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German co-producer required for tax scheme, says fund chief
Non-German producers are likely to need a local partner if they want to benefit from the tax rebate to be introduced in Germany next year.Speaking at a film financing roundtable on the eve of this year's Munich Film Festival, Klaus Schaefer, chief executive of the Bavarian Film & Television Fund ...
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German co-producer required for tax scheme, says fund chief
Non-German producers are likely to need a local partner if they want to benefit from the tax rebate to be introduced in Germany next year.Speaking at a film financing roundtable on the eve of this year's Munich Film Festival, Klaus Schaefer, chief executive of the Bavarian Film & Television Fund ...
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German co-producer required for tax scheme, says fund chief
Non-German producers are likely to need a local partner if they want to benefit from the tax rebate to be introduced in Germany next year.Speaking at a film financing roundtable on the eve of this year's Munich Film Festival, Klaus Schaefer, chief executive of the Bavarian Film & Television Fund ...
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Pirates plunders $258.2m domestic 10-day haul
The high seasadventures continued for Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as it plundered an estimated $62.2m to raise the10-day tally to a staggering $258.2m.Buena Vista's adventure sequel mustered the third biggest second weekend inhistory behind Shrek 2's $72.2mand Spider-Man's $71.4m,and stayed top ahead of the new comedies Little ...
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Pirates stays top, races past $250m after 20 days
The high seasadventures continued for Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as it plundered an estimated $62.2m to raise the10-day tally to a staggering $258.2m.Buena Vista's adventure sequel mustered the third biggest second weekend inhistory behind Shrek 2's $72.2mand Spider-Man's $71.4m,and stayed top ahead of the new comedies Little ...
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Pirates sails past $125m international tally
Pirates Of The Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest continued to rulethe waves as Buena Vista International's (BVI) adventure yarn cruised past$100m in its second weekend.The seventh title to cross $100m this year added an estimated $58m thanks to 18number one debuts that garnered $29.5m alone. Strong holds saw the pictureremain undefeated in ...
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Huntsberry named chief operating officer at Paramount
Former president ofNBC Universal International Frederick Huntsberry has been named Paramount chiefoperating officer.Paramount chairman Brad Grey made the announcement on Sunday afternoon, addingthat worldwide marketing, distribution and business affairs chief Rob Moore hasadded oversight of Paramount Home Entertainment and Paramount Digital MediaGroup to his remit.Huntsberry, who will report to Grey, ...
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Garage Olimpo wins at Italy's Golden Globes
Marco Bechi's Garage Olimpo, a drama about the so-called disappeared ones in Argentina, won best film at Italy's Golden Globes, the annual awards of the foreign press. Held in Rome's historic film studios of Cinecitta on the set of Ettore Scola's latest film, Concorenza Sleale, the event awarded best actress ...
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Jerusalem festival gives top prize to satire Dead End
In a surprise decision, thejury of the 23rd Jerusalem Film Festival awarded the Wolginprize for best Israeli feature to DeadEnd, a black satire on TV reality shows directed by DrorSzabo. Szabo, who has beeninvolved in the production of reality shows, makes his feature directorialdebut with the project. The jury, headed ...
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Heimat Fragments expected to premiere in Venice
Veteran Germandirector Edgar Reitz's fourth Heimat film, Heimat Fragments (Heimat Fragmente), isexpected to have its world premiere at this year's Venice Film Festival.This willcontinue a tradition which saw Reitz's ground-breaking first Heimat premierein Venice in 1984, followed by Heimat 2 in 1992,and Heimat 3 - A Chronicle ofEndings and Beginnings ...
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Small Engine Repair takes first feature prize at Galway
The 18th Galway Film Fleadh closed Sunday night with a preview presentation ofwriter/director David Gleeson's second feature The Frontline, a crime drama about vulnerable Congolese immigrantsin Dublin which will be released by BVI Ireland after itsofficial world premiere on August 25.The Frontline was one of several new Irish features premiered ...
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Poland's Era New Horizons to open with Volver
Thesixth Era New Horizons Film Festival (July 20-30) will open with Pedro Almodovar's Volver. The festival, based in Wroclaw, Poland, will close with Ken Loach's The Wind ThatShakes The Barley.Amongthe 18 features in competition are: Lukas Moodysson's Container, Julia Loktev's DayNight Day Night, ShinyaTsukamoto's Vital, Bruno Dumont's Flanders, Abderrahmane Sissako's ...
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Magic Box strikes Czech deal with Warner Bros
Warner Home Video (WHV) hasstruck a deal with Czech independent home entertainment company Magic Box tolicense and distribute Warner Bros' new releases and library titles as ofOctober this year. In April, Warner Bros CzechRepublic managing director Ladislav Stastny told ScreenDaily.comthat falling revenues had lead to the decision to phase out ...
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Stephen Chow plans August start for A Hope
Hong Kong actor anddirector Stephen Chow announced that he will shoot his new film A Hope (working title) in August in China's Southeastern city Ningbo. Budgeted at $20m,the film will be co-financed by Chow's Star Overseas Limited, China Film Groupand Beijing Polybona Film Publishing.Chow will star inthe sci-fi film with ...
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Locarno plans collaboration with Buenos Aires Lab
Next month's Locarno International Film Festival hasforged a new collaboration with the Buenos Aires Lab (BAL), theLatin American co-production market for independent cinema within the frameworkof the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival and TyPA (Teoria y Practica delas Artes), to allow selected filmmakers and producers from Latin America tomeet potential ...
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Lenny Crooks to take over UK's New Cinema Fund
TheUK Film Council has appointed Lenny Crooks as the new head of the New CinemaFund, effective Sept 18. His initial contract is for a two-year term, with theoption to extend by a further two years. Crookswill replace Paul Trijbits, whose six-year tenurewith the fund ends in September as expected. Crooks ...
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Scoop
Dir: Woody Allen. UK/US. 2006. 96 mins. After a surge of sortswith last year's Oscar-nominated Match Point, Woody Allen's topsy-turvycareer slumps again with the featherweight Scoop. Having successfullypulled off a dark, Patricia Highsmith-esque thrillerset in London with Match Point, he applies the dizzy slapstick comedy ofThe Curse Of The Jade ...
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Artificial Eye buys three more post-Cannes
UK distributor Artificial Eye has announced several further acquisitionson the back of Cannes.The deals are for Douglas Gordon and Philippe Pareno's Zidane: A 21stCentury Portrait, Sydney Pollack's Sketchesof Frank Gehry and CorneliuPorumboiu's Camera d'Orwinner 12:08: East of Bucharest. Artificial Eye plans aSeptember 29 release for the Zidane documentary, andthe other ...
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European exhibitors urged to curtail over-building
Unless European cinema operators, particularly those in Germany, scale back their multiplex building ambitions then admissions per screen will reach dangerously low levels, a leading analyst has warned exhibitors attending the Cinema Expo convention in Amsterdam.Speaking at Monday's European Exhibition seminar, Karsten-Peter Grummitt of Dodona Research, the UK-based outfit normally ...
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Farr's The Gymnast shines at 12th Annual Outfest Awards
Ned Farr's The Gymnast won the Grand Jury award for Outstanding AmericanNarrative Feature at Outfest's 12th Annual Competition Awards, while MalcolmIngram's Small Town Gay Bar andAmnon Buchbinder's Whole New Thingtook documentary and international narrative feature honours.Michael Carbonaro from Another Gay Movie and Diane Gaidry from Loving Annabelle won the actor ...