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Screen insurance: risky business

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The box jellyfish is one of the world’s deadliest creatures. With tentacles up to three metres long and venom that attacks the skin, the heart and the nervous system, swimmers that are unlucky enough to be stung often never make it back to the shore. Drowned after going into shock, or dead of heart failure.

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Insurer’s Riskiest Film of 2011: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

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High-speed motorcycle chase scenes, skateboarding and torture chambers all contributed to making The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo a film filled with tension. Those scenes also made it the riskiest film of 2011 to insure, a top Hollywood underwriter said Monday. The distinction won’t come up on Oscar Night, but Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance

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Did Canon Just Steal the Future of Filmmaking?

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The company that popularized the art of shooting with a DSLR is about to release the next evolution in digital cinematography. Last week, Canon (NYSE: CAJ) unveiled the C300, a new camera designed specifically for high-end filmmakers. Due for release in January at a price of $20K, the C300 comes with a “super 35MM-equivalent 16:9

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Hardy vanishes from Harry Potter… because it’s too expensive to insure him at 85

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Veteran actor Robert Hardy has revealed that he was written out of the Harry Potter film series because, at 85, the cost of life insurance for him became too expensive. Mr Hardy told an audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival yesterday that movie giants Warner Brothers refused to pay an insurance bill of £1million to

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