Studios that had planned to shoot elsewhere turned on a dime and flocked here, bringing stars such as Val Kilmer and Drew Barrymore with them.
To entice filmmakers to choose Michigan over other competing states, the state legislature passed bills creating refundable tax credits of up to 42 per cent for in-state movie production expenses.
Giving businesses [...]

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Hollywood is coming out this fall with a slew of political movies that hit all the hot-button topics as the tight U.S. presidential campaign nears its climax.
“There is a sense now that these political films can really be successful, and they’re a genre aimed at one side of the political spectrum or the other,” said [...]

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Forget Batman vs. the Joker, or Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden. The most enthralling head-to-head dust-up this year is the latest round in the epic battle between movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and producer Scott Rudin, two of Hollywood’s most ruthless characters.
Weinstein and Rudin, who are rumoured to have hated each other for years, have been [...]

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The continuing rise in film prices at Regal Cinemas should probably be no surprise; everything is going up in price, from food to gas and labor costs, putting pressure on exhibitors as well as the consumer.
That price rise probably accounts for some of the success of the recent Cans Film Festival, which featured free admission [...]

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A security bug in Adobe’s software means users were able to access Amazon’s video streaming service without payment, Reuters reports. The flaw was a rare example of a bug that gives extra functionality to users.
In a trade off between usability and security, Adobe technology permits the popular option of using video player verification to control [...]

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To celebrate the digital movie-making revolution, a week-long festival showcasing the innovative work of independent filmmakers, both local and foreign, will begin tonight at Robinsons Movieworld in Robinsons Galleria, Ortigas, Quezon City.
The opening event, which will begin at 6 p.m. tonight, will be an hour-long film concert featuring excerpts from silent short films of Filipino [...]

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To celebrate the digital movie-making revolution, a week-long festival showcasing the innovative work of independent filmmakers, both local and foreign, will begin tonight at Robinsons Movieworld in Robinsons Galleria, Ortigas, Quezon City.
The opening event, which will begin at 6 p.m. tonight, will be an hour-long film concert featuring excerpts from silent short films of Filipino [...]

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Two Cuban films will be screened at the 56th Movie Festival of San Sebastian, Spain, in honor to Cuban director Tomas Gutierrez Alea (1928-1996).
Tomas Gutierrez Alea, who was known as “Titon,” is considered one of the most representative filmmakers of Cuba. He was the director of some twenty movies, documentaries and short-feature films.
According to organizers [...]

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A new  Facebook profile created for Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin claims that he has agreed to write a movie about the invention of the popular Facebook social network.
“I understand there are a few other people using Facebook pages under my name–which I find more flattering than creepy–but this is me,” the profile notes. “I don’t [...]

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Lionsgate Films have unleashed a new clip promoting their forthcoming spoof comedy movie “Disaster Movie”. Entitled “Curve the Bullet”, the video footage is introduced by one of its stars, Carmen Electra, and generally parodying a signature scene of Timur Bekmambetov’s hit action film “Wanted (2008)”.
The particular scene then lampooned the moment when James McAvoy’s character, [...]

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