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UK rides risky business boom
Anyone looking for the next Germany should consider the UK. A $2.5bn (£1.6 bn) avalanche of financing is pouring into the film sector as changes in last April's budget start to kick in. But tax financing is in such flux that, like Germany, the boom could suddenly turn sour.With TV ...
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French backers grow wary of culture, bank on commerce
Caution is the new buzzword in French film financing circles, with challenging fare such as the forthcoming Paris Je T'aime struggling to attract investors who increasingly favour big budget bankable hits.A challenging series of 20 five minute short stories - each one set in one of Paris' 20 districts ...
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Spain's Grupo PI taps into The Mind Of A Killer
Spain's Grupo PI will handle international sales on San Sebastian competition entry Aro Tolbukhin In The Mind Of A Killer (Aro Tolbukhin En La Mente Del Asesino).Directed by Agusti Villaronga, Lydia Zimmermann and Isaac P Racine, and based on an historical figure, the film works as a false documentary to ...
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DNA seeks joint venture backer
Fox Searchlight is in talks to form a joint venture with DNA, the UK National Lottery franchise of leading British producer Andrew Macdonald and Duncan Kenworthy.The offshoot of Twentieth Century Fox is likely to take over from DNA's current backer Universal Studios, although the franchise has been talking to other ...
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Argentina's production industry suffers from inflation
Film production in Argentina hit another low point after Argentine Directors Association (DAC) reported that the average cost of making a local film shot up from $120,500 (pesos 1.2m) to $180,800 (pesos 1.8m). Since the peso lost its parity with the dollar, - currently pegged at 3.6 pesos to a ...
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Works starts on new film studio for Cornwall
Work is underway in St Agnes, Cornwall on the construction of a $9m (£5.76m) film studio complex, the first to be built in the South West of England.The studio is one of many currently in planning or construction stage throughout the UK - at least seven are thought to be ...
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Toronto mourns death of actress Katrin Cartlidge
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival was in a state of shock yesterday after learning of the suddendeath of Katrin Cartlidge, the talented British actress whose film rolesincluded such well-regarded European films as Topsy-Turvy, Before The Rain, Naked, Breaking The Waves and last year's Oscar-winning No Man'sLand. She was 41.Born in London, ...
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Toronto mourns death of actress Katrin Cartlidge
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival was in a state of shock yesterday after learning of the suddendeath of Katrin Cartlidge, the talented British actress whose film rolesincluded such well-regarded European films as Topsy-Turvy, Before The Rain, Naked, Breaking The Waves and last year's Oscar-winning No Man'sLand. She was 41.Born in London, ...
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Gong Li takes on Blake & Mortimer's M
Chinese superstar Gong Li took time out from her duties as Venice jury chief, to announce her role in big-budget, English-language thriller M, being put together by French producer Charles Gassot for TF1.The film is a 1950s action adventure adapted from The Yellow M, one of 12 books in the ...
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Gong Li takes on Blake & Mortimer's M
Chinese superstar Gong Li took time out from her duties as Venice jury chief, to announce her role in big-budget, English-language thriller M, being put together by French producer Charles Gassot for TF1.The film is a 1950s action adventure adapted from The Yellow M, one of 12 books in the ...
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Six Korean directors to create human rights omnibus
The South Korean Human Rights Commission has announced plans to assemble six high-profile Korean directors to shoot an omnibus-style collection of short films dealing with themes related to discrimination and human rights.Five directors have already signed on to the project - Park Chan-wook (JSA), Jeong Jae-eun (Take Care Of My ...
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Buena Vista Spain boosts local co-production slate
Having officially entered the local production sector last year, Buena Vista International Spain (BVIS) is negotiating a potential slate of five to six new co-productions for 2003.The multinational, which distributed the country's top grossing domestic hit this year: The Wrong Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado De La Cama), ...
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German producers reach 'voluntary' agreement with public broadcasters
German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have reached a voluntary agreement with the national producer associations which will see the first exploitation cycle for TV rights on funded cinema co-productions reduced from seven years to five. Following the signing of the agreement with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neuer Deutscher Spielfilmproduzenten e.V. ...
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Disney boards John Williams' $40m Valiant
Walt Disney Studios has boarded Valiant, the $40m animation film to be made at the UK's Ealing Studios.Although the studio is reportedly paying only 25% of the $40m budget for North American rights to the project, the deal may lead to Disney backing three more films from Shrek producer John ...
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Red Light Runners faces financial greenlight hurdle
Red Light Runners, the UK heist movie being set up by Reservoir Dogs star Michael Madsen, has hit another financing roadblock.A spokesperson for the film confirmed that Germany's Fierce Entertainment, which purportedly stepped in with a deal for 70% of the funding, was no longer part of the project. Madsen ...
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Fierce Entertainment denies Red Light Runners deal
In a further bizarre twist to the film's financing - or lack of it - Fierce Entertainment has denied any commitment to Red Light Runners, the UK heist movie being set up by Reservoir Dogs star Michael Madsen.Producer Clark Westerman had announced that the financier had stepped in as an ...
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UK Film Council invests in four new local projects
The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund has announced four new investments, including new projects from Under The Skin director Carine Adler and One Day In September producer John Battsek.Carine Adler will write and direct Finding Out, a love story set in a small English seaside town about a lonely ...
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Working Title's WT2 begins to shoot The Calcium Kid
Working Title Films' low budget division WT2 is set to start principal photography on The Calcium Kid, starring Orlando Bloom, who plays Legolas in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.The off-beat comedy is a mockumentary about a young milkman who is also amateur boxer and ends up fighting the world ...
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Star Line, Parallel, Planet team for Aranda's Carmen
Madrid-based producer Star Line has signed up the UK's Parallel Pictures and Italy's Planet Pictures to co-produce the long-planned ambitious new feature film version of Carmen.The Euros 7m-plus film, from director Vicente Aranda (Juana La Loca), will begin principal photography in Andalusia on September 16 with actors Paz Vega (Sex ...
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The Illustrated Family Doctor gets the greenlight
Acclaimed commercials, short film and documentary director Kriv Stenders has finally got his dark and irreverent debut feature The Illustrated Family Doctor over the financing line. He wrote the script in conjunction with David Snell, author of the novel on which it is based.The commitment of UK-based sales agent ...