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UK's City Screen takes overNewman software from AAM
City Screen, which runs the UK's Picturehouse cinemas, has acquired the Newman software business from Arts Alliance Media.Newman is the box-office and cinema management web-based software platform that City Screen has helped develop since its inception.City Screen said: 'theacquisition guarantees the continued development of the software to meet its ambition ...
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Inside Pictures gears up for sixth edition of training programme
UK film business training programme Inside Pictures is planning its sixth programme. Applications will be open until May 9.The programme consists of three intenstive one-week modules, held in London and Los Angeles between July and November 2008.Up to 15 applicants will be taking part. Each has about five years experience ...
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Pretty Pictures takes on French rights to Bacon's Arena
Paris-based Pretty Pictures has acquired all French-language rights to Adam Low's Bacon's Arena, a BBC-backed documentary about artist Francis Bacon.The project was sold by London-based Wavelength Pictures. The package includes DVD bonuses for a special release during the centenary of Bacon's birth in 2009. There are major exhibitions planned in ...
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Revolver strikes DVD deal with Turner for Adult Swim, Nuts TV
UK distributor Revolver Entertainment has taken the exclusive UK and Ireland home entertainment rights to Turner Broadcasting System's Adult Swim.Adult Swim is Turner's popular channel for non-conformist animation projects aimed at adults 18-34 years old.Revolver gets rights to more than 100 US hit titles including Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot ...
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BBC costume collection sold to Angels The Costumiers
BBC commerical subsidiary BBC Resources has sold the BBC costume collection to Angels The Costumiers. Financial terms were not disclosed.The BBC noted there had been strong international and UK interest in the famed collection. The BBC in February 2008 shut down its Costume + Wigs department, which was based in ...
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Odeon/UCI to manage five more cinemas in Ireland
Odeon and UCI Cinemas have struck a deal with Entertainment Enterprises Group to manage and operate a further five multi-screen cinemas in Ireland, after the recent acquisition of the Storm Cinema group.The five cinemas will continue to be run under the Storm name.Odeon and UCI Cinema Group now operate and ...
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BAFTA Wales film nominees include Summer Scars, Daddy's Girl
BAFTA Wales has announced the nominees for its 17th annual awards.Nominees for best film are DJ Evans' Daddy's Girl, Ashley Way's Small Country (Calon Gaeth), and Julian Richards' Summer Scars. Daddy's Girl star Richard Harrington is also recognised in the best actor category.TV projects nominated include Coal House, The History ...
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UTA 'comedy wheel' derails to Endeavor agency
Senior UTA partners Nick Stevens, Sharon Sheinwold and Lisa Hallerman - prominent members of the so-called 'comedy wheel' that came to define UTA as Hollywood's leading laugh factory - have defected to Endeavor.While it remained unclear whether the new arrivals will be anointed as partners in their new Beverly Hills ...
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Horton hears nearly $100m overseas for Fox
As expected, Fox International's Horton Hears A Who! dominated the Hollywood overseas pack thanks to a three-day haul that delivered an estimated $11.7m from 5,783 screens and raised the tally to $91.5m.The animated family release is several days away from crossing the $100m threshold and owes much of its weekend ...
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Meurer, Curling to produce Stephen Fry's Handel biopic
Egoli Tossell Film Halle, the joint venture production company established by Berlin-based Egoli Tossell Film and the UK's Zepyhr Films initially to produce Michael Hoffman's $20.5m (Euros 13m) The Last Station, has other projects in the pipeline to be shot in Central Germany and particularly in the Land of Saxony-Anhalt. ...
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UK sales company Lumina rebrands as Salt to reflect wider remit
London-based Lumina Films has changed its name to The Salt Company, or Salt for short. The change is effective immediately.Samantha Horley continues as managing director with Lumina partners Robert Bevan and Cyril Megret now more hands-on as directors of Salt.Salt is part of the Monaco-based International Film Collective that also ...
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Charlotte Van Weede leaves HanWay for new Protagonist
Protagonist Pictures, the new UK-based sales company formed by Film4, Ingenious, and Vertigo, has hired Charlotte Van Weede as its head of sales.The company's CEO Ben Roberts announced the appointment of Van Weede, who joins from HanWay Films, where she is director of sales and distribution.Prior to joining HanWay in ...
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Skillset branches out with Northern Ireland careers service
UK audiovisual skills training organisation Skillset has launched a new careers service devoted to Northern Ireland.The service will work with both newcomers to film and TV as well as experienced workers.Three working professionals in the Belfast area have been trained as Skillset Careers Advisors and will offer one-to-one guidance or ...
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UK event to address impact of D-cinema on distributors
The role of distributors in the development of digital cinema is the subject of a London conference this month, organised by analyst Screen Digest and the European Digital Cinema Forum.The event - Digital cinema and film distribution: opportunities and threats - will be in the form of a series of ...
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UK landscape shifts as Warner moves to same-day VOD/DVD
Amid signs that the UK distribution market is in an increasing state of flux, British distributors are testing out more and more new ways of getting their movies in front of spectators.'Companies are beginning to look at imaginative release plans for films that 10 years ago simply wouldn't have been ...
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Space man: Duncan Jones talks about his feature debut
It is an early March morning at Shepperton Studios and Sam Rockwell is in a spaceship, shaving. He stars in Moon, an unusual and ambitious film which is being made in the spirit of classic 1970s sci-fi such as Ridley Scott's Alien and Douglas Trumbull's Silent Running.The film marks the ...
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Summerheat:the battle of the 2008 blockbusters
Hollywood's powerhouse summer of 2007 launched some of the biggest worldwide hits in cinema history. The indications are the 2008 blockbuster season may write itself into the record books too.If last year's summer was distinguished by lucrative third episodes of killer franchises such as Spider-Man, Pirates Of The Caribbean and ...
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Picturehouse to release Joiningthedots.tv documentaries
UK exhibitor Picturehouse Cinemas is working with Joiningthedots.tv to show films licensed to the site across its UK cinemas.Joiningthedots.tv is a documentary website from Mercury Media and The Independent newspaper.The first title to hit cinemas, from late May, is Joshua Dugdale's The Unwinking Gaze about the Dalai Lama.MercuryMedia MD Tim ...
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Pinewood 2007profits fall 26%, impacted by US writers' strike
UK studio Pinewood Shepperton saw a 26% fall in pre-tax profits in 2007, to $10.58m (£5.3m).The studio has recently hosted the latest Bond film, Quantum Of Solace, Sweeney Todd and The Wolfman, but lost out on another planned major shoot - said to be Angels & Demons -- due to ...
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Working Title signs newtwo-picture deal with Edgar Wright
Working Title has confirmed a new two-picture deal with UK hotshot director Edgar Wright.He will write and direct two projects for Working Title, starting with Baby Driver, described as 'a a wild spin on the action and crime genre which will be set in the US.'The second project under the ...