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Odyssey's slate includes Hornby and Scherfig's An Education
Odyssey Entertainment has announced details on a number of high-profile titles on its sales slate ahead of Berlin's European Film Market.The titles are: Lone Scherfig's An Education; John Crowley's Is There Anybody There'; Stephan Elliot's Easy Virtue;and Andy Cadiff's A Bunch of Amateurs.An Education, in pre-production, will star Peter Sarsgaard, ...
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Deals surge in Asia for Power's thriller Flood
Production company Power has announced further sales of its first feature film, $30m thriller Flood.Deals have been struck for Japan (CK Entertainment), China (New View, China Film and CCTV6), Korea (CJ Media), India (V Films), Hong Kong (TVB),Thailand (J-Bics), Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore (Ram).Tony Mitchell's Flood stars Robert Carlyle in ...
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Ealing takes on sales for Eyre's new drama The Other Man
Richard Eyre is set to start principal photography on his new dramaThe Other Man starting Feb 14.Ealing Studios International will handle international sales.The drama will star Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney and Romola Garai.Eyre will also produce with Tracey Scoffield, Frank Doelger and Michael Dreyer for Rainmark Films. David ...
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Met Film School writers scheme promises business edge
London's Met Film School is promising a serious business edge to a scheme helping screenwriters develop theirprojects.The school will take first drafts from 10 writers with some experienceand take them through the reality of high-level film development.That process starts by paying candidates a competitive rateand allowing them to retain the ...
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Mercury Media takes on sales for 9/11 docZero
Mercury Media has taken on worldwide sales (excluding Italy, Belgium and Russia) for Zero.Zero is a $1.5m (Euros 1m) documentary directed by Guilietto Chiesa and Franco Fracassi. Interviewees include Dario Fo and Gore Vidal.Mercury also has world sales (excluding US) for another 9/11 conspiracy documentary, Loose Change Final Cut. As ...
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Gareth Mullaney joins Ascent Media Creative Services
Ascent Media Creative Services has hired Gareth Mullaney for its Business Development team, specalising in broadcast post production.Mullaney has worked at Oasis, Windmill Lane Pictures, M2 Television and Editworks and most recently as a consultnat for Resolution.David Barrett, SVP business development at Ascent, said: 'We are delighted to have Gareth ...
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BAFTA Analysis: Atonement's glory expected, but where's Sweeney Todd'
Atonement has always seemed destined for BAFTA glory (it leads with 14 nominations). It has the kind of literary pedigree that BAFTA voters have responded to in Best Picture winners like The English Patient, ThePianist and The Lord Of The Rings.
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Atonement leads BAFTA race with 14 nominations
Joe Wright’s Atonementleads the BAFTA nominations with 14 nods, in categories Best Film, Best British Film, Director (Joe Wright), Adapted Screenplay, Leading Actress (Keira Knightley), Leading Actor (James McAvoy), Supporting Actress (Saoirse Ronan), Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair.
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Metrodome takes UK rights to The Assembly and The Banquet
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights for two new Chinese films, The Assembly and The Banquet. Both are directed by Feng Xiaogang.The Assembly has already taken more than $30m at the Chinese box office. It is based on the true story of one man's journey during the 1948 Chinese ...
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UK film industry remains upbeat despite US strike worries
Leading figures in theUK film industryare remaining upbeat about the prospects for the territory despite theimpact oftheHollywood writers' strike on shoots.Ron Howard's Angels & Demons, Ridley Scott's Nottingham and the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Prince Of Persia have either withdrawn from the UK or been postponed.The WGA strike is having an impact, ...
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Iain Smith plans $20m rugby drama The Originals
UK-based producer Iain Smith (Cold Mountain, Children Of Men) is in advanced development on The Originals, a Chariots Of Fire-style drama about the exploits of the famous 1905 New Zealand All Black rugby team during their tour of Great Britain. The team was known as 'The Originals.'Mark Joffe is to ...
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Sci-Fi-London programmes Paragraph 78 and Wolfhound
Independent genre festival Sci-Fi-London has announced that it is to return on April 30 for five days of screenings and events. Now in its seventh year, Sci-Fi-London, or The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, will take place at the Apollo West End cinema until May 4.Films ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for Liz Mermin's Shot In Bombay
UK-based international sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on sales for Liz Mermin's latest documentary, Shot In Bombay.Little Bird produced the feature documentary, which goes behind the scenes of Bollywood film Shootout At Lokhandwala and follows the controversial trial of Indian screen legend Sanjay Dutt. The film includes the last ...
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Park Circus strikes UK theatrical deal with Arrow Films
UK distributor Park Circus Films has signed a deal to represent the Arrow Films catalogue theatrically in the UK and Ireland.Arrow's 160-plus title catalogue includes films such as Cinema Paradiso, The Millionairess and Rififi.Park Circus is the UK 's leading theatrical distributor of classic films. IT has similar deals in ...
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Film4, Ingenious, Vertigo join for new sales company Protagonist
Confirming rumours that started swirling before the American Film Market, UK companies Film4, Ingenious and Vertigo Films have joined forces to launch a new international film sales company.The outfit, called Protagonist Pictures, is fully capitalised by its three partners (who are financing equally). The intial slate isn't announced yet and ...
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Losey wraps shoot for debut thriller The Hide
Director Marek Losey has wrapped principal photography on his debut feature, thriller The Hide.The Poisson Rouge Pictures and Solution Films thriller shot at Pinewood and on location in the Southeast of England in November and December 2007.The film, written by Tim Whitnall based on his stage play The Sociable Plover, ...
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High Point to take on sales for Abrahamson's Prosperity project
Irish director Lenny Abrahamson has followed his Cannes Director's Fortnight hit Garage with Prosperity, a series of four related 'mini features' for Irish TV broadcaster RTE.High Point Media Group has taken on international rights to the project, and plans to launch it at Berlin's European Film Market rather than at ...
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Roger Beck leaves Technicolor for Ascent Media UK
Roger Beck has joined Ascent Media Group as the director of film services, a new position based in London.He will manage the film operations at Soho Images and Todd-AO.Beck had been CEO of Technicolor Creative Services and is also a veteran of Deluxe, Thames Television, Granada and Vidfilm Europe.Santa Monica, ...
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International box office drops 22% week on week with few openers
An absence of heavy-hitting new releases could be attributable to the 22.2% week-on-week drop in the international top 40 this weekend, with the only four new entrants all failing to enter the top 30. The top 40 international films generated $208.8m from 49,452 screens for the period of January 4-6. ...
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BAFTA organisers don't expect WGA strike chaos
In the wake of Monday’s announced cancellation of the Golden Globes big awards show, industry observers have been asking how other awards events, including the UK’s BAFTAS, will be affected.