All articles by Adam Minns – Page 13
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Frustration mounts as producers await tax decision
Producerswere forced to wait another day yesterday to hear if any transition arrangementswere to be made for films hit by last week's UK tax clamp down.Despitemany industry insiders being hopeful of news as early as Wednesday, sourcesclose to talks with the government said on Thursday that it was still"too close ...
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UK's Optimum launches stand-alone DVD arm
Independent distributor Optimum Releasing is launching a stand-alone DVD arm under the banner of Optimum Home Entertainment.Stuart Henderson, previously at VCI, joins as the company as marketing manager: home entertainment as the first appointment to the division. Sales for the new label will be handled by Elevation Sales, with a ...
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Capitol gets A Touch Of Spice
UK-based sales agent Capitol Films has acquired worldwide rights to Greek sensation A Touch Of Spice.The story of a Greek boy growing up in Istanbul has already grossed more than $11m in Greece and is still at the top end of the charts after 16 weeks.Produced by Village Roadshow Productions, ...
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Tax-driven film financing develops funding alternatives
For the latest UK production listings click HEREWith the UK's film tax funding in flux, financiers, producers and even two US studios are flocking to a new breed of fund that is not reliant on the current regulations under Section 48.The latest fund devised under general accountancy principles rather ...
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FilmFour options Vernon God Little and Brick Lane
The UK's new look Film Four has optioned two high profile books, DBC Pierre's Booker Prize winning Vernon God Little for director Pawel Pavlikovsky and Monica Ali's Brick Lane for Ruby Films.The books are among 45 projects currently in development at a slimmed down FilmFour, which is headed by former ...
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FilmFour options Vernon God Little and Brick Lane
The UK's new look Film Four has optioned two high profile books, DBC Pierre's Booker Prize winning Vernon God Little for director Pawel Pavlikovsky and Monica Ali's Brick Lane for Ruby Films.The books are among 45 projects currently in development at a slimmed down FilmFour, which is headed by former ...
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UK producers flock to new tax fund model
With the UK's film tax funding in flux, financiers, producers and even two US studios are flocking to a new breed of fund that is not reliant on the current regulations under Section 48.The latest fund devised under general accountancy principles rather than any film-specific tax break sees UK financier ...
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UK Film Council launch diversity proposals
The UK Film Council and its cultural diversity working group under Working Title Films co-chief Tim Bevan have launched a series of proposals aimed at increasing diversity within the UK film industry workforce.Proposals in a paper called Success Through Diversity And Inclusion include a new code of practice and schemes ...
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UK film industry welcomes pre-budget report
The UK industry has welcomed a surprise signal from Chancellor Gordon Brown that he intends to renew tax-based support when the influential Section 48 expires in 2005.The government's pre-budget report stated that it would unveil the results of talks with the industry about a so-called son of Section 48 in ...
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Redbus named fastest growing UK company
UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution was named the fastest growing company in the UK according to the Sunday Times newspaper Fast Track 100.The company founded by Simon Franks and Zygi Kamasa has in the last two years scored with titles including Bend It Like Beckham, Jeepers Creepers and Cabin Fever. ...
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David Hemmings dies on Romania shoot
UK actor David Hemmings, best known as the fashion photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic portrait of Swinging London, Blow-up, has died aged 62.The actor, whose recent credits include Gangs Of New York, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Last Orders and Gladiator, in which he played the master of the games ...
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UK Film Council revises producer deal terms
The UK Film Council has revised the terms of its deals with producers when awarding its National Lottery funding after complaints that producers were not receiving a big enough share of profits.The change in funding guidelines will apply to all applications for lottery funding to the organisation's New Cinema Fund ...
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Chadha lifts curtain on Beckham musical
Having borrowed from Bollywood's all-singing, all-dancing spectaculars with her hugely-anticipated Jane Austen adaptation Bride And Prejudice, Gurinder Chadha has got the taste for musicals.The UK writer-director-producer has re-teamed with LA-based producer Deepak Nayar on a stage musical of Bend It Like Beckham, her hit comedy about a UK-Indian girl who ...
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Marchand tipped to head up UK's Momentum
Xavier Marchand has emerged as the frontrunner to replace David Kosse as head of UK distributor Momentum Pictures.Marchand is still active at his production company Haystack Productions, but is tipped to take over from Kosse, who is taking up the post of president of international marketing and distribution at Universal ...
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Styler's Xingu goes Wilde over Alpha Male
Trudie Styler's Xingu Films is to produce Alpha Male, the debut feature of UK writer-director Dan Wilde.Wilde aims to start shooting next summer on the production, which is set entirely in an English country house and tells the story of the power struggles within a family over 20 years.26 year-old ...
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Takeover talks see Winchester shares suspended
Winchester Entertainment has asked for shares to be suspended after confirming talks on a possible merger that would count as a reverse takeover.The talks are believed to be with New York-based ContentFilm, headed by Ed Pressman and John Schmidt, and are believed to be a sign of overseas interest in ...
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HanWay's Wase-Bailey exits as Haslam takes over
Thierry Wase-Bailey is standing down as managing director of UK-based sales operation HanWay.Wase-Bailey is being replaced by Tim Haslam, who was president of international distribution at Intermedia before Jere Hausfater took over.Wase-Bailey, who has headed HanWay for four years, is to focus on developing his own sales and consultancy business, ...
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UK industry partners with Orange for cinema day
The UK has launched a so-called cinema day offering users of mobile phone network Orange two tickets for the price of one on Wednesdays.The three-year initiative, developed with pan-industry promotional body All Industry Marketing (AIM), has secured exclusive promotion in at least 90% of UK cinemas. As part of the ...
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Full Monty writer sparks off British Muslims drama
Simon Beaufoy, the writer of This Is Not A Love Song and The Full Monty, has tackled the experience of British Muslims post-September 11 in Spark, a drama which started shooting this week for Channel 4.The production is UK director Kenny Glenaan's follow-up to Gas Attack, a controversial asylum-seeker ...
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Working Title Dancing with trio in production
With East Is East director Damien O'Donnell starting up principal photography on Inside I'm Dancing in Dublin, Working Title Films has no less than three features in production at once.Inside I'm Dancing, an Elling-esque tale of two young disabled men outwitting the system which stars Romola Garai, James McAvoy and ...