All articles by Adam Minns – Page 3
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Noyce, Slovo team for Working Title's Hot Stuff
Nearly 20 yearsafter A World Apart, the acclaimed film about her relationship with hermother - a leading anti-apartheid campaigner who was killed by a parcel bomb -writer Shawn Slovo is revisiting South Africa's last two turbulent decades.Slovo, the daughterof Ruth First and leading ANC figure Joe Slovo, has teamed with ...
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Caplan named as UK Film Council's Premiere Fund chief
The UK Film Council hasappointed Sally Caplan to replace Robert Jones as chief of its high-profileNational Lottery fund for commercial films, the Premiere Fund.Caplan, currently presidentof Icon Film Distribution in the UK, told staff on Friday that she was takingthe position, which puts the well-liked executive in charge of the ...
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Tiger Beer launches Asian film award
A new award for Asian cinemain the UK has been launched.The contest, created byTiger Beer, is open to films produced with Asian funding, filmed in Asia orusing predominantly Asian talent. Winners will be announced in April and willinclude films released in the UK between February 2004 and February 2005 - ...
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Pathe pre-sells Pluto, Henderson to Spain
In a sign of recovery in theSpanish market, Pathe Pictures International has pre-sold Neil Jordan's BreakfastOn Pluto and Stephen Frears' Mrs Henderson Presents to localdistributor Vertigo.Pathe also sold the twotitles to Lusomundo for Portugal, along with closing a host of deals on KayPollak's Academy Award-nominated As It Is In Heaven. ...
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British film scripts get Lottery cash injection
Scripts involving AsifKapadia, Sarah Gavron and Christopher Smith, director of current UK horror hit Creep,have won funding from Government-backed support body the UK Film Council.Kapadia, who won two BAFTAawards in 2003 for his directorial debut The Warrior, is developing Bushidowith £27,500 from the council's development fund. Jeremy Bolt and Paul ...
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UK Government urges BBC to support local films.
The UK Film Council haswelcomed the Government's Green Paper on the review of the BBC's Royal Charter,which urges the BBC to show British films to wider audiences.The paper, an outline of pointsfor consultation before a more concrete set of proposals is published in aWhite Paper later this year, calls for ...
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UK plans multiple co-production treaties
The UK is to strike co-production treaties with SouthAfrica, China, India, Jamaica and Morocco, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowellannounced on Monday.The treaties will be developed with each country overthe next 18 months. Jowell recently signed a statement of intent with the SouthAfrican Minister for Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan."More than 27 ...
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Arts Alliance to manage UK digital screen network
Taking a huge step in creating the western world's biggestdigital cinema network, Government-backed support body UK Film Council has selected an offshoot ofventure capitalist Arts Alliance to install a nationwide digital circuit of 250screens.Under the £11.5m contract, Arts Alliance is to spearhead theinstallation, training, servicing and upgrades over an 18-month ...
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Bruehl, Mullan board Cargo for Wild Bunch
TheUK's Peter Mullan, Germany's Daniel Bruehl and Spain's Luis Tosar will star in Cargo, a UK-Spanish thriller starting shooting next week for French salesand financing company Wild Bunch.Documentary film-maker CliveGordon will make his feature debut with a script by Ken Loach's longtimescreenwriter Paul Laverty. Set on a cargo ship travelling ...
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Focus takes international rights on Benigni's latest.
Focus Features has acquiredinternational sales rights excluding Italy on Roberto Benigni's The TigerAnd The Snow.The film, written anddirected by and starring two-time Academy Award-winner Benigni, is inpost-production and will be released first in Italy on Oct 14. Benigni plays a poet desperately wooing thewoman of his dreams until they suddenly ...
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Rank to exit British film industry
Rank, the UK leisure groupand former pillar of the British film industry, will reportedly announce itsexit from the film business this week when it unveils plans to de-merge filmservices division Deluxe Films and sell Deluxe Media.The group, which backed astring of films such as the Carry On comedy series, will ...
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Dimension does The Business
DimensionFilms has taken North American rights to The Business, British directorNick Love's story of a young man caught up in the expatriate crime scene onSpain's Costa del Sol in the 80s.TheCosta del Crime flick previously sold to Pathe Distribution in the UK, whereproduction company Vertigo fielded multiple offers. ContentFilmis selling ...
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Icing sealed on Cake Weaver, Rickman set to roll
Ayear after Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver committed to the project, SnowCake has finally come together.UKproducers Andrew Eaton and Gina Carter have set up the drama as a UK-Canadianco-production with Niv Fichman, producer of The Red Violin. FortissimoFilm Sales is selling worldwide rights,while a deal is being finalised with support ...
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Scherfig lines up Good shoot in Berlin
Good, a feature adaptation of C P Taylor's acclaimedplay about an otherwise moral professor who formulates Hitler's FinalSolution, is to shoot on location in Berlin this summer.Danish director LoneScherfig, a regular at the Berlin International Film Festival, will shoot the film in Potsdam, central Berlin andthe city's Olympic stadium, built ...
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Investors cool on UK film business
One year on from thegovernment's February 10 crackdown on tax financing, forecasts say the amountof money being offered by investors is down by as much as two thirds on lastyear's levels.The worst hit are theproduction equity schemes, which offer film-makers a larger chunk of theirbudgets but require investors to take ...
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Motley named UIP acquisitions vice-president
UIP has appointed EricaMotley as vice president of acquisitions.Aformer head of Film for Elisabeth Murdoch's production company Shine, Motley takes over fromNuala OHalloran, who is returning to Australia. TheUS-born andeducatedexecutive, whose was most recently managing director of Ice Productions, took up this post thismonth.HerCV includes stints at Home Box Office ...
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UK censor to take tougher action against racism in film
Films with scenes involvingracism face a tougher entrance into the UK market after the local certificationbody published new guidelines.The British Board of FilmCertification (BBFC) cited incitement to racial hatred or violence andexpletives with a racial association as a chief area of growing public concern.The body based its researchon the views ...
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George Michael to attend Berlinale documentary screening
Pop star George Michael isto attend the Berlin International Film Festival to support A DifferentStory, a documentary about his life and career.The film will have its worldpremiere at the German event on Feb 16. Contributors include Sting, MariahCarey, Elton John, Noel Gallagher, Boy George and Andrew Ridgeley.Rainer Grupe at UK-basedGorilla ...
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Heidi producers option Roman Mysteries
The British productioncompany behind Heidi, the family film remake which Warner Bros isreleasing in July, has optioned The Roman Mysteries, an 18-book seriesset in first century Rome.Martyn Auty and Ian Gordon,partners in Suitable Viewing, have optioned the books with Dashiell Productionsto adapt into a family film. Written by Caroline Lawrence, ...
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British Film Institute reignites film sales division
Having once championed PeterGreenaway, Derek Jarman and John Maybury, the British Film Institute (BFI) islaunching back into film sales at next month's Berlin market after acquiringall worldwide rights to two films.The institute's salesdivision, which has not represented new films since Maybury's acclaimed 1998debut Love Is The Devil, has picked up ...