All articles by Adam Minns – Page 30
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FilmFour boards Fry's Bright Young Things
FilmFour has partnered with UK production outfit Revolution Films on UK actor Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things, a self-penned adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1930s satire Vile Bodies. Fry confirmed Judi Dench and Peter O'Toole are attached to star as part of a Gosford Park-style ensemble of UK and US actors. ...
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Four Horsemen rides with Overseas Filmgroup
Overseas Filmgroup has struck a multi-picture deal to handle sales on films from Four Horsemen Films, the UK genre label which recently struck a deal for European distribution with Buena Vista.The first titles in the deal include Octane, starring Madeleine Stowe, Norman Reedus, Bijou Philips, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Mischa Barton. ...
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Four Horsemen rides with Overseas Filmgroup
Overseas Filmgroup has struck a multi-picture deal to handle sales on films from Four Horsemen Films, the UK genre label which recently struck a deal for European distribution with Buena Vista.The first titles in the deal include Octane, starring Madeleine Stowe, Norman Reedus, Bijou Philips, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Mischa Barton. ...
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Ealing Studios teams with Odyssey for $40m animation
The UK's Ealing Studios has teamed with Ralph Kamp's newly-launched sales outfit Odyssey Entertainment to produce $40m CG animation film Valiant.John Williams, the US producer of Shrek and Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, is producing with Barnaby Thompson, co-head of Fragile Films, one of the owners of Ealing.The film, which ...
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Ealing Studios teams with Odyssey for $40m animation
The UK's Ealing Studios has teamed with Ralph Kamp's newly-launched sales outfit Odyssey Entertainment to produce $40m CG animation film Valiant.John Williams, the US producer of Shrek and Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, is producing with Barnaby Thompson, co-head of Fragile Films, one of the owners of Ealing.The film, which ...
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Signpost points to Germany for next Int'l distribution move
Stewart Till's ambitious Signpost Films aims to launch distribution operations in 80% of the international sector in the next three to five years, with Germany shaping up as one of the next markets.The would-be studio is holding talks with German distributor Concorde about a partnership, one of several options on ...
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Signpost points to Germany for next Int'l distribution move
Stewart Till's ambitious Signpost Films aims to launch distribution operations in 80% of the international sector in the next three to five years, with Germany shaping up as one of the next markets.The would-be studio is holding talks with German distributor Concorde about a partnership, one of several options on ...
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Signpost points to Germany for next Int'l distribution move
Stewart Till's ambitious Signpost Films aims to launch distribution operations in 80% of the international sector in the next three to five years, with Germany shaping up as one of the next markets.The would-be studio is holding talks with German distributor Concorde about a partnership, one of several options on ...
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Tiger tamer role Tailor-Made for Kate Winslet
With a debut slate headed by a $36m production in which Kate Winslet plays a tiger tamer, newly-launched Tailor-Made Films has emerged as a UK production outfit to watch.Founded by former freelance TV producer Miriam Segal with backing worth£1.3 million from a group of private investors, the company has been ...
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Tiger tamer role Tailor-Made for Kate Winslet
With a debut slate headed by a $36m production in which Kate Winslet plays a tiger tamer, newly-launched Tailor-Made Films has emerged as a UK production outfit to watch.Founded by former freelance TV producer Miriam Segal with backing worth£1.3 million from a group of private investors, the company has been ...
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Cobalt clocks into $100m Timeline
Cobalt Media Group is in advanced talks to take over selected international rights on Paramount Pictures and Mutual Film Co's $100m-plus Timeline, one of the biggest-budget productions being circulated at Cannes.The deal is thought to include some of the territories where Mutual usually puts its films through its consortium of ...
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Stowe takes starring role in BVI, Random Harvest's Octane
Madeleine Stowe is to star in Octane, the first production through the partnership between Buena Vista International and UK tax-based financier Random Harvest.Also in the cast are Norman Reedus, Bijou Phillips, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Mischa Barton. The production, made under Random Harvest's genre label Four Horsemen Films, starts shooting next ...
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Roberts, Sheils to head distribution at UK's Metrodome
Ben Roberts and Audrey Sheils will head distribution activities at the UK's Metrodome after Alan Partington left the company last month.Roberts has been promoted to director of sales and acquisitions, while Sheils becomes director of theatrical marketing. Recent pick-ups include Good Machine International's Lovely And Amazing, Lions Gate's comedy The ...
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Goodsill joins Kamp at Odyssey Entertainment
Former Icon Entertainment International chief Ralph Kamp has been joined by Louise Goodsill at the head of newly-launched sales operation Odyssey Entertainment.Goodsill is president and chief operating officer, while Kamp is chairman and chief executive. Odyssey, which formally launches at Cannes, has also assembled three key executives: head of production ...
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Signpost partners with Hoyts to form Signpost Films Australia
Stewart Till's Signpost Films has established its first international distribution arm, partnering with Hoyts Distribution to form Signpost Films Australia.Signpost Films Australia will control the marketing and distribution of Signpost films in Australia and New Zealand, managing and funding all marketing and P&A costs. Hoyts will provide a theatrical ...
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Tomorrow La Scala! for UK's Portman Film
The UK's Portman Film has picked up Francesca Joseph's Un Certain Regard film Tomorrow La Scala! for international sales.The low budget comedy - made for around£500,000 - is about an ambitious young director staging a musical of Sweeney Todd in a maximum security prison. Joseph, who makes her feature debut, ...
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Sony tipped to take 40% of UK's DNA
Sony Pictures Entertainment is reportedly in talks to take a 40% stake in UK National Lottery franchise DNA.The deal would give Sony access to the $23.4m (£16m) in lottery cash that DNA has still not spent from its franchise of around $44m (£30m), as well as projects from Duncan Kenworthy ...
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Signpost appoints Bloye as vice president, sales
Signpost Films has appointed Charlie Bloye as vice president, sales, the company announced on Monday.Bloye, previously at Renaissance Films, will reporting to president of sales Nicole Mackey and be based in London. He takes up the position with immediate effect, having been providing a consultancy service to the company."I am ...
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UK to get Film Council's $20m arthouse 'virtual circuit'
UK support body the Film Council is pressing ahead with plans to create a so-called virtual circuit of art house cinemas and will spend $20m (£14m) over the next four years on up to 150 screens around the country. Most screens are expected to leased from existing exhibitors, but new ...
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FilmFour posts deeper losses as UK's C4 reveals first deficit in decade
The red ink deepened at the UK's FilmFour last year, with the film arm of broadcaster Channel 4 posting an operating loss nearly double that of 2000, while its parent company revealed its first loss for 10 years.FilmFour recorded an operating loss of $7.9m (£5.4m) for 2001, close to ...