Dreamworks’ Bought-and-Paid-For Freedom. Trade Roughage 06/26/08

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By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Though they’ve been carefully tasteful about the use of grotesque images of Heath Ledger in the marketing of The Dark Knight domestically, Warner Brothers execs say the actor’s death “had not altered the marketing of the pic internationally.” The film had an Imax premiere at CinemaExpo this week.
When Dreamworks inevitably splits from Paramount later this year, there’s a possibility that they’ll exist as a stand-alone inde...bankrolled on a billion dollars (yes! Literally!)
Silvio Berlusconi is taking away government-sponsored subsidies for Italian filmmakers. In response, Italian filmmakers are threatening to take their films away from the Venice, Turin and Rome Film Festivals.