All articles by Audrey Ward – Page 12
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Suzanne Noble joins Optimum as head of publicity
Suzanne Noble has joined UK distributor Optimum Releasing as head of publicity. Most recently she worked on a freelance basis for Momentum Pictures and was involved with their The Young Victoria campaign. Prior to that she spent two years as VP, international publicity at The Weinstein Company, where she developed, ...
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Lesbian Vampire Killers sells to France, Scandinavia, Benelux, Brazil
London-based sales company AV Pictures has sold Phil Claydon's Lesbian Vampire Killers to a number of new territories. Deals have been signed with La Fabrique de Films for France, Sandrew Metronome for Scandinavia, European Film Partners for Benelux and Imagem Films for Brazil. The comedy horror has already been sold ...
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Snow and Age Of Stupid win at UK's Birds Eye View Film Festival
As the Birds Eye View Film Festival drew to a close on March 13, Aida Begic's Snow was awarded the festival's Best Feature prize. It tells the story of a Bosnian village populated only by the mothers, daughters, wives and sisters of their murdered Muslim men.Jurors for the Best Feature ...
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Jean-Marc Vallee rocks with The Young Victoria
In the second half of 2007 French-Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee was allocated 51 days to shoot The Young Victoria. The penultimate day of shooting was set to coincide with England’s match against South Africa in the rugby union world cup final. The mainly British film crew wanted to wrap early ...
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Joe Wright to direct Indian Summer for Working Title and Universal
Joe Wright will direct Indian Summer for Working Title and Universal with the screenplay being adapted by William Nicholson from the book of the same name by Alex von Tunzelmann. Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Hilary Bevan Jones are producing the film.Itmarks Joe Wright's fourth collaboration with Working Title and ...
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Colson's Cloud Nine Films signs five-year deal with Pathe UK
Christian Colson, has formed his own company, Cloud Nine Films and struck a five-year development, production, sales and distribution deal with Pathe UK. Colson, who left Celador Films on March 1 2009, remains a shareholder in Celador, while Celador chairman Paul Smith was made a director of Cloud Nine Films. ...
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UK's Potboiler Productions and Slate Films join forces
Simon Channing Williams and Gail Egan of Potboiler Productions are teaming up with Andrea Calderwood of Slate Films.They will work together across a range of upcoming projects including John Le Carre’s The Mission Song, adapted by Neal Purvis and Rob Wade; classic Victorian drama Effie; Jeremy Brock’s Slave, to be ...
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Revolver picks up rights to Star Wreck
Revolver Entertainment has picked up Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning from Finnish producer Blind Spot Films for distribution in the UK and US.Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning, originally produced by a group of Tampere-based filmmakers as a micro-budget sci-fi comedy for the internet community, has become the most-watched Finnish film ...
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Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth to open Tongues on Fire Film Festival
The eleventh edition of the Tongues On Fire Film Festival opens with Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth starring Preity Zinta at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) on March 6 2009. Heaven On Earth deals with the issues of immigration, isolation and domestic violation. The screening is ...
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Sally Hawkins opens UK's Birds Eye View Film Festival
The fifth Birds Eye View Film Festival(BEV) kicked off in London last night with Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins on hand to open proceedings at the British Film Institute. The opening night showcased a selection of UK & international shorts, including Sam Taylor-Wood 's BAFTA nominated Love You More and ...
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Going behind the scenes of Perrier's Bounty
Irish director Ian Fitzgibbon is stamping his feet. He’s not having a tantrum, he’s trying to keep warm. Cillian Murphy, however, is having a hissy fit. Having run to his car in a bid to make a quick getaway, he discovers the clampers have gotten there first. As the cameras ...
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Helen Mirren and Dominic Cooper on stage to screen live in cinemas
A new initiative between City Screen and the UK's National Theatre will see plays broadcast live via satellite from the National Theatre stage to local Picturehouse Cinemas in the UK and to cinemas internationally. The first play to be featured will be the National Theatre's new production Phèdre by Jean ...
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Nigel Wooll to produce The Brigadier with UK's Turn of the Century
Nigel Wooll, executive producer on Miss Potter and co-producer on GI Jane, is to produce The Brigadier alongside Turn of the Century Productions.The UK production company optioned the international thriller The Brigadier by Josh Rosenberg. Keith Sweitzer brought the script to Turn of the Century and will produce for the ...
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Sam Raimi to debut work-in-progress Drag Me To Hell at SXSW
Director Sam Raimi will debut a work-in-progress version of Universal Pictures' Drag Me to Hell, his long awaited return to the horror genre, at the South By Southwest Festival (SXSW). The film, which stars Alison Lohman and Justin Long, is a tale of a young woman's quest to break an ...
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Eureka takes UK rights to Soul Power from Celluloid Dreams
London-based Eureka Entertainment has acquired the UK rights to Soul Power from Celluloid Dreams.Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's documentary about the famous 1974 R&B concert in Kinshasa, Zaire, had its world premiere at Toronto 2008. Sony Pictures Classics picked up North American and Latin American rights.Levy-Hinte produced with David Sonenberg and Leon Gast.The ...
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SWF's Scriptmarket opens for submissions
Scriptmarket, a scheme to help up-and-coming screenwriters get their films made and on screen, opens for submissions tomorrow (February 27). 'Emerging screenwriters may have written or even optioned a great spec script, but getting it noticed, getting feedback on it and getting meetings to progress it can be an uphill ...
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Swipe Films sells UK rights to Beyond The Fire
Swipe Films has sold UK distribution rights to Beyond The Fire to Met Film Distribution. The deal was negotiated by Frank Mannion of Swipe Films and Patrick Fischer on behalf of Met Film Distribution. Written and directed by Maeve Murphy, Beyond the Fire is a love story and stars Scot ...
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UK's Left Bank Pictures appoints Mackie as head of film
Suzanne Mackie has joined Left Bank Pictures as head of film, effective immediately. She joins from Harbour Pictures where she was director of development. Mackie will focus on Left Bank's film development slate including the film adaptation of Ayub Khan-Din's play Rafta Rafta, which is already in advanced stages of ...
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Pathe boards Dead Man Running for UK and Ireland
Pathe Distribution has taken UK and Irish rights for Dead Man Running from Park Entertainment. Dead Man Running is produced by Nicholas 'Pikki' Fearon, Alan Latham and Tom Matinson. Alex de Rakoff wrote and directed the film which shot in London in November and December 2008. The story follows notorious ...
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UK's LoveFilm promotes Chris Bird to director of film strategy
LoveFilm's Chris Bird has been promoted to director of film strategy, having previously held the role of head of marketing services. Bird will handle LoveFilm's strategic relationships with studios and distributors and will developing the commercial arm of the new LoveFilm On-Demand service. Jo Underhill, who replaces Bird in the ...