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Licences to help build booming film industry

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=201344 Tevita Vuibau THE licensing of audio visual agents is making a cleaner service for local film service providers and incoming productions alike. The Audio Visual Agents Licences were introduced earlier this year to ensure services provided were of international standard. They also monitor the activities of licensed audio visual agents and eliminate those operating [...]

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Will NATO Summit force a halt of film production in Chicago?

http://www.examiner.com/article/will-nato-summit-force-a-halt-film-production-chicago Tim O’Brien The Chicago Film Office has issued a release concerning work in the city and the NATO Summit on May 20-21. How do the two mix? Here is the notice: “This [NATO SUMMIT] is a high profile, high security international event. It is also likely to prompt protests – some planned and organized, [...]

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Movie business the prototype of new economy

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_20553730/movie-business-prototype-new-economy ByDave Maney an entrepreneur and former journalist, runs Economaney.com Last week, I laid out my best guess about America’s future economic structure: That it would start to look more and more like Hollywood and the film industry and less like what we’ve all thought of as the traditional American economic system. We’re leaving the [...]

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New Law and Festival Help Launch a Film Industry in Panama

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/new-law-festival-launch-film-industry-panama-318080 by Agustin Mango Gov’t funds will fuel film production while Panama Film Fest aims to consolidate a newly-born film scene. PANAMA CITY – After a 60 year period of silence, the Panamanian film industry is waking up. Last week, President Ricardo Martinelli enacted a new film law that had been in the works for [...]

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HollywoodIndy.com to Establish New Crowdfunding Platform

http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/04/30/hollywoodindycom-establish-new-crowdfunding-platform PR Newswire LOS ANGELES, /PRNewswire/ — Independent Film Development Corporation (OTCBB: IFLM), an international distributor of digital films and producer to the multibillion dollar Independent Film Industry, announced today it is establishing a crowdfunding component on its Internet based entertainment company, www.HollywoodIndy.com <http://www.HollywoodIndy.com> , for the funding of independent feature films. The crowdfunding platform [...]

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‘Cut!’ to Movies, Batteries: Autos Remain the Key for Michigan

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dalebuss/2012/04/27/cut-to-movies-batteries-autos-remain-key-for-michigan/ Dale Buss, Contributor Juxtapose four recent developments in Michigan’s economic-development scene and you have, in microcosm, what’s wrong with the state’s recent efforts to lure business and jobs, what’s right with them — and a clearer pathway to the future. Consider: –The founders of Raleigh Michigan Studios seemed to have a tiger by the [...]

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Hollywood bets heavily on razzle-dazzle action and effects

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-fi-ct-summer-blockbusters-20120428,0,3722926.story With international audiences becoming more important, big Hollywood studios spend ever more on summer films with action sequences and special effects whose appeal needs no translation. By Ben Fritz, Los Angeles Times As Hollywood’s major movie studios try to trim costs every way they can — including layoffs, mergers and slashed expense accounts and [...]

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Exclusive: SEC probes movie studios over dealings in China

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/24/us-sec-movies-idUSBRE83N15V20120424 By Aruna Viswanatha (Reuters) – U.S. regulators are investigating major U.S. movie studios’ dealings with China as the entertainment companies try to get a greater foothold in one of the fastest-growing movie markets in the world. The Securities and Exchange Commission has sent letters of inquiry to at least five movie studios in the [...]

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CinemaCon trade show attracts movie studios

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-cinemacon-20120423,0,7249327.story The Las Vegas convention for the National Assn. of Theatre Owners will be filled with film companies promoting such projects as ‘Frankenweenie,’ Oz: The Great and Powerful’ and ‘The Hobbit.’ By Amy Kaufman and John Horn, Los Angeles Times For most of the year, theater owners are worried about the price of movie tickets, [...]

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IATSE Local 480 – Film Technicians Union Endorse Virginia Vigil for Public Regulation Commission, District 3

http://www.virginiavigil.com/press-release/endorsement-iatse-local-480-film-technicians-union/ IATSE Local 480 – Film Technicians Union has endorsed Virginia Vigil for Public Regulation Commission, District 3. Citing Virginia’s long-time support of New Mexico’s film industry and her dedication to building the film industry in Santa Fe County, IATSE President Doug Acton stated: ‘IATSE has endorsed Virginia Vigil because she has worked for a [...]

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