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Russia announces changes to Studio structuring
The Russian government has announced details of their development programme for state-run studio facilities. Studio complexes will be consolidated and private investors will be brought in. Moscow’s Gorky Studio will obtain control of smaller Kazan Studios in the Volga region…
Filming in Gauteng
The 2010 FIFA World Cup will take place in South Africa. Events of this scale are commonly viewed with mixed emotions – as host cities benefit from increased attention but also risk suffering from over-crowding and drains on resources. So…
BossaNovaFilms' Willy Biondani directs Brazilian docudrama
Willy Biondani, who is currently on the BossaNovaFilms roster, has directed the docudrama Sertão Veredas. The docudrama was inspired by Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão Veredas, one of the 20th century's greatest literature works. It tells the story of henchman Riobaldo,…
Business is booming in BC
Motion picture production spending in British Columbia in 2008 was CAD1.2 billion, an increase of more than CAD250 million over 2007, Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts Bill Bennett announced yesterday. “Our province continues to be a top location…
MPA opens India office
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has opened a local office in Mumbai and is set to bring Bollywood and Hollywood together to promote and protect intellectual property rights following its studios’ focused entry and recent investment in the Indian film…
Utah incentive bill approved
Hoping to attract more filmmakers to Utah, a senate committee approved a bill last week that would allow production companies to receive up to 20% of their costs back if they shoot in the state. The current cap is 15%.…
New studios for Michigan
The state of Michigan continues to take the film world by storm with the completion of two film studios in the Detroit area due to happen this year. The studios represent a USD150 million investment and will create over 5,000…
Michigan studios to be built
Michigan is on the verge of completing a deal that will see three film and television studios, worth an estimated USD80 million, built in the southeast of the state. One of the facilities would be a multi-studio complex that would…
Filming in Australia
When renowned filmmaker Baz Luhrmann teamed up with Tourism Australia to create adverts promoting Australia as a tourism destination, the move attracted widespread publicity. The campaign, which ties in with Luhrmann's Australia feature film, represents an innovative partnership approach but…
Work begins on New York studio
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and George Kaufman and Hal Rosenbluth of Kaufman Astoria Studios have 'broken ground' on Stage K of the new USD22 million film and television production studio in Astoria, Queens. Stage K includes the construction of…