All articles by Audrey Ward – Page 15
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Content acquires The Technician and 20 titles from Nick Broomfield.
ContentFilm International has acquired international sales rights to the action thriller The Technician. Jon Cassar, the lead director of 24 will direct from a screenplay by Ken Lamplugh and John Weidner. Harry Ufland (The Last Temptation of Christ, Snow Falling on Cedars), Mary Jane Ufland (Crazy/Beautiful, Not Without My Daughter, ...
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UK 's Goalpost Film announces Berlin slate
Goalpost Film’s has announced its Berlin slate, which includes Closed For Winter and Little Sister, thecompany has also acquired international sales and licensing rights for Dances With Wolves.
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Network Releasing acquires all UK rights to I Know You Know
Network Releasing has acquired UK rights to I Know You Know in a deal with The Little Film Company. The UK distributor and publisher has acquired the TV, theatrical and home entertainment rights to the British feature-length drama I Know You Know in a deal with The Little Film Company. ...
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Universal Pictures appoints Paul Chesney as vp, international operations
Paul Chesney has been appointed to the role of vice president, international operations at Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE). He will start in his new role on March 2. Chesney, who is based in London, will report to Eddie Cunningham, president of UPIE. He will be responsible for the efficiency, ...
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Icon closes international sales for Mary And Max
Icon has closed deals on key territory sales for Academy Award winner Adam Elliot's Sundance opener, Mary And Max. Mary And Max, which is produced by Melanie Coombs, will compete in the Generation 14plus section of the 2009 Berlinale. Gaumont has picked up distribution rights to the clay animation feature ...
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London Film Festival announces dates
Festival artistic director Sandra Hebron has announced that The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival will take place from Wednesday 14 October toThursday 29 October 2009.
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Terry Gilliam to be honoured at the BAFTAs
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) will present Terry Gilliam with the Academy Fellowship at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at London's Royal Opera House on February 8. Awarded annually the Fellowship is BAFTA's highest accolade given to an individual, in recognition of an outstanding ...
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UK 's Jinga Films acquires Terry Marcel's Hawk The Hunter
Jinga Films, the UK based sales company, has acquired Hawk The Hunter , director Terry Marcel's follow up to his 1980s cult hit, Hawk The Slayer. Tom Hardy (Bronson) is on board for the $10,000,000 sword and sorcery saga and is to play Hawk. Producer Andrew Growcock of Westwood Productions ...
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ODEON and UCI group to have 50 3D screens in UK by end March 2009
The Odeon and UCI group has added 19 new screens in preparation for the opening of Bolt 3D on February 6. Another 11 will be added in March of this year in time for the release of Monsters Vs Aliens. The digital expansion will see the Odeon Group with 53 ...
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Tim Johnson to join UK's Field Fisher Waterhouse
Media and communications partner Tim Johnson is to join Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP from SJ Berwin next month. He will head up the firm's cross-practice Media Group. Johnson's appointment follows the decision by SJ Berwin to close its four-partner UK media division, which was headed up by Johnson. He has ...
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UK 's Intandem to handle worldwide sales for The Kid
International sales and film finance house, Intandem Films, is to handle worldwide sales for The Kid , an adaptation of the novel by Kevin Lewis. Nick Moran (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) who made his directorial debut with Telstar, will direct and Tin House Films will produce. The film ...
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E1 picks up world rights to The Shock Doctrine
E1 Entertainment has taken worldwide rights to Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross's The Shock Doctrine, a documentary based on Naomi Klein's 2007 bestseller of the same name.The Shock Doctrine will receive its world premiere at this year's Berlin Film Festival, screening as a work in progress in the Panorama Dokumente ...
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UK lottery funding for the Film Agency for Wales drops 21%
The Film Agency for Wales is to receive $1.1 million (£750,000) of lottery money to invest in Welsh film production and development in 2009. The investment fund is significantly lower than the figure allocated for the previous year. Over the course of 2008 the agency invested almost $2.5 million (£1.7 ...
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Samuel L. Jackson joins cast of Rodrigo Garcia's Mother And Child
Samuel L. Jackson has joined the cast of Rodrigo Garcia 's Mother and Child,he joinsNaomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, and Jimmy Smits.Prinicpal photography has now started with writer and director Rodrigo Garcia directing from his own screenplay. Mother And Child tells the intersecting story of three women - a ...
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UK Film Council search engine for audiences in the digital age
The UK Film Council (UKFC) has launched the film search engine FindAnyFilm.com. in a response to audience needs in the digital age. The engine enables users to find out when, where and how a film is legally available anywhere in the UK, across all formats and platforms - cinema, TV, ...
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UK's Shine Pictures to produce 1066
Shine Pictures, the newly created joint venture between Shine Group's Kudos Pictures and New Regency has hired William Nicholson (Gladiator, Elizabeth: The Golden Age) to write an epicscreen version of the battle between King Harold and William the Conqueror, for the throne of England. The project, 1066 is expected to ...
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Charles Dance to direct The Inn At The Edge Of The World
Charles Dance ( Ladies In Lavender ) is to direct The Inn at the Edge of the World , from his screenplay based on the Alice Thomas-Ellis' novel of the same name. The Inn at the Edge of the World tells the story of a group of people who go ...
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E1 picks up Sundance winner An Education for UK and Ireland
E1 Films has taken UK and Irish rights for An Education, the Nick Hornby adaptation of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir. The film is fresh from its success at this year's Sundance where it won the world cinema audience award, dramatic and the world cinema cinematography award, dramatic. The deal ...
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E1 picks up Lone Scherfig's An Education for the UK and Ireland
E1 Films has taken UK and Irish rights for An Education, the Nick Hornby adaptation of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir. An Education is directed by Lone Scherfig (Italian For Beginners). BAFTA nominated Finola Dwyer (Backbeat, Me Without You) of Finola Dwyer Productionsand Amanda Posey (Fever Pitch) produced the film ...
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UK 's Cineworld self-finances digital deal
Cineworld, the UK cinema chain which is set to increase its number of digital screens by 100%, from 74 to 148, will self-finance the $5.57m (£4m) investment in order to capitalise on the growing 3D market. The chain would not be drawn on the details of the self-financing but the ...