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Young people's charity launches competition for six shorts
Get Connected, a UK charity to provide help for young people, is launching Nobody's Perfect, a new website for young writers, actors and film directors.Aspiring film-makers aged 16-25 can submit films, scripts or music to be shown to professionals in the industry. The site will have a contest to produce ...
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Virtual world VizWoz scores major studio film content
UK virtual community VizWoz, popular with kids and teens, has signed on some key film content partners.The VizWoz virtual cinema includes content from Paramount, Walt Disney, Universal and Twentieth Century Fox.The studios will promote their summer blockbusters with previews, film clips, trailers and interviews.Films promoted in the community include Wild ...
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Brazilian, Polish producers team for Ziembinski documentary
Brazil and Poland will be co-production partners on Ziembinski, a documentary about the Polish director and actor regarded as one of the founders of the modern Brazilian theatre in the 1940s. The Warsaw-based production company Kalejdoskop will team up with Plateau Producoes and Urszula Groska Producoes, both from Sao Paulo, ...
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Venice Critics' Week to screen debut of Gomorrah co-writer
The 23rd edition of Critics' Week, at the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival, will include seven world premieres in competition.The programme, unveiled today by the Italian FIlm Critic's Union, spans the globe from Turkey, Bosnia, Malaysia, Afghanistan, France, Italy and China. All are first films.Highlights include the debut ...
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PiFan's genre projects market has successful first edition
The Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF)'s inaugural projects marketwrapped today (July 23), with participants agreeing that it had been an 'energy cluster' of an event. Running concurrently to the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan), the four-day 'It Project'event isAsia's first projects marketto focus specifically on genre films.US director ...
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MBP backs Sides with second fund
German finance house MBP has launched its second tranche of investment, through which it will back Istvan Szabo's $10.5m Taking Sides amongst other projects. The Munich-based outfit plans to raise up to $42.7m (DM100m) from German individuals seeking to lessen their tax burden by the end of 2001. Taking Sides, ...
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Cinelan strikes deals with Telegraph, Channel 4
Cinelan, the company devoted to short documentary films, has struck an online syndication deal with Telegraph Media Group and telegraph.co.uk.Cinelan, which launched in February, said the move kicked off its UK syndication drive for its library three-minute non-fiction films.The company's collection includes the likes of Steve James' Paradise Regained, Jessica ...
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Hugh Welchman's BreakThru to work with ITV
BreakThru Films, the UK independent production company that won an Oscar for its short Peter And The Wolf, has struck a collaboration with ITV Productions.The deal will let BreakThru and ITV collaborate creatively and commercially when 'it is mutually beneficial for both parties.'BreakThru, founded by Hugh Welchman, hopes to devleop ...
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JCVD to kick off Midnight Madness at Toronto
Jean-Claude Van Damme's comeback contender JCVD will make its international premiere as the opening night film of the Midnight Madness programme at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Muscles from Brussels plays a down-and-out version of himself suddenly thrust into one of his own action films. The late-night cult sidebar ...
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Shine Group, New Regency team for new UK-based Shine Pictures
UK-based Shine Group and US producer-distributor New Regency have formed Shine Pictures, a UK-based company that will develop and produce broad commercial films for the global marketplace.Shine Group CEO and chairman Elisabeth Murdoch and New Regency's co-chairmen Bob Harper and Hutch Parker will head the jointly owned venture while Shine's ...
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Netflix closes down Red Envelope Entertainment
Netflix has closed down its all-rights acquisitions venture Red Envelope Entertainment (REE) and feature production activities, citing a desire to focus on its core business of online distribution.REE's key staff of four including acquisitions and distribution chief Liesl Copland will be moving on.The division bought more than 120 films during ...
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As Britdoc kicks off, survey finds TV docs are more popular in UK
UK audiences regularly watch documentaries on television, but are much less consistent consumers of the format on DVD or in the cinema.A survey commissioned to tie in with the UK's third annual BRITDOC festival - which launched yesterday and continues until Friday -- found that 48% of UK adults regularly ...
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Lionsgate signs three-year first-look deal with Tyler Perry
Lionsgate has signed a three-year first-look deal with Tyler Perry, whose warm-hearted family comedies launched with Diary Of A Mad Black Woman in 2005 and fuelled one of the studio's biggest success stories in recent years.Perry will provide at least three additional films to Lionsgate following the fiscal 2009 release ...
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US PGA signs cooperation agreement with Spanish Producers Group
The Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) international committee has signed a deal with the Spanish Producers Association (FAPAE) following months of talks.The semi-formal arrangement will allow PGA and FAPAE members to exchange information and ideas and seek assistance on projects.The international committee recently signed similar agreements with Jordan, Denmark, Singapore ...
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Dark Knight is now fastest film to $200m in box office history
The Dark Knight has become the fastest release in history to cross $200m after it reached the milestone in five days, smashing the previous mark of eight days set by Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest in 2006.The comic book sequel stands at $203.8m and would have overtaken Batman ...
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ISPs back UK government plan on piracy
Internet service providers (ISPs) in the UK are backing a government anti-piracy plan that follows months of discussion with the film and music industries.The six biggest ISPs are supporting the initiative which will begin with letters being sent to customers whose accounts have been used for illegal downloading and file-sharing.The ...
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Filmax seeks partners for Fantastic fare
Spanish mini-studio Filmax plans to open its genre division Fantastic Factory, co-founded two years ago by director Brian Yuzna and Filmax president Julio Fernandez, to co-production partners. "We have proved that we can deliver films of quality and range. Now we want to bring on-board co-producers and to increase budgets," ...
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Studio Babelsberg hopes 2008 will be as strong as last year
Studio Babelsberg is optimistic that this year's operations will generate comparable results to 2007 which was the most successful financial year since the production complex's privatisation in 1992.Last year, the group's consolidated turnover had jumped from $25.6m (Euros 16.4m) in 2006 to $135.9m (Euros 87.1m) last year with a positive ...
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iTunes partners with Vue to bring McFly concert to cinemas
Apple's iTunes Live Festival, a month-long music event in London, is now moving into cinemas.iTunes is working with Vue Cinemas in the UK to do a live link to tonight's one-off performance from McFly at Koko. The concert, 'Larger Than Live,' will be broadcast around the UK to 42 Vue ...
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Arts Alliance to release digitally remastered ABBA tour film
Jumping on the success of Mamma Mia!, Arts Alliance Media will distribute Universal Music's 1977 film ABBA - The Movie in UK cinemas on Aug 13.The one-day-only release will be at selected sites in the UK's Digital Screen Network, including 63 Cineworld cinemas. Other dates and screenings will be added.AAM ...