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Lionsgate UK buys Caine-starrer Harry Brown from HanWay
Lionsgate UK has acquired the distribution rights to Harry Brown, being produced by Matthew Vaughn and Kris Thykier's MARV Films.HanWay Films is selling the project worldwide and handled the Lionsgate deal for MARV.Michael Caine has come on board to play the title role, opposite Emily Mortimer. Gary Young wrote the ...
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The Works rocks with UK rights to Anvil!
The Works UK Distribution has taken all UK rights to Sacha Gervasi's rockumnetary Anvil! The Story Of Anvil.The deal was sealed by the Works UK Distribution's managing director Mick Southworth and director of marketing Laurence Gornall, and CAA's Micah Green and Brian Kavanagh-Jones.The film is about Toronto-based metal band Anvil, ...
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Generator stirs up Ghost Machine in Belfast
New UK genre production outfit Generator Entertainment continues to build its busy slate with principal photography starting yesterday (Friday) on Chris Hartwill's debut feature Ghost Machine.The supernatural thriller stars Sean Faris, Rachael Taylor, Luke Ford and Richard Dormer.Anchor Bay Entertainment has US distribution rights and worldwide sales are being handled ...
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Celluloid kicks off Toronto with busy sales for Venice titles
Celluloid Dreams has closed a number of deals on Venice/Toronto titles Achilles And The Tortoise and Mark Of An Angel, plus a number of key deals on Venice title Birdwatchers.Safy Nebbou's French thriller Mark Of An Angel has sold to the UK (Metrodome), Greece (Odeon), Canada (Seville), and Switzerland (Xenix). ...
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Altadena takes on Andrew van den Houten's Offspring
Altadena Films has acquired international rights to director and producer Andrew van den Houten's horror thriller Offspring, which Jack Ketchum adapted from his own best-selling novel. Offspring is the second collaboration between van den Houten and Ketchum after The Girl Next Door, also sold by Altadena (and premiering at Deauville).Offspring ...
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UK minority film-makers join Toronto Talent Lab
The UK film industry has selected Juliet Ellis and Robert Samuels as its two black, Asian or minority ethnic film-makers to participate in Toronto's Talent Lab (Sept 3-6).Samuels is currently developing The Amazing Labours of Arthur Glass with Film4.This marks the second year that UK training body Skillset has partnered ...
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The Works on board for Rachel Ward's feature debut Beautiful Kate
The Works International has taken on world sales for Rachel Ward's Beautiful Kate. Ward's feature directorial debut is based on the novel of the same name by Newton Thornburg.Beautiful Kate is a story of dark family secrets in the Australian outback - told in parallel strands of past and present ...
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Bettany, Connelly take voyage with Darwin film Creation
Husband and wife actors Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly will play Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Darwin in the upcoming feature Creation for Oscar-winning UK producer Jeremy Thomas.Jon Amiel will direct, and the cast will also feature Jeremy Northam, Toby Jones and Benedict Cumberbatch.The film is not described as ...
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Interview: British Film Institute chairman Greg Dyke
When Greg Dyke was appointed chairman of the British Film Institute (BFI) earlier this year, he was asked why he wanted the job. Why would the former director-general of the BBC and one of the most powerful figures of the UK media industry want to throw in his lot with ...
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In Focus: D-cinema divide hangs over the digital switch
Every period of radical change goes through an initial 'what if'' stage where enthusiasts and sceptics try to predict the future.Digital cinema has been rather longer than most in the 'what if'' foothills, partly because of lack of engagement with the issues but mainly because the technology has been out ...
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Insurer Fireman's Fund opens new London office
Feature film insurance company Fireman's Fund is expanding by opening a London office. The office will offer film underwriting to European production companies.Ian Mercer, an insurance executive with 20 years of experience in the UK and US, will head the new office, located on Leadenhall Street.Fireman's Fund will work with ...
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UK leads the pack for European Film Awards shortlist
The European Film Academy has announced the 44 titles on this year's selection list for the European Film Awards. Nominations, after votes from 1,800 members, will be announced Nov 8 at the Seville European Film Festival and the 21st EFAs will be presented Dec 6 in Copenhagen.The list represents 27 ...
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Metrodome takes on Caine, Moore thriller Flawless
Metrodome Distribution has acquired full UK rights to Michael Radford's Flawless, starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore. The deal was negotiated by Stephen Margolis of Future Films andMark WilliamsatPierce/Williams Entertainment, and for Metrodome by CEO Peter Urie, General Manager Distribution Sara Frain and Business Affairs Manager Kate Edwards.Metrodome plans a ...
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Toronto International Film Festival news and reviews
The latest news and reviews from Screen's team at the Toronto International Film Festival.Updated daily Toronto StoriesUpdated daily Toronto Reviews Updated daily Toronto Sales
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London Film Festival to close with Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire
The Times BFI London Film Festival will close its 52ndedition with the European premiere of London-based director Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire.The closing night gala film, which Boyle shot in India, is about an 18-year-old orphan in Mumbai who is suspected of cheating on a game show. The cast features Dev ...
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Slumdog Millionaire to closeLondon Film Festival
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is to close this year's London Film Festival.It will be the European premiere of the film, which had its world premiere at Telluride, and is also due to be screened at the Toronto Film Festival.Based on the novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, and adapted ...
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Raindance to open with Choke, close with Hush
The 16thRaindance Film Festival (Oct 1-12) in London will kick off with Clark Gregg's Choke starring Sam Rockwell and will close with the world premiere of Mark Tonderai's directorial debut, Warp X horror film Hush. Choke, adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's novel, also stars Anjelica Huston (set to attend the ...
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Momentum takes UK rights to Let The Right One In
Momentum Pictures has secured all rights for the UK and Ireland to Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire romance Let The Right One In from sales agent Bavaria Film International.Based on the bestselling novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist, the crossover hit has been sold to all major territories including France ...
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Warp X, Birds Eye View team for women's comedy features
Warp X and Birds Eye View are working together on a new feature film development initiative, Last Laugh: Women Create Comedy.The programme will champion female comedy talent working in the UK and bring female-led comedy features to the big screen.Skillset is supporting the scheme through its Skillset Film Skills ...
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New Wave takes UK rights to Denis' 35 Shot Of Rum
New UK distributor New Wave Films has acquired Claire Denis' 35 Shots Of Rum (35 Rhums).The deal was struck with sales company Elle Driver.The film is in competition in Venice and will also screen here in Toronto.Bruno Pesery produced for Soudaine Compagnie.Denis wrote the screenplay with Jean-Pol Fargeau.Alex Descas, Mati ...