All articles by Adam Minns – Page 41
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Sales Co looks to convert Bend It Like Beckham
The UK's The Sales Co has added What's Cookin' and Bhaji On The Beach director Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham to its sales line-up.The inter-racial football comedy stars The Hole's Keira Khightley and Parminder Nagra of popular UK TV series Holby City and Casualty as two girls who dream ...
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Fragile Films, Herman graduate with New Cardiff
Mark Herman, the UK director of Purely Belter, Little Voice and Brassed Off, has been signed by Fragile Films for its upcoming film New Cardiff, an adaptation of The Graduate author Charles Webb's novel.The book follows an Englishman who goes to America after his girlfriend jilts him by sending him ...
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Exotic locales abound in ambitious BBC film slate
BBC Films is developing a slew of large-scale international projects for its debut feature slate under director general Greg Dyke's new drama-entertainment structure. The UK public broadcaster's film arm wants to use the projects and an equally ambitious financing pact for bigger titles with Cobalt Media Group (formerly MM Media ...
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Artificial Eye takes UK for The Piano Teacher
UK specialist distributor Artificial Eye Film Distribution has picked up Austrian auteur Michael Haneke's Cannes Official Competition entry The Piano Teacher.The Austrian-French title, which is represented on the Croisette by international sales outfit MK2, stars Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot and Benoit Magimel.Artificial Eye this year teamed with Metro Tartan Films, ...
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MTV, Paramount start dancing to Britney's tune
MTV Films has boarded the Britney Spears movie What Are Friends For as co-producer, while MTV sister company Paramount Pictures is in advanced negotiations to take domestic distribution rights on the film which is being sold by Summit Entertainment.MTV and Paramount have a history of youth-oriented hits which include Save ...
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Charlotte screenwriter joins English Civil War
Jeremy Brock, who adapted FilmFour and Ecosse Films' World War 2 romantic adventure Charlotte Gray, is to turn his hand to the English Civil War.The as-yet-untitled project is an epic love story which will re-unite with Brock and Ecosse. Along with the $25m Charlotte Gray, which was adapted from ...
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Cine Expo honours Cripps, Working Title duo
Working Title Films co-chiefs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are to be honoured as producers of the year at Cinema Expo International 2001, while UIP president and chief operating officer Andrew Cripps is distributor of the year.The awards will be dished out at the final night gala bash at the ...
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The Piano Teacher goes to Artificial Eye for UK
UK specialist distributor Artificial Eye Film Distribution has picked up Austrian auteur Michael Haneke's Cannes Official Competition entry The Piano Teacher.The Austrian-French title, which is represented on the Croisette by international sales outfit MK2, stars Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot and Benoit Magimel.Artificial Eye this year teamed with Metro Tartan Films, ...
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Boyle unveils $15m sci-fi picture for DNA
Director Danny Boyle is to re-team with Alex Garland, writer of the cult book which spawned The Beach, for British sci-fi film 28 Days Later.Boyle is to start shooting in August on the $15m project for DNA Films, the UK National Lottery franchise which his regular producer Andrew Macdonald heads ...
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Optimum, Mosaic team up for Ginger Snaps release
UK distributor Optimum Releasing is to theatrically release dark comedy thriller Ginger Snaps as a joint venture with video outfit Mosaic Entertainment.Optimum and Mosaic aim for the June release to kick off an ongoing distribution partnership. The Toronto title, acquired by Mosaic Entertainment from the US' Lions Gate Films, tells ...
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Lousberg to head Film Council's Euro strategy
UK film body the Film Council has appointed Jan-Jacob Lousberg as European business executive to spearhead its European strategy.Lousberg, previously a story editor and acquisitions and development executive at Fine Line Features in the UK, will have a key role in meeting the council's stated aim of investing at least ...
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UK admissions down 8.7% for first quarter
UK cinema admissions were down 8.7% in the first quarter this year, according to the latest figures from cinema advertising body the CAA.Admissions hit 8.3 million during the period, compared to just over nine million during the same period last year. Average admissions per week during the entire quarter this ...
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Goldcrest dips into features with WW2 POW film
UK-based Goldcrest Films International has acquired all international rights to $14m war drama To End All Wars, starring Robert Carlyle and Keifer Sutherland.The deal marks a step into the theatrical arena for Goldcrest, which has been quiet on the features front since splitting with Guy Collins' IAC Films. The film, ...
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Helkon completes $16m Redbus takeover
The UK's Redbus Film Distribution has announced the finalisation of its $16m takeover by Germany's Helkon Media and that it will beat first-quarter expectations with a pre-tax profit of $1.1m.A significant slice of Helkon's final $8m payment to Redbus will go to Cliff Stanford, the Internet mogul who owns Redbus' ...
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British Film Commission changes directors
Terri Jones has stepped down as director of the British Film Commission after joining in February last year, to be replaced by former freelance producer Clare Wise.Jones, formerly director of production at UK TV station LWT, is understood to have wanted to return to the TV sector. Wise most recently ...
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Carlton, Granada merge digital and free-TV assets
U K media concerns Granada and Carlton Communications have confirmed they are merging their free-to-air TV assets with their joint pay-TV venture ONdigital, bringing closer the total consolidation of commercial TV network ITV.Stuart Prebble, ONdigital chief executive, was also confirmed as chief executive of the enlarged ITV. Rob Fyfe, currently ...
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Momentum takes UK on Jeunet's Amelie
The UK's Momentum Pictures has picked up all UK rights to Amelie From Montmartre, a French-language comedy from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of Alien Resurrection and one half of the team behind Delicatessen and The City Of Lost Children.The UGC International title has just secured a special public screening at the ...
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UK's Film Council appoints clutch of executives
UK film body the Film Council has named Norman Brock and Emma Clarke as part of a raft of appointments.Brock has been appointed production and development executive for the Council's Premiere Fund, a $14m a year tranche of National Lottery cash for films with broad appeal. Brock worked as a ...
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Summit, Momentum, Samuelsons pact for remake
The US' Summit Entertainment and the UK's Momentum Pictures and Samuelson Productions have partnered on a UK remake of Dutch box office hit All Stars.Provisionally titled 30 Things, the comedy about a group of 20 somethings is to go into production this year. Simon Shore, who debuted with gay-themed coming-of-age ...
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Menegazzi launches Firelight with Zenith deal
Carmen Menegazzi, former head of Columbia TriStar's UK theatrical arm, has partnered on local drama Lifelines with UK media operation Zenith Entertainment for the first project from her production outfit Firelight Films.Menegazzi and Zenith have struck a co-development deal on the £3m project, which is being written by Bridget Lawless. ...