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Mummy should continue to dominate Dark Knight with 23 territories opening
Universal's The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor should dominate the international arena for the second consecutive weekend after knocking The Dark Knight off its perch.The adventure sequel has raced to $80.7m after breaking a string of records last weekend and touches down in a further 23 territories through UPI.Highlights ...
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Shorts International offers 21 sci-fi shorts on iTunes
Shorts International has struck a deal with the iTunes Store in the US, UK and Canada to offer The Sci Fi Collection, a group of 21 shorts.The shorts include Josh Lee Kwai's Eli starring Heroes actor David Anders; Australian drama Sleeper by Andrew Milner; Youngwoong Jang's animation Mirage; Ransom Riggs' ...
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First Branchage festival to open in Jersey with Man On Wire
The programme has been unveiled for the first Branchage Jersey Film Festival, taking place on the island Sept 25-28.The festival will open at the island's Opera House with a gala screening of the multiple-festival-winning Man On Wire and close at the historic Gorey Castle with Vertigo/Film4's MySpace user-generated film Faintheart, ...
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Forward, Slingshot start shooting UK school horror Tormented
Teen horror film Tormented has started shooting in Birmingham, UK.New UK production company Forward Films makes its feature debut with the film, being produced as the fourth feature from digital studio Slingshot.The project is also backed by BBC Films and Screen West Midlands. Pathe International will handle international sales and ...
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Charles McDonald to leave Premier to run own PR business
Film publicity legend Charles McDonald plans to step down as joint CEO of London-headquartered Premier PR at the end of October.He will leave Premier and handle a number of his own key clients independently, likely his most active Premier clientssuch as BBC Films, Optimum Releasing, European Film Awards and Europa ...
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Harrison starts Unstoppable shoot in Portugal and Spain
UK writer/director Richard Harrison started shooting yesterday in Portugal for his debut feature Unstoppable.The film is now shooting in Praia da Bordeira in Portugal, and will move to Andalucia on Aug 10 and wrap on Aug 31.The Portuguese government and Andalucian Film Commission have helped with location scouting and filming ...
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Gone Fishing, Soft take prizes in Kodak's Short Film Competition
Kodak has announced the two winners from its Short Film Competition 2008. Gone Fishing directed by Chris Jones and produced by Ivan Clements was named best short. And best cinematography went to Christopher Ross, for Soft directed by Simon Ellis and produced by Jane Hooks.This year the best short winner ...
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UK Film Council launches new funding initiative for UK producers
The UK Film Council has launched the Production Company Vision Awards, a new funding initiative designed to help producers develop projects that will broaden the quality, range and ambition of films and talent in the UK.The initiative, which is part of the UKFC's Development Fund, will offer up to £150,000 ...
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Postcard from Britdoc
It is only in its third edition, but the UK's Britdoc festival (July 23-25) is a major draw for the international documentary community.Last week's instalment attracted more than 950 delegates, including film-makers Larry Charles, Nick Broomfield, and Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, otherwise known as anti-capitalist activists The Yes Men, ...
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Projects by Fliegauf, Alvart, Sax receive backing from German funds
New productions by Benedek Fliegauf, Christian Alvart, and Geoffrey Sax are among 35 projects receiving over $12m in support from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and Leipzig-based Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung (MDM).At its latest sitting the Berlin-based FFA supported such projects as Hungarian director Fliegauf's first English language production, Womb, produced ...
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Colin Brown steps down as Editor-in-Chief of Screen International
Colin Brown is stepping down as the longstanding Editor-in-Chief of Screen International to pursue new entrepreneurial ambitions in the global media and entertainment sphere.Announcing the amicable departure, Natasha Christie-Miller, Managing Director, Retail & Media at Emap Inform, Screen's parent company, paid tribute to Brown's long and profitable association with the ...
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Xingu partners with comic kingpin Pat Millsfor American Reaper film
Repeat Offenders, a new UK company developing graphic novels with cinema potential, is at work on its first two projects, both based on the work of lauded comics duo Pat Mills and Clint Langley.Trudie Styler's Xingu Films has acquired big-screen rights to upcoming graphic novel American Reaper created by writer ...
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UKFC backs 56 independent cinemas with $940,000
The UK Film Council's Capital and Access Fund for cinemas has awarded $939,400 (£475,000) to 56 independent cinemas across the UK. Grants ranged from $1,008 (£510) to $69,221 (£35,000) per cinema.Some of the largest awards went to Aberystwyth Arts Centre Cinema, Cardiff's Chapter Cinema, the Glasgow Film Theatre, the RBS ...
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Happy-Go-Lucky, Stardust up for Conch soundtrack awards
Industry group UK Screen has announced the shortlisted nominees for its sound prizes, The Conch Awards.The awards are now in their third year, honouring audio post-production in film, TV and commercials.The industry nominated the shortlisted candidates, and now those contenders will submkit material for judging. Winners will be announced at ...
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Harry Potter bewitches for 2008 Royal Film Performance
The 2008 Royal Film Performance will be a screening of Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince on Monday, Nov 17.The film selection was today confirmed by organising charity Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF).CTBF said it wouldn't be known until closer to November which members of the ...
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Jack White, Alicia Keys team for new Bond song
The 22nd James Bond film, Quantum Of Solace, will feature a theme song duet for the first time in the franchise's history.Jack White (of the White Stripes and Raconteurs) and Alicia Keys will record Another Way To Die.As rumoured, troubled British chanteuse Amy Winehouse had been in talks to record ...
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Mueller digs deep withVenice's worldly offerings
Venice is aiming widefor its 65th edition,with artistic director Marco Mueller following up 2007's heavily English-language programme with a more geographically diverse, less star-drivenline-up of films from 18 countries. Notably lighter onUS features (and with none solely from the UK), this year's Lido line-up features two Japanese animation masters and ...
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Nigel Osner to start The Tale Of Reverend Jones Aug 11
Nigel Osner plans an Aug 11 start of shoot in Swansea and Gower for his film The Tale Of The Reverend Jones. Osner also wrote the screenplay, about a Welsh vicar who takes on the Church of England over its views on homosexuality.Jakob Esposito of Welsh Dragon Pictures will executive ...
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Venice competition includes Aronofsky, Arriaga, Kitano, Ozpetek
The 65th Venice Film Festival has unveiled its programme this morning.CompetitionThe Wrestler, dir. Darren Aronofsky (US)The Burning Plain, dir. Guillermo Arriaga (US)Il papa di Giovanna, dir. Pupi Avati (Italy)BirdWatchers, dir. Marco Bechis (Italy)L'Autre, dirs. Patrick Mario Bernard & Pierre Trividic (France)The Hurt Locker, dir. Kathryn Bigelow (US)Il seme della discordia, ...
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Gael Garcia Bernal plans doc project on resistance
Gael Garcia Bernal is teaming up with director Marc Silver and the UK's Pulse Films on Resist, an ambitious feature documentary and web project.Described as Bernal's personal journey through the landscape of resistance, the film is in pre-production with shooting scheduled to take place in spring next year.Bernal will also ...