All articles by Adam Minns – Page 42
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Firelight Films to debut with Lifelines
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. ...
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Karlovy Vary unveils initial film selections
Czech title Angel Exit, directed by Vladimir Michalek, will screen in competition at this summer's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the event has revealed. Luminaries expected to travel to the historic spa town include celebrated director Emir Kusturica, who is to screen his music documentary Super 8 Stories. The festival, ...
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Madden to be honoured in Bermuda
John Madden, director of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Shakespeare In Love and Mrs Brown, is to receive the Prospero Award for Excellence in Film at the fourth edition of the Bermuda International Film Festival April 20-26. Opening the event is One Night At McCool's, starring Liv Tyler and Matt Dillon, while ...
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Istanbul honours Bertolucci, Tavernier, Corman
Bernardo Bertolucci, Bertrand Tavernier and Roger Corman are amongst the film-makers receiving tributes at the 20th edition of the International Istanbul Film Festival. (April 14-29)Other directors being feted at the region's leading film event include Takashi Miike, the Japanese film-maker who made an international impression with the ultra-violent Audition. Spain's ...
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Renaissance reviews sales as Stephens, Bloye exit
Sales veteran Bill Stephens is stepping down as head of sales at the UK's Renaissance Films along with the company's senior sales executive Charlie Bloye.In the wake of the departures, Renaissance co-chief Angus Finney, who did not return calls, is expected to oversee foreign sales strategy for the relatively well-heeled ...
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Murdoch daughter's film ambitions Shine through
Elisabeth Murdoch, former programming head of UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB, is expected to make small-to-medium budget features though her newly-launched TV and film production outfit, Shine Entertainment. Shine, jointly owned by Murdoch and former production director at Carlton Television Waheed Alli, is armed with an output deal with BSkyB, which ...
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Workspace stands by Three Mills Island Studios
Workspace Group, owners of UK indie studio Three Mills Island Studios, are insisting that the site will remain a studio facility despite ousting managers Edwin Shirley Productions (ESP) from four sound stages in a High Court dispute.The commitment comes after an increasingly bitter dispute over lease contracts and rent payments ...
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British Short Film Festival axed
The 14 year-old British Short Film festival is to close after the event's title sponsor, BBC Television, withdrew funding.The move comes as recently-installed BBC director general Greg Dyke is under pressure to cut costs from the government. The BBC has backed the annual event since it launched in 1987.Festival director ...
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Industry veteran Thomas dies aged 85
Ralph Thomas, director of the long-running franchise of Doctor films, has died after an illness aged 85.Along with seven Doctor titles, which initially starred Dirk Bogarde, Thomas directed such stars as Peter Finch and Katherine Hepburn in films such as No Love For Johnnie and The Iron Petticoat. His son ...
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Guadalajara film festival
After AmoresPerros comes De La Calle. Thestory of a gang of street children, akin in style and subject to last year'slocal box-office sensation and international festival favourite, emerged as oneof the two buzz titles at the 16th Guadalajara Film Festival inMexico (Mar 9-16).Markingthe debut of Mexican film-maker Gerardo Tort, the ...
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Stalled thriller still awaiting Evolution's cash
UK producer Simon Channing-Williams has been forced to postpone shooting on The Game Of Love And Loathing after funding from tax-driven financier Evolution Films failed to materialise.The psychological thriller was expected to be in pre-production at the moment but it is now unclear how it will be financed. Evolution sparked ...
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UK's Tiger Aspect eyes suitors
Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner's UK production outfit Working Title Films has emerged as a potential candidate to buy leading UK TV company Tiger Aspect Productions.Spokespersons for both companies confirmed UK press reports that a deal was being explored, although both stressed that talks were no more than exploratory at ...
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UK Film Council backs innovative, commercial slate
A combination of US and leading UK talent defines the debut slate of the UK Film Council's commercially-oriented Premiere Fund, while the support body's New Cinema Fund for low-budget projects aims to mix innovation with established names such as Alex Cox, Christopher Eccleston and Simon BeaufoyRobert Altman's Gosford Park has ...
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Village Roadshow exhibits downturn in profit
Australia's Village Roadshow suffered a 44% slide in first half net profits as its exhibition business suffered from poor product worldwide.Profits fell to A$22m, with cinema exhibition recording an A$11.8m loss. The cinema, theme park and radio group plans to reduce its operating territories to around nine from 18. The ...
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Civilian Content acquires majority of The Sales Co
Civilian Content, parent company of National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium, has secured an international sales operation by agreeing to acquire the majority of The Sales Co. (Screen Daily Sept 25, 2000)Civilian, which already owns 25% of the sales Co through the Consortium, has taken two further 25% holdings owned ...
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New UK sales and distribution outfit launched
Micro-budget film-maker Ray Brady, best known for controversial 1994 horror flick Boy Meets Girl, has launched his own UK distribution and international sales operation under the banner Boudicca.The venture is already lining up two Brady titles for UK release - 1999 thriller Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and the recently completed ...
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Intermedia shows excellent form, predicts better
Intermedia has posted pre-tax earnings of Euros27.5m, 46% above the Euros18.8m forecast when the company floated on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt in May 2000 as Internationalmedia AG.Final net income for last year reached Euros19.7m, 99% above the Euros9.9m that the company projected when it floated. Intermedia's cash reserve was Euros191.3m at ...
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Tiger Aspect unveils new slate of films
Tiger Aspect Pictures, the film arm of leading TV comedy producer Tiger Aspect Productions, is readying a fresh slate after the company scored three hits out of three with Billy Elliot, Kevin And Perry Go Large and Bean.Steve Bendelack of surreal comedy show The League of Gentlemen is now attached ...
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Equity adds support to Screen Actors' Guild strike
UK performers union Equity has pledged to support the threatened strike this summer by the Screen Actors' Guild (SAG).The move, which was expected, means Equity will advise its members not to accept work on runaway productions - that is US productions that are shooting in the United Kingdom after 31 ...
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Locarno to reveal secrets of American Cinema
From the "veiled racism" of The Deer Hunter to the more blatant kind evidenced by David Carradine's substitution of martial arts legend Bruce Lee in Kung Fu - the TV series Lee himself conceived - the issues facing Asian American cinema are explored in a major retrospective at August's Locarno ...