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UK Finance: Life After Loopholes
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual budget has been watched with trepidation by the film industry in recent years. The biggest change was the dramatic overhaul of the tax system that ended the sale-and-leaseback era in 2006.But in hindsight Gordon Brown, now the prime minister, made perhaps the most ...
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UK Chancellor closes $2bntax loophole used by film investors
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling's 2008 Budget report has closed a tax loophole which some experts believe might have generated between $1.6bn (£800m) and $2bn (£1bn) for film.Click here for analysis ofUK film finance after tax changesA year ago, the government used the budget to clamp down on ...
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UKFC, NESTA launch $1m scheme to update film's business models
The UK Film Council is working with the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts (NESTA) to start a new $1m (£500,000) initiative to help British independent film companies take better advantage of new technologies.NESTA and the UKFC are now scouting for film companies who want to learn more ...
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Picturehouse readies Liverpool's first digital 3D cinema at FACT
Liverpool, England gets its first digital 3D cinema at Picturehouse at FACT.Picturehouse Cinemas is making the Liverpool location its first in a planned rollout of digital 3D cinemas. The 2K digital cinema projector will be using Real-D technology. 'REAL-D 3D goes leaps and bounds beyond the early 3D technology,' said ...
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Duncan Jones wraps shoot on Moon starring Sam Rockwell
Sci-fi feature Moon has just wrapped principal photography at the UK's Shepperton Studios.The film, which marks the feature directorial debut of Duncan Jones (formerly known as Zowie Bowie), stars Sam Rockwell. Moon is being made through London-based production outfit Liberty Films. The producers are Stuart Fenegan, Nicky Moss and Trudie ...
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Sheffield's Sensoria music/film festival adds industry day
Sensoria, the UK's new music and film festival to be held in Sheffield, has announced that A Life In the Death Of Joe Meek will be its opening night film, with an introduction by musician Richard Hawley.Other films in the programme are The Old Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology Of ...
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The Light to launch digital cinemas in Romania
UK-based exhibitor The Light has announced it will open its first two digital cinemas, in Romania, this autumn.Both eight-screen cinemas -- one at Liberty Center in Bucharest and the other at the Tiago Mall in Oradea -- are scheduled to open on Nov 1. The cinemas will offer up to ...
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Barbarian Princess starts UK, Hawaii shoot
UK-based Matador Pictures and Hawaii-based Island Film Group have started production today on Barbarian Princess, which director Marc Forby is shooting in Honolulu and in Norfolk, UK.As previously reporter, Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper, Will Patton and Shaun Evans star.The film becomes the first feature to shoot inside Honolulu's Iolani Palace.The ...
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Metrodome strikes UK deal for Fear(s) Of The Dark
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights to French animated feature Fear(s) Of The Dark from Celluloid Dreams.Pierre Menahem of Celluloid Dreams negotiated with Metrodome CEO Peter Urie, general manager-home entertainment Tom Stewart and acquisitions & business affairs manager Kate Edwards.Metrodome plans an autumn 2008 release.Sara Frain, Metrodome general manager-theatrical, ...
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Vancouver shoot for Parnassus resumes with Depp, Farrell, Law
Producers have announced that filming has begun again on Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which had been on hold after actor Heath Ledger's death on January 22.The $30m modern-day fantasy had finished the first third of the film's shoot in the UK and was gearing up for a ...
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Bourne takes top honours at UK Sony Ericsson Empire Awards
The Bourne Ultimatum was named best film at the UK's Sony Ericsson Empire Awards in London.But most honours - voted for by the public - went to Joe Wright's Atonement, with awards for best actor (James McAvoy), actress (Keira Knightley) and British film.David Yates was named best director for Harry ...
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Chadwick to direct The Property for Material, Seymour
London-based production company Material Entertainment is in advanced talks with Justin Chadwick to direct thriller The Property.Chadwick's The Other Boleyn Girl opens in the UK today.The Property is a London-set thriller about a young professional couple who use dubious methods to land their dream home, only to be tormented by ...
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McTavish joins cast of Hardy's Cowboys For Christ
Graham McTavish, who stars alongside Sylvestor Stallone in Rambo, has joined Christopher Lee and Joan Collins on the cast of LA-based Fantastic Films International and London-based CFC Film's horror film Cowboys For Christ. Robin Hardy is set to begin filming on Apr 10 in Dumfries, Scotland, the same region ...
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Mini works with Future Shorts for UK short film programme
Car company Mini UK is launching screenings of original short films in UK cinemas.The four month campaign starts on March 7 and will feature films supplied by Future Shorts.The three shorts screening from March to June are: Procrastination by Levni Yilmaz, Park Football by Grant Orchard and Neighbor by Eric ...
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Vertigo signs deal for Contender to handle DVD releases
UK-based distributor Vertigo Films has signed a DVD distribution deal with Contender Home Entertainment, which is part of Contender Entertainment Group (owned by Canada's Entertainment One).Contender will handle DVD distribution for Vertigo's forthcoming theatrical releases, starting with Tom Shankland's serial killer thriller WAZ starring Stellan Skarsgard, Ashley Walters, Melissa George ...
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ContentFilm calls off plans for acquisition by Peace Arch
ContentFilm has called off a possible deal with Peace Arch Entertainment.Peace Arch Entertainment Group had entered into a letter of intent to acquire ContentFilm in late December in a deal to be worth 19,500,000 Peace Arch shares plus cash of $35m.Content said that since December 'there have been several circumstances ...
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UK's fourth Birds Eye View opens tonight with Maureen Lipman
The fourth Birds Eye View Film Festival kicks off in London tonight with a special focus on comedy. Maureen Lipman will open the festival at the BFI by presenting a range of short films and a performance by Imogen Heap to accompany silent comedy.BEV is a celebaration of women film-makers ...
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Jeremy Pelzer tapped to head UK's Elstree Studios
Jeremy Pelzer has been appointed to head Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, UK.He will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Studio business, developing new initiatives, extending partnerships, and raising the profile of Elstree.Pelzer wasformerly studio director of Ealing Studios from 2002 to 2007 also managed the renewal of 3 ...
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French films, led by Ch'Tis, lead the international box office
French films accounted for nearly a quarter of the international top 40 revenue this weekend, spearheaded by a whopping $32.5m opening from top film Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis.The top 40 films generated $188.5m from 45,384 screens for the period of February 29-March 2. For the full international chart, compiled by ...
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Alex Hamilton appointed director of UK's Contender Films
Alex Hamilton, the former president of Icon Film Distribution, has joined growing UK distributor Contender Entertainment Group.He has been appointed director of Contender Films, the company's feature film theatrical distribution and operations division for the UK and Ireland.He takes the post as of April 1 and will report to CEG ...