Tech and VFX giant Technicolor and its former CEO Frederic Rose have been indicted on fraud and breach of trust charges in France, per a report in French trade La Lettre Audiovisuelle, which we have confirmed.
The high court charges come after a seven-year investigation into Technicolor’s part in the 2011 bankruptcy of Tarak Ben Ammar’s post-production firm Quinta Industries, which Technicolor had owned a stake in but then fully acquired in early 2012.
Producer Ben Ammar had alleged that Technicolor worked against his company to force it into bankruptcy, and then purchased his assets at cut down price. Ben Ammar has filed both criminal and civil suits, the latter demanding €60M in damages.
The local judge in Nanterre, France, said she suspected Technicolor of having played a crucial role in Quinta Industries’ demise. She also accused Technicolor of having hidden its intention to launch its own post-production firm Technicolor Entertainment Services France,...
The high court charges come after a seven-year investigation into Technicolor’s part in the 2011 bankruptcy of Tarak Ben Ammar’s post-production firm Quinta Industries, which Technicolor had owned a stake in but then fully acquired in early 2012.
Producer Ben Ammar had alleged that Technicolor worked against his company to force it into bankruptcy, and then purchased his assets at cut down price. Ben Ammar has filed both criminal and civil suits, the latter demanding €60M in damages.
The local judge in Nanterre, France, said she suspected Technicolor of having played a crucial role in Quinta Industries’ demise. She also accused Technicolor of having hidden its intention to launch its own post-production firm Technicolor Entertainment Services France,...
- 12/19/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Estimated £100m ($145m) of tax repayments claimed through fraudulent film investment scheme.
Four UK film executives have been found guilty of operating a fraudulent film investment scheme that was used to claim an estimated £100m ($145m) of tax repayments.
The men were found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court after they were shown to have falsely claimed to have invested £275m ($400m) in feature films and used offshore companies to hide their activities, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
The four executives comprise former Little Wing Films partners Charles Savill and Keith Hayley; Robert Bevan, a former co-director at film sales company Salt; and Monaco-based accountant and corporate services provider Norman Leighton.
More than 275 investors contributed more than £76m ($110m) to the scheme, according to Hm Revenue & Customs. The scheme used tax breaks to attract investment from footballers, investment bankers and a pop star.
The men claimed to have spent more than £250m ($365m) on pre-production and development...
Four UK film executives have been found guilty of operating a fraudulent film investment scheme that was used to claim an estimated £100m ($145m) of tax repayments.
The men were found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court after they were shown to have falsely claimed to have invested £275m ($400m) in feature films and used offshore companies to hide their activities, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
The four executives comprise former Little Wing Films partners Charles Savill and Keith Hayley; Robert Bevan, a former co-director at film sales company Salt; and Monaco-based accountant and corporate services provider Norman Leighton.
More than 275 investors contributed more than £76m ($110m) to the scheme, according to Hm Revenue & Customs. The scheme used tax breaks to attract investment from footballers, investment bankers and a pop star.
The men claimed to have spent more than £250m ($365m) on pre-production and development...
- 6/7/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The trial of five UK executives charged with film tax relief fraud has begun at Birmingham Crown Court.
UK film executives Robert Bevan, Cyril Megret, Keith Hayley, Charles Savill and Norman Leighton each face charges of conspiracy to cheat the public revenue, conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to falsify documents, according to the Crown Prosecution Service. All five deny the charges.
Andrew Penhale, deputy head of fraud at the Crown Prosecution Service, said in 2013: “Following an investigation by Hm Revenue and Customs, we have authorised charges against five individuals in connection with a tax relief fraud that allegedly cost the public revenue in the region of £125 million.
“It is alleged that, between 1 January 2002 and 11 July 2011, a tax relief that allows investors in the British film industry to offset losses against other tax liabilities was abused and dishonestly marketed in order to cheat the public revenue.
“The evidence suggests that the value of allowable losses was falsified...
UK film executives Robert Bevan, Cyril Megret, Keith Hayley, Charles Savill and Norman Leighton each face charges of conspiracy to cheat the public revenue, conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to falsify documents, according to the Crown Prosecution Service. All five deny the charges.
Andrew Penhale, deputy head of fraud at the Crown Prosecution Service, said in 2013: “Following an investigation by Hm Revenue and Customs, we have authorised charges against five individuals in connection with a tax relief fraud that allegedly cost the public revenue in the region of £125 million.
“It is alleged that, between 1 January 2002 and 11 July 2011, a tax relief that allows investors in the British film industry to offset losses against other tax liabilities was abused and dishonestly marketed in order to cheat the public revenue.
