All articles by Adam Minns – Page 37
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Executive overhaul redirects UK's Film Consortium
Chris Auty has replaced Richard Holmes as managing director of Civilian Content as the UK media concern slashes back in-house production and development and focuses on financing and international sales at its National Lottery franchise, The Film Consortium.Holmes is understood to have clashed over film-making styles with Auty, also chief ...
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Momentum picks up UK rights for The Son's Room
Momentum Pictures has picked up all UK rights to Nanni Moretti's Palme d'Or winner The Son's Room.The story of a middle class Italian family dealing with the death of their son will have its UK premiere at the London Film Festival on Nov 17, with Moretti attending. Momentum bought the ...
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Sony's Spanish production arm heralds others
Sony Pictures Entertainment has appointed Iona de Macedo head of its newly-launched Spanish production operation, Columbia Films Producciones Espanolas, and is looking to raise production levels in other local markets such as the UK. De Macedo will relocate to Madrid from the studio's Brazilian arm, where she served as vice ...
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Equity throws UK productions into uncertainty
Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things is amongst the high-profile productions plunged into uncertainty as the UK film sector starts to feel the impact of last week's decision by actors union Equity to strike from December 1.Other titles hit by Equity's call for its members to refuse any new contracts involving ...
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UK's FilmFour signs first look deal with Tubedale
FilmFour has struck a first look deal with Tubedale Films the production company of UK actor David Morrissey, former PolyGram Film International executive Carl Clifton and Morrissey's brother, Paul.The writer Esther Freud is also a partner in the company along with businessman Stuart Hatwell. David Morrissey, whose acting credits include ...
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Davies controversially named chairman of BBC
Gavyn Davies has been named chairman of the BBC, the government said in a statement.The appointment of the Goldman Sachs economist, who has close links to Labour, was met with protests from opposition parties. Davies, already vice-chairman of the BBC, succeeds Christopher Bland, who is to take the chair at ...
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UK actors' union opts for strike - with exceptions
In a move that threatens to bring UK production to a virtual standstill, powerful local performers' union Equity has told its members not to agree to any contracts for feature films that would mean working on or after December 1.The call marks a serious turn in Equity's talks with UK ...
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Working Title eyes Daldry for Backpacker film
Working Title Films is believed to be courting Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry for a drama about a group of young backpackers travelling abroad.Under the working title The Backpacker Movie, the picture would be the first to emerge from a three-year deal which Daldry signed with Working Title in November ...
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Entertainment takes Gosford Park for the UK
Leading UK independent distributor Entertainment Film Distributors has picked up Robert Altman's Gosford Park. Entertainment is expected to release the 1930s murder-mystery film in the first quarter of next year. USA Films, which took the film as a negative pick-up, is to open it in December in the US in ...
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Jeremy Thomas and Grosvenor Park go to court
A battle between veteran UK producer Jeremy Thomas and Grosvenor Park, one of the leading corporate players in the upstart UK tax-financing sector, is set to spill over into court.The dispute between Thomas and the UK tax-financing operation headed by Don Starr is to go to court in December, marking ...
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UK Film Council members re-appointed
Tim Bevan, James Lee, Sarah Radclyffe, Iain Smith and John Hill have been re-appointed to the board of UK support body the Film Council, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced on Tuesday September 4.The directors of the Board were appointed in September 1999, drawing lots to decide the length of their ...
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UK's DNA appoints Warlow
UK National Lottery franchise DNA Films has confirmed the appointment of Richard Warlow as head of development.Warlow joins from fellow lottery franchise Pathe Pictures, where he held the post of development executive, working on The Hole and the forthcoming releases Thunderpants and The Abduction Club. He previously worked at the ...
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Kuhn and Parfitt team up for Sky Boys
Michael Kuhn has partnered with Academy Award-winning producer David Parfitt on Sky Boys, an action drama that marks the first project unveiled in the former PolyGram Filmed Entertainment chief's bid to make big-budget European films. The story of a heist on the Empire State building during its construction has been ...
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I Capture The Castle finally to shoot this month
I Capture The Castle, BBC Films' adaptation of the acclaimed book by The Hundred And One Dalmatians author Dodie Smith, is to start shooting in three weeks after nearly six years in development.Subject to casting, the £5.7m project has finally come together a patchwork of independent financing from operations including ...
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UK's Film Council says spending under budget
Government-backed UK support body the Film Council has said that it will come in under budget at its first annual review in October after accusations that it exceeded personnel cost by more than 60%.The Film Council, which oversees National Lottery support for film activities, declined to reveal details about how ...
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Madden takes spotlight at Chichester Film Festival
John Madden, director of Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Shakespeare In Love, heads the guest-list at the 10th Chichester Film Festival.Amelie, Battle Royale and Baise Moi are amongst the international titles screening at the event, which runs from August 23 to September 9. Other previews and premieres include Brotherhood Of The ...
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Del Toro adds spine to The Devil's Backbone
Riding high on Locarno hit The Devil's Backbone, which is currently closing a deal for the last major territory, North America, with Sony Pictures Classics, Mexican horror maestro Guillermo del Toro hit the Edinburgh International Film Festival this week to discuss a genre most executives dismiss as "a secondary form ...
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Brazilian soccer star signs for Shooting Star
Soccer superstar Ronaldo has signed up to be the star subject in feature-length football documentary Shooting Star.Along with being the main interviewee, the Brazilian striker will represent the fatherhood section as the film explores the seven stages of life - including birth, boyhood, adolescence, manhood, mid-life crisis and old age ...
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Goldbacher develops Utopia and Faith
Sandra Goldbacher, the UK writer-director who impressed buyers at Cannes with her second feature Me Without You, has started work on two contemporary scripts, Faith and Utopia.Faith is a London-set story about magic and witchcraft, while Utopia is set in a commune in an arctic-like region. Goldbacher, who debuted with ...
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Edinburgh: one surprise down, but more to come'
Mick Jagger may be wavering, but Tim Roth paid an unexpected visit to the Edinburgh International Film Festival last night (August 15) to introduce the event's surprise film - Planet Of The Apes.The festival is now hoping that Jagger, who was to have been the star guest this weekend, changes ...