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Alfred Molina, Orlando Bloom, Sally Hawkins join cast of An Education
Alfred Molina, Orlando Bloom and Silver Bear-winner Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) will join the cast of An Education, shooting in London in March and April. Award-winning Danish director Lone Scherfig (Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, Italian For Beginners) will direct the film. Nick Hornby adapted the screenplay from the memoir of ...
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Gail Egan, Elisabeth Murdoch named to UK Film Council board
Elisabeth Murdoch, chairman and CEO of the Shine Group, and Gail Egan, producer and founder of Potboiler Productions, have joined the UK Film Council Board of Directors.'It's fantastic news that Elisabeth and Gail have agreed to join the UK Film Council board,' said UK Film Council chairman Stewart Till CBE. ...
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Revolver strikes marketing deal with UK publisher Pan MacMillan
UK distributor Revolver has struck a unique marketing deal with publisher Pan MacMillan.The companies will work together on film releases and book tie-ins.Revolver's forthcoming release My Brother Is An Only Child by Daniele Luchetti is based on Antonio Pennacchi's Il fasciocomunista. Each will be released (in cinemas and bookstores) on ...
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Grant Thornton promotes Brion, Page to partner
UK-based accounting/financial services firm Grant Thornton has promoted Liz Brion and Nick Page to become partners in the firm's Media and Entertainment team.Brion joined GT in 2001 and is head of media tax.Page joined GT in 1996 and has been a specialist in the Media and Entertainment Team since 2004, ...
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European Commission welcomes UK first in broadband deregulation
The European Commission has approved a bold proposal by Ofcom to deregulate broadband provision in some areas of the UK. Ofcom has identified four distinct UK broadband markets, which will allow it to remove regulation in areas where competition is regarded as sufficiently strong.The move is a first for an ...
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Magic Light Pictures teams with Skillset for producer scheme
UK-based training body Skillset and production company Magic Light Pictures have launched the Producer Placement Programme for eight up-and-coming film producers to work in the UK industry.Placements are augmented with masterclasses, workshops and presentations from industry experts.Martin Pope of Magic Light said: 'We're delighted to be bringing together talented emerging ...
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Garage and Kings split film honours at Irish Film & Television awards
From a fairly open field of nominees Element Films' Garage and Newgrange Films' Kings collected four awards each at the 5th Irish Film & Television Awards ceremony in Dublin last night.Garage was voted best film and picked up three other main awards. Best director and best writer awards went to ...
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Fox's Jumper leaps to top of international chart with $28.2m in 30 markets
The sci-fi adventure Jumper leapt to the top of the overseas charts over the weekend thanks to an estimated $28.2m haul from 2,800 screens in 30 markets through Fox International.The result was all the more impressive given that Jumper launched at number one almost everywhere and only seven of the ...
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Berlin 2008 film reviews
Click on a film title to see reviewCompetition Black Ice (Musta Jää) (Petri Kotwica, Finland)Cherry Blossoms (Doris Dorrie, Germany) Elegy (Isabel Coixet. US)Elite Squad (Jose Padilha. Brazil)Gardens Of The Night (Damian Harris. US/UK)Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, UK)In Love We Trust (Wang Xiaoshuai. China)Lake Tahoe (Fernando Eimbcke. Mexico)Night and Day (Hong Sangsoo, ...
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Padilha's The Elite Squad takes Golden Bear in Berlin
Click on film title to see reviewBrazilian film The Elite Squad by Jose Padilha was the surprise winner of this year's Golden Bear at the Berlinale, beating off critics favourites such as There Will be Blood and Happy-Go-Lucky. It is the first Brazilian film to receive the top honour in ...
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Dublin opens tonight with In Bruges with Farrell and Gleeson present
The opening of the Jameson Dublin International Film FestivalInternational tonight and the annual Irish Film & Television Awardson Sunday launch a hectic week of international guests, awards andscreenings in Ireland's capital.The festival launches this evening with the European premiere of Sundance opener In Bruges with writer/director Martin McDonagh and leading ...
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UK's Sky Movies Indie gets broadcast rights to Spirit Awards
UK channel Sky Movies Indie has struck a deal for the exclusive UK broadcast of Film Independent's Spirit Awards. The winners are announced in Santa Monica February 23 and highlights will be shown at 9 pm GMT March 1 on Sky Movies Indie.The channel will also run a week's worth ...
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Chellomedia takes 25% stake in UK-based Shorts International
Liberty Global's European content division Chellomedia has acquired a 25% stake in London-based Shorts International.The deal is done by subsidiary LGI Ventures BV, which specialized in minority investments. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Chellomedia will have a non-executive director on the board of Shorts International.Shorts International's projects include channel ...
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Melissa George to set sail with Icon's thriller Triangle
Melissa George is in final negotiations to star in Triangle, a new supernatural thriller from Creep and Severance director Christsopher Smith.Icon will distribute in Australia and the UK and will handle international sales in other territories. Jason Newmark is producing for Dan Films, with Australia's Chris Brown at Pictures in ...
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David Alcade to direct The Seeing For Leomax
Los Angeles and Berlin-based Leomax Entertainment has optioned the screenplay The Seeing (formerly 27 Times) and set Spanish effects supervisor and commercials director David Alcade to direct.Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Regina, Canada, in the early summer on the story of a 14-year-old boy haunted by visions of ...
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As Berlin winds down, attention turns to potential Cannes selections
A clearer picture is emerging of what films will be ready for this year's Cannes Film Festival in May and the lineup looks like it will be filled with its usual blend of veteran auteur films, new discoveries and US studio fare.Official selection berths already seem set for Ari Folman's ...
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French Film Festival UK to welcome Lola Doillon, Jean Becker
The French Film Festival UK (7 - 20 March 2008) has revealed details of itsprogramme and guests. The event, likely to have added prominence as a showcase for French cinema in the UK this year following the cancellation of the Unifrance London 'Rendez-Vous,' takes place in Edinburgh, Glasgow,Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, ...
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Tiscali, Guerilla plan free downloads of Matt Winn's January 2nd
Broadband/phone company Tiscali is working with UK/Irish distributor Guerilla Films for the first free, on-demand premiere of a UK feature film. The UK romantic comedy January 2nd will be launched simultaneously online and via Tiscali TV.The film will be out February 29 on tiscali.co.uk or to subscribers on Tiscali's digital ...
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In Berlin, Madonna says directorial debut was 'learning curve'
Madonna, in Berlin with her directorial debut Filth And Wisdom, says the 81-minute feature was her version of 'film school.' 'I wanted to do it under the radar because I had to learn how to make a film,' the star told Screen International. 'I paid for it myself and begged, ...
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Visual Factory eyes slew of deals for Hideout, Concrete Romance
UK-based sales outfit Visual Factory has closed a number of deals here at the EFM. Marco Martani's gangster story Concrete Romance has gone to CanalPlus for France; Pupi Avati's The Hideout, a US-shot thriller starring Laura Morante, Burt Young and Treat Williams, has gone to Film Depot for Russia and ...