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Neil Jordan’s big budget Riviera and James Foley’s Fifty Shades Freed among productions due to shoot in territory this year.

France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc) has announced a 30% rise in the amount of production spend by incoming features and high-end TV dramas following the increase in tax incentives for international productions.

The territory’s Tax Rebate for International Production (Trip) rose to 30% from 20% on eligible expenses on Jan 1, 2016, with the cap on eligible spend also rising to $34m (€30m), against $22m (€20m) previously.

The Cnc said that in the first quarter of 2016, 19 international live action and animation projects had confirmed they would visit France this year, the same number as for the whole of 2015.

The cinema body estimated that these productions would spend some $142m (€100m) in France, 30% more than in 2015.

Roughly $81m (€72m) would be generated by live action productions, against $13.6m (€12m) in 2015, and €28m by animation projects, against $20m (€18m...

Catalina Denis cast in Paul Walker thriller Model and film actress Catalina Denis has been cast as the female lead opposite Paul Walker (Fast & Furious 6) and David Belle (Malavita) in Camille Delamarre’s Brick Mansions. The action thriller is EuropaCorp and Relativity Media’s English-language remake of the 2004 French-made action / thriller District B13. In Brick Mansions, Paul Walker incarnates an undercover cop out to defuse a bomb in possession of drug warlord RZA. Catalina Denis will play David Belle’s romantic interest. Luc Besson, who specializes in run-of-the-mill, Hollywood-style French-made action thrillers, is one of the film’s producers. Directed by Pierre Morel (Taken, From Paris with Love), and co-written by Luc Besson and Bibi Naceri, District B13 / Banlieue 13 stars David Belle, Cyril Raffaelli, Dany Verissimo-Petit, and co-screenwriter Naceri. The film performed modestly at the French box office; according to Box Office Mojo, District B13 was no. 51 on France’s 2004 box-office chart,...

Dignity Film Finance, the Los Angeles-based film and television production company headed by finance, marketing and distribution specialist and Dff President Maggie Monteith, unveils a dynamic slate of three films the company is financing and producing this year. The titles in active development are; an adaptation of Anthony Bourdain.s bestselling novel Bone In The Throat produced by Lenny Beckerman (Uwantmetokillhim?) and Peter Heslop (The King.S Speech); the romantic comedy Closer To Fine to be directed by Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote) and Spy Vs. Stu, an action comedy to be directed by Hervé Renoh (Coursier).

.I am thrilled about the titles we have on our slate and the caliber of talent that are already attached,. said Monteith. .As we are actively putting together all the other components on these four films I am delighted to say that the process has been a pleasure and they are all coming together exactly how I envisioned.