All articles by Adam Minns – Page 20
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Odyssey to bring high-profile slate to Cannes
Ralph Kamp and Louise Goodsill's UK-based sales company Odyssey Entertainment is heading to Cannes with a bustling slate including two new additions - The Libertine, starring Johnny Depp, John Malkovich and Samantha Morton, and The Blue Afternoon, directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Olivier Martinez and Sam Neill.The Libertine stars ...
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UK's Celador commissions Millionaire script
Russell T Davies has been commissioned to write a feature screenplay based on the events surrounding the recent Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' fraud case for the UK's Celador Films, the sister company to the TV concern behind the hit gameshow.Davies, whose credits Bob And Rose, Queer As ...
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Miramax snaps up Pride And Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical
Miramax Films has beaten several US rivals to pre-buy North and South American rights on Pathe UK's white-hot Pride And Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical, according to sources.Pathe is launching international sales at Cannes on the all-singing, all-dancing take on Jane Austen's novel, directed by Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder ...
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Helkon SK renamed Redbus Film Distribution
Helkon SK chiefs Simon Franks and Zygi Kamasa have renamed their UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution, signalling their imminent separation from bankrupt German parent Helkon Media.Franks and Kamasa have a contractual right to purchase Helkon Media's equity in their UK business at the end of this year but are seeking ...
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Chada, Campion pledge support for UK women in film scheme
Directors Gurinder Chadha and Jane Campion have pledged their support to a UK scheme for women in film launched this week by industry agency Women in Film and Television and distributor United International Pictures (UIP).Titled Directing Change, the scheme will allow women directors to work alongside an experienced and internationally ...
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UK's BFI undergoes major internal review
Anthony Minghella, the director who chairs of the British Film Institute (BFI), has launched a wide-ranging internal review of the venerable film body to develop a blueprint for the future of the organisation.The strategic review may well lead to an overhaul or even a scaling back at the National Film ...
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Icon seduced by Loach's Fond Kiss
Ken Loach may not be such a stranger in his own land after all. Having typically financed his films with little more than a TV deal out of the UK, the director's regular producer Rebecca O'Brien has secured an all-rights pre-sale on Ae Fond Kiss to Icon Film Distribution.The deal ...
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Calendar Girls head for Cannes
Buena Vista International's highly-anticipated UK comedy Calendar Girls will screen at Cannes outside the festival.The story of members of the traditionally stuffy Women's Institute who pose for a charity nude calendar will screen Thursday May 15. Stars Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, along with the real women on which the ...
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Calendar Girls head for Cannes market
Buena Vista International's highly-anticipated UK comedy Calendar Girls will screen at Cannes outside the festival.The story of members of the traditionally stuffy Women's Institute who pose for a charity nude calendar will screen Thursday May 15. Stars Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, along with the real women on which the ...
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IN-motion boards Romero chiller
London-based sales house IN-motion Pictures has boarded horror -meister George A Romero's thriller The ILL.IN-motion will handle worldwide sales excluding the UK and US on the project, to be directed by Romero and produced by Thierry Cagianut and Matthew Myers of P-Kino Films. Principal photography starts in September on location ...
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UK tax breaks could disappear altogether warns PACT
UK producers body PACT has warned that the UK's influential film tax breaks could disappear completely in July 2005.While the tax relief mechanism under Section 48 is due to expire in 2005, the film industry is hoping for another extension after lobbying led by support super body the Film Council ...
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Savage to direct Blanchett in Atwood adaptation
Rising UK director Dominic Savage is to direct Cate Blanchett in an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace for Working Title Films.John Brownlow, whose recent credits include BBC Films' Sylvia Plath project, is adapting the novel, which tells the true story of a Canadian housemaid named Grace Marks who ...
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UK Film Council's development fund backs range of genres
Onegin director Martha Fiennes is to tackle terrorist-themed psychological thriller Revolving Door after securing development support from UK funding body the Film Council.The project, awarded £63,000 in National Lottery support, is set during a terrorist alert and follows a British intelligence operative and a high-class escort girl as they try ...
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UK's Artificial Eye acquires At Five In The Afternoon
UK distributor Artificial Eye has picked up Samira Makhmalbaf's Cannes competition film At Five In The Afternoon.The distributor is waiting until January next year to release the film, understood to be the first foreign film made in Kabul since the toppling of the Taliban regime.The pick-up renews Artificial Eye's relationship ...
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Russian Ark to get digital screenings in the UK
Arthouse success Russian Ark is to receive a three-month digital outing in the UK.Bristol based independent exhibitor Watershed Media Centre will keep the Artificial Eye title for three months on digibeta tape following its strong two-week run on 35mm. The single-shot Russian film will screen every weekend next month, projected ...
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Pathe UK loses head of development
Matt Gannon has decided to leave his position as head of development at Pathe's UK operation, managing director Francois Ivernel confirmed on Thursday.Although Gannon has developed some of the company's highest-profile productions - including The Magic Roundabout and Pride And Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical - Pathe is scaling back its ...
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Head of development leaves Pathe UK
Matt Gannon has decided to leave his position as head of development at Pathe's UK operation, managing director Francois Ivernel confirmed on Thursday.Although Gannon has developed some of the company's highest-profile productions - including The Magic Roundabout and Pride And Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical - Pathe is scaling back its ...
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Working Title prepares to shoot Shaun Of The Dead
Working Title Films is to start shooting romantic zombie comedy Shaun Of The Dead in May, the UK-based production powerhouse confirmed on Tuesday.Edgar Wright, who directed hit TV series Spaced, is directing the story of a group of friends who encounter a literal night from hell at their local pub. ...
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More sex please, we're British
There is a distinctly saucy atmosphere in the country which spawned the Carry On films and The Full Monty, with two cheeky British comedies starting shooting and a third tipped to become a hit when it opens later this year.UK distributor Helkon SK and Angad Paul, one of the financiers ...
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Gurinder Chadha finds her leading man
Pathe UK's white-hot Bollywood musical version of Pride And Prejudice has finally found its Darcy.Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha has cast rising New Zealand star Martin Henderson (pictured), who played opposite Naomi Watts in The Ring, to appear alongside Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai.Pathe is likely to fly Henderson ...