“The evidence suggests that the value of allowable losses was falsified...
- 10/6/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The trial of five UK executives charged with film tax relief fraud has begun at Birmingham Crown Court.
UK film executives Robert Bevan, Cyril Megret, Keith Hayley, Charles Savill and Norman Leighton each face charges of conspiracy to cheat the public revenue, conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to falsify documents, according to the Crown Prosecution Service. All five deny the charges.
Andrew Penhale, deputy head of fraud at the Crown Prosecution Service, said in 2013: “Following an investigation by Hm Revenue and Customs, we have authorised charges against five individuals in connection with a tax relief fraud that allegedly cost the public revenue in the region of £125 million.
“It is alleged that, between 1 January 2002 and 11 July 2011, a tax relief that allows investors in the British film industry to offset losses against other tax liabilities was abused and dishonestly marketed in order to cheat the public revenue.
“The evidence suggests that the value of allowable losses was falsified...
UK film executives Robert Bevan, Cyril Megret, Keith Hayley, Charles Savill and Norman Leighton each face charges of conspiracy to cheat the public revenue, conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to falsify documents, according to the Crown Prosecution Service. All five deny the charges.
Andrew Penhale, deputy head of fraud at the Crown Prosecution Service, said in 2013: “Following an investigation by Hm Revenue and Customs, we have authorised charges against five individuals in connection with a tax relief fraud that allegedly cost the public revenue in the region of £125 million.
“It is alleged that, between 1 January 2002 and 11 July 2011, a tax relief that allows investors in the British film industry to offset losses against other tax liabilities was abused and dishonestly marketed in order to cheat the public revenue.
“The evidence suggests that the value of allowable losses was falsified...
- 10/6/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Film-maker Martha Fiennes's new work, Nativity, has a soundtrack composed by her brother Magnus. They talk about their bohemian upbringing as two of six siblings and the unusual creative bond they share
'I actually think Magnus is a genius," says Martha Fiennes, of her younger brother. "I really do, I've said it to other people and they've said 'Yeah, I think he is'. I'm chucking stuff out barely finished, but Magnus is picking up on it; I think he tunes into a frequency. What Magnus has done is so completely brilliant. Handel wrote The Messiah in 12 days, I understand, and Magnus has done exactly the same."
She is talking about the soundtrack that Magnus has created for her first digital installation, Nativity, on display for the Christmas season in a specially constructed chalet in Covent Garden piazza, in London. In fact, Handel is thought to have spent 24 days on his oratorio,...
'I actually think Magnus is a genius," says Martha Fiennes, of her younger brother. "I really do, I've said it to other people and they've said 'Yeah, I think he is'. I'm chucking stuff out barely finished, but Magnus is picking up on it; I think he tunes into a frequency. What Magnus has done is so completely brilliant. Handel wrote The Messiah in 12 days, I understand, and Magnus has done exactly the same."
She is talking about the soundtrack that Magnus has created for her first digital installation, Nativity, on display for the Christmas season in a specially constructed chalet in Covent Garden piazza, in London. In fact, Handel is thought to have spent 24 days on his oratorio,...
- 12/3/2011
- by Susanna Rustin
- The Guardian - Film News
HollywoodNews.com: Our selected celebrity to be included in our “Hot Hollywood Celebrity Photo Gallery of the Day” is Penelope Cruz.
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Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born April 28, 1974) is a Spanish actress. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón, jamón (1992), to critical acclaim. Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Open Your Eyes (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top (2000). Cruz achieved recognition for her lead roles in Vanilla Sky and Blow. Both films were released in 2001 and were commercially successful worldwide.
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Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born April 28, 1974) is a Spanish actress. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón, jamón (1992), to critical acclaim. Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Open Your Eyes (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top (2000). Cruz achieved recognition for her lead roles in Vanilla Sky and Blow. Both films were released in 2001 and were commercially successful worldwide.
- 5/18/2011
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Fern Champion on Cameron DiazWe were working at New Line, casting 1994's "The Mask." The story that everybody knows now is that Anna Nicole Smith was the first choice because the men at New Line thought she was stunning. Didn't say she could walk and talk, but she was stunning. We needed someone to talk. The good news is Anna Nicole opted to do "Naked Gun 33 1/3." Oh, too bad. So Fern's back to the drawing board. I'm at my wit's end, because we had gone through all the top models and all the top actors, and nobody was pleasing New Line co-ceo Bob Shaye, executive producer Mike De Luca, and director and executive producer Chuck Russell.I called my girlfriend at the talent agency upstairs at the New Line building, and I said, "Is there anybody we haven't seen?" She said, "I have to tell you something: There's one gal; she hasn't done any acting.
