Sentences with phrase «on film financing»

Counseled independent filmmakers on film financing and business entity formation and negotiated production / distribution agreement.

Legal advice on film financing, tax credits, production incentives, and securities laws.

He acted for HMRC in Proteus and Samarkand v HMRC -LRB-[2017] EWCA Civ 77), a judicial review challenge to tax decisions taken on film finance schemes; in Eastenders v HMRC [2014] UKSC 34, [2014] 2 WLR 1580 (which concerned the for use of the power to detain goods under section 139 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979); and in European Brand Trading v HMRC [2016] EWCA Civ 90 (as to the jurisdiction of the Upper Tribunal to determine whether seizure of goods for non-payment of excise duty was lawful).

Not exact matches

They handle logistics like financing, production and distribution to make things easier on the creative minds behind the films.

Originally launched with a focus on film, Indiegogo pivoted to include funding for literally anything and is becoming known for financing personal and cause - related campaigns such as that for the bullied bus monitor, which raised over $ 700,000.

More than $ 800 million has been crowdfunded on Indiegogo to finance everything from drones to Hollywood films.

The three subsequent films in the series grossed more than $ 310 million on a total budget of $ 55 million, according to the movie finance site The Numbers.

«Versa Media Capital intends to become the go - to source of capital and expertise for independent film and TV content creators, and will provide the elements needed to put projects on the solid footing required to complete a permanent financing package,» said Geoffray in a statement.

In 1954, encouraged by new scholarship on Jesus» life and by the rising tide of church membership and attendance, the Episcopal Church helped finance a film on the life of Jesus, The Day of Triumph.

Filmmaker Steve Cowan posted full transcripts of his interviews with Cuomo and Maffei on the film's website, which include Maffei's observation he supports public campaign finance «because it means the only people we'll have to worry about in our day are the taxpayers and constituents in our district, and that's what we're supposed to do.»

Comprised of interviews with finance types, individuals involved in the escort business, as well as Spitzer himself, Gibney's film traces the former New York Governor's career from his start as an attorney general determined to take down corruption on Wall Street, to his status as a political joke after he was forced to resign for patronizing the Emperor's Club VIP escort service.

Most of these movies seen like an excuse for Adam Sandler and his friends to go on vacation, and they film a movie and hope to make some money from it to finance it.

Financed, produced, directed and starring Oscar - winner Robert Duvall, this film is a down - home yet very grittty at times story of a disgraced preacher on the run from the police after beating his soon - to - be ex-wife's new boyfriend with a baseball bat at a baseball game.

1) You (and a spread of trolls on here and other sites) keep calling it «Hollywood propaganda» but it isn't even a Hollywood film - it's almost entirely financed by foreign companies (In France, Germany, Italy) was shot for 3.5 million in Italy, directed by an Italian.

After years of trying to get financing, Marc Forster's film adaptation of World War Z has finally begun shooting on the Mediterranean island of Malta.

Instead, it is betting more on its self - financed productions, which include the new film by the acclaimed Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos set in the 18th - century court of Britain's Queen Anne.

We talked at length about his film, its financing hurdles and his thoughts on Canadian distributors, the response to his recent criticisms, and the industry at large.

German started work on the film in 1992, but with the financial crisis that dominated post-Soviet Russia ran into financing difficulties soon after.

After the impact of these two features (the latter screening at Cannes and championed by such critics as Pauline Kael), Schepisi moved on to directing films overseas, including such varied works as Barbarosa (1982), Plenty (1985), Roxanne (1987), The Russia House (1990), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Last Orders (2001) and the HBO - financed Empire Falls (2005), which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television.

FRONTIÈRES is an international co-production market and networking platform specifically focused on genre film financing and co-production between Europe and North America.

9) A Ghost Story — Arguably the artsiest film on my list, David Lowery's self - financed supernatural drama is an unforgettable experience.

It is essentially a promotional film, financed mainly by the cybersecurity firm NetScout, but for all its insistence on the glory of interconnectedness and the transformations it has inspired, Herzog pays nearly equal attention to the downsides, particularly government and corporate surveillance and faceless cruelty.

His next film Inherent Vice, based on the Thomas Pynchon novel of the same title, will reportedly start filming this month having recently received financing from Warner Bros..

The film then depicts Melvin's life afterward, his on - again, off - again romance with his kooky stripper wife, Lynda, and his troubles with finances mostly caused by his own negligent nature.

As card - carrying members of the Cuarón fan club («Y Tu Mama Tambien» was a blistering revitalization of his career; «Prisoner of Azkaban «was the best Harry Potter film by a country mile; and «Children of Men» is one of the finest films of its decade), we've been following the tortuous progress of «Gravity» for what feels like forever, as Cuarón had a bitch of a time financing this 3D - shot, effects - driven film, and suffered several casting knock backs as A-listers signed on and then off the project (Robert Downey Jr., Angelina Jolie, among others).

