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Ealing strikes European deals for Carmen Electra project
Ealing Studios International, the new sales arm of Ealing Studios, has licensed UK comedy I Want Candy in three key territories prior to the film's market premiere at the EFM. Square One Entertainment took German theatrical rights, while Revolutionary Releasing has taken rights for Eastern Europe excluding the CIS. Buena ...
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Optimum picks up Rocket Science
Optimum has taken UK rights to Jeffrey Blitz's Rocket Science, which won the Directing Award - Dramatic at Sundance 2007.Charles Schreger, president of programming sales for HBO Enterprises, struck the deal for the HBO Films project with Optimum's managing director Will Clarke.Spellbound director Blitz makes his fictional debut with the ...
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Fortissimo to sell LIVE! worldwide
Fortissimo Films is handling worldwide sales rights excluding North America for Academy Award-winning director Bill Guttentag's LIVE! which is produced by Mosaic Media Group. A satire on the modern obsession with reality TV, the film follows an ambitious TV network executive played by Eva Mendes (Training Day, Hitch), who wants ...
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Police raid pirate film factory, seize over 6000 DVDs
A 42-year-old man has been arrested following a raid of a private house in Heywood, Greater Manchester. Police seized 40 DVD burners, three computers, printers, over 6000 counterfeit DVDs and £5000 in cash that were found on the premises. The operation was conducted by Greater Manchester Police in conjunction with ...
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UK pirate DVD sellers given deportation notices
Six Chinese nationals who were arrested on February 1 in Hackney, East London, on charges of film piracy and breach of copyright have since been identified as being in the UK illegally and served deportation notices.The two men and four women, who all pleaded guilty to charges related to selling ...
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Wild Bunch takes on sales for new Morgan Spurlock documentary
While continuing brisk sales on Laurent Tirard's Moliere, which has been acquired by Spain 's Golem, Pathe in the UK, Bim in Italy and Australia 's Hopscotch; Wild Bunch has unveiled its line up for the upcoming Berlin festival with several new projects in the pipeline. First is the new ...
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Pan's Labyrinth takes top honours at new UK regional critics awards
Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth continues its winning streak as it won top honours of Film of the Year from the new UK Regional Critics Film Awards. Del Toro was also honoured as the group's Filmmaker of the Year. ''I'm delighted that Pan's Labyrinth has won Film of the Year ...
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Orange plans BAFTA red-carpet event hosted by Myleene Klass
BAFTA title sponsor Orange has announced plans for new red-carpet coverage to be broadcast to the Orange website and Orange mobile TV. Myleene Klass will host the red-carpet coverage starting at 4:30 pm on awards night, Feb 11. The one-hour special will be available at orange.co.uk/redcarpet and through Orange 3G ...
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Fox buys UK and Australian rights to Scorsese's Stones documentary
20th Century Fox International has picked up UK, Australia and New Zealand rights to Martin Scorsese's upcoming Rolling Stones documentary from international sales agent Fortissimo Films. As previously announced, Paramount will roll out the as-yet-untitled documentary in the US in late 2007. The film, which is centred around two New ...
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Odeon and Sky Filmworks strike first deal for UK rights to Kenny
Odeon and Sky Filmworks, the new joint venture between broadcaster Sky and UK exhibitor Odeon, has announced details of its first acquisition. The company's debut release in UK theatres will be Australian hit comedy Kenny, a mockumentary about an employee in a company that rents toilets for big events. 'It ...
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InFrame on board for The Riddle starring Vinnie Jones
UK and US sales company InFrame, a division of Hollywood Classics, has picked up worldwide rights to the $5m thriller The Riddle and will start sales at Berlin's European Film Market. Brendan Foley wrote and directed the story of a journalist, a police press officer and a tramp who who ...
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Smith brings Happyness to SPRI at international box office
The Pursuit Of Happyness ended the weekend as the number one overseas attraction in a highly successful week for Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).The rags-to-riches drama stars Academy Award nominee Will Smith and grossed an estimated $16m to raise the tally to $71m.The result was buoyed by impressive debuts in ...
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De La Iglesia starts UK shoot for The Oxford Murders
The second English-language project by Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia, The Oxford Murders, has started shooting on location in London and Oxford for nine weeks. The serial killer thriller is produced by Tornasol Films, Estudios Picasso, Oxford Crimes, and La Fabrique de Films. The UK producer is Kevin Loader, ...
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Sky To Sponsor BAFTA party after Burberry pulls out
Sky has come on board as the sponsor of the first BAFTA Film Nominees Party, replacing Burberry which has withdrawn its sponsorship. Burberry pulled out to 'avoid embroiling BAFTA and its guests in threatened disruptive behaviour as part of campaigning against Burberry following its closure of its polo shirt factory ...
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Pirate DVD sellers arrested in East London
The UK's Federation Against Copyright Theft has announced that seven people have been arrested in Hackney, East London by police working with FACT, Hackney Council and the Immigration Service. The raid was conducted at a Tesco carpark, where five men and two women, all of Chinese origin, were arrested. More ...
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Tartan plans Jobson tour and classes for A Woman In Winter
Richard Jobson, screenwriter and director of 16 Years of Alcohol and The Purifiers, is to launch his latest film A Woman In Winter, through Tartan Films, with a UK tour stretching from the film's setting, Edinburgh, to London. As well as screenings of the film, the former frontman of the ...
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UK Film Council to handle Cultural Test applications as of April 1
As expected, the UK government has announced that the administration of the new cultural test to qualify for the new UK film fax relief will move from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to the UK Film Council. As of April 1, all Cultural Test applications will be assessed ...
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Paul Trijbits joins Alison Owen's production company Ruby Films
Paul Trijbits, whose six-year stint as head of the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund ended last autumn, has joined Alison Owen's London-based Ruby Films. Full details of Tribijts' role at Ruby are yet to be confirmed, but it is expected that he will be active in acquiring and executive ...
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Paul Trijbits joins Alison Owen's production company Ruby Films
Paul Trijbits, whose six-year stint as head of the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund ended last autumn, has joined Alison Owen's London-based Ruby Films. Full details of Tribijts' role at Ruby are yet to be confirmed, but it is expected that he will be active in acquiring and executive ...
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Int'l Box Office Preview: the march rolls on for big US trio
Ben Stiller, Will Smith and Beyonce are all in action this weekend as the race to dominate the international arena heats up.Fox International's Night At The Museum starring Stiller has swept all before it in the overseas arena for several weeks and must still be the one to beat.The family ...