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Fact Not Fiction moves political thriller shoot from UK to Jordan
UK outfit Fact Not Fiction Films has finished the six-week UK portion of the shoot for new feature 31 North 62 East.The shoot now moves to Jordan later this month.The $2m project is independently financed.Producer/director Tristan Loraine is working with DoP Sue Gibson.The political thriller is about a British Prime ...
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Fantastic Films takes on sales for animated Fox's Tale
Los Angeles-based Fantastic Films International has taken on international sales and distribution rights to A Fox's Tale.The animated feature from Hungarian director George Gat was co-written with Peter Doka.Gat's Dyn Entertainment is producing with Bill Chamberlain's Pinewood-based UK outfit Parallel Pictures.The voice cast will include Freddie Highmore, Bill Nighy, Miranda ...
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Jamie Carmichael moves to ContentFilm's LA office
ContentFilm Plc, has announced that Jamie Carmichael, President of its film division ContentFilm International (CFI), has re-located from London to the group's Santa Monica office. CFI has brought to the international market films such as Jason Reitman's Thank You For Smoking, Black Book directed by Paul Verhoeven, Duncan Tucker's Transamerica ...
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Nighy, Blunt, Grint, Everett star in UK comedy Wild Target
Principal photographyhas begunon the comedy Wild Target starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint and Rupert Everett.Jonathan Lynn is directing the story of an uptight hitman who falls for his intended victim from a screenplay by Lucinda Coxon based on Pierre Salvadori's 1993 French film Cible Emouvante that earned two ...
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London Film Festival boosts industry credentials
The Times BFI London Film Festival has expanded its industry programme with a series of events aimed at the international film business.They include the third Production Finance Market, bringing together international financiers and producers. This year, the market will run over two days from October 20th-21st.The three-day innovation event Power ...
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South West Screen adds five to board including Rebecca O'Brien
UK regional agency South West Screen has added some major players to its board of director.The five new board members are: Ken Loach's long-time producer Rebecca O'Brien of Sixteen Films; Dan'l Hewitt of Bebo; producer and PACT chair Charles Wace; DCMS veteran Brian Leonard; and media consultant Chris Wensley.Caroline Norbury, ...
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Moviehouse sings along with LFF selection 1 2 3 4
Moviehouse Entertainment is now on board for international sales of 1 2 3 4, which is a music-themed fictional film set to have its world premiere at the Times BFI London Film Festival.Radiohead's Ed O'Brien executive produces.Giles Borg directs (making his feature debut) and Simon Kearney produces for UK-based Carson ...
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In Focus: The Ealing Studios revamp
Even with a new refurbishment and grand future plans, Ealing Studios is not ignoring its own storied history. Some of the shooting stages still feature straw packing dating back to 1932. And in the newly modernised, impressively posh dressing rooms, there are striking vintage posters of classic Ealing comedies adorning ...
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Coens start A Serious Man shoot for Focus, Working Title
After Burn After Reading premiered in Venice and Toronto and is set for US release tomorrow, Joel and Ethan Coen have started production this week for A Serious Man.The Focus Features and Working Title Films production is shooting on location in Minnesota.The Coen brothers are writing, directing and producing. Executive ...
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Axiom strikes UK deals for Goodbye Solo, Sugar, The Sea Wall
UK distributor Axiom Films has picked up three titles from Toronto to add to its growing slate. They are Goodbye Solo, Sugar and The Sea Wall.Memento is selling Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo, which won the Fipresci prize at Venice Critics Week. The story follows an African-born cab driver who befriends ...
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London boasts 14 world premieres, plus Bond, W and Frost/Nixon
With 14 world premieres and screenings for the new Bond, Oliver Stone's W and opening film Frost/Nixon, artistic director Sandra Hebron says The Times/BFI London Film Festival has become an international launch pad for major films.'Film-makers and film companies are starting to see that London as a festival offers a ...
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Palisades Tartan extends Fortissimo library deal
Palisades Tartan UK, the Palisades Pictures subsidiary formed with the takeover of the library of the now-defunct Tartan Films, has struck a deal to extend its UK distribution rights to Fortissimo Films titles.The library includes more than 30 films including Mysterious Skin, Capturing The Friedmans, 2046, Super Size Me, The ...
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Boy A, Helen, Escapist among competitors in Dinard
As the UK has an exceedingly strong Toronto, the Dinard British Film Festival has announced its lineup for the 19th edition (Oct 2-5)The competition line-up for the Golden Hitchcock is:Chris Waitt's A Complete History Of My Sexual FailuresJohn Crowley's Boy ANeil Thompson's ClubbedRupert Wyatt's The EscapistChristine Molloy and Joe Lawlor's ...
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Rory Buckley joins SPI as London-based sales director
Warsaw-based film and TV company SPI has appointed Rory Buckley as its London-based Sales Director. He will be responsible for all TV sales in Central and Eastern Europe. Buckley most recently served as Senior Sales Manager for Disney in Central & Eastern Europe.Buckley said: 'I am thrilled to take on ...
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Palisades extends Bergman UK library deal with Svensk
Palisades Pictures new UK subsidiary Palisades Tartan UK - formed when Palisades acquired the library of shuttered UK distributor Tartan - has negotiated a deal with Sweden's Svensk Filmindustri to extend the rights of the Ingmar Bergman library.Terms of the deal were not released but the UK distribution rights have ...
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$3.5m UK lottery backing forDorian Gray and Triangle
The UK Film Council's Premiere Fund has awarded more than$3.5m (£2m)of National Lottery Funding to two productions.The biggest sum - $2.9m (£1.62m)- was awarded toChristopher Smith's Triangle, apsychological thriller set inside the Bermuda Triangle.It will be produced by Dan Films' Jason Newmark and Julie Baines in the UK, and Chris ...
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ContentFilm laughs along with Mike Judge's Extract
ContentFilm International has acquired international sales rights to Mike Judge's comedy Extract starring Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Ben Affleck, Clifton Collins Jr, TJ Miller, Kristen Wiig, Dustin Milligan, JK Simmons and Dave Koechner. The film started shooting Aug 25 in Los Angeles.Bateman stars as a factory worker whose life is ...
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Fortissimo strikes Maximum Canadian deal for Disgrace
Fortissimo Films continues its strong Toronto sales with a Canadian deal for Steve Jacobs' Disgrace with Maximum Film Distribution.John Malkovich stars in the adaptation of JM Coetzee's lauded South-Africa set novel, about a disgraced professor who is confronted with violence on his daughter's rural farm. The deal is for all ...
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Millennium comes on board Norton-starrer Leaves In The Grass
Millennium Films has boarded the $9.5m Edward Norton comedy Leaves InThe Grass after the financing deal set up through New York-based Barbarian fell apart in the summer.Tim Blake Nelson will start shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, on September 22 to take advantage of state tax incentives and Millennium's facility in the ...
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K5 on board for world sales of zomcom Wasting Away
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has acquired Matthew Kohnen's Wasting Away for worldwide sales.The US 'zomcom' feature, uniquely presented from the zombies' perspective, has picked up awards at ScreamFest, New Beijing, Festivus and Zompire.K5 spotted Wasting Away at Sci-Fi London and K5's Bill Stephens, Daniel Baur and Oliver ...