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Gianni Massaro has resigned as president of European Council film fund Eurimages, blaming the excessive power of the European Council, bad management, and feuds between the Council and the Eurimages Committee.Massaro explained the reasons for his departure at a press conference in Rome, commenting: I fear that Eurimages cannot go very far under the existing conditions. Funds given by representative states will soon be insufficient. The European Council puts at Eurimages s disposal personnel and buildings but does not contribut
stanley cup e to the Fund itself. And yet it is regularly increasing the number of members - from small countries such a
stanley cup s Malta and Macedonia who have equal access to the funds but only contribute a very small amount of money. Despite past and present reforms of Eurimages, the General Secretary of the European Council has still opt
stanley cup ed to privilege bureaucracy. And the most important decisions at Eurimages, which should be discussed in front of the Committee that represents the 27 member states of Eurimages, are being preliminary filtered by Eurimages s executive secretary instead, Massaro added. Under existing rules, Eurimages Executive Secretariat pre-selects projects, manages fund allocation and answers directly to the general secretary of the European Council, while Eurimages s Committee makes the final decision on which films will receive funding. Massaro said the final factor that pushed him to resign was the European Council s decision to re-elect Eurimage Epsp First Moscow Business Square deals announced
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stanley germany Alibaba Pictures is making its first move into Hollywood, partnering with Paramount Pictures on Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation.The film arm of the ecommerce giant is making an unspecified investment into the picture and cooperating with Paramount on online ticketing, merchandising and promotion.Alibaba Pictures said earlier this month that it is raising $1.6bn through a share issue to fund acquisitions and investments.Mission: Impossible 5 will be promoted through Alibabas Taobao Movie ticketing platform, while merchandising will be sold through its ecommerce channels. The last few films in the franchise were big hits in China and Missio
stanley cup n: Impossible 3 was partly filmed in the country.In a statement, Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore said Alibaba founder Jack Ma, Paramount chairman Brad Grey and Alibaba Pictures CEO Zhang Qiang had met in Los Angeles last autumn to discuss ways to cooperate. We hope todays announcement is the first of many collaborations between us, said Moore. We are thrilled to be working with them to create a successful campaign for one of our studios most popular franchises. Alibaba Pictures CEO Zhang Qiang said: Mission: Impossible 鈥?Rogue Nation is our first step toward internationalisation, and Alibaba Pictures looks forward to collaborating with more international movie studios w
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