All articles by Adam Minns – Page 27
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UK's Rebellion launches tax-based financing scheme
UK games software company Rebellion has launched a tax-based scheme to finance feature adaptations of strips from 2000AD, the long-running UK comic book best known for lawman and cult icon Judge Dredd.The company aims to raise private investment through the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), the tax-based initiative that Reservoir Dogs ...
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Disney boards John Williams' $40m Valiant
Walt Disney Studios has boarded Valiant, the $40m animation film to be made at the UK's Ealing Studios.Although the studio is reportedly paying only 25% of the $40m budget for North American rights to the project, the deal may lead to Disney backing three more films from Shrek producer John ...
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Red Light Runners faces financial greenlight hurdle
Red Light Runners, the UK heist movie being set up by Reservoir Dogs star Michael Madsen, has hit another financing roadblock.A spokesperson for the film confirmed that Germany's Fierce Entertainment, which purportedly stepped in with a deal for 70% of the funding, was no longer part of the project. Madsen ...
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Fierce Entertainment denies Red Light Runners deal
In a further bizarre twist to the film's financing - or lack of it - Fierce Entertainment has denied any commitment to Red Light Runners, the UK heist movie being set up by Reservoir Dogs star Michael Madsen.Producer Clark Westerman had announced that the financier had stepped in as an ...
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Buffalo Soldiers get to go home
Buffalo Soldiers, FilmFour and Focus' long-delayed GI's and drugs picture, is finally set to get its first release more than a year after premiering at Toronto on the eve of September 11.While many buyers are still worried about escalating tensions between the US and Iraq, Prokino/Fox has announced it will ...
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Working Title's WT2 begins to shoot The Calcium Kid
Working Title Films' low budget division WT2 is set to start principal photography on The Calcium Kid, starring Orlando Bloom, who plays Legolas in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.The off-beat comedy is a mockumentary about a young milkman who is also amateur boxer and ends up fighting the world ...
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K-19 forces Intermedia into new profits slump
Intermedia has issued its second profit warning this year following disappointing US box office results for K-19: The Widowmaker, the Harrison Ford picture on which the company raised its direct distribution risk.In January the company announced that it would miss its 2001 forecast, a profit warning that clouded its tie-up ...
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Kuhn & Co.'s UK debut production begins shoot
Wondrous Oblivion, former PolyGram chief Michael Kuhn's debut UK production through his Soho production company Kuhn & Co, has started shooting with a cast including Delroy Lindo, Emily Woof and newcomer Sam Smith as the star.Smith, whose credits include BBC TV's Oliver, plays eleven-year-old David Wiseman, a Jewish boy in ...
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Bright Young Things finds new home at Civilian Content, Icon
Stephen Fry's EvelynWaugh adaptation Bright Young Things is expected to be one of the first projects to re-surface after theclosure of the UK's FilmFour.The 1930s-set satire with JudiDench and Peter O'Toole is finalising a deal with Civilian Content, parent ofUK National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium, and the UK arm ...
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UK's Ealing Studios to revive St Trinian's comedies
Ealing Studios, the historic UK film studio at the centre of a £50 million redevelopment plan, is reviving the classic British comedies of St Trinian's.Producer and Ealing co-owner Barnaby Thompson confirmed that Rupert Everett may play the dual roles originally played by Alastair Sim in 1954's The Belles Of St ...
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Red Light Runners shelves plans to raise UK tax vehicle funds
Red Light Runners, the crime thriller that recently made headlines when it announced a cast including Michael Madsen and Minnie Driver, is understood to have shelved plans to raise its budget through UK tax financing vehicle the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).The film, which is understood to have sent at least ...
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Macleod to head Media Business School marketing course
Charlotte Macleod, founder of UK script development body The Script Factory, is to head the marketing and distribution course at the EU-backed Media Business School.Macleod, who will oversee the course part time, replaces Jill Tandy of Michael Kuhn's London-based Kuhn & Co. The high-powered course has included speakers such as ...
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The Works boards Whale Rider
London-based sales outfit The Works has boarded Whale Rider, a drama set in the Maori community and written and directed by Memory And Desire's Niki Caro. Delivered in August, the $4.6m (NZ$10m) film is based on the novel by New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera (The Matriach, Tangi). It tells ...
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Germany's Helkon Media files for insolvency
Germany's Helkon Media AG has filed for insolvency proceedings at the Munich insolvency court, the company said today (August 2).The insolvency is expected to be one of the largest of the Neuer Markt companies, amounting to hundreds of millions of Euros. The move was a shock to staff, who were ...
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British Board of Film Classification names new president
Quentin Thomas (pictured), a civil servant knighted for services to the Northern Ireland peace process, will succeed Andreas Whittam Smith as president of the British Board of Film Classification.Thomas, who led the team which first met Sinn Fein following the 1994 cease-fire, stressed the need for the self-funded body to ...
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Winchester Entertainment's Gary Smith cleared by UK financial watchdog
Winchester Entertainment chief Gary Smith (pictured) has been cleared by UK watchdog the Financial Services Authority (FSA) following an investigation into his sale of shares on the eve of a profits warning in February.The FSA told the publicly-listed company that it had found no evidence of insider dealing or market ...
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Signpost strikes first look pact with Cougar Films
Stewart Till's Signpost Films has formed its first long-term production deal in the UK, striking a first-look pact with Cougar Films, the fledgling film production outfit of leading UK TV producers Sophie Balhetchet and Lynda La Plante.The first project to be developed under the deal is Click, a romantic comedy ...
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High Court backs UK government tax clamp down
Highlighting the controversial clamp down in UK tax regulations this year, the High Court has upheld a decision by the Government to reject applications from the Peakviewing group of companies.The Department for Culture, Media & Sport said that the film and TV concern had been producing "thousands of five minute ...
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Hunter tracks down Harper for Prey
UK director Simon Hunter, whose debut film Lighthouse opens in London this week as an unusual double bill with horror classic Evil Dead, has teamed with producer Sara Harper on his next project, heist movie Prey.Prey, which Hunter also wrote, follows a group of criminals who kidnap a murderer by ...
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Norton promoted to head of production at Mill Film
UK-based effects house Mill Film has named Emma Norton as head of production.Norton, who takes up the position with immediate effect, worked her way up at the Mill from a production assistant to shoot coordinator and then on to a producing role. She reports directly to Mill Film's managing director, ...