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Metrodome to distribute Beta Film's North Face in the UK and Ireland
Metrodome has acquired full UK and Irish rights to Beta Film's North Face in a multi-territory deal which also saw Rialto distribution acquire Australian and New Zealand rights The deal was negotiated by Metrodome's CEO Peter Urie, General Manager Distribution Sara Frain, Head of Acquisitions James Brown and by Beta ...
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Vertigo Films and NFTS look for film-makers of tomorrow
Vertigo Films have joined forces with The National Film and Television School (NFTS) to find talented film-makers. The Vertigo School Project (VSP) will give three teams of students or graduates of the NFTS the opportunity to make micro budget feature films with a budget of $185,000 (£100,000). Vertigo and the ...
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Vue to host one-night Arctic Monkeys film screening
Vue and other independent cinemas in the UK will host a special one-night presentation on Oct 14 of Arctic Monkey At The Apollo, a Warp Films Production presented by Warp Films, Domino and Bang Bang.Vue will host the night in 33 venues across the UK, alongside other cinemas including the ...
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LoveFilm UK strikes marketing deal for Lionsgate UK titles
Online DVD rental company and entertainment website LoveFilm has struck a multi-title marketing partnership with Lionsgate UK.The pact kicks off with Righteous Kill, the new thriller starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.The six-month media deal continues into 2009 for titles also including I've Love You So Long, Midnight Meat ...
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Revolver scares up multi-platform holiday plans for Mum & Dad
Revolver Entertainment is planning an innovative UK multi-platform release for Steven Sheil's Mum & Dad.The distributor says the film's Dec 26 release will be simultaneous in theatres, DVD, VoD, electronic sell-through and rental. A similar US release is planned timed for Mother's Day 2009.Sheil's low-budget horror film is described as ...
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TwentyTwenty Vision to co-produce Rafi Pitts' The Hunter
Berlin-based production house TwentyTwenty Vision will be the German co-producer on Iranian-British director Rafi Pitts' fifth feature The Hunter.Speaking exclusively to Screendaily.com, Pitts explained that the drama will be produced by AMA Media Productions - which co-produced his 2006 Berlinale competition film It's Winter (Zemestan) - and Aftab Negaran Productions, ...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest's pitching forum attracts record submissions.
Sheffield Doc/Fest's MeetMarket has received 385 entries from documentary film-makers, an increase of almost 200% from last year.The initiative, which launched in 2006, is a pitching forum that uses online systems to match film-makers' project ideas with UK and international buyers.Submissions have been received from first-time and established filmmakers, including ...
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UK effects studio Framestore looks to outside investment
Framestore, the Oscar-winning provider of visual effects, animation and computer generated imagery announced that it plans to consider interest in the company from potential new investors.The company hopes to aid the growth of its business and has instructed Hawkpoint Partners to investigate options, including the introduction of an external investor.William ...
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Award winning director McPherson starts shoot for The Eclipse
Shooting has started on the latest feature-length drama from Tony-award winning Irish playwright and director Conor McPherson.Based on a supernatural love story by Wexford writer Billy Roche, the film stars Aidan Quinn, Ciaran Hinds and Iben Hjejle. Rob Walpole of Treasure Entertainment is producing.Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning costume designer Consolata ...
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Metrodome and Rialto strike double deal for Seraphine
Metrodome has joined forces with Rialto on a deal for Martin Provost'sSeraphine.Metrodome takes on all UK and Ireland rights while Rialto takes on New Zealand and Australia rights.The deal was brokered by Metrodome's CEO Peter Urie, general manager distribution Sara Frain and head of acquisitions James Brown with Yohann Comte ...
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Mandragora starts production of first feature Dark Nature
Glasgow-based Mandragora Productions has started production on its first feature film, Dark Nature, directed by Marc de Launay.Mandragora's previous productions include shorts such as Contorted Hazel in 2006 and The Last Noel in 2004. De Launey's work as director on Channel 4 television series Vids , earned him a BAFTA ...
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Hammer resurrection as production of The Wake Wood begins
The long-awaited resurrection of British horror label Hammer Films has finally happened. Production has just begun on The Wake Wood. This is Hammer's first horror movie since To the Devil a Daughter starring Christopher Lee in 1976 and its first feature of any sort since The Lady Vanishes in 1979.The ...
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F&ME kicks off shoots for three new UK co-productions
Mike Downey and Sam Taylor's UK production company Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME) pushes its busy slate forward with the start of principal photography on three new features: Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre, Donkey and Beneath The Surface.All three are co-productions, shooting - respectively - in Iceland, Croatia/Herzegovina and China/Sudan. All ...
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In Focus: Filmanthropy
The British Beekeepers' Association, the National Pig Association and the Women's Institute might not be the most obvious partners for documentary makers but it is a sign of a growing crossover between the film world and the third sector that all attended this summer's inaugural Good Pitch.Held during the UK's ...
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Evolutions invests $1.8m in new post equipment
Evolutions, Soho, the London-based post-production facility, has invested $1.8m (£1m) in new technology from Avid, FilmLight and Digidesign.The upgrade and installation of new equipment comes as part of Evolutions' expansion with its new Great Pulteney Street building. The company's machine room is now centralised at that site and connected via ...
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Met Film starts distribution services arm for self-distribution
Met Film has launched Met Film Distribution, which will work with independent film-makers who want to self-distribute their films.The first proejct for the new distribution outfit will be Heavy Load, also a Met Film production, a documentary about a punk band with disabilities.The co-production with the BBC, IFC and ITVS, ...
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Pinewood Shepperton revises plans for Project Pinewood in UK
UK studio Pinewood Shepperton has revised its plans for new studio facilities, sets and housing next to its site in Buckinghamshire. Project Pinewood originally envisaged building 2,250 homes but following consultation with local residents that number has been reduced to 1,500. Almost 70% of the site will now remain as ...
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Cinema16 plans new World Short Films collection
The popular Cinema16 DVD series will continue with World Short Films, a new short film collection to be launched on Nov 17 in the UK.The DVD includes 16 shorts, including Andrea Arnold's Oscar-winning Wasp, Guillermo Del Toro's previously unreleased Dona Lupe; cult hit Forklift Driver Klaus; Park Chan Wook's only ...
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NewsLFF's Power To The Pixel to host new innovative Forum
The Times BFI London Film Festival will again partner for Power To The Pixel, The Digital Distribution and Film Innovation Forum.
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MercuryMedia to handle UK launch of doc I.O.U.S.A.
MercuryMedia has taken on UK distribution of Patrick Creadon's I.O.U.S.A.The feature-length documentary has already been released theatrically in the US and premiered at Sundance.It will have its European premiere Nov 5 as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest and will then open in the UK from Nov 27 at Picturehouse Cinemas as ...