Lotto boost for 'arthouse' films
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Arthouse and foreign films have taken Â£15m at the box office thanks to National Lottery funding to help with wider distribution.
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The wine-happy indie comedy scored a leading five awards Saturday from the Los Angeles Film Association, including the top prize of Best Picture.
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Check the winning numbers from Wednesday's draw for the National Lottery.
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For all the talk of  Oscar gold, this year the best picture winner will have to look  to DVD to see a payout.
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Â· Series of cinema adverts aims to reach 1m people  Â· Labour MPs criticised for joining campaign
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The Aviator is tipped by bookmakers as the favourite to win the best film award at this year's Oscars.
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Special lottery games have already raised Â£150m for the 2012 London Olympics, organisers have said.
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The films have been shortlisted for the prestigious awards.
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Last month, Ben Dey, an  assistant working in the mailroom at Creative Artists Agency,  leaped several rungs on the Hollywood ladder by successfully  pitching an idea for a comedy to producer Brian Grazer. The  sale came about because the Imagine Entertainment executive  visits CAA once a year for a lunchtime meeting in which he  entertains assistants&#39; pitches.
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There just might be  blood. The domestic boxoffice will feature a kind of midwinter  mayhem this weekend, as strong holdover films are joined in a  competitive fray by four wide-release debutants and  Oscar-rejuvenated titles.
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Members of Hollywood's union for filmmakers had an interesting range of choices for their top prize this year.
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Impressionist art still brings out the big spenders, but a successful auction at Christie's on Wednesday pulled in &#36;92.5 million and showed that contemporary art sales are where the action.
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A leading English art body is offering interest free loans to cash-strapped art lovers in the hope of enticing them to dabble in the market.
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Small-budget movies are making bigger hits than big-budget movies.
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LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters Life!) - In what could be the most valuable sale they have ever staged in Europe, auctioneers Sotheby's said on Wednesday they expect to raise more than 100 million pounds ($195 million) from an Impressionists' auction next week.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - A tax-break battle  has broken out in Canada over millions of dollars in Hollywood  film deals, after Ontario boosted incentives for movie makers  in a bid to offset pressure from a soaring Canadian dollar.
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Art collectors have consigned artworks valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars for the November sales at New York's auction houses. Christie's and Sotheby's, the city's two most popular houses, say estimates for sales totals are the highest in almost 15 years.