Maltese Film Industry Booming With Impressive Tax Rebate, But Not Without Growing Pains

EXCLUSIVE: Showrunner Industries is now working with the AI startup ScriptGen on a collaboration involving the former’s script development platform WritersRoom Pro.

The Most Human: Reconciling With My Father, Leonard Nimoy,” available starting Tuesday, June 4. “Like Spock, Dad was not the warm and fuzzy type,” Adam writes about Leonard, who died in 2015 at age 83, and the iconic half-human, half-Vulcan role that he played for three seasons in the original 1966-1969 series and six movie sequels, as well as J.J. Abrams’ more recent series of film reboots.

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Cynthia Littleton Business Editor The state of California has warned entertainment industry payroll providers and others that it is implementing policy changes that could have significant tax and retirement planning implications for those in Hollywood’s creative community who use loan out corporations to manage their business affairs. The California Employment Development Department has reportedly alerted payroll service Cast & Crew, IATSE and others of the plan to tighten rules for the use of loan out corporations.

Turandot may be the premiere of a new ending, but it still has to be about the 95% that comes before the big reveal.And despite capturing Puccini’s hauntingly grand motifs and some choral spectacles akin to standing behind the engines of an Airbus A30, this production is only almost, but not quite, fabulous. There is design, color, movement, and moments of aural loveliness under the rock-steady hand of director Francesca Zambello, but somehow it all lacks a certain je ne sais quoi.Wilson Chin’s sets may be a satisfyingly intricate pipework-like creation made striking when washed in the saturated colors of Amith Chandrashaker’s lighting, but the moon — offered hugely in S.

As of Friday, Patrick’s Roadhouse was still closed. Plates and pitchers were stacked inside. The old-style coffee maker seemed ready to go, and there were even some bright green lights shining along the roof. But the place looked like a radioactive version of the Spanish Kitchen, frozen in time, plus dinosaurs, leprechauns and the Statue of Liberty on top.

with San Francisco streetwear label, Dolls Kill. But visuals of the once-snuggly sweeties shaking their stuffing to club music have outraged some Gen Zs and millennials who grew up watching their purple, green, yellow and red friends frolic under the beaming warmth of “Sun Baby.”“This is sacrilegious to me,” commented a disapproving detractor. “So gross, drug-oriented, pedophilic and wrong,” spat an equally perturbed spectator.

A search of a north Manchester park and woodland is continuing as part of a murder investigation. Greater Manchester Police started searching Boggart Hole Clough on May 16th.

David Cronenberg is a filmmaker who has created his own brands of sci-fi for quite some time. But even a filmmaker like Cronenberg, someone who has dreamed up what the future could look like, is amazed at what technology is capable of today, specifically artificial intelligence (A.I.).  Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival (via Deadline), where he recently premiered his latest sci-fi feature, “The Shrouds,” David Cronenberg talked about the emergence of A.I.

When it comes to whether AI is friend or foe, particularly in regards to its place in the film industry, David Cronenberg is both intrigued and terrified. “What do we do? I have no idea,” the Canadian horror sci-fi maestro said Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival, the day after the world premiere of his new film The Shrouds.

It has been seven years since Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Emmanuel Lubezki presented CARNE y ARENA at the Cannes Film Festival. In an airport hangar 20 minutes down the coast from the Palais, the pair had created a vast volume with a sand floor as participants strapped into a virtual reality headset and found themselves joining a group of immigrants on their perilous passage from Mexico into the United States. At the time, Deadline called the installation — which would transfer to LACMA among other venues — the first step in the birth of an artform.

The first iteration of the Cannes Film Festival, planned for 1939, was scuppered when Germany invaded Poland to trigger the start of World War II. But when the festival finally got off the ground in 1946, Indian cinema came out swinging. Mounted shortly after the conclusion of the war, the first “real” Cannes Film Festival featured competition entries from Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend), Roberto Rossellini (Open City), and David Lean (Brief Encounter). In the spirit of post-war peace and reconciliation, the competition jury, headed by French historian Georges Huisman, handed the top prize — then the Grand Prix — to films from 11 of the 18 countries represented that year.

Molly-Mae Hague was grinning from ear to ear as she prepared to ditch the UK for a very special reason. The influencer has been busy organising her sister Zoe Hague's hen party ahead of her nuptials to her fiance Danny Rae this year.

Alex Ritman Andrea Arnold’s initial inspiration for her Cannes competition entry “Bird” was perhaps not what many people might have been expecting. “A very long time ago, I had the image a tall, thin man with a long penis, standing on a roof,” she explained at the press conference for the film on Friday when asked about her initial visual prompt. “But I didn’t know if he was good or bad or what he was.” From this bizarre starting point, Arnold crafted a social realist drama about a family on the fringes of society living by British seaside and an unexpected visitor who becomes close to a young girl entering puberty.

EXCLUSIVE: A third season of Acorn TV and Channel 5 detective drama Dalgliesh has begun filming in Northern Ireland.

Jennie Punter With the effects of the 2023 strikes growing smaller in the rearview mirror, Quebec has fine-tuned its incentives and is revving up for more than just a simple recovery in 2024. In January, the Quebec Film and Television Council warmed up post-strike Hollywood with a trade mission to reacquaint producers with the province’s strengths: a deep crew base (57,000 pros work in the audiovisual sector, roughly 27,500 of those on international productions); state-of-the-art soundstages near downtown Montreal; diverse locations; world-class animation and post-production studios; and a large VFX hub of award-winning talent.

Cannes is not lacking for glamor this year, even in the documentary lineup.

The Guardian, the list is being described as “explosive”, and was said to have been sent anonymously to the National Centre for Cinema in Paris along with other “leading finance companies in France.”Both Le Figaro and Le Canard enchaîné claim that festival organisers have set up a crisis management team ahead of the allegations being made public.On Wednesday (May 15), a short film about abuse in the industry is also set to premiere, Moi Aussi, and it is expected to further hold France’s art sector to account.The film was made by Judith Godrèche who has been described as the French “ambassador of #MeToo” after she spoke out about assaults she claims to have experienced early in her career.The film includes the words of many women working in the arts. “Suddenly, before me was a crowd of victims, a reality that also represented France, so many stories from all social backgrounds and generations,” Godrèche said of the piece (via The Guardian).

EXCLUSIVE: Mansa, the ad-supported streaming platform highlighting Black content for a global audience, has partnered with Ava DuVernay‘s ARRAY Releasing on a licensing agreement to distribute a curated selection of ARRAY’s independent feature films directly to audiences via the Mansa Streaming Service and on the Mansa Mix FAST channel.

With less than a week to go until the kick-off of the 81st Cannes Film Festival, speculation is mounting in the French media and local film industry over rumors that a bombshell #MeToo exposé will drop on the day of the opening.