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Irish partners launch catalystproject for low budget production
A new production and training opportunity for screenwriters, producers and film directors to produce low-budget feature films has been launched in Ireland. Following from a mentoring programme, three successful teams will be awarded funding of $328,600 (Euros 250,000) to realise feature film projects. The projects will be selected on the ...
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UK Treasury U-turn on sale-and-leaseback clampdown
The UK government has exempted sale-and-leaseback schemes from a crackdown on tax avoidance. Click here for announcementThe UK tax authorities had previously said they wouldn't make exceptions for sale-and-leaseback funding arrangements under the new tax rules announced last week.Such a move would have serious consequences for individual producers, some of ...
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Fight continues on UK tax clampdown
The UK tax authorities say they will make no exception for sale-and-leaseback funding arrangements under new tax rules announced last week.But the industry is continuing to fight with many believing that the decision will be overturned by the government.On Friday, a Treasury briefing effectively closed the door on so-called GAAP ...
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Film-making looks less risky in 2007,with 37 countries safer
Film-making became slightly less risky across the globe, according to the 2007 Risks in Global Filmmaking Map from risk broker and insurance company Aon/Albert G Ruben. Of the 207 countries measured, overall risk for film-makers in 37 countries decreased slightly from 2006 to 2007. The annual map measures the threats ...
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Pathe restructures under joint team of Ivernel and Lacan
Pathe has restructured its UK and French divisions so that its arms of Pathe Renn Production, Pathe Distribution and Pathe's UK units will be led by a management team comprised of Francois Ivernel and Marc Lacan. Pathe's production and distribution operations will be jointly managed by Ivernel, who will head ...
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Sale-and-leaseback funding caught in UK tax clampdown
The UK government will make no exception for sale-and-leaseback funding arrangements under new tax rules, it was confirmed today.On Friday, a Treasury briefing effectively closed the door on so-called GAAP finance schemes, which some estimates suggested could have raised up to $3.5bn this tax year. Click here to see Revenue ...
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Buena Vista, Apollo top the UK 's Cinema Business Awards
Apollo Cinemas won the 2007 Oscar Deutsch Award for Exhibitor Of The Year and Buena Vista International (BVI) has won the 2007 Bromhead Award for Distributor Of The Year, in an awards ceremony attached to monthly industry magazine Cinema Business. At a reception held at BAFTA on Thursday March 1, ...
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HBO/BBC's Five Days goes to Metrodome for UK DVD release
The multi-stranded crime thriller, with a cast including Hugh Bonneville, David Oyelowo, Sarah Smart, Penelope Wilton and Edward Woodward, follows the aftermath of a young mother's abduction. The five-part series aired to strong ratings on BBC One in January. Metrodome plans an early summer release on DVD. The deal was ...
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Ghost Rider stays top in international markets with $16.3m take
Ghost Rider continued to blaze a trail across the international arena as it dominated the market for the third consecutive weekend.The comic book adventure grossed an estimated $16.3m through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) from approximately 4,000 prints in 56 territories and now stands at $60.7m with $100m well within ...
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Change of direction for UK French Film Festival
The 2007 edition of the UK's annual French Film Festival is to focus exclusively on titles that have not secured a British distribution deal. The move is seen as a response to the revitalised Rendez-vous with French Cinema (29 March -April 1) in London which boasts a succession of star-studded ...
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Screen Index up 8% with continued boom in Italy
Local films helped push collective global box office takings of nine territories up 8% last weekend compared to the same weekend last year, according to Screen International's Screen Index. Italy continues to surge and was up 51.8% year-on-year thanks to the success of Fausto Brizzi's sequel Notte Prima Degli Esami ...
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Tanya Seghatchian to head UK Film Council Development Fund
UK producer Tanya Seghatchian, who has worked on the Harry Potter films with Heyday Films and set up Apocalypso Pictures with Pawel Pawlikowski, is set to take up the post as the new head of the UK Film Council's Development Fund as of April 1. She replaces Jenny Borgars, who ...
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Government closes UK tax schemes
The UK Treasury has pulled the plug on tax schemes expected to raise hundreds of millions of pounds of film finance this year.One expert believes as much as $3.8bn (£2bn) could have been lost before the end of this tax year, which ends early next month.The UK revenue department announced ...
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London's Rendez-vous to open with Dahan's La Vie En Rose
London's Rendez-vous With French Cinema, which runs March 29-April 1 at the Curzon Mayfair, will open with Olivier Dahan's Berlinale competitor La Vie En Rose (La Mome). The Edith Piaf biopic stars Marion Cotillard and has already been a box-office hit in France.The festival closes with a gala screening of ...
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SPRI's Ghost Rider blazes into UK, Japan, Brazil
Ghost Rider is expected to dominate the international arena for a third consecutive weekend as it prepares to launch in three major markets.Sony Pictures Releasing International's (SPRI) comic book adaptation has amassed $41.3m so far and this weekend rides into the UK and Brazil on Mar 2 on 350 and ...
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Danny Boyle plans thriller set at South Africa's Ponte City
UK director Danny Boyle's next project will be thriller Ponte Tower, a co-production between the UK and South Africa. Ponte Tower is loosely based on the book by German novelist Norman Ohler, which Michael Thomas is adpating. The film-makers plan to shoot the film entirely within the South Africa 's ...
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First Light hands out awards to UK's young film-makers
The UK's First Light scheme handed out this year's awards for young film-makers. The ceremony in Leicester Square, London yesterday awarded prizes in nine categories for short digital films made with National Lottery funding by young film-makers aged 5 to 18. Industry attendees at the awards included Imelda Staunton, Sean ...
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UK Film Council, Sledgeto launch Myfilms 'social networking' site
The UK Film Council is backing a new site that aims to boost cinema attendances of independent European films. Myfilms.co.uk will be launchedin mid Marchby marketing agency Sledge, under the watchful eye of the UK Film Council, as a forum for people to voice their opinions about a wide variety ...
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UK's Rainmaker to make Russian orphan documentary with Jon Blair
UK-based finanacing and production company Rainmaker Films is working with award-winning director Jon Blair (Anne Frank Remembered) for documentary Ochberg's Orphans. Tsotsi cinematographer Lance Gewer is on board, as is film archivist Adrian Wood. Rainmaker's Paul Goldin and Georgina Townsley are producing. The documentary is about a South African tycoon ...
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Dogwoof strikes UK deal for Dv8's Bunny Chow
UK distributor Dogwoof Pictures has taken UK rights to Dv8's South African comedy Bunny Chow. John Barker's comedy world premiered in Toronto and recently had its European premiere in Rotterdam 's Tiger Competition. The film is on release in South Africa from March 9, after already taking best actor and ...