All articles by Adam Minns – Page 21
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UK tax fund First Choice backs 30% of Myriad duo, Purifiers
First Choice, the innovative UK tax fund launched by financier Grosvenor Park, is pumping approximately 30% of the budgets into two high-profile titles on MyriadPictures' international sales slate - Istvan Szabo's Being Julia and Trauma,director Marc Evan's next picture after UK horror hit My Little Eye.BeingJuliais being produced through Robert ...
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UK Film Council considers major digital cinema circuit
In a potentially groundbreaking move, UK Government support body the Film Council is hatching plans to pour close to $21.8m (£14m) into a nation-wide circuit of up to 250 digital screens.The move, which would leapfrog the UK to the forefront of the digital era, is aimed at fulfilling the council's ...
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Catherine Zeta-Jones ready for Getting And Spending
Catherine Zeta-Jones' Milkwood Films has teamed with UK National Lottery franchise Pathe Pictures and Starboard Entertainment to develop and produce a feature based on the stage play Getting And Spending.The romantic comedy, written for the stage by Michael J Chepiga, will be developed and produced as a starring vehicle for ...
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UK's Metrodome picks up The Hard Word, Spellbound
Fresh from the UK theatrical success of Donnie Darko, indie distributor Metrodome has picked up The Hard Word from Beyond Films and Academy Award-nominated documentary Spellbound.Metrodome is planning a late-summer release for Hard Word, a story of three fraternal bank robbers which stars Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths. The film ...
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Marleen Gorris to direct Bronte
Academy Award-winning director Marleen Gorris is to direct Bronte, the story of the Bronte sisters.The Dutch director, who won the best foreign-language Oscar for Antonia's Line, is to go into pre-production in May for Random Harvest, the UK producer and tax-based financier which acquired the screenplay from DreamWorks SKG.Angela Workman, ...
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European film councils make joint declaration on funding
The criteria for European public film support could shift to a more commercial footing after the continent's leading funding bodies unveiled an EU-wide accord yesterday.Public funding bodies, including the UK's Film Council, Germany's Filmforderungsanstalt and France's Centre National de la Cinematographie, are aiming to set the agenda in the run-up ...
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Soren Fischer dies, aged 62
Highly-regarded film publicist and festival rep Soren Fischer died last week in London aged 62.Fischer, who had a history of heart problems, was the British representative for the Berlin International Film Festival for 20 years, until he decided to step down last year.Born and educated in Denmark, Fischer joined the ...
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Boyle to make Millions for Pathe, Mission
Danny Boyle is to begin shooting Mission Pictures' Millions, his first film since zombie horror hit 28 Days Later, for Pathe UK starting May 5.The high-profile project will shoot for 10 weeks in Liverpool in the UK. Pathe Distribution will distribute the quirky comic tale in the UK and France, ...
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Pathe UK starts shooting Scorpio's Natural History
Pathe UK this week started shooting on Natural History, the debut picture from ex-Renaissance Films chief Stephen Evans' Scorpio Films.The feature debut of commercials director Shona Auerbach, which is shooting in Glasgow and Greenock, stars Emily Mortimer and Gerard Butler. The film revolves around a single mother's choice of whether ...
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New UK tax fund targets transatlantic film distribution
Warner Bros. is set to tap into a transatlantic distribution fund being raised through UK tax financing.The scheme is the brainchild of UK tax specialist Scotts Atlantic, which is currently raising the fund from private investors. While Scotts Atlantic was not available for comment, rival tax funds said that the ...
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BBC sells Sylvia Plath project to Icon for UK
BBC Films has sold UK rights excluding free TV to the as yet untitled Sylvia Plath Project to Icon Film Distribution, the film of arm of the UK broadcaster announced on Wednesday.Icon previously acquired Australian rights from sales agent Capitol Films. Currently in post-production, the film was directed by New ...
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Gaga takes Japanese rights to Winterbottom's Code 46
Gaga Communications has acquired Japanese rights to Michael Winterbottom's sci-fi Code 46, which is currently in production starring Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton.The deal was sealed with UK-based sales agent The Works at last week's AFM, where Winterbottom's previous film, Berlin winner In This World, was one of the market's ...
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High-profile speakers lined up for 2nd Inside Pictures training course
Four Weddings And A Funeral writer Richard Curtis, Notting Hill producer Duncan Kenworthy and Working Title Films co-chair Tim Bevan are amongst the speakers lined up for the second edition of Inside Pictures, the training scheme set up by former PolyGram Filmed Entertainment chief Michael Kuhn.The scheme, which has secured ...
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UK's BFI appoints new head
The British Film Institute (BFI) has appointed Amanda Nevill as director, the UK film and TV body announced on Friday.Nevill, who is currently head of the National Museum of Photography, Film and TV in Bradford, Yorkshire, will take up the post in June. The move has raised eyebrows as many ...
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Mercier to represent UK/Ireland for Cannes Directors' Fortnight
Cannes Directors' Fortnight has appointed Chris Mercier, former manager of international distribution at Universal Pictures International, as its UK/Ireland representative, artistic director François da Silva announced on Wednesday.Mercier, who also had a stint at Castle Rock International in London, will work with the British Council to source feature-length and short ...
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UK buys into Boorman's Skull
Icon Film Distribution has pre-bought John Boorman's South African-set drama Country Of My Skull for the UK, affirming the UK as one of the most active territories at the AFM. Icon picked up all UK rights from UK-based The Works, which is going into production next month with Samuel L ...
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AFM 2003 verdict: slow but steady
A few disillusioned buyers may have already left the AFM deal tables this weekend to try their luck at the slots in Las Vegas, but if the market corridors felt emptier this year, at least the remaining buyers were serious. Indeed, many of those who resisted sin city's allure spent ...
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Entertainment croons with Spacey's Darin biopic
Leading UK distributor Entertainment Film Distributors(EFD) has emerged as the first international buyer for Kevin Spacey's BobbyDarin biopic, Beyond The Sea.The story of the legendary American crooner, which Spaceywill direct and star in, was unveiled yesterday at the AFM by sales agent MDPWorldwide. Spacey will produce with Arthur Friedman, Bernie ...
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Helkon throws money behind zombie shocker
UK distributor Helkon SK has picked up Boll KG'szombie feature House Of The Dead.The film, which had already been sold France and Spainbefore the American Film Market this week, has, as part of the Helkonacquisition package, an aggressive P&A commitment of EUR(Eu)1.5million. The sale was made with sales agent Interactive ...
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Israel's Broken Wings takes flight at AFM
UK-basedsales agent Pathe International has sold Nir Bergman's darkly comic Israelidrama Broken Wingsto Optimum Releasing for the UK, Diaphana for France and to Cine Video Y TV forMexico in deals finalised at the American Film Market.On the backof the film's outing in Berlin, where it went to Sony Pictures Classics ...