- 7/7/2010
- backstage.com
Jim Caviezel is matching wits with Samuel L. Jackson in Blown, an espionage thriller from director Martha Fiennes. Hmm, so it's the former Jesus Christ against the former Jedi Master Mace Windu - it's a battle of the religious icons!This time, however, Caviezel plays a crack MI5 operative who discovers evidence of an imminent terrorist attack on London while engaged in a routine investigation of a global corporation. Jackson will play businessman Julian Lezard, who engages the spy in a "high-stakes game of wit and deception". Well, with a name like "Lezard" he was never going to be a good guy, was he?*Fiennes, who last directed Chromophobia, is in the director's chair and also producing, while her husband George Tiffin wrote the script. This puts her other planned project, Mata Hari, presumably on the back burner until this one is complete.*Apologies to any doctors / missionaries / charity workers...
- 11/12/2008
- EmpireOnline
LONDON -- Alastair Mackenzie, James Pearson and Charles Mnene have joined Dougray Scott in the cast of writer-director Richard Jobson's Scottish-set thriller New Town Killers.
Mackenzie (The Edge Of Love), Pearson (Control) and Mnene (Chromophobia) appear alongside Scott in the tale of two high-flying financial whiz kids who get their kicks hunting people on the margins of society.
Jobson, whose directorial debut, 16 Years of Alcohol, garnered plaudits on the international film festival circuit, has begun shooting in Edinburgh. He is producing with Luc Roeg of Independent.
Executive producers are Michael Robinson and Andrew Orr of Independent, Paul Martin and his banner Str8jacket Creations, Carole Sheridan at Scottish Screen and Sheryl Crown at government-backed agency Screen East
The film is backed by Independent, Str8jacket Creations, Scottish Screen and the Screen East Content Investment Fund in association with LipSync and the Glasgow Film Office.
Independent is handling worldwide sales.
Mackenzie (The Edge Of Love), Pearson (Control) and Mnene (Chromophobia) appear alongside Scott in the tale of two high-flying financial whiz kids who get their kicks hunting people on the margins of society.
Jobson, whose directorial debut, 16 Years of Alcohol, garnered plaudits on the international film festival circuit, has begun shooting in Edinburgh. He is producing with Luc Roeg of Independent.
Executive producers are Michael Robinson and Andrew Orr of Independent, Paul Martin and his banner Str8jacket Creations, Carole Sheridan at Scottish Screen and Sheryl Crown at government-backed agency Screen East
The film is backed by Independent, Str8jacket Creations, Scottish Screen and the Screen East Content Investment Fund in association with LipSync and the Glasgow Film Office.
Independent is handling worldwide sales.
- 3/31/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Damien Lewis has been tapped to play the lead on NBC's drama pilot Life.
Sarah Shahi also has been cast in the project, from writer/executive producer Rand Ravich and NBC Universal TV Studio.
Life is a quirky drama about a former cop (Lewis) who rejoins the force after having spent years wrongly imprisoned. Shahi will play his partner with a checkered past.
David Semel is directing the pilot and is executive producing with Ravich and Far Shariat.
Lewis, who received a Golden Globe nomination for his role in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, recently appeared in the features An Unfinished Life, Chromophobia and Stormbaker. He is repped by Endeavor.
Shahi, who played Carmen de la Pica Morales on Showtime's The L Word, co-starred on Fox's drama pilot Damages this past development season. She most recently appeared in the feature For Your Consideration. She is repped by McKeon-Myones Management and attorney Neil Meyer.
Sarah Shahi also has been cast in the project, from writer/executive producer Rand Ravich and NBC Universal TV Studio.
Life is a quirky drama about a former cop (Lewis) who rejoins the force after having spent years wrongly imprisoned. Shahi will play his partner with a checkered past.
David Semel is directing the pilot and is executive producing with Ravich and Far Shariat.
Lewis, who received a Golden Globe nomination for his role in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, recently appeared in the features An Unfinished Life, Chromophobia and Stormbaker. He is repped by Endeavor.
Shahi, who played Carmen de la Pica Morales on Showtime's The L Word, co-starred on Fox's drama pilot Damages this past development season. She most recently appeared in the feature For Your Consideration. She is repped by McKeon-Myones Management and attorney Neil Meyer.
