All articles by Adam Minns – Page 23
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Capitol Films takes world sales rights on I'm Not Scared
Capitol Films has acquired world sales rights on Academy Award-winning director Gabriele Salvatores' I'm Not Scared (Io No Ha Paura), which will screen in competition at next month's Berlin International Film Festival.Medusa will release the film in Italy in March, followed by 20th Century Fox in Spain. Jane Barclay, joint ...
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Pathe takes world sales on Broken Wings
Pathe International has picked up worldwide sales rights on Broken Wings, Israel's foreign-language Academy Award entry.The feature debut of Nir Bergman will make its European premiere in the Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival before a market premiere at the AFM. 'This is a very beautiful and moving, ...
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UK distributor issues writ against Larry Clark
UK distributor Hamish McAlpine is refusing to let his fight with Larry Clark die down and has issued proceedings against the US director.McAlpine is claiming damages for libel from statements and actions which Clark alleged McAlpine made after the two were involved in a restaurant brawl in London last November, ...
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Neil Jordan plans Odysseus' Return
Neil Jordan's Borgia may have failed to start shooting, but the Irish director appears to have found another European epic, Odysseus' Return.Michael Kuhn's London-based production company is understood to be finalising a deal to board the production, which is set up with producer Uberto Pasolini, best known for The Full ...
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Turner Laing named BSkyB's head of film and acquisitions
BSkyB has appointed Sophie Turner Laing, the BBC's controller of acquisitions, to head the UK satellite broadcaster's film and acquisitions activities. Turner Laing, who secured Band Of Brothers and 24 for the BBC, effectively replaces Paul Taylor as director of film channels and acquisitions. Taylor is leaving the company after ...
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Inward investment in UK production sees slender rise
UK production levels from inward investment and local films limped to $696.6m (£433.1m) last year, only slightly up on 2001's disastrous tally of $660.4m, according to figures from support body the Film Council.Inward investment from overseas films and TV productions shooting in the UK such as Lara Croft And The ...
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Lebanon hostage drama gets big screen treatment
UK production company Parallax Independent Production has started shooting Blind Flight, the story of the kidnapping and imprisonment in the Lebanon in the 1980s of Brian Keenan and John McCarthy.Based on the book An Evil Cradling, the production stars Ian Hart (Backbeat, Land and Freedom) as Keenan and Linus Roache ...
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The rise, fall and rise again of UK tax production funds
Even as the UK’s tax production funds are failing to attract enough investors to match their lofty ambitions, a new breed of internationally-oriented schemes are starting to emerge. While funds such Monument, which set out to provide 50% of budgets, have failed to materialise, tax specialists predict the growth of ...
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Minghella takes over as British Film Institute chief
Anthony Minghella has been appointed chair of UK cinema cultural body the British Film Institute (BFI).The Academy Award-winning director replaces Joan Bakewell for a three-year term. Minghella, who has just finished shooting Cold Mountain, said he aimed to promote the BFI's accessibility to the public."The BFI exists to celebrate the ...
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Jude Law resigns from Natural Nylon
UK actor Jude law is resigning his directorship of Natural Nylon, the talent-led production company he set up with fellow actors such as Ewan McGregor.Law is said to be stepping down due to the amount of time he spends abroad now that his career has taken off with films such ...
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Matheson confirmed as vice chair of film at PACT
Margaret Matheson, managing director of Bard Entertainments, has been confirmed to replace producer Andy Paterson as vice chair for film at UK producer's body PACT.The handover was announced by John McVay, chief executive of PACT, following the body's elections for this year's governing council. The appointment is effective immediately.Eileen Gallagher, ...
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Cinesite announces new appointments
Cinesite (Europe) has appointed Antony Hunt, former managing director of MillFilm, as managing director as part of a round of appointments.Also joining the effects house are head of digital imaging Mitch Mitchell and Jose Granell, who takes up the post of visual effects supervisor and director of models. Other ...
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O'Halloran joins UIP as director of int'l acquisitions
UIP has confirmed that Nuala O'Halloran has joined as director of international acquisitions.Born and educated in Ireland, O'Halloran spent six years in Australia where she was director of acquisitions and investment at the Premium Movie Partnership.She replaces Marion Pilowsky, who left the company to head Myriad Pictures' new London arm. ...
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Billy Elliot delivers ratings success for BBC
The BBC scored a spectacular hit with Billy Elliot on New Year's Day, with the in-house production becoming the most popular film on TV during the Christmas period across all channels.The BBC Films and Working Title Films collaboration recorded 12.2 million viewers, pushing the BBC's The Mummy, which attracted 10.7 ...
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World premieres dominate Rotterdam's Tiger Award competition
This month's International Film Festival Rotterdam will showcase eight world premieres in its centrepiece section, the VPRO Tiger Award Competition.Titles debuting in the 14-film competition include Eliane Caffe's Brazilian-French film Jave Valley (Os Narradores De Jave); China's Welcome To Destination Shanghai (Mu Di Di Shanghai), directed by Andrew Cheng; and ...
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Shine's film arm put on Ice
The core film executives at Elisabeth Murdoch's UK company Shine Entertainment are launching independent production outfit Ice Productions following the closure of Shine's film arm.Shine has handed over the rights to its film slate to its former head of film, Erica Motley, who will head Ice. The former HBO executive ...
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Arclight shines on Head In The Clouds
Arclight Films is to handle worldwide sales on Head In The Clouds, a romance starring Natalie Portman and Penelope Cruz which will be directed by the UK's John Duigan.The film, which spans 1930s England, the Spanish Civil War and occupied Paris, is to start shooting next month. Producing duties are ...
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Indian megastar cast in Bollywood Pride And Prejudice
Indian megastar Aishwarya Rai is to star in Pride And Prejudice - The Bollywood Musical, the all-singing, all-dancing take on Jane Austen's novel from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder ChadhaChadha confirmed that Rai, best known outside India for Cannes title Devdas and winning Miss World, has agreed in principle ...
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UK's PACT appoints Planalp as director of film
UK producers body PACT has appointed Ronnie Planalp as director of film following Bertrand Moullier's exit earlier this year.Planalp was formerly EMI's senior vice president of new media/business development, Europe. She will have overall responsibility for PACT's film strategy, working with the PACT executive team, the PACT film policy group ...
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Winchester mulls sale option as shares slump
UK-based Winchester Entertainment has effectively put itself up for sale, saying it is considering "strategic options".UK distributor Helkon SK is seen as a possible buyer after earlier this year buying a 3.67% stake in the AIM-listed company, which this week declared half-way losses on continuing operations of $10m (£6.3m). Winchester ...