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Intel, Eros hook up to provide Bollywood on-demand
Eros International has joined forces with the Intel Corporation to deliver Bollywood movies on-demand, via broadband to PCs connected to televisions. The service will be available to Intel Viiv technology-based PC users, with plans to release a pre-DVD online premiere of I See You, a Bollywood film starring Arjun Rampal, ...
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Tartan Video's Sam Dunn takes on new role
Tartan Video label manager Sam Dunn has been promoted to deputy managing director. Dunn has been with the company for six years, for which the company credits him with increasing their profile in the rapidly expanding DVD market, as well as being behind the success of lines such as their ...
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UK distributor Spark Films launches
Award-winning producersDaniel San and Rebecca Knapp have launched their new UK distribution outfit SparkPictures Limited today, Oct 6. The company intends todistribute three to four "commercial independent"titles over the next year. San and Knapp teamed up in2004 with the aim to create a company that will make and distribute low-costcommercial ...
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Name changes for Universal
UniversalPictures has announced that it has renamed two of its divisions. As of Nov 1,its international theatrical releasing arm will be renamed Universal PicturesInternational and its international home entertainment group will be renamedUniversal Pictures International Entertainment. The new companynames reflect Universal Pictures' international distribution joint venture withParamount Pictures, which was ...
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Zonemedia gets NBC Universal cable rights in Poland, Hungary
London'sZonemedia has acquired exclusive basic cable rights in Poland and Hungary tofeature films from NBC Universal International Television Distribution. The films will be screened on Zonemedia's channel ZoneEurpoa, and include La Haine,Highlander, Delicatessen, Leaving Las Vegas, Europa and Kundun as well as the works ofdirectors Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Jacques Beinex, ...
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Midori, Noble sign agreement for Scandinavia
An exclusiverepresentation agreement has been signed between Scandinavian distribution company Noble Entertainment and Ontario's Midori Multimedia inall media for the territory of Scandinavia.The deal includes projecttracking, acquisitions and co-production activities with a focus on Asianproductions. Acquisitions will behandled from Noble Entertainment's headquarters in Stockholm by Per Samuelsson, SaraSöderberg and AlbertAvramovic. ...
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Nonstop Sales secure Exit
International sales agent NonStop Sales has secured both salesand distribution rights for the Peter Lindmark-directed Swedish thriller Exit.Exit stars MadsMikkelsen, who previously appeared in KingArthur and is set to appear in the Bond film Casino Royale (released Nov 17), and Alexander Skarsgard, who wasin Kill Your Darlings. Lindmark's previous films ...
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FACT welcomes new Director General Kieron Sharp
The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) has announced the appointment of Kieron Sharp as its new DirectorGeneral. Sharp has a 30-year law-enforcementbackground, most recently as Head of Specialist Crime Operations at the City ofLondon Police Service where he headed major crime investigations andsurveillance operations, among other duties. He is a ...
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Pathe holds worldwide rights to The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Pathe Pictures International has announced that itwill be selling the worldwide rights to French-language feature film TheDiving Bell and the Butterfly, whichis based on the best-selling memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby. Principal photography began on the film on Sept 4 in France under thedirection of Julian Schnabel, director of Basquiat and ...
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UK cracks down on film piracy
A Scottish man has beenjailed and more are awaiting trial in a nationwide crackdown on film piracy inthe UK. The initiative is a partnership between local TradingStandards agencies, the Federation Against CopyrightTheft (FACT) and police.On Oct 2, Brent and HarrowTrading Standards Service working with Metropolitan Police and FACT targetedblack-market DVD ...
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Development package lures Mediterranean documentary makers
Registration hasopened for Greenhouse, a development program funded by the European Union forMediterranean documentary film makers. The project wasorganised by The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and Television, Turkey's Ankara Cinema Foundation, The CzechRepublic's Institute of Documentary Film and VOF Appel & Honigmann - The Netherlands.The incentivetargets film-makers ...
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Mark Jay starts shooting Dolphins in Brighton
Writer/directorMark Jay has started filming his debut feature, Dolphins, in Brighton, UK.Themovie is a teenage love story set in Brighton's custom-car culture and stars Emmerdale's Karl Davies, FootballFactory's Frank Harper, Popcorn's Layke Anderson and sees UK hip-hop singer Roots Manuva inhis first screen role.Jay haspreviously made music videos, documentary films ...
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Joe Wright honoured with Hospital award
UK film-maker Joe Wright was honoured for his "outstanding creativecontribution" in the medium of film at the inaugural Hospital Awards.Joe Wright directed thecritically acclaimed Pride and Prejudicestarring Keira Knightley,which received four Academy Awards nominations and three BAFTA nominations, oneof which Wright won for most promising newcomer. Wright's next feature is ...
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Sally Joynson to head Screen Yorkshire
Screen Yorkshire has appointed Sally Joynson as Chief Executive.Joynson has worked for theagency, which is is responsible for supporting film, broadcast and interactivemedia in Yorkshire and Humber, since its formation in 2002.During her tenure, ScreenYorkshire has accrued national partners on a number of initiatives includingbusiness growth schemes with PACT, Channel4, ...
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Costa-Gavras to host masterclass at Thessaloniki
Director Costa-Gavraswill present a masterclass at this year's International Thessaloniki Film Festival(TIFF). Gavras joins previously announced guests, film-makers Wim Wenders andWalter Salles, in attending the 47th anniversary of the festival.Wenders will host amasterclass as well as a major retrospective of his works at TIFF, which isheld Nov 17-26. An exhibition ...
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Peter Howitt begins shooting Dangerous Parking
SlidingDoors'director Peter Howitt started shooting his latest production on Oct 3.Howitt wrote, directs and stars in the film, anadaptation of Stuart Browne's 1999 cult novel Dangerous Parking. Richard Johns produces under Howitt and Johns'production outfit Flaming Pie Films.Howitt and Johns raised the finance for the filmindependently, from private investors, including ...
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Dead Girl awarded Netherlands Production Platform Prize
This year's Kodak NPPDevelopment Prize was awarded to writer/director/producer Elbert van Strien and producer Claudia Brandt for their feature film Dead Girl. The Netherlands ProductionPlatform (NPP) is in its eight year and is awarded at the Holland Film Meeting(Sept 28 - Oct 2), a sidebar to the Netherlands Film Festival. ...
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Dead Girl awarded Netherlands Production Platform Prize
This year's Kodak NPPDevelopment Prize was awarded to writer/director/producer Elbert van Strien and producer Claudia Brandt for their feature filmProject Dead Girl. The Netherlands ProductionPlatform (NPP) is in its eight year and is awarded at the Holland Film Meeting(Sept 28 - Oct 2), a sidebar to the Netherlands Film Festival. ...
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Italy announces Oscar bid hopeful
Italy has announced its entry into the best foreign film category of the 2006Academy Awards as Nuovomondo (TheGolden Door). Written and directed by Emanuele Crialese, the $11 million movie is a period epic about Italianemigration, set in the early 20th Century. It follows a family as they headfrom Sicily to ...
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Free film screenings mark Pinewood's 70th birthday
Pinewood Studios is hosting a week of free film screenings tocelebrate its 70th birthday.The celebratory screenings are to be held in conjunction withThe Times and Vue West End, London, andwill feature one film from each of the seven decades that Pinewood has beenworking in UK film.The screenings run from Oct ...
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