- 12/22/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- With the precision of a sharp, cold surgical knife, Martha Fiennes dissects her characters in Chromophobia. Save for one sentimental subplot, the writer-director clearly doesn't care for these people very much. Nor is there much reason for viewers to care, either. The strangely chilly melodrama-cum-satire made an odd choice for the closing night film at the Festival de Cannes. Its strong cast probably ensures North American distributor interest, but this misanthropic take on neurotics in the British professional class will certainly challenge marketers.
The married couple around whom subplots swirl is fast-rising attorney Marcus Aylesbury (Damian Lewis), the son of a distinguished judge (Ian Holm), and his anxious wife Iona (Kristen Scott Thomas). Having been made a partner in a powerful London law firm, Marcus finds himself drawn into an illegal scheme by his boss. Meanwhile, Iona, who suffers from low self-esteem and sexual frustration, deals with her dissatisfactions through a shrink and shopping sprees for clothes and modern art. Her new worry is that their hyperactive, small son might be spending too much time with his gay godfather, Stephen (Ralph Fiennes).
Marcus runs into an old mate from his youthful days in a rock band, Trent Masters (Ben Chaplin), who is now a tabloid journalist. When Marcus drunkenly confides in Trent about his firm's corrupt dealings, Trent can't help investigate a story that could make him a media star.
Meanwhile, in a maudlin and seemingly unrelated story that only connects -- and unconvincingly so -- to the main one later in the movie, ex-cop-turned-social worker Colin (Rhys Ifans) becomes emotionally involved the lives of his only seeming case, that of a seriously ill prostitute (Penelope Cruz) and her beloved small daughter.
Much of what you need to know about the characters -- or, to be precise, about how Fiennes feels about them -- can be gleaned from the production design. Fiennes and her designer Tony Burrough give the married bourgeois couple a sleek, severely modern and ultimately soulless house. At times, when the camera glides down sterile hallways or peers at characters through walls of glass, you can almost feel the director mock her characters.
The judge and his wife occupy a country manor stuffed with the furnishings of satisfied privilege, while Stephen's townhouse brims with lovingly collected art fastidiously displayed. Only the character who inhabits scruffy digs, meaning the prostitute, does the director's attitude soften. Soften, unfortunately, to the point of sentimental mush.
The acting is crisp, but no one's plight in this turgid soap opera gets through to you. Having dissed her characters for more than half the movie, Fiennes cannot turn things around and ask an audience suddenly to sympathize with their predicaments.
Tech credits are certainly pro but insulate the film's characters behind the well-upholstered trappings of wealth and privilege. And what on earth does it mean for the credits to insist that the film's cinematographer, George Tiffin, provided "additional screenplay material?"
CHROMOPHOBIA
Tarak Ben Ammar presents a Rotholz Pictures production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Martha Fiennes
Additional screenplay material: George Tiffin
Producer: Tarak Ben Ammar, Ron Rotholz
Executive producers: Robert Bevan, Steve Christian, Charlie Savill, Marc Samuelson, Peter Samuelson
Director of photography: George Tiffin
Production designer: Tony Burrough
Music: Magnus Fiennes
Costumes: Michele Clapton
Editor: Tracy Granger
Cast:
Trent: Ben Chaplin
Gloria: Penelope Cruz
Marcus: Damian Lewis
Iona: Kristin Scott Thomas
Colin: Rhys Ifans
Edward: Ian Holm
Penelope: Harriet Walter
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 135 minutes...
The married couple around whom subplots swirl is fast-rising attorney Marcus Aylesbury (Damian Lewis), the son of a distinguished judge (Ian Holm), and his anxious wife Iona (Kristen Scott Thomas). Having been made a partner in a powerful London law firm, Marcus finds himself drawn into an illegal scheme by his boss. Meanwhile, Iona, who suffers from low self-esteem and sexual frustration, deals with her dissatisfactions through a shrink and shopping sprees for clothes and modern art. Her new worry is that their hyperactive, small son might be spending too much time with his gay godfather, Stephen (Ralph Fiennes).
Marcus runs into an old mate from his youthful days in a rock band, Trent Masters (Ben Chaplin), who is now a tabloid journalist. When Marcus drunkenly confides in Trent about his firm's corrupt dealings, Trent can't help investigate a story that could make him a media star.
Meanwhile, in a maudlin and seemingly unrelated story that only connects -- and unconvincingly so -- to the main one later in the movie, ex-cop-turned-social worker Colin (Rhys Ifans) becomes emotionally involved the lives of his only seeming case, that of a seriously ill prostitute (Penelope Cruz) and her beloved small daughter.
Much of what you need to know about the characters -- or, to be precise, about how Fiennes feels about them -- can be gleaned from the production design. Fiennes and her designer Tony Burrough give the married bourgeois couple a sleek, severely modern and ultimately soulless house. At times, when the camera glides down sterile hallways or peers at characters through walls of glass, you can almost feel the director mock her characters.
