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Trinidad & Tobago starts new film tax incentive with rebate up to 30%
Trinidad & Tobago, the twin island nation in the Carribean, has today unveiled its first tax incentives for film, TV and advertising shoots. The new rebates system ranges from 12.5% for productions of expenditures up to $500,000, 15% for productions from $500,000 to $1m, or 30% rebates for productions spending ...
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Joost to host Bollywood content from New York's Saavn
Internet television service Joost has signed a deal with New York-based film, music and TV show packager Saavn for the Internet distribution of Bollywood music videos from the Saavn library. Initially, Joost users worldwide will be able to choose from around 150 clips from Bollywood movies featuring songs such as ...
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Kimmel has strong Cannes with Synecdoche, Unthinkable
Kimmel International chief Mark Lindsay has reported a successful Cannes in which he and his team closed key territories on Charlie Kaufman's feature directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, and Tarsem Singh's upcoming thriller Unthinkable.Rights to Synecdoche, New York, which is being produced by Spike Jonze and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, ...
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Knocked Up spawns knockout domestic opening, but Pirates clings on
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End took a big tumble in its second weekend but still had enough puff to sail past $200m and see off the challenge of Universal's much lauded comedy Knocked Up.Buena Vista's juggernaut fell 62.4% to an estimated $43.2m as it raised its domestic tally ...
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Pirates 3 crosses international $400m mark in record time
As expected Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End ruled the waves in its second weekend as an estimated $105.4m propelled the international running total past $400m in record time.The weekend haul from 17,500 theatres in 103 countries boosted the tally to $408.8m, making this latest high seas episodic the ...
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J-horror hit-makers join forces for US project
J-horror hit-makers Hideo Nakata and Taka Ichise are set to team up on US horror project Inhuman, from Twentieth Century Fox and Regency Enterprises. The film will be based on a script - inspired by a real Japanese murder case - by Eric Heisserer, writer of the in-development Warner/Heydey ...
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Tomorrow Unlimited to host Creators Series in New York and LA
New company Tomorrow Unlimited, which was founded by former executives from Res Media Group with Tribeca Enterprises, will host its first event next week. The Creators Series events will run in New York (June 8-10) and Los Angeles (June 14-17). The multidisciplinary conference will present artwork, video, and interactive installations ...
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Random House and Rogue work on series including Sigler's Infested
Scott Sigler's novel Infested, to be published in the US and Canada next spring by Random House's Crown imprint, has been acquired for development by Random House Films and Rogue Pictures. The thriller is the first in a series of at least two books. Crown has a world rights multi-book ...
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Film Sales Company strikes three new deals for Crazy Love
The Film Sales Company has announced theatrical rights sales of documentary Crazy Love to Tartan Films for the UK, Palace Films for Australia and Shani Films for Israel. All three distributors plan an early autumn release for the film, which is directed by Dan Klores and co-directed by Fisher Stevens ...
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Liddell makes directorial debut with psychological thriller
Veteran producer Mickey Liddell is to make his directorial debut with She Lived, a psychological thriller starring Haley Bennett, Jake Weber and Shannon Woodward. The Liddell Entertainment production will start shooting in July on location in Los Angeles. Liddell Entertainment's Jennifer Hilton will produce with Stephen Kay as executive ...
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Fox sells Mexican studio to investors' group
Twentieth Century Fox has sold the Mexican studio used to shoot parts of Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies to a group of private investors. The 46-acre Baja Studios near Rosarito, about 150 miles south of Los Angeles, was built in 1996. Its huge water tanks housed a replica of ...
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Warner Bros brings forward Potter opening in US
Warner Bros has brought the US opening of Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix forward from Friday, July 13 to Wednesday, July 11. The domestic launch now coincides with the film's first major-territory international opening, in France. The extra days will also help boost the film's opening ...
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Pirates faces scattered competition in second weekend
International weekend preview: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End opens in just one new territory for its second weekend, but with little new competition arriving in the international marketplace the Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer sequel is assured of another round of impressive grosses. Distributor Buena Vista International (BVI), which opened ...
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Magnolia and Red Envelope take domestic rights to Ferguson doc
Magnolia Pictures and Red Envelope Entertainment have acquired all North American rights to Charles Ferguson's No End In Sight, Documentary Jury Prize winner at this year's Sundance Festival. The film, which looks at the decision-making process behind the occupation of Iraq, was written and directed by Ferguson and executive produced ...
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Family business
The daughter of film-maker Luis Puenzo has emerged as an exciting international talent with Cannes favourite XXY. Diego Batlle reports. A renowned novelist and screenwriter in Argentina, Lucia Puenzo is enjoying an exciting 2007 with a new book recently published and her first feature, XXY, selected for Cannes' Critics Week. ...
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Charlie Kaufman: worlds within worlds
Charlie Kaufman started production last week on his first feature as a director, Synecdoche, New York, with a cast led by Philip Seymour Hoffman. On the eve of the shoot, Kaufman and Spike Jonze, one of his producers, talked exclusively to Mike Goodridge. Oddly, I'm not scared,' Charlie Kaufman says ...
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DVD: specialty forces
The specialty DVD market has thrived in recent years. But with the market under pressure Denis Seguin looks at how niche distributors are making their product stand out. Consider the sophisticated bachelor pad circa 2003, art-dressed to impress a visitor: on the coffee table, an issue of The New Yorker ...
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Rozema rolls on HBO/Picturehouse's Kit Kittredge
Patricia Rozema has commenced principal photography on Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery for HBO Films and Picturehouse. The long-awaited return to features for Toronto-based Rozema features Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin in the title role. The screenplay is by Ann Peacock, who wrote The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, ...
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Canada promises piracy clampdown to visiting Schwarzenegger
He didn't come seeking it, but The Terminator's presence in Canada's capital triggered the promise of a new Canadian anti-camcorder bill. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is in Canada on a trade mission, promoting everything from his state's fruit and vegetables to wine, high technology and climate-change awareness, but it ...
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Eros recognised with Bollywood Award
At the Bollywood Awards in New York on May 26, Eros International received the Honorary Award for its contribution to Indian cinema. Eros is celebrating its 30th anniversary of bringing Indian cinema to international markets. Ken Naz, president of Eros International, USA, said in his acceptance speech: 'This is an ...