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8,000 people expected for massive Deathly Hallows event screening on July 12Warner Bros plans for a record-breaking French 3D premiere of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows 颅鈥?Part 2 for 8,000 people at the Bercy sports arena in Paris on July 12 have prompted fierce protests from Frances main distributor and director associations.The groups say tickets sold for the premiere will not be subject to Frances cinema ticket tax because the screening is not taking place in a cinema theatre and also claim that the scale of the event will impact box office takings in the Ile de France region over the period. This premiere will gather 8,000 spectators at 鈧?5 a ticket, representing takings of 鈧?00,000, but will not be subject to the same tax obligations applied to tickets sold in cinema theatres, the directors society the SRF and
stanley website the Agency for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema Acid said in a joint statement.French cinema tickets are normally subject to a 17% tax, 10% of which goes to Frances National Cinema Centre CNC , which then redistributes the pr
stanley cup oceeds to the film industry in the form of subsidies. Tickets sold for the Bercy premiere will be subject instead to value added tax of some 19%. It the premiere strikes at the very foundations of the redistribution system which funds Fra
stanley cup nces rich cinematic landscape, SRF and Acid said. It will deprive cinema theatres, particularly in the Ile de France region, of ticket sales and spectators. It will deprive the CNC of tax usuall Rwtk Dogwoof takes international rights to Chelsea Manning doc XY Chelsea
Germany s Henrik Meyer, one of the producers of Margarethe von Trotta s Venice prize-winner Rosenstrasse, has joined Elizabeth Yake s British Columbia-ba
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stanley cup s a vice president and partner.Speaking to ScreenDaily at this year s Mannheim Co-Production Meetings, Yake explained that they had both been looking for international partners to work with over the past couple of years. The strategy is that we will have two companies: firs
stanley cup tly, True West Films to make independent, director-driven niche films, and secondly, we will set up a larger company to do more commercial, bigger budget American films with stars attached , Yake saidMeyer, who expects to move to Vancouver next spring to set up True West Films office there, added that True West s business model would also see me as a contact person on the ground for German producers. I know the needs and demands of the German producers, directors and actors, and Elisabeth knows the Canadian side. That advantage is something we want to offer both as a service producer and as a co-producer. As a President/founder of Toronto-based Subjective Eye, Yake has produced seven feature films and documentaries since 1995, including the Canadian-German co-production Desire which garnered two 2002 Genie Award nominations.In 2000, she then relocated to British Columbia to set up True West. Her latest film, It s All Gone Peter Tong, co-produced with the UK s Vertigo Films, has just wrapped principal photography in
