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Pinewood launches website for rebuilt 007 Stage
The Pinewood Studios Group has launched an official website for the rebuilt 007 Stage, located at www.007stage.com. Europe 's largest sound stage has been rebuilt and reopened following the July 2006 fire that made the stage unusable. Currently, the internal area of 59,000-square-feet makes it the biggest stage in Europe. ...
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AAM signs downloadable content deal with Revolver Entertainment
UK-based digital distribution services company Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has struck a deal with distributor Revolver Entertainment for Revolver's content to be offered for download on AAM 's Vizumi Network. The deal covers an initial 30 titles for download-to-rent and download-to-own through AAM 's distribution partners including LoveFilm and Empire. ...
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Rogers & Cowan divides London office into UK and international units
PR company Rogers & Cowan's London branch has launched two separate business units: a UK division for film, video and TV promotion solely in the UK, and an internatioal division to handle worldwide publicity campaigns. The London office has been open for a year, and both divisions will continue to ...
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Park Circus joins UK trade group FDA
Park Circus Films has joined the UK's Film Distributors' Association (FDA), the trade body of UK theatrical distributors. The Glasgow-based company is the UK's only commercial distributor specialising in classic films. It becomes the FDA's 18th member and one of 12 indies on the FDA Council. 'As the UK market ...
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Aardman signs exclusive three-year, first-look deal with Sony Pictures
UK-based Aardman Features will enter a three-year, exclusive first-look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) for all of Aardman's features in development. Aardman, known for Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and Flushed Away, ended its increasingly tense partnership with DreamWorks in late January 2007. The new pact was struck with ...
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UK Film Council looks for certification manager for new tax test
As of today, the certification unit for the new Cultural Test for British Film introduced as part of the UK 's new film tax relief will be based at the UK Film Council, moving from its previous home at the Department of Culture, Media & Sport. The UKFC is currently ...
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Scottish Screen pushes diversity in exhibition strategy
After a lengthy process of consultation Scottish Screen has announced a new Cinema Exhibition Strategy designed to extend the reach and diversity of films available to Scottish audiences. The core of the strategy is the development of 'cultural cinema hubs' strategically placed around the country. Each one will serve as ...
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True North wins best film at Cherbourg-Octeville
The 22nd Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish and British Film (March 14-20) gave its top awards to Steve Hudson's True North. The film took best film, best film voted by the student jury, and best actress for Angel Li. The other winner was Niall Heery's Small Engine Repair, which won the ...
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UK's Albion launches with aims to produce Christian features
Albion Productions has launched as a UK production company dedicated to only making Christian feature films. Albion is set up as an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) company and is seeking investors for its first production, Darkness Into Light. The company said 10% of the film's profits will go to Christian ...
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Sky signs up three-year deal with Spyglass Entertainment
UK-based BSkyB has struck a new, three-year output deal with Spyglass Entertainment, which covers up to 15 Spylass-produced titles from 2008. Spyglass's past hits have included Seabiscuit, Memoirs Of A Geisha, Bruce Almighty and The Sixth Sense. The deal covers both Sky Movies paid broadcast rights (including HD broadcasts) and ...
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Potboiler to follow Gardener with Le Carre's Mission Song
Following its successful adaptation of John Le Carre's The Constant Gardener, Simon Channing Williams and Gail Egan's London-based Potboiler Productions is preparing a new film based on Le Carre's latest book, The Mission Song. Joe Fisher, writer of acclaimed TV drama Soundproof and of 1998's The Tichborne Claimant, is scripting ...
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Shear leaves The Works to take new sales post at Revolver
David Shear is leaving his post as head of sales at The Works UK Distribution to become sales director of Revolver Entertainment. He starts the newly created post on June 11 and will be responsible for Revolver's theatrical strategy. Before joining The Works' theatrical distribution arm, Shear was head of ...
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Premiere Fund backs Paul Andrew Williams' The Cottage
The UK Council's Premiere Fund has come on board with Lottery funding for Paul Andrew Williams' The Cottage. Williams, who became a talent to watch with his 2006 low-budget thriller London To Brighton, also wrote the script. The story follows two brothers who kidnap an underworld figure and then 'stumble ...
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Irish fund backs Kisses, Alarm, Eden and Hunger
The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has backed four feature projects from the third round of its Sound & Vision Fund. The four projects will share a total of $1.7m (Euros 1.285m) between them from the BCI fund's $12m (Euros 9m) allocation to independent producers of television programming to be ...
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Hitman starts Bulgarian shoot for Fox and EuropaCorp
Twentieth Century Fox and EuropaCorp started principal photography Tuesday on thriller Hitman directed by Xavier Gens. Timothy Olyphant stars with Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Ulrich Thomsen and Michael Offei. Skip Woods wrote the screenplay based on the video game franchise of the same name, about a professional assassin who gets ...
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Pinewood Shepperton sees turnover up 22% in 2006
Pinewood Shepperton today released its preliminary results for the year ended Dec 31 2006. It was a robust year for the company, with turnover up 22% at $80m (£40.7m) and operating profit 'before exceptional items' up 70% at $17.9m (£9.1m).The company's increasing diversification into television also seems to be bearing ...
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Artificial Eye buys Rivette and Costanzo titles after Berlin
UK distributor Artificial Eye has announced two more acquisitions on the back of the 2007 Berlin Film Festival. The company has taken UK rights to Jacques Rivette's Don't Touch The Axe (Ne Touchez Pas La Hache) starring Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Michel Piccoli and Bulle Ogier. It also acquired Saverio ...
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Revolver takes prizes for Kidulthood DVD marketing
Indie distributor Revolver Entertainment beat the major studios at the British Video Association Awards 2007, taking the Best Feature Film Marketing Award for the DVD release of urban drama Kidulthood. The judges, which picked the Kidulthood campaign over those for bigger releases including Cars and The Da Vinci Code, said: ...
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Filmstreet gets rights to Beatles-signed band's story
Los Angeles-based Filmstreet Productions has taken the film rights to new book All You Need Is Luck or How I Got A Record Deal By Meeting Paul McCartney. Paul Tennant's book is about three teenage musicians in Liverpool in 1967 who became the first group signed to the Beatles' Apple ...
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Film London adds companies to work placement scheme
Film London's Company Placement Scheme has added some new companies in its second year, including Film & Music Entertainment (F&ME), Headline Pictures, Ipso Facto and Warp X. Returning companies in the scheme include Diverse Productions, Number 9 Films and Tigerlily Films. The scheme offers six-month paid work placements to those ...