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All articles by Adam Minns – Page 36
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Mayson joins Artists Independent Network
Andy Mayson, former chief operating officer at Intermedia, has joined London-based production and management company Artists Independent Network (AIN) as managing director.Mayson joins the operation as it prepares to move into the US by setting up a New York office early next year and starting its own sales division at ...
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Till launches production, distribution company
Stewart Till has launched an ambitious production, financing and distribution company modelled after PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (PFE), the erstwhile Euro major where he was head of international activities.Montreal-based pension fund CDP Capital Communications and Los Angeles-based Mosaic Media will provide equity financing, although the financing of the first projects will ...
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Trainspotting author joins Four Way Pictures
UK author Irvine Welsh, currently writing the follow-up book to his bestseller Trainspotting, has joined director Antonia Bird, actor Robert Carlyle and journalist Mark Cousins as a partner at talent-led production company Four Way Pictures.Welsh is writing a new screenplay, The Meat Trade, for the two-year old company, set up ...
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Icon takes UK rights on Y Tu Mama Tambien
UK distributor Icon has picked up Good Machine International's Y Tu Mama Tambien (pictured), the erotic Mexican film by Alfonso Cuaron which recorded the biggest three day opening ever of a local film in its home market.The Spanish-language film, which won prizes for best screenplay and best newcomer at Venice, ...
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Tim Roth tapped for Natural Nylon's $23m Cromwell
Tim Roth is in final negotiations to play 17th century English revolutionary Oliver Cromwell in IAC Film's Crowmell And Fairfax.Roth will star opposite Dougray Scott, who plays general Fairfax. Mike Barker is directing the $23m Natural Nylon production, which is to shoot in January after cutting a deal with UK ...
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UK property developer launches UKI Films
Secretive UK property player UKI has entered the film production business, launching UKI Films with former Rocket Pictures development chief Polly Steele.UKI, said to be worth up to $1bn (£700m), is covering overheads and providing an annual development fund of $217,000 (£150,000) over three years. Steele, who produced Rocket's Women ...
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Little Bird feathers its nest with new talent
Flush with the success of Bridget Jones's Diary and the US release of Croupier, UK-based production outfit Little Bird is revving up its slate by expanding its network of affiliated filmmakers and international financing partners.Producer-director team Dixie Linder and Tim Roth have joined the company to develop a slate of ...
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Lolafilms UK continues without Mackey
Lolafilms UK, the troubled London-based production and sales arm of Spanish powerhouse Lolafilms, is claiming 'business as usual' after it emerged that president of international sales Nicole Mackey had resigned.In a statement, Lolafilms asserted: "Regardless of a cost cutting plan, London activities will continue since they are considered an essential ...
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UK's FilmFour International goes for Gold
Janine Gold has been promoted to head of FilmFour's sales arm, FilmFour International (FFI).Gold, previously head of sales, replaces Sue Bruce-Smith, who left earlier this year to join Irish-based production outfit Little Bird. The former Celluloid Dreams executive is recruiting a film sales manager. FFI has also boosted sales co-ordinator ...
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UK actors union proposes revenue percentage deal
Having won additional payment concessions from Warner Bros so that the next Harry Potter movie can shoot, UK performers union Equity has proposed that independent producers pay its members a slice of all revenues after initial investment has been recouped in order to side-step December's strike.Equity sent out guidelines late ...
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Francke launches Ministry Of Fear at Little Bird
Former Edinburgh International Film Festival artistic director Lizzie Francke (pictured) has joined Little Bird, the Irish-based production company whose principals boast credits ranging from UK hit Bridget Jones's Diary to Werner Herzog's Invincible, to launch a horror label titled The Ministry Of Fear.Francke is to bring in projects for a ...
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European Short Film 2001 - Prix UIP nominations
A host of European short films have been nominated for next month's European Film Awards, the European Film Academy (EFA) and sponsors UIP announced during the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent.Amongst the contenders are The Heist, by Dennis Petersen and Frederik Meldal Norgaard of Denmark, Lo Basico, by Spain's ...
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Film Export UK assesses autumn markets
MIFED has secured support from 73% of companies asked to choose between the Italian market and the preceeding London screenings in a worldwide survey by promotional body Film Export UK. With the economic downturn adding urgency to buyers and sellers' longstanding complaints about attending two consecutive markets in different countries, ...
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Bandits replaces Windtalkers at London film fest
Barry Levinson's crime caper Bandits has replaced John Woo's Windtalkers at the London Film Festival after MGM postponed the US release of the World War II film following the terrorist attacks in the US.Bandits, which stars Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett, takes up Windtalkers' gala screening slot ...
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Italy's MIFED is increasingly threatened by events
This month's MIFED film market appears to have been hit hard by the terrorist attacks on the US, with the number of registered sellers plummeting by more than 26%, according to Screen International's figures.Many of those companies may now cancel following Sunday night's attack on the Taliban regime. On Monday, ...
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Minnie Driver joins New Cardiff cast
Minnie Driver is set to join Heather Graham, Colin Firth and Mary Steenburgen in New Cardiff, a romantic comedy being produced by the UK's Fragile Films for Buena Vista International.Driver is to play Vera, a scheming woman who dumps her fiance, an artist played by Firth, by sending him an ...
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Script Factory launches UK comedy competition
Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack's Mirage Enterprises, sales and financing operation Intermedia and UK script development body The Script Factory have launched a screenwriting competition for contemporary urban comedies.Finalists will compete for a $14,700 (£10,000) development commission from Mirage and Intermedia by pitching ideas to Minghella and Pollack. The competition ...
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Hedwig to open Stockholm film festival
John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig And The Angry Inch will open the competition at the Stockholm International Film Festival, which focuses on new and innovative cinema. Other competitors include Henry Bean's The Believer and Richard Parry's South West Nine, from the producers of Human Traffic. Todd Solondz's Storytelling has a slot ...
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Working Title develops animatronic Rat project
The UK's Working Title Films is developing an untitled family film based on newcomer Billy O'Brien's short film The Tale Of The Rat That Wrote.The story of a rat's adventures in a dark, Dickensian world combines live-action, animation and the animatronics effects from the blockbuster Babe. O'Brien is to adapt ...
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Mike Bassett: England Manager scores at home
Mike Bassett: England Manager, the first film to emerge from UK support body The Film Council's Premiere Fund, took a strong $1,226,745 (£830,000) from 263 screens in the UK this weekend.The football mockumentary with local TV comedy star Ricky Tomlinson narrowly beat another UK title, Enigma. The code-cracking adaptation with ...