Fortunately, writer - director Scott Cooper found financing for Hostiles, a film with much more on its mind than the pitfalls of the well - worn, currently not - often - attempted genre that in this case tries to make a case for racial understanding against all odds.

Payne said it was difficult on every level — writing, financing, editing — and also addressed the lukewarm reviews it was met with upon opening late last year, suggesting that its ambitious narrative may have been too much to fit into the framework of a single film.

Annapurna Pictures has come on to finance Alexander Payne's next film, which co-stars Reese Witherspoon

Producer Cathleen Sutherland along with her producer / colleagues Susan Kirr and Brandon Dickerson set out to make a film based on an Icelandic novel some years ago, but the project fell through when financing disappeared.

After success with The Office, Extras and Derek, actor - comedian Ricky Gervais is returning to his most iconic role of David Brent for the feature film Life On the Road, which has now secured financing.

The latest movement on this comes as Shivani Rawat's ShivHans Pictures (Trumbo, Captain Fantastic) has come aboard to produce and finance the pic, which now begins filming next month in Tangier.

Franco is garnering Oscar buzz for his performance as Wiseau, a singularly strange individual who somehow or other was able to arrange financing for his feature film The Room, a movie so bad it went on to become a cult sensation.

Ever since the French filmmaker Leos Carax announced Annette as his next film, the project has seemed just too strange to survive the often perilous road to financing and production: an English - language musical from the director of The Lovers On The Bridge and Holy Motors, with original songs by the cult art - pop duo...

The film centers around the world of high finance where four outsiders predict the credit and house bubble collapse of the mid-200's and decide to take on the banks for the greed they exhibited at the time.

On the mainland the government's film bureau has introduced new legislation that would discourage foreign financing of local production, and it's blacklisted many of the best (and best - known) independent filmmakers and video artists, including Tian Zhuangzhuang (The Blue Kite), Zhang Yimou (To Live), and Zhang Yuan (Mama).

Because it was partly financed by a crowdfunding Web campaign — Indiegogo.com raised $ 150,000 on top of the reported $ 1 million budget — the film's backers will be given private access to a virtual screening so that they can stream the film online at home as it unspools during its world premiere in Park City.

They rely increasingly on films that the company finances and produces itself, at a wider range of budgets, charging Greenbaum and Greenfield with developing, budgeting, casting, and producing them.

Worldview is considered by some to be a production company and financing entity on the rise, with upcoming films from Warren Beatty, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, David Gordon Green, Eli Roth and Zach Braff.

New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Scenario de «Sauve qui peut (la vie)» (1979), a short video created by director Jean - Luc Godard to secure financing for «Every Man for Himself» New video essay by critic Colin MacCabe New interviews with actor Isabelle Huppert and producer Marin Karmitz Archival interviews with actor Nathalie Baye, cinematographers Renato Berta and William Lubtchansky, and composer Gabriel Yared Two back - to - back 1980 appearances by Godard on «The Dick Cavett Show» «Godard 1980», a short film by Jon Jost, Donald Ranvaud, and Peter Wollen, featuring Godard Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin

As a film self - financed and possibly self - distributed with the director accompanying the film on its theatrical journey, there may be elements here to provoke thought or discussions with curious audiences.

Although the gritty indie aesthetic of «Diary» was a direct reaction to his experiences on «Land» — a studio effort starring Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento and Simon Baker and the most expensive film in the series — Romero always has bounced back and forth between mainstream acceptance (a few studio - funded pictures and various fruitless Hollywood production deals) and the scrappier terrain of independent financing and distribution.

Back in 2012, Ford, busy trying to finish the film, was accepted into the IFP Spotlight on Docs — essentially speed dating among filmmakers and potential financing and distribution partners.

Jordan went on to another large - scale, Hollywood financed film, The Brave One (2007), because, as he says, «Jodie Foster sent me the script, and I read it, and there was something very vulgar and compelling about the basic drive of the script.

And more of them are going to let the SVOD [Streaming Video On - Demand] businesses finance their films, maybe with the promise of a slight, one - week theatrical window to qualify them for awards as a movie.»

The films nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards are selected based on the following criteria: original, provocative subject matter; uniqueness of vision; economy of means with particular attention paid to total budget and individual; and percent of independent financing.

4:00 — Connolly and Trevorrow reflect on how they secured financing for their film as well as casting decisions.

Blumhouse Productions is on board to finance and produce, allowing McFarlane to make his directorial debut on the film, and now with things moving forward he has provided a -LSB-...]

In addition to the Resident Evil reboot Constantin are working on, the Monster Hunter film is another adaption of one of Capcom's IP's and is reported to be financed by Constantin and has a budget of around $ 60 million US dollars.

The film has received good reviews (86 % on Rotten Tomatoes) and is expected to do well overseas (especially in China, where investors helped finance the film) so, yeah, I'm thinking Keanu is back.

Anderson couldn't get The Master financed through the studio system that produced Barry Lyndon; he had to re-envision it as a more interior film, a historical epic predicated on close - ups.