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Film London and ITV hook up to profile local talent
London 's regional broadband TV service ITV Local London has partnered with Film London to champion the city's up and coming film-making talent. ITV Local will be an official media partner of the next financial year's round of Film London's local support fund, the London Borough Film Fund Challenge. The ...
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300 powers into the top spot at international box office
Warner Bros Pictures International's violent epic 300 continues to indicate that it will be a worldwide phenomenon with a sensational $15.6m weekend in just 13 territories on 1,300 screens.It opened in Korea with a $6.3m five-day gross on 353 screens, it took $1.5m on 115 screens in Turkey, making it ...
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Warp X takes off with Donkey Punch
Shooting has begun for the first film on the slate of new production company Warp X. British thriller Donkey Punch will also be the debut feature for co-writers Olly Blackburn and David Bloom, with Blackburn making his feature directorial debut. Warp X is the new digital low-budget feature film scheme ...
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300 boosts US's box office, Mexico notes 118% year-on-year increase
Collective box office revenue of nine territories was up 29% last weekend compared to the same weekend in 2006, according to Screen International's Screen Index. North America led the increase - the territory saw a 41.1% year-on-year increase and took $149.6m at the weekend. Top film 300 - an adaptation ...
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First all-digital cinema for Empire
UK's Empire Cinemas today announced the launch of its first totally digital cinema, situated at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. The theatre chain, which has 16 sites across the UK, has partnered with Kodak, Barco and Bell Theatre Services to install the latest in digital cinema projection technology for all six ...
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First look dealer
These are challenging times for First Look International (FLI) president Stuart Ford, one of the participants at Screen International's US financing summit in London. Several months after Ford launched FLI's London office to handle sales and source acquisitions and co-productions, the UK Treasury announced it was effectively closing the door ...
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UK Film Council lotteryunaffected by Olympics budget blowout
Today's announcement by Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell that the 2012 London Olympics budget has risen to $18.11bn (£9.35bn) will not impact the next round of UK Film Council funding, a spokesperson has assured ScreenDaily.While a further $1,307m (£675m) is expected to be taken from lottery funds, the Film Council spokesperson ...
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Tartan drops title after teen accused of double murder
Cutting-edge UK distributor Tartan Video announced today (Mar 15) that it will cease supplying retailers with DVD copies of The Last Horror Movie. The award-winning 2003 film has become involved in the trial of a teen in the UK, who, itis claimed, murdered his two friends. The trial has heard ...
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UK Film Council chief warns producers of tougher times ahead after tax clampdown
UK Film Council chief executive of the John Woodward has warned the UK film industry it will have to face up to a tough period of contraction following this month's tax clampdown.'Things will get worse before they get better,' he said.Earlier this month, the Treasury announced it was effectively ending ...
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Contender takes on Daddy's Girl starring Jaime Winstone
UK distribution company Contender Entertainment Group has taken all UK rights from Carnaby International to horror film Daddy's Girl. The UK psychological thriller was directed by Welsh first-time feature director DJ Evans. Nerys Lloyd of Boda Cyf produced. The project is a Boda/Carnaby co-production in association with the Arts Council ...
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Future Films creates joint venture with post company Pepper
UK- and US-based financier and production company Future Films is creating a new partnership with London-based post-production company Pepper. Pepper has worked mostly on TV drama (Life On Mars, Prime Suspect) and independent features such as Michael Winterbottom's The Road To Guantanamo but will now expand its film services to ...
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Williams, McGregor and Macfadyen on board for Maguire's Incendiary
Bridget Jones's Diary director Sharon Maguire will start shooting her new project Incendiary later this month in London with a cast featuring Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor and Matthew Macfadyen. Archer Street 's Andy Paterson and Anand Tucker are producing, with Aramid Entertainment Fund financing. Capitol Films is handling international sales. ...
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UK Film Council P&A Fund backs films including The Lives Of Others
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has supported a number of new features in its latest round of Lottery funding. The specialised, foreign and arthouse films backed in this round are: $ 482,769 (£250,000) to Lionsgate UK for The Lives Of Others $197,458 (£102,231) to Metrodome for Days ...
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Playtone and Walden to shoot City Of Ember in Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission (NIFTC) has announced that Hollywood production City Of Ember will shoot in the region this summer. Playtone Productions and Walden Media are producing the children's fantasy sci-fi adventure adapted from American writer Jeanne DuPrau's book. Monster House director Gil Kenan will direct from ...
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Heather Graham romantic comedy starts shooting in Belfast
Principal photography has begun in Belfast on the Heather Graham-starring romantic comedy Buy Borrow Steal, which is being directed by UK director Eric Styles (Relative Values) for Doris Kirch's Blue Angel Films Ltd. Based on a script by Camilla Leslie, which won the Best Screenplay Prize at the Hamptons Film ...
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Hayley Atwell joins Jarrold's Brideshead Revisited cast
HanWay Films has announced that UK actress Hayley Atwell has been cast as Julia Flyte in the new adaptation of Brideshead Revisited.She joins previously announced castmembers Ben Whishaw and Matthew Goode in Julian Jarrold's forthcoming adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh classic, adapted by Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock. The project ...
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LoveFilm to offer sponsored and burnable feature downloads
European online DVD rental and movie download company LoveFilm.com has today announced two new digital downloading initiatives. The company is starting the world's first advertiser-sponsored free downloads of feature films and is also launching the UK's first download-to-burn service for feature films. The first advertiser on board for the sponsored ...
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Future expands US office with appointment of Charlotte Koh
Future Films USA has hired former Fox Searchlight executive Charlotte Koh as its business development executive. Koh will report to Future USA's CEO Simon Horsman. Future said it would expand further in the coming months with the appointment of a production and development executive.At Fox Searchlight, Koh was a Creative ...
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Chris Auty leaves CEO post at The Works
Chris Auty is stepping down as CEO and from the board of The Works Media Group. He will remain as a consultant for the London-based company, which runs the Works UK Distribution and sales company The Works International. Norman Humphrey, group finance director, has been appointed CEO effectively immediately. Humphrey ...
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WBPI enjoys powerhouse weekend at international box office
Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore ruled the overseas arena as Music And Lyrics grossed an estimated $10.1m in what turned out to be a sensational weekend for Warner Bros.Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) also reported record-breaking initial results for the Spartan battle epic 300 - which dominated the North American ...