All articles by Audrey Ward – Page 17
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Jamie Brewer promoted to head of sales at Metrodome
Metrodome has promoted Jamie Brewer to the role of Head of Sales where he will oversee home entertainment rental and retail, VOD, New Media and TV sales. Brewer joined Metrodome three months ago to oversee the sales for their budget DVD label In2Film. He joined the distribution company from Fremantle ...
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Roger Morris to take up role of md at UK's Elstree Studios
Roger Morris is due to take up the role of managing director at Elstree Studios in January 2009. Morris previously worked as managing director of Visions Studios, Teddington Studios and Television for Pinewood and Shepperton.Commenting on his appointment Roger Morris told ScreenDaily 'I'm lookingforward to making Elstree a studio for ...
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US IndiePix forms alliance with UK's Dogwoof
Indiepix, the Internet-based independent film distributor and Dogwoof, the film distributor specialising in Independent Films and world cinema, have formed a distribution alliance. The partnership will enable Indiepix to extend its film distribution to the UK and will provide Dogwoof with a means to distribute its film titles in America.As ...
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Mamma Mia!overtakes Titanic as UK's highest grossing movie
Universal Picture's romantic musical comedy Mamma Mia! The Moviehas become the highest grossing movie ever to be released in the UK. It has beaten Titanic which held the record since 1998. To date Mamma Mia! The Moviehas grossed £69, 066, 035 ($132,174,741)as compared with Titanic 's £69,025,646 ($114,375,495*).The record was ...
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Paramount and Sony take film marketing to virtual communities to new level
Paramount Pictures International (PPI) and Sony Computing Entertainment Europe (SCEE) have teamed up to take film marketing within virtual communities to the next level on director Zack Snyder's forthcoming Watchmen.Watchmen, set for March 6 release in the UK next year, will be the first movie to be marketed within PlayStation ...
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Promotions at BBC Films for Jane Wright and Isabel Begg
Jane Wright, commercial affairs and general manager for BBC Films, is to take a fully editorial role and become general manager and executive producer of BBC Films with immediate effect. Wright, will continue to chair the BBC Films editorial board and oversee the marketing activity within BBC Films, but will ...
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The Film Workshops International to open training centres in Europe
The Film Workshops International (FWI), a media training company with training centres in the USA, will open new training centres in Europe in 2009.The FWI, established 30 years ago in the USA, has developed one-week workshops for writers, directors, actors, cinematographers, editors and producers to respond to developments in digital ...
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15 UK production companies receive $1,500,000 in Lottery funding
More than $1,500,000 of Lottery moneyis tobeinvested in 15 British film production companies through the UK Film Council's Development Fund. The new initiative is to help producers to develop projects that broaden the quality, range and ambition of films and talent being developed in the UK.Tanya Seghatchian, Head of the ...
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High-street recession bites backat UK DVD sales
A high street retail crisis in the UK has crashed into what was shaping up to be a bumper holiday season for distributors.UK film distributors were preparing to release DVD titles such as Mamma Mia!-The Movie, Hancock, Wall-E, The Dark Knight, Wanted and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.Mamma Mia! ...
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Metrodome takes rights to The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life
UK distribution company Metrodome Distribution has picked up full UK & Irish rights to French drama The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life. The deal was negotiated between CEO Peter Urie, general manager distribution Sara Frain and head of acquisitions James Brown for Metrodome, and by executive vice ...
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IndiePix announces partnership with iTunes
Internet-based independent film distributor signs exclusive deal with iTunes for Apple customers to download films to iPods and iPhones.The two companies aim to bring independent films to a younger generation of film enthusiasts.'Time and time again we have seen that the traditional distribution models just do not work for independent ...
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New talent to be honoured at Berlin Film Festival
European Film Promotion (EFP) has named the ten Shooting Stars of 2009 to be honoured at the annual new talent forum, which takes place at the Berlin International Film Festival.The group of young actors who come from across Europe have been chosen from a broad list of potential candidates identified ...
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The UK's London Film School honours director Lynne Ramsay
BAFTA-winning director Lynne Ramsay was made an honorary associate of the UK's London Film School at the school's annual graduation ceremony today. The ceremony took place at London's National Gallery today.Ben Gibson LFS Director said ' It's a great honour to count among the school's associates a filmmaker of the ...
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Brothers win UK's The Big Pitch award with psychological thriller
Brothers David and Keith Lynch have won The Big Pitch, a UK film production prize, with their film Different Shades Of Graham. The brothers, along with producer Simon Thomas and director Brad Watson, joined four other finalists at the closing night of the Northern Lights Film Festival.The finalists had been ...
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blinkbox signs new digital deals with Hollywood studios
blinkbox, the film and TV website, has announced two new digital video deals with leading Hollywood studios, 20th Twentieth Century Fox and Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI). blinkbox has also extended its partnership with Warner Bros. digital distribution, securing a digital distribution deal for the studio's TV catalogue.The new agreements ...
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Barbara Broccoli and Tilda Swinton honoured at WFTV Awards
The UK's Women in Film and Television honoured women in the industry at their annual awards held at London's Park Lane Hilton, hosted by style-guru Gok Wan.The awards, now in the 18th year, honoured the professional achievements of 10 women, each in different areas of the industry. Producer Barbara Broccoli ...
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UK's F&ME lines up slate deal with Dominic Murphy
Dominic Murphy, whose debut feature White Lightnin' will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, is to team up again with Mike Downey and Sam Taylor of Film and Music Entertainment on a slate of projects.The films will be produced by their newly revived MASS Productions label.Commenting on ...
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Faintheart to be available free in UK cinemas and online for one day
Faintheart , a feature film made by MySpace users, is to be released simultaneously and free of charge for one day only, in 150 cinemas and on MySpace on January 27 2009. The film, which was the closing gala screening at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, will then be ...
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Co-production report reopens debate over UK tax credit
A report prepared by Oxford Economics and commissioned by the UK Film Council (UKFC) has warned that the tax credit system makes co-productions unattractive to film-makers. The report's completion coincided with an event run by the Festival of German Film earlier this week. The event focussed on strategies and business ...
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Hilary Swank to star in Antti J. Jokinen's The Resident
Academy Award winner, Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry, Million Dollar Baby), is to star in Antti J. Jokinen's psychological thriller The Resident which will be produced by Hammer. Antti J. Jokinen is directing The Resident from a script he co-wrote with Robert Orr (Savior), re-written by Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary, ...