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German producers look to the Balkans for success
Champagnecorks may have popped in Sarajevo after Jasmila Zbanic's debut feature Grbavicawon the Golden Bear at last month's Berlinale - but celebrationswere not confined to Bosnia and Herzegovina.Therewas also cause for jubilation in Germany: Didi Danquart's Karlsruhe-based noirfilm was one of the co-producers, along with Austria'scoop99, Zbanic's own company Deblokadaand ...
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Korea's Tube Entertainment merges with media companies to form Mediacorp
Koreaninvestor/distributor Tube Entertainment has merged with stock exchange-listed publisherYoungjin Dotcom and entertainment-related firms Media 2.0 and Oi Music tocreate a "total media" enterprise called Mediacorp, which will be listed on thestock market.Mediacorpwill focus on entertainment, publishing, and digital content as its mainbusinesses this year. As the entertainment affiliate, Tube Entertainment ...
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Government announces details of UK film tax regime
With the UK's new film tax credit set to go into effect in just11 days, the government has finally provided details about its new tax regime.The most significant point for producers is a change to the qualifying threshold for tax relief - at least 25% of a film's budget must ...
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Telepiu expands into cable broadcasting
Italian digital satellite platform Telepiu has reached an agreement with Telecom Italia to begin cable broadcasting in 500,000 homes in seven key cities beginning this September. Telecom Italia is understood to have been forced into the agreement by European Union anti-trust requirements.Measures have been underway for several years to break ...
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Carlos Saura's Iberia to open Guadalajara Film Festival
The 21st edition of the Guadalajara Film Festival starts FridayMarch 24 with the gala presentation of Carlos Saura'sIberia.Mexico's most establishedfestival and a major one within Latin America finds itself at aturning point as it needs to redefine its image and scope after it turned intoa fully-fledged international event last year. ...
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The Works signs DVD deal with Universal Pictures UK
The Works UK distribution has just signed an exclusive home entertainment output deal with Universal Pictures UK. Universal will release The Works Distribution titles on video and DVD and the UK, while The Works will continue to handle theatrical distribution. One of the first titles under the new deal will ...
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Tribeca shorts lineup includes new work from Kiarostami, Sylvia Kristel
Short films from musician Laurie Anderson, Dutch actress SylviaKristel and young US actors Adrian Grenier and Melissa Joan Hart are amonginternational narrative shorts from 15 countries in Tribeca's short filmline-upDocumentary shorts cover subjects ranging from Don Cheadle'sfamily trip to Africa to Roseanne Cash's recollections of family and music to newwork ...
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Telefilm Canada closes Paris office
Telefilm Canada is closingits Paris office, effective March 31, 2006. The Canadian film and televisionfunding agency said the closure made sense because few clients were using theoffice and that what limited function is achieved there can be obtained throughother Canadian operations in the French capital and throughout Europe, such asembassies ...
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Noonan lands promotions and communications role at WBHEG
Jim Noonan has been promoted to the newly created post of seniorvice president of worldwide strategic promotions and communications at WarnerBros Home Entertainment Group (WBHEG).In the new post he will create strategic cross-platform, cross-divisionalpromotions for content distributed through the ambitious WBHEG's units, whichinclude home video, digital distribution, and interactive.He was ...
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Croatian Wonderful Night In Split wins at RiverRun festival
Arsen Anton Ostojic's Croatian drama A Wonderful Night In Split dominated the closing night ceremony atthe 8th RiverRun International Film Festival, winning four jury awardsincluding best narrative feature.The tapestry of interwoven stories also claimed the best directorand screenplay honours for Ostojic and the best cinematography award for MirkoPivcevic.James Burke's US ...
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UK industry gives cautious welcome to tax changes
With the UK's new film tax credit set to go into effect April 1, the government has finally provided details about its new tax regime.Producers say there's good news and bad news in the details. Unlike its predecessors, the Section42 and Section 48 regimes, the new relief will only apply ...
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Sogepaq picks up international on Spanish hit
Spain'sSogepaq has picked up international rights on local box office hit The2 Sides Of The Bed.Thefilm (Los 2 Lados De La Cama) from director Emilio MartinezLazaro wasreleased in Spain by Buena Vista on December 20, 2005 andhasearned more than $8.5m (Euros 7m) to take top ranking of local films for ...
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Naseerruddin Shah to be honoured at Indian Film Festival of LA
Indian star Naseerruddin Shah will be honoured at the 4th IndianFilm festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA), which runs from Apr 19-23.The festival will showcase two of Shah's pictures - MonsoonWedding and TheChurning (Manthan) - and Shah will take part in a30-minute on-stage discussion on Apr 21 after The Churning.His western ...
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Mashariki named production vp at Fox Searchlight
Zola Mashariki has been promoted to vice president of productionat Fox Searchlight and will report to production chief Claudia Lewis.Mashariki joined the company as a production intern in May 2000and rose to creative executive by January 2001 and director by November 2003.Her credits include Kinsey, In America, Le Divorce and ...
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CineMedia grabs stake in Watch! Entertainment
German film services group CineMedia has given itself a further leg-up into production and new media through the acquisition of a stake in Watch! Entertainment.CineMedia is buying 26% of Watch!, a television producer established by a group of senior managers from Grundy Ufa TV Productions. Terms of the purchase were ...
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Innotz/Prime Entertainment buys Korea Entertainment
Koreanfilm conglomerate Innotz/Prime Entertainment has taken over more established productioncompany Korea Entertainment, producer of commercial hits My Tutor Friend, Mapado, and The Art ofFighting. PrimeEntertainment acquired 100% of Korea Entertainment's stocks for $15m today. Asa subsidiary of Prime Industrial group and formerly a company focusing onsoftware, Innotz had recently announced ...
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Universal offers downloaded Kong for keeps
Universal ispartnering with DVD rental service LoveFilm tooffer UK customers a movie download-to-own service. The first release will be King Kong, which will be available for permanentdownload on April 10, to coincide with the UK street date for the DVD release. "Universal is very proud tobe the first to launch ...
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Filmart wraps with record attendance
The tenth edition of Filmartwrapped today with the organisers reporting record attendance and delegatesagreeing that this year was the biggest and busiest yet. More than 400 companies tookbooths at the market while the number of buyers increased to almost 4,000.Meanwhile projects market, the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), ...
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Haneke slams Austrian producer's body funding plans
Austria's leadinginternational filmmaker Michael Haneke (Hidden)has spoken out against proposals by the Austrian Producers Association toconcentrate public film funding on the makers of commercially successful films.Speaking at the first offour roundtables on the state of Austrian film production at this week's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema, Haneke said: "If ...
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Nominations announced for German Film Awards
Florian Henckelvon Donnersmarck's feature debut Das Leben Der Anderenand Hans-Christian Schmid's Berlinalecompetition film Requiem dominatedthe nominations for this year's"Lola" German Film Awards which will be presented in Berlinon May 12.Von Donnersmarck's thriller, whichBuena Vista International opened in German cinemas March 23, picked up eleven nominationsincluding Best Film, Best Direction and ...