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Raindance to offer content through Joost
Raindance.tv, the online and mobile film portal founded by the Raindance Film Festival with dandy productions, Dogwoof Pictures and Crucible Media, has partnered with Internet TV platform Joost. Joost users will now be able to view - for free - Raindance.tv's independent features, shorts and documentaries. Offerings include UK thriller ...
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UTV strikes DVD on-demand deal with TitleMatch
Indian producer-distributor UTV Motion Pictures has signed a DVD on-demand deal with US-based TitleMatch Entertainment Group for distribution of its library titles via retailers and e-tailers in North America. TitleMatch is a subsidiary of Protocall Technologies Inc, developer of the world's first CSS enabled DVD on-demand service. Titles covered by ...
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Chasing The Long Tail: Mike Binder
For Mike Binder, the 2001 comedy The Search For John Gissing remains something of a bittersweet experience. The film-maker, who scored critical success with The Upside Of Anger (2005) and this year's Reign Over Me, financed the film independently 'with a lot of my own money and that of family ...
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Slingshot and Screen WM to co-produce seven features
UK regional screen agency Screen WM and new digital studio Slingshot Studios have struck a slate co-financing deal that will cover seven features during the next two years. Screen WM's production funds will finance 25% of film budgets, with the rest covered by Slingshot and its financing partners. Screen WM ...
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UFO partners for digital releases of RK Films library
UFO Moviez, the Indian digital cinema company, has partnered with the legendary Indian studio RK Films to release their popular classics like Bobby, Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Ram Teri Ganga Maili, Prem Rog and Heena among others in digital wide screen format.RK, founded by the late Raj Kapoor, is a 60-year-old ...
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Bladerunner: making the cut
Why do audiences have to wait for a DVD to see the movie the director really wanted to make' Leonard Klady argues the case.Later this year, Warner Bros Home Video will release a five-disc set of the seminal science-fiction thriller Blade Runner that will include what's been dubbed 'the definite ...
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Universal, LoveFilm, News International work on Bourne USB promo
In an unusual marketing initiative, UK newspaper News Of The World will give away exclusive Bourne UltimatumUSB sticks with the Aug 12 edition of the newspaper at select WHSmith stores. The promotion from Universal Pictures, LoveFilm and News International will let users plug the sticks into PCs or MACs to ...
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UTV taps three portals for online film releases
Indian motion picture company UTV has tied up with three portals that will premiere two of their forthcoming feature film releases online. UTV Motion Pictures' library of movies will also be available for viewing via these portals. The first two premieres are the Vikram Bhatt helmed Fear (Aug 10) across ...
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HanWay and Celluloid Dreams brands revived as Dreamachine concentrates on library
Just three months after the splashy merger of HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams, their joint venture company Dreamachine has now announced that the Celluloid and HanWay brands will be run as separate first-run sales and acquisition businesses in London and Paris, as they traditionally had been. The companies had sold ...
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Goldfinger UK re-release draws $85,561 on one night
Continuing the strength of the UK box office, Park Circus' re-release of 1964 James Bond classic Goldfinger grossed $85,561 (£42,000) on Tuesday, July 31 as a one-night-only special presentation. The film, newly digitally restored by Lowrey Digital, showed digitally in 136 cinemas across the UK. Goldfinger was the opening film ...
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UKFC P&A Fund backs French hits La Ve En Rose and Tell No One
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has announced it latest round of supported projects. They are: $307,980 (£151,606) to Icon for Olivier Dahan's La Vie En Rose $225,056 (£110,774) to Revolver Entertainment for Guillaume Canet's Tell No One $203,146 (£100,000) to Pathe for Laurent Tirard's Moliere $10,158 (£5,000) ...
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Northwest screen agency starts lab for multi-platform content
UK regional screen agency Northwest Vision + Media is starting a new multi-platform lab for content producers. The linked training and funding initiative Alchemy, set up with consultants Olsberg SPI, will include a residential strategy workshop, a product development period and a networking event. The lab is geared to TV, ...
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Aardman works with Atom Films on animated shorts
From Broadcast: Aardman has teamed up with film download website Atom Films to launch a series of exclusive animated shorts. The Oscar-winning UK production company behind Wallace and Gromit has delved into its archive and created a series of Pib and Pog shorts. The series, which features two kids TV ...
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Arts Alliance strikes three-year digital deal with Park Circus
Arts Alliance Media has signed an exclusive agreement with UK distributor Park Circus to provide digital cinema content services for their theatrical releases for three years.The agreement covers services including digital mastering and creation and secure distribution of DCI-compliant digital prints.Park Circus specialises in distribution of classic titles for theatrical ...
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Australia launches landmark website for film history
A comprehensive website showcasing Australia's extensive filmmaking history is about to be launched today in Sydney.The Australian Film Commission (AFC) received A$2.4 million to create the site - www.australianscreen.com.au - and executive producer Ron Saunders worked with a different curator for each genre. 'To the best of our knowledge this ...
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AAM 's Thomas Hoegh joins UK Film Council board
Arts Alliance Media founder and CEO Thomas Hoegh has been appointed to the board of the UK Film Council. He joins the board immediately for four years. Hoegh also sits on the boards of LoveFilm, City Screen, Inlive Interactive, the Metropolitan Film School and Slingshot Studios. He also produces and ...
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Virgin Media to offer downloads of First Light project
First Light Movies, the UK's young people's film-making scheme, has become a content partner for Virgin Media and FilmFlex Movies, to offer the First Light shorts on demand to Virgin Media customers.The films are made by 5 to 18-year-olds and will now be offered for 50p on the service. Films ...
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Babelgum offers content from Giffoni Film Festival
New Internet TV service Babelgum has started festival broadcasts with Italy's Giffoni Film Festival.An entire Babelgum channel will be devoted to the Giffoni event, which is now in its 37th year. The festival concentrates on films for children.The channel is currently offering a selection of shorts from the 2006 festival ...
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Tokyo multiplex to screen hit TV show Winter Sonata
A special version of Korean hit television drama Winter Sonata will be screened at Toho's flagship Roppongi Hills cinema in Tokyo. All 20 episodes of the series will be shown on Tuesday mornings from July 10 to September 11, featuring extra footage only shown once previously on NHK's BS satellite ...
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Worldwide digital 3D screens treble
Hollywood's increasing investment in exclusive 3D movies is driving the surge in custom-made screens, writes Diana Lodderhose. The number of digital 3D cinema screens has nearly trebled during the first six months of 2007, suggesting exhibitors are stepping up to meet Hollywood studios' increasing investment in exclusive 3D movies.According to ...