All articles by Audrey Ward – Page 13
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Metrodome builds its French cinema slate with Anything For Her
Metrodome has acquired UK and Irish rights to the French feature Anything For Her. Metrodome's CEO Peter Urie, general manager distribution Sara Frain and head of acquisitions James Brown negotiated the deal with Elle Driver. Thriller Anything For Her stars Diane Kruger as a wife wrongly accused of murder, alongside ...
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Anna Butler to head up marketing at Icon
Anna Butler has been appointed head of marketing at Icon Distribution and is due to start in her new role on March 9. Butler previously headed up Fox Searchlight's UK marketing department, where she worked on titles such as The Last King Of Scotland and Notes On A Scandal. Prior ...
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Film veteran Hercules Bellville dies
Hercules Bellville passed away on Saturday February 21at the age of 69 following a fifteen month fight with lung cancer. Born in San Diego, California to an American mother and an English father, Bellville attended boarding school in Britain and went on to study modern languages at Oxford. He started ...
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UK's Firefly Vision and Lansdowne Films to produce Skin
Firefly Vision, sister company of the UK's Firefly Films, has signed with Jordi Devas' Lansdowne Films to produce Skin. Skin marks the debut of screenwriter Steven Elliott and is set in Thailand and London. Speleers is set to star in the film and the producers are currently in talks with ...
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UK Film Council awards distribution support to Che
Che: Part One, Bronson and Franklyn are among a list of films to have benefited from the latest round of awards from the UK Film Council's prints and advertising fund. While blockbusters are often released in the UK with more than 1,000 film prints, the average number of prints for ...
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Polish film festival in UK to kick off with 33 Scenes From Life
The seventh edition of the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival will open in London with Malgorzata Szumowska's drama, 33 Scenes from Life, a study of the resilience of the human spirit and the ties that unite people. The festival will take place in London from March 12 to April 8. The ...
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NewsBergman's Images From The Playground to screen at Cannes
Images from the Playground, a compilation film containing previously unseen material from nine of Ingmar Bergman’s behind-the-screens films, fromSawdustand TinseltoPersona,will be screened for the first time, at the Cannes Film Festival this year.The film was produced with the support of World Cinema Foundation, the film preserving ...
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UK's Microwave scheme greenlights two projectsafter Shifty success
Film London Microwave the micro-budget film-making scheme supported by BBC Films, which resulted in the award winning Shifty and Mum & Dad, has greenlit two feature films, Strawberry Fields and Foxglove. Strawberry Fields will be directed by Frances Lea and produced by Liam Beatty. Written by Lea and award-winning playwright ...
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British Film Institute and Anthony Minghella's family plan tribute
The British Film Institute and Anthony Minghella's family will celebrate his life and work and mark the first anniversary of his death with a movie marathon to be held on his birthplace, the Isle of Wight. The charity tribute will take place over the weekend of March 13 -15 and ...
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Jaman partners with Cinetic to expand catalogue
Jaman, the company behind the eponymous UK and US website featuring independent and world cinema, has increased its collection of titles to 7000 following a deal with Cinetic Rights Management. Cinetic, which maximises revenue opportunities for filmmakers, has licensed a collection which includes the documentary We Are Wizards - a ...
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Content Republic teams up with Telepool on digital releases
Content Republic has entered a partnership with Telepool GmbH, the German film and television distribution outfit which will see Content Republic handle the digital release of some of Telepool's best selling titles. The digital distribution outfit will release Germany's box office hit comedies 7 Dwarves and 7 Dwarves: The Wood ...
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UK Film Council takes delegation to FICCI Frames in Mumbai
On the back of the success of Slumdog Millionaire and with the UK India co-production treaty in place, UK film companies will travel to Mumbai to meet their Indian counterparts and to attend the 10th edition of India's FICCI Frames Entertainment Conference. UK film sales, production, facilities and service companies ...
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Sinclair in Berlin with Feet In The Clouds
London based film-maker Kate Sinclair is in Berlin shopping Feet In The Clouds a screenplay, which she wrote, based on the award winning novel of the same name by journalist Richard Askwith. She also plans to direct the project with Christopher Eccleston lined up to play the role of Askwith. ...
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NewsSteven Spielberg's Boom Blox gets video game BAFTA nomination
Boom Blox, a game developed by US based EA Casual Games in collaboration with director StevenSpielberg, has been nominated for the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards.
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UK film tax credit under scrutiny
The House of Lords communications committee launched an inquiry into the contribution of the UK film and television industries to the British economy yesterday. The Committee will focus on how the contribution might be increased. The peers will also review the role of the UK Film Council and examine the ...
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Verma in Berlin to finance Sinyor's Bollywood pic
Producer and actor Deepak Verma is in Berlin to raise financing for Johnny Bollywood, an Anglo-Asian comedy written and to be directed by Gary Sinyor. The film is described as 'Bollywood with a distinct British twist'. It tells the story of super-star Johnny who falls for English tourist Charlie in ...
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Production Finance Market dates announced
This year's edition of the Film London Production Finance Market (PFM) will take place on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 October 2009. The only event of its kind in the UK, the PFM brings together producers and major financiers not only from the UK but Europe and the rest of ...
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Depp to narrate Strange for DiCillo
Johnny Depp is to record a new narration for When You're Strange, Tom DiCillo's documentary about The Doors which had its world premiere at Sundance and plays here in berlin in Panorama Dokumente. DiCillo himself had provided the original voiceover, but he announced at Saturday night's screening that Depp would ...
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Sally Caplan to stay at the UKFC until2010
Sally Caplan hasagreed to staywith the UK Film Council which will see her stay onuntil May 2010as head of the Premiere Fund. She has been in the role since 2005.Caplan was previously president of Icon Film Distribution. Prior to that, she worked as senior vice president of acquisitions and business ...
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Jinga sells The Disappeared and Summer Scars
UK based sales company Jinga Films has closed an all rights on North America distribution deal for Johnny Kevorkian's The Disappeared with IFC Films. The supernatural thriller's cast includes Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Tom Felton and Alex Jennings. Jinga Films has also sold Julian Richards coming of age thriller Summer ...