The judge and his wife occupy a country manor stuffed with the furnishings of satisfied privilege, while Stephen's townhouse brims with lovingly collected art fastidiously displayed. Only the character who inhabits scruffy digs, meaning the prostitute, does the director's attitude soften. Soften, unfortunately, to the point of sentimental mush.
The acting is crisp, but no one's plight in this turgid soap opera gets through to you. Having dissed her characters for more than half the movie, Fiennes cannot turn things around and ask an audience suddenly to sympathize with their predicaments.
Tech credits are certainly pro but insulate the film's characters behind the well-upholstered trappings of wealth and privilege. And what on earth does it mean for the credits to insist that the film's cinematographer, George Tiffin, provided "additional screenplay material?"
CHROMOPHOBIA
Tarak Ben Ammar presents a Rotholz Pictures production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Martha Fiennes
Additional screenplay material: George Tiffin
Producer: Tarak Ben Ammar, Ron Rotholz
Executive producers: Robert Bevan, Steve Christian, Charlie Savill, Marc Samuelson, Peter Samuelson
Director of photography: George Tiffin
Production designer: Tony Burrough
Music: Magnus Fiennes
Costumes: Michele Clapton
Editor: Tracy Granger
Cast:
Trent: Ben Chaplin
Gloria: Penelope Cruz
Marcus: Damian Lewis
Iona: Kristin Scott Thomas
Colin: Rhys Ifans
Edward: Ian Holm
Penelope: Harriet Walter
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 135 minutes...
CANNES -- Tommy Lee Jones was named best actor at the Festival de Cannes on Saturday night having directed himself in his theatrical feature debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which also won the screenplay award. The festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, went to The Child (L'enfant), by Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, with Focus Features' Broken Flowers, directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Bill Murray, taking the second-place Grand Prize. Austrian Michael Haneke won best director honors for his highly praised Hidden (Cache), starring Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil, and Shanghai Dreams, from Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai, won the Jury Prize. Hanna Laslo was named best actress for the Israeli film Free Zone. The prizes were handed out on the last night of the 58th Cannes festival at a gala ceremony that preceded the screening of the closing Out of Competition film Chromophobia, directed by Martha Fiennes.
- 5/23/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Benicio Del Toro has come to the rescue of Penelope Cruz and her mother after they all got stuck in an elevator at the Cannes Film Festival in France. The Oscar-winning actor saved the Spanish beauty and her mother Encarna from being stranded in the lift after it suddenly shut down as they headed towards a meeting at the Majestic Hotel, where Cruz was attending the film festival to promote drama Chromophobia. A source says, "It was a very scary experience, the lift stopped and no one knew what had happened. Penelope was pretty calm but her mother is claustrophobic and really started panicking. Benicio managed to get them both out of the lift single-handedly even though they were stuck between two floors. He has amazing upper-body strength and lifted Penelope out of the top of the lift like she was a doll." Del Toro adds, "It was pretty hairy but I only did what any other man would do. I was glad to be able to help out."...
- 5/23/2005
- WENN
CANNES -- Tommy Lee Jones was named best actor at the Festival de Cannes on Saturday night having directed himself in his theatrical feature debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which also won the screenplay award. The festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, went to The Child (L'enfant), by Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, with Focus Features' Broken Flowers, directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Bill Murray, taking the second-place Grand Prize. Austrian Michael Haneke won best director honors for his highly praised Hidden (Cache), starring Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil, and Shanghai Dreams, from Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai, won the Jury Prize. Hanna Laslo was named best actress for the Israeli film Free Zone. The prizes were handed out on the last night of the 58th Cannes festival at a gala ceremony that preceded the screening of the closing Out of Competition film Chromophobia, directed by Martha Fiennes.
- 5/22/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Tommy Lee Jones was named best actor at the Festival de Cannes on Saturday night having directed himself in his theatrical feature debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which also won the screenplay award. The festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, went to The Child (L'enfant), by Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, with Focus Features' Broken Flowers, directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Bill Murray, taking the second-place Grand Prize. Austrian Michael Haneke won best director honors for his highly praised Hidden (Cache), starring Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil, and Shanghai Dreams, from Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai, won the Jury Prize. Hanna Laslo was named best actress for the Israeli film Free Zone. The prizes were handed out on the last night of the 58th Cannes festival at a gala ceremony that preceded the screening of the closing Out of Competition film Chromophobia, directed by Martha Fiennes.
- 5/22/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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