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Chadwick to direct The Property for Material, Seymour
London-based production company Material Entertainment is in advanced talks with Justin Chadwick to direct thriller The Property.Chadwick's The Other Boleyn Girl opens in the UK today.The Property is a London-set thriller about a young professional couple who use dubious methods to land their dream home, only to be tormented by ...
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McTavish joins cast of Hardy's Cowboys For Christ
Graham McTavish, who stars alongside Sylvestor Stallone in Rambo, has joined Christopher Lee and Joan Collins on the cast of LA-based Fantastic Films International and London-based CFC Film's horror film Cowboys For Christ. Robin Hardy is set to begin filming on Apr 10 in Dumfries, Scotland, the same region ...
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Mini works with Future Shorts for UK short film programme
Car company Mini UK is launching screenings of original short films in UK cinemas.The four month campaign starts on March 7 and will feature films supplied by Future Shorts.The three shorts screening from March to June are: Procrastination by Levni Yilmaz, Park Football by Grant Orchard and Neighbor by Eric ...
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Vertigo signs deal for Contender to handle DVD releases
UK-based distributor Vertigo Films has signed a DVD distribution deal with Contender Home Entertainment, which is part of Contender Entertainment Group (owned by Canada's Entertainment One).Contender will handle DVD distribution for Vertigo's forthcoming theatrical releases, starting with Tom Shankland's serial killer thriller WAZ starring Stellan Skarsgard, Ashley Walters, Melissa George ...
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ContentFilm calls off plans for acquisition by Peace Arch
ContentFilm has called off a possible deal with Peace Arch Entertainment.Peace Arch Entertainment Group had entered into a letter of intent to acquire ContentFilm in late December in a deal to be worth 19,500,000 Peace Arch shares plus cash of $35m.Content said that since December 'there have been several circumstances ...
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UK's fourth Birds Eye View opens tonight with Maureen Lipman
The fourth Birds Eye View Film Festival kicks off in London tonight with a special focus on comedy. Maureen Lipman will open the festival at the BFI by presenting a range of short films and a performance by Imogen Heap to accompany silent comedy.BEV is a celebaration of women film-makers ...
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Jeremy Pelzer tapped to head UK's Elstree Studios
Jeremy Pelzer has been appointed to head Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, UK.He will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Studio business, developing new initiatives, extending partnerships, and raising the profile of Elstree.Pelzer wasformerly studio director of Ealing Studios from 2002 to 2007 also managed the renewal of 3 ...
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French films, led by Ch'Tis, lead the international box office
French films accounted for nearly a quarter of the international top 40 revenue this weekend, spearheaded by a whopping $32.5m opening from top film Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis.The top 40 films generated $188.5m from 45,384 screens for the period of February 29-March 2. For the full international chart, compiled by ...
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Alex Hamilton appointed director of UK's Contender Films
Alex Hamilton, the former president of Icon Film Distribution, has joined growing UK distributor Contender Entertainment Group.He has been appointed director of Contender Films, the company's feature film theatrical distribution and operations division for the UK and Ireland.He takes the post as of April 1 and will report to CEG ...
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Jerwood hands out three prizs to UK moving image artists
The Jerwood Charitable Foundation has announced the three winners of the inaugural Jerwood Moving Image Awards.The winners are Evensong by Sophie Clements, Procrastination by Johnny Kelly and Sea Change by Rosie Pedlow and Joe King. Each gets an award of $19,783 (£10,000).The awards are for artists working in digital moving ...
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Momentum, Sky partner for DVD/VOD release of Vegas, Baby
Momentum Pictures and Sky have struck a deal to simultaneously release Vegas, Baby on DVD and Sky Box Office and Sky Anytime on PC.The release date is March 31 for Sky and DVD sales, which is two weeks after the DVD rental release.The Sky platforms will the pay-per-view/VOD offering for ...
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Richard Curtis starts rocking Boat for Universal/Working Title
Universal Pictures and Working Title Films started principal photography yesterday for Richard Curtis' new comedy The Boat That Rocked.Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh star. Hoffman, Nighy, Ifans and Frost play iconoclastic DJs while Branagh plays a government official out to get the lawbreakers.The ...
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Ingenious acquires Human Capital, launches consulting arm
UK-based finance powerhouse Ingenious Media has moved into consulting with the launch of Ingenious Consulting Network (ICN). Ingenious has acquired Human Capital, a strategy, research and development consultancy that concentrates on media, entertainment and telecoms.ICN said it planned to acquire other businesses offering consulting to media and entertainment businesses.Kip Meek, ...
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UK's John Akomfrah at work on Fela Kuti documentary
UK film-maker John Akomfrah, who recently collected an Order Of The British Empire (OBE) for his services to film, has several new projects in the works.His Smoking Dogs Films production outfit, with Lina Gopaul and David Lawson, is currently working on a feature-length documentary about Afro Beat legend Fela Kuti. ...
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Richard Napper takes MD post at UK's Curzon Cinemas
Richard Napper, the former managing director, UK, of Sony Pictures International, has been appointed as the new managing director of Curzon Cinemas.He will oversee all the business operations of exhibition outfit Curzon, part of UK distributor-exhibitor Curzon Artificial Eye Group. Louisa Dent continues as managing director on the distribution side.Philip ...
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Material takes on three Treasure Island pre-quels
UK production company Material Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to John Drake's Flint & Silver as well as the book's two follow-ups.The author makes his debut with the adult adventure novel, a prequel to Treasure Island. The story is about the rivalry between Flint and Silver before their confrontation ...
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BBFC oversightlaw shot down in UK House of Commons
Conservative MP Julian Brazier today had a second reading in the House Of Commons for his British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and Appeals) Bill, and the proposal has now effectively been killed off after five hours of discussion.Brazier's proposed Bill points to violent and sexual material allowed ...
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Terry Pratchett, Vadim Jean on board for Screenwriters Festival
The International Screenwriters' Festival, hosting its third event in Cheltenham this July, has announced several more key attendees.Fantasy writer Terry Pratchett and director Vadim Jean will discuss their recent collaboration The Colour Of Magic (a Sky project), which brought them together after The Hogfather.Other speakers already lined up for the ...
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Nicolas Winding Refn starts Bronson shoot with Vertigo
Danish-born director Nicolas Winding Refn has started a six-week UK shoot for Bronson, his feature about notorious prisoner Charles Bronson.Vertigo Films is producing in association with 4DH Films, EM Media, Str8jacket Creations and Aramid Entertainment.Vertigo's Rupert Preston and 4DH Film's Danny Hansford will produce. Executive producers are Nick Love, Allan ...
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London Australian Film Festival to open with Unfinished Sky
This year's London Australian Film Festival will run March 6-16, opening with Peter Duncan's Unfinished Sky, about a reclusive farmer in rural Queensland who befriends an Afghan refugee. The festival will close with Richard Roxburgh's Romulus, My Father starring Eric Bana and Franka Potente.The festival, hosted at the Barbican, is ...