Lordi film 'gets state funding'
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A horror film by 2006 Eurovision winners Lordi receives 300,000 euros funding from the Finnish government, reports say.
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The film industry is a rapidly growing sector for the local economy, contributing millions of pounds into the national economy whilst providing full-time as well as part-time employment for many Maltese people.
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The trustees of the Springvale Public Library are seeking support for Future Access, a technology sponsorship program.  Local businesses and organizations may subscribe to support a public computer station for a four-year cycle and will be recognized for their donations.
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A project taking English teenagers to Auschwitz is to receive Â£4.65m funding for an extra three years.
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Broadcasting Ministry has requested the producer Nazim Rizvi for a special screening of his movie Undertrial.
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Profits from Queen musical We Will Rock You's 1000th show will be given to the tsunami appeal fund.
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Arts Council England, the government-financed body that provides subsidies to the arts, announced a 9.5 percent budget increase over the next three years and maintained financing of 17 recipients that had been scheduled for cuts, Bloomberg News reported. Those cuts had caused an uproar, drawing hundreds of actors to a protest at the Young Vic Theater last month. Christopher Frayling, chairman of the council, said that 888 arts groups would share Â£1.3 billion ($2.6 billion) between now and 2011. Another 185 groups, though, will no longer get financing, including the London Mozart Players and the City of London Sinfonia.
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Mark Thompson says government will have to provide more money for public service broadcasting
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European filmmakers will be able to claim state subsidies until at least the end of 2009, Brussels rules.
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A French director faces a Â£100,000 bill after offering free screenings of his critically panned film.
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Film producer Trudie Styler pledges her support for a campaign to allow a terminally ill woman back to the UK.
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Much was expected from a number of big-budget/talked-about films that opened this year.
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A strange news item regarding her plans to make a film on the life on BiharÂs Chief Minister Rabri Devi has filmmaker Kallpana Lajmi baffled and confused.
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Governor Schwarzenegger is using political savvy and industry pals to help keep filmmakers in state.
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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine issued a plan for how it would spend the $3 billion assigned by the stateÂs voters to finance stem cell research.
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One of the first foundation NHS trusts is facing intervention after recording a budget deficit.
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Gov. Ernie Fletcher, mired in a yearlong hiring probe, can create a fund to accept donations to help pay his legal fees from criminal charges that were dismissed, an ethics panel said Friday.