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In Focus: The UK's micro wave
Just as the European Union apparently had its butter mountain and wine lake, since the early days of National Lottery funding for film in the mid-1990s, the UK has supposedly had its own surplus of unreleased movies, spurned by distributors and gathering dust on shelves. The production fever of the ...
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Loveridge joins Eastwest Filmdistribution
International film industry stalwart Helen Loveridge has joined the sales team of EastWest Filmdistribution working out of its London office.Speaking to Screendaily at this week's Zurich Producers Forum, Eastwest's co-founder Sasha Wieser explained that Loveridge will be working alongside the head of sales Alan Rudoff and be responsible for sales ...
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Abbott Vision in talks to acquire Tightrope Pictures
Writer's think-tank Abbott Vision, headed by Paul Abbott, aims to buy out producer Hilary Bevan Jones from her share of their independent production company Tightrope Pictures and rename it Abbott Productions.Abbott, creator of Shameless, aims to expand Abbott Vision through production of new drama and other content, for which Tightrope ...
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First Branchage Jersey Film Festival heralds possible tax credit
The first Branchage Jersey Film Festival (Sept 25-28) kicked off last night with a gala screening of the multiple-festival-winning Man On Wire at the Jersey Opera House.Following the screening, producer Simon Chinn revealed that he isworking on another documentary project with Man On Wire director James Marsh.The festival aims to ...
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UK government won't bail out digital cinema stragglers
The UK government will not bail out cinemas left behind in the switch to digital cinema, Stewart Till, chairman of the UK Film Council has warned.Speaking at Screen International's annual digital cinema summit, Till said public money could not and would not pay for the installation of digital equipment at ...
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Screen opinion: Balancing finance, talent and distribution
In film, we have buckets of creative talent but scarcely any business capacity,' Patrick McKenna, chairman of Ingenious Media Group, told a meeting at Bafta in London this week. This relatively brief aside, specifically about the UK, came during a generally upbeat talk about the prospects for the British creative ...
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UKagencies seize 8,000 counterfeit DVDs and arrest 17
Four UK law enforcement agencies joined forces earlier this week to target illegal immigrants also suspected of producing and selling counterfeit DVDs. The agencies seized 8,000 counterfeit DVDs, including current cinema release Tropic Thunder and the yet to be released Death Race.17 Chinese nationals were arrested on suspicion of immigration ...
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UK's independent film sector still failing, warns Ingenious Media boss
Ingenious Media chairman Patrick McKenna has warned that UK film lacks the business model to match a wealth of creative talent.Delivering the Annual Television Lecture at BAFTA, the entrepreneur and financier, warned that film was stuck in the same rut identified five years ago in a highly-critical select committee report ...
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High Point takes on Pieter van Hees' debut horror Left Bank
High Point Films has taken on world rights outside of Benelux to Pieter van Hees' debut feature Left Bank.The psychological horror film, in the vein of Rosemary's Baby and The Wicker Man, is about a young athlete who moves into her new boyfriend's disturbing apartment block.The film showed in Edinburgh, ...
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Speech: Ingenious boss Patrick McKenna on the digital future
Ingenious chairman Patrick McKenna has spent 30 years on the finance and business side of the UK film and television industries. His BAFTA Annual Television Lecture looks at the landscape for the creative sector in a rapidly changing business environment.I'd like to discuss four interconnected subjects but in no particular ...
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BBC Films says it's 'business as usual' despite Tranter's move
BBC Films contends it will be 'business as usual' despite the news earlier this week that BBC Head of Fiction Jane Tranter will leave the UK to join BBC Worldwide in Los Angeles next January.Joe Oppenheimer, Executive Producer BBC Films, said day-to-day operations at BBC Films wouldn't be impacted by ...
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Metrodome to distribute Beta Film's North Face in the UK and Ireland
Metrodome has acquired full UK and Irish rights to Beta Film's North Face in a multi-territory deal which also saw Rialto distribution acquire Australian and New Zealand rights The deal was negotiated by Metrodome's CEO Peter Urie, General Manager Distribution Sara Frain, Head of Acquisitions James Brown and by Beta ...
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Vertigo Films and NFTS look for film-makers of tomorrow
Vertigo Films have joined forces with The National Film and Television School (NFTS) to find talented film-makers. The Vertigo School Project (VSP) will give three teams of students or graduates of the NFTS the opportunity to make micro budget feature films with a budget of $185,000 (£100,000). Vertigo and the ...
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Vue to host one-night Arctic Monkeys film screening
Vue and other independent cinemas in the UK will host a special one-night presentation on Oct 14 of Arctic Monkey At The Apollo, a Warp Films Production presented by Warp Films, Domino and Bang Bang.Vue will host the night in 33 venues across the UK, alongside other cinemas including the ...
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LoveFilm UK strikes marketing deal for Lionsgate UK titles
Online DVD rental company and entertainment website LoveFilm has struck a multi-title marketing partnership with Lionsgate UK.The pact kicks off with Righteous Kill, the new thriller starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.The six-month media deal continues into 2009 for titles also including I've Love You So Long, Midnight Meat ...
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Revolver scares up multi-platform holiday plans for Mum & Dad
Revolver Entertainment is planning an innovative UK multi-platform release for Steven Sheil's Mum & Dad.The distributor says the film's Dec 26 release will be simultaneous in theatres, DVD, VoD, electronic sell-through and rental. A similar US release is planned timed for Mother's Day 2009.Sheil's low-budget horror film is described as ...
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TwentyTwenty Vision to co-produce Rafi Pitts' The Hunter
Berlin-based production house TwentyTwenty Vision will be the German co-producer on Iranian-British director Rafi Pitts' fifth feature The Hunter.Speaking exclusively to Screendaily.com, Pitts explained that the drama will be produced by AMA Media Productions - which co-produced his 2006 Berlinale competition film It's Winter (Zemestan) - and Aftab Negaran Productions, ...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest's pitching forum attracts record submissions.
Sheffield Doc/Fest's MeetMarket has received 385 entries from documentary film-makers, an increase of almost 200% from last year.The initiative, which launched in 2006, is a pitching forum that uses online systems to match film-makers' project ideas with UK and international buyers.Submissions have been received from first-time and established filmmakers, including ...
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UK effects studio Framestore looks to outside investment
Framestore, the Oscar-winning provider of visual effects, animation and computer generated imagery announced that it plans to consider interest in the company from potential new investors.The company hopes to aid the growth of its business and has instructed Hawkpoint Partners to investigate options, including the introduction of an external investor.William ...
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Award winning director McPherson starts shoot for The Eclipse
Shooting has started on the latest feature-length drama from Tony-award winning Irish playwright and director Conor McPherson.Based on a supernatural love story by Wexford writer Billy Roche, the film stars Aidan Quinn, Ciaran Hinds and Iben Hjejle. Rob Walpole of Treasure Entertainment is producing.Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning costume designer Consolata ...