All articles by Adam Minns – Page 46
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Pathe ups George to post of deputy MD
Ian George has been promoted from marketing and publicity director at UK distribution operation Pathe Distribution to deputy managing director.The move comes as Pathe's UK sales director Alastair Craig is leaving the company to join EVA Entertainment, Pearson Television's animated unit, as director of sales. Craig is being replaced by ...
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BSkyB on course for five millions subscribers
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB is set to reach its target of five million subscribers almost two months ahead of schedule.The broadcaster has notched up more than 4.7 million direct-to-home subscribers, of which more than four million were digital customers. BSkyB had aimed to reach five million by the end of ...
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Japan's Gaga picks up Third World Cop
Gaga Communications has picked up Japanese rights to Third World Cop from London-based sales outfit The Film Company.The Film Co also used Mifed to sell Stephen King's The Night Flier to Aditya for India, Lady Ninja to SBS Australia and Remote Control to Comedy for Australia. UK thriller Going Off ...
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Gilmartin to head development for Impact Pictures
UK and US production outfit Impact Pictures has appointed Rory Gilmartin as head of development as the operation ramps up production activities after forming a joint venture with Germany's Constantin Film.Gilmartin, formerly at Pathe and Miramax in London, will develop and co-ordinate international film projects at the production operation, which ...
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Goldby bites into Portman's Big Apple
Academy Award-nominated director Roger Goldby is to make his feature debut with The Big Apple for UK-based Portman Entertainment.Matthew Modine, John Simm and Timothy Spall are to star in the dark comedy about an Irishman who kidnaps the US president at the top of the world's tallest building.Shooting on the ...
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Winchester raises $32m warchest
In one of the largest City of London funding injections into the UK independent film sector since the heady days of Goldcrest, publicly-quoted Winchester Entertainment is this week raising $31.9m (£22m) on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).Armed with this warchest, Winchester is looking to become even more involved in US ...
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Peakviewing taps Sales to grow feature business
Peakviewing Transatlantic has appointed Daniel Sales, former president and chief executive officer of Cinequannon Pictures International, to act as consultant in a drive to step up feature activities.The company has formed a new division specifically geared to produce and market features internationally. The move comes as Martin Myers is heading ...
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Working Title opens Eye
Working Title is fast-tracking a Big Brother-meets-horror genre picture, My Little Eye, which follows a group of 20-somethings who sign up for a reality web show that turns increasingly sinister. Resurrection Man's Marc Evans is shooting the film, written by David Hilton, in Nova Scotia early next year for low-budget ...
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Coppola clan keeps growing at Capitol
Jeremy Davies, Gerard Depardieu, Billy Zane, Elodie Bouchez and Giancarlo Giannini have all been lined up to star in CQ, to be directed for Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope by his son Roman Coppola. It is one of several Zoetrope productions being financed by Germany's VCL and sold through Capitol Film ...
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Demme joins on-line outfit Article 27
Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme has joined the board of advisors of article27, the on-line entertainment syndicator that is rapidly expanding international activities.Demme's appointment comes as article27 is partnering with UK indie distributor Optimum Releasing for a theatrical release of German title Aimee & Jaguar. Article27 picked up all rights ...
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Alan Parker set to direct for Intermedia
Alan Parker appears to be close to a deal to direct the drama The Life Of David Gale for Intermedia Films.Written by Charles Randolph, the project tells the story of a professor who advocated banning capitol punishment who is falsely accused of murdering a fellow activist and is put on ...
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Film Consortium gets greenlight to continue
UK National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium has secured lottery funding for another three years after it cleared a mid-term review by film super body the Film Council.Although some Council board members were highly critical of the consortium, the Council said that it accepted that the operation had performed below ...
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Capitol adds two more from Zoetrope
Capitol Films has added another two American Zoetrope titles to its sales slate from its output deal with VCL - Jennifer Lopez will star as Mexican icon Frida Khalo in an untitled biopic, while Robert Duvall will direct Assassination Tango.The UK-based operation also announced that Jeremy Davies, Gerard Depardieu, Billy ...
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Hanway buyers go at it like rabbits
UK-based sales outfit HanWay has sold Rabbit Proof Fence, its Phillip Noyce-directed, Australian-set period story featuring Kenneth Branagh, to a brace of European markets including France and Germany.Bac took the picture in France, while Odeon boarded for Germany. Sales completed in the run-up to London included Sandrews Metronome for Scandinavia. ...
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Kevin Williams Associates does the Mexican wave
Spain's KWA has partnered with Mexico's Videocine and Warner Bros to represent titles from their joint production venture, Coyoacan Films, starting with local box office sensation The Second Night (La Segunda Noche).The romantic comedy grossed $5.2m in Mexico at a time when several other local productions have also been taking ...
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Billy Elliot dances away with four BIFAs
Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot racked up another clutch of awards at Wednesday's British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), picking up four prizes including best British independent film. Daldry picked up the best director award and collected prizes on behalf of writer Lee Hall, who won best screenplay, and the film's star, ...
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Sales Co titles go to UK at London
Testifying to a renewed UK market, The Sales Co has used this week's London screenings to close sales on a trio of titles to local distributors.Momentum Pictures, the UK joint venture of Germany's Kinowelt and Canada's Alliance Atlantis, picked up local rights to Kieron J Walsh's romantic comedy When Brendan ...
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Intermedia gets first-look at Kassar, Vajna's C-2
Intermedia has confirmed it has struck a first-look pact with Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna's US production company C-2 Pictures, kicking off with sequels to the blockbusters The Terminator and Basic Instinct.Both films are to feature their original stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone. Intermedia, which floated in Germany in ...
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McDougal to plough Metro Tartan's Fields
UK-based distribution to production concern Metro Tartan is readying to shoot its Martin Amis adaptation London Fields after securing Charles McDougal as director.McDougal, whose previous credits include UK TV show Queer As Folk, is to direct the project this spring in the UK. Producing duties fall to Chris Hanley, whose ...
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United Artists takes world on Born Romantic
In the first major buy of the London Screenings, United Artists (UA) has acquired worldwide rights to The Sales Co's UK comedy Born Romantic, which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and closes next month's London Film Festival. Sales Co chief Alison Thompson confirmed the deal, which does ...