AFI Top 10 Film/TV Awards Official Selections

LOS ANGELES, December 12, 2010 – American Film Institute (AFI) today announced the official selections of AFI AWARDS 2010, AFI’s almanac that records the year’s most outstanding achievements in film, television, and other forms of the moving image arts. AFI AWARDS is the only recognition that honors the community’s creative ensembles as a whole, acknowledging the collaborative nature of the art form. Honorees are selected based on works which best advance the art of the moving image; enhance the rich cultural heritage of America's art form; inspire audiences and artists alike; and/or make a mark on American society:

AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR
BLACK SWAN
THE FIGHTER
INCEPTION
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
127 HOURS
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
THE TOWN
TOY STORY 3
TRUE GRIT
WINTER'S BONE

AFI TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR
THE BIG C
BOARDWALK EMPIRE
BREAKING BAD
GLEE
MAD MEN
MODERN FAMILY
THE PACIFIC
TEMPLE GRANDIN
30 ROCK
THE WALKING DEAD

AFI SPECIAL AWARDS
THE KING'S SPEECH
WAITING FOR SUPERMAN

AFI AWARDS 2010 selections are made through AFI’s unique jury process in which scholars, film and television artists, critics and AFI Trustees determine the most outstanding achievements of the year, as well as provide a detailed rationale for each selection. AFI SPECIAL AWARDS are given to outstanding achievements in the moving image that do not fit into AFI’s criteria for the other honorees: Feature-Length Motion Picture Narrative fiction format, over 60 minutes in length; American Motion picture with significant creative and/or production elements from the United States. The motion picture need not be presented in the English language if it is incontrovertibly American; Theatrically-Released Motion pictures originally released between January 1 and December 31,2010, which have been publicly exhibited in a commercial theater in Los Angeles for paid admission and screened for at least seven consecutive days.

AFI will honor the creative ensembles for each of the selections at a luncheon sponsored by Hewlett-Packard on Friday, January 14, 2011 at the Four Seasons Hotelin Los Angeles.

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Italy’s Film/TV Industry Strikes On Monday

The entire entertainment business will stop working on November 22 as part of the wider general strike. Italy’s unions are protesting against Silvio Berlusconi’s 2011 Budget Law, which is making deep public spending cuts. The Berlusconi government has slashed Italy’s single arts fund, FUS, down to its lowest level in 20 years. This year the arts fund budget is below €300 million ($416 million) compared with €500 million 3 years ago. Cinema’s share of this year’s FUS funding is around €60 million. That’s small beer compared with what’s on offer in France and Germany. Italian artists want funding restored to 2008’s €450 million funding level. On top of that, producers are still owed €50 million from previous years' funding rounds, which means there is hardly anything left this year. Movie theatres, film and TV sets and post-production houses will all close down for the day. Producers are also angry that Italy’s new tax breaks, both for local and international production, may not be renewed. Berlusconi's government introduced longed-for tax breaks last year, overhauling Italy's old subsidy system which backed lots of films nobody went to see. But the government has included the new tax breaks on a list of possible recession cutbacks.

The opening night of the International Rome Film Festival was disrupted last month as Italy’s film industry protested over government cuts. Over 1,000 incensed actors, directors, producers and other film professionals invaded the red carpet at Rome’s Auditorium Parco Della Musica. Riccardo Tozzi, president of Italian producers’ association Anica who also runs Universal's Italian outpost Cattleya, says he expects a decision on what’s going to happen with film tax breaks by the end of this month.

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Sony 2 q gains: film/TV revenue

Limit team | Friday, October 29, 2010 @ 1: 46 PDT

?Sony at the Japan reversed losses and to a Q2 profit improvement of PC and gaming companies as well as cost reductions. It raised its Outlook despite competition difficult prices and a strong yen after reporting 847 million operating profit for July-September. (Sony Pictures Entertainment sales increased 6.1% over the year (an increase of 16% on a US dollar basis) in 1.744 billion). "Theatrical revenue increased considerably due to the highest overall performance slate of film as well as many major theatrical releases."?In the current quarter, major theatrical releases which have contributed to higher income included salt, Grown Ups, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Karate Kid and The other Guys, "Sony reported." " Revenues from television has also increased due to higher advertising and several international chains subscription revenues. There has been a loss from operations of $ 58 million, an improvement over the year. Lower operating loss is mainly attributable to higher performance release film slate and international channels in the same quarter of the fiscal year précédent.Toutefois higher revenues, partially offset by an increase in costs theatrical marketing in support of the largest number of films, published in the current quarter.?

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