All articles by Chris Evans – Page 25
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San Sebastian announces Films In Progress line-up
San Sebastian's Films In Progress sidebar will see six Latin American film projects from promising film makers compete for nearly $40,000 worth of completion funding and technical support. The line-up includes A Festa Da Menina Morta, a Brazil-Argentina-Portugal co-production from first time director Matheus Nachtergaele, star of such films as ...
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Gary Tam: touching the sun
Composer-turned-director Gary Tarn is breaking new ground with his approach to film-making. He talks to Chris Evans about his first film, Black Sun, and the dangers of his next project. 'I had to film in Beirut through the tinted window of a bulletproof car. It was eerie, as all around ...
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Amitabh Bachchan: Indian summer
Bollywood idol Amitabh Bachchan tells Chris Evans why his days of singing and dancing are behind him as more challenging roles beckon. 'The Indian economy is opening up and as a result the country's culture, food, dress and industry are suddenly becoming very attractive. Investment is coming from all parts ...
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Eros International acquires 51% of Ayngaran
Eros International has made a foray into Tamil films, the second largest segment in India, by acquiring a 51% interest in Ayngaran International, a dominant force in the Tamil content and distribution industry.Eros announced today it will initially provide $33m in funding to take over and grow Ayngaran's existing business, ...
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Black Gold: storm in a coffee cup
Coffee expose Black Gold riled multinationals in the US and is now raising awareness in the UK. Chris Evans speaks to film-makers Marc and Nick Francis about taking on the world's second-largest export industry. Following Super Size Me, An Inconvenient Truth and most recently Michael Moore's Sicko, brothers Marc and ...
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Palme d'Or winners: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are in the elite group of two-time Palme d'Or winners, with Rosetta in 1999 and The Child in 2005. They also appeared in Competition with The Son in 2002 (winning best actor for Olivier Gourmet) and agree that Cannes helped cement their reputations. What ...
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Vinnie Jones brings weight to The Heavy
Making his directorial debut, Marcus Warren will commence principal photography on UK thriller The Heavy from May 20. Shooting in and around London for six weeks, utilising many of the Capital's major landmarks, The Heavy stars former champion boxer Gary Stretch (Dead Man's Shoes, Alexander) as a down on his ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Alan Bridges
British director Alan Bridges turns 80 this year, but is still writing scripts. During his career he has worked with some of the biggest names in cinema history, including Ingmar Bergman and Laurence Olivier, but insists that his Palme d'Or win for The Hireling in 1973 was one of his ...
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Industry Trust launches $6m campaign to tackle copyright theft
The Industry Trust for Intellectual Property Awareness is kicking off the largest anti-piracy campaign ever in the UK on June 1 to educate the public about the damaging effects of what they now refer to as 'Knocking Off'.New research shows that copyright theft cost the film and television industry $912m ...
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Set Report - Cracking the code
Alex de la Iglesia has built a reputation across Europe as a comedy director with a larger-than-life persona and spontaneous style of film-making. So it came as little surprise to find him painting the walls of St Edmund Hall in Oxford and bellowing at his crew to work faster when ...
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Hooper to direct Katharine Graham biopic for Ziskin, HBO Films
Tom Hooper is set to direct a biopic about the legendary Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham which is being produced later this year by Laura Ziskin for HBO Films.Joan Didion (The Year Of Magical Thinking) is scripting the film from Carol Felsenthal's 1993 biography Power, Privilege And The Post: The ...
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BFI scouts locations for new Film Centre to open by 2012
The British Film Institute (BFI) is already looking at the third of four potential sites in London 's Southbank for its new 'British Film Centre' to be completed in time for the London Olympics in 2012. 'We are quite far down the line on the new site,' BFI president Amanda ...
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UK: inward production
The UK has been a popular location for major US and international productions for decades. But with uncertainty in recent years over the territory's tax incentives and a clampdown on Gaap financing, Colin Brown - who was appointed in December 2006 - will need to convince US studios of the ...
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Egeda launches Spanish VOD site
Spanish rights society Egeda has launched Filmotech.com, A VOD service offering Spanish and European titles at a price lower than DVD rental costs.Run by Egeda Digital, the site currently offers around 250 live-action features, shorts, documentaries and animated movies which either never received DVD distribution or can no longer be ...
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Latin American locations: welcome to the jungle
During the past decade Latin America has attracted more and more international production with its stunning and varied locations and cheap labour costs.Leading directors to have shot in the region include James Cameron (Titanic), Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill Vol 2), Gus Van Sant (Gerry) and more recently Mel Gibson for ...
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Spanish government promises 18% film tax write off
Spain's vice president Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega announced on Monday that an 18% tax write off will be included in a new film law for producers, broadcasters and investors. Butthe industry remains cautiously optimistic awaiting clarification on how it will work.De la Vega told industry figures and the ...
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United Kingdom - History moves with the times
As the industry increasingly looks to take advantage of back catalogues, the world's largest and most valuable film archive is now being made available at the click of a button - for free.The Mediatheque room of the new BFI Southbank beneath London's Waterloo Bridge already has available 300 film and ...
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United Kingdom - Pirate Duty
Film piracy cost the UK industry $1.6bn (£800m) in 2005 and, with new platforms for distributing films illegally arising every year, the need to tackle organised crime has never been more urgent.This is where the Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) steps in, led by its new director general Kieron Sharp, ...
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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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Production - Set jetting
Bollywood productions may bring work for UK crews and facilities, but another financial benefit is found through tourism.The UK Film Council's Clare Wise says: "The Bollywood films that are going to travel are going to be somewhere between the $2m-$20m mark, which means even if they spend 70% or 80% ...