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LoveFilm brings in Ching-Har Wong to head customer acquisition
LoveFilm has appointed Ching-Har Wong as head of customer acquisition, replacing former head Nick Adderley.Wong takes the post immediately and reports to UK managing director Andrew Ground. She manages a team of five.Wong has more than 13 years of marketing experience, including senior positions at global Vodafone, Barclays, Kilivington Leith ...
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Producer Iain Smith tapped to chair UK's new Industry Training Board
Famed UK producer Iain Smith (Children Of Men, Cold Mountain) has been appointed to chair the Film Industry Training Board (FITB).The appointment was confirmed today by The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). Under Smith, the FITB will have statutory levy powers. Its role is to ensure that the ...
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LoveFilm offers recommendation tool to T-Mobile users
UK internet DVD and film site LoveFilm is working with mobile phone company T-Mobile on a new movie recommendation tool.T-Mobile Flext users will be recommended films based on a series of questions. The tool is driven through LoveFilm data with Unanimis and MediaCom.T-Mobile users can also opt in for a ...
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John Smith's $6m Love And Savagery rolls in Ireland
John N. Smith's Canada-Ireland coproduction Love And Savagery begins shooting today in County Clare, Ireland. The $6.3m (C$6.5m) production reunites Smith, screenwriter Des Walsh and director of photography Pierre Latarte, the creative team behind the acclaimed 1992 production The Boys Of St. Vincent.Set in 1968, Love And Savagery follows a ...
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Dogwoof starts film channel on blinkx's BBTV
UK distributor Dogwoof has created a film channel on blinkx's new broadband TV service BBTV.BBTV has a unique indexing system that allows viewers to interact with online sources such as Google, Wikipedia, IMDB or other sites.'The film industry is screaming out for a multi-layered film channel, run by professional distributors ...
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Jane Campion starts UK shoot for Bright Star with Pathe
Pathe has started principal photography on location in the UK for Jane Campion’s Bright Star.Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider and Kerry Fox star. The story is about the 23-year-old English poet John Keats (Whishaw) who starts a secret affair with the girl next door (Cornish), who is an unlikely ...
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Sarah Watt starts shoot for My Year Without Sex in Melbourne
The Works International has taken on sales for My Year Without Sex, which starts principal photography today.The film reunites writer/director Sarah Watt and producer Bridget Ikin after their award-winning 2005 feature Look Both Ways. That film won prizes at the Toronto, Rotterdam and Melbourne festivals and from the Australian Film ...
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Footprint makes bridge loan to The Laundry Warrior
The UK-based Footprint Investment Fund, previously known as the Footprint Film Fund, is making its first investment as a bridging loan to $45m action adventure The Laundry Warrior.Barrie Osborne, Michael Peyser and Jooick Lee are producing.The film is shooting now in New Zealand for August 2008 delivery. Jang Dong-Kun, Kate ...
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AAM, DigiScreen, Pillar, Royal Opera House strike digital deal
Arts Alliance Media is working with Montreal-based DigiScreen Corporation, The Pillar Group and the Royal Opera House-owned TV and DVD production company Opus Arte to bring ballets, operas and dance from the Royal Opera House and other performing arts companies to cinemas across Europe.The HD content, both pre-recorded and live, ...
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Contender, Seville buy Franklyn and Eddie from HanWay
Growing UK distributor Contender Films, now owned by Canada's Entertainment One, has acquired all UK rights for features Franklyn and Eddie The Eagle, both sold by HanWay Films.Also, Entertainment One's Seville Pictures took Canadian rights to both titles.Gerald McMorrow's feature debut Franklyn is a story of four lost souls in ...
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Jobson starts Edinburgh shoot for New Town Killers
Richard Jobson has started shooting chase thriller New Town Killers in Edinburgh.Dougray Scott, Alastair Mackenzie, James Pearson and Charles Mnene lead the cast.Jobson also wrote the story, which follows two disenchanted bankers who try to play manhunt with society's marginal figures.Luc Roeg of London-based Independent is producing with Jobson. Backers ...
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Aspect Film takes on sales for Journal Of A Contract Killer
UK-based sales company Aspect Film Ltd has taken on worldwide rights to Tony Maylam's female assassin thriller Journal OfA Contract Killer.The story is based on true events in the UK and Italy about an assassin who turns on her mafia bosses after her child is kidnapped. Justine Powell and Isabella ...
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Fact Not Fiction launches Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines
UK-based Fact Not Fiction Films is planning an April DVD launch of its feature documentary Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines.The 93-minute film is an investigative documentary about how airline crews and passengers can be exposed to hazardous chemicals in unfiltered air.Fact Not Fiction founder Tristan Loraine was a commercial airline pilot ...
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Celtic Media Festival selects seven feature dramas in shortlist
The 2008 Celtic Media Festival has announced the shortlist of seven films competing for the Bronze Torc for Excellence for Feature Length Drama.They are The Last King Of Scotland, Kings, Cre na Cille (Graveyard Clay), The Midnight Drives, Dressing Granite, Calon Gaeth, and Seachd - The Inaccessible Pinnacle.The festival will ...
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London Lesbian & Gay fest kicks off 15-day event
The BFI's successful London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (LLGFF) kicked off its 22nd year last night with a gala screening of Alek Keshishian's romantic comedy Love and Other Disasters.The film follows an American intern (Brittany Murphy) as she tries to find a boyfriend for her gay flatmate (Matthew Rhys).More ...
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Seven Arts strikes investment deal with UK's Zeus Partners
Los Angeles-based Seven Arts Pictures has struck a deal with Manchester, UK-based financial services company Zeus Partners to raise investment capital for Seven Arts' production and distribution activities.The first part of the investment closed March 19 and the rest is expected to close by the end of June.The investment covers ...
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Michael Apted launches UK directors' guild
TV and film director Michael Apted has initiated the launch of a UK directors' guild to address what he views as 'the cynical disregard for the film-maker'.Directors UK (D-UK) will officially launch in May with director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum) as president, and writer/director Charles Sturridge (Brideshead Revisited) as ...
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Jodie Whittaker goes to South Africa for Turner's White Wedding
Jann Turner has started a South African shoot for White Wedding, her feature film debut.The romantic road movie is shooting across South Africa from Johannesburg and Durban to the Eastern Cape and Cape Town.Jodie Whittaker, who starred in Venus and St Trinian's, takes the lead opposite South African veterans Kenneth ...
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Aria, Full Circle, Axis 3D team for UK thriller The Mortician
London-based production outfits Aria Films and Full Circle films are partnering with Axis3D to shoot a new UK thriller using new 3D technology.The Mortician will combine genres of urban noir, contemporary fairytale and psychological thriller to tell the story of one alienated man in a decaying metropolis who is forced ...
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Ealing plans sequel to box-office hit St Trinian's
Ealing Studios is planning a sequel to its hit St Trinian's film. Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft, who worked on the 2007 project, are writing the sequel script now.Click here for more on first film successThe ensemble cast of last year's film featured Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Stephen Fry, Lena ...