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NBC Universal International starts new digital strands
NBC Universal International has restructured its digital business to maximise its digital growth strategy. NBCUI will now organise its digital efforts in two strands: New Media Licensing and Digital Assets. LA-based Beth Minehart has been promoted to Executive Vice President, International New Media, NBC Universal International Television Distribution. She will ...
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Run, Fat Boy, Run tops UK box-office for third week
David Schwimmer's directorial feature debut, Run, Fat Boy Run, topped our UK chart for a third weekend, taking $2.4m (£1.2m) from 401 sites for a $12.8m (£6.3m) total to date.The British comedy, which is released by Entertainment Film Distributors and stars local favourite Simon Pegg, fell by 22% this weekend ...
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Brick Lane added to LFF schedule after royal snub
The annual Royal Film Performance has been cancelled for the first time in more than 60 years.This year's event was to be a screening of Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane in November, due to be attended by Prince Charles. Officials said the decision was a diary clash with an overseas trip ...
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LFF adds UK premiere of Gavron's Brick Lane
The forthcoming London Film Festival has added the UK premiere of Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane. The film will screen as a Film On The Square screening the night of Oct 26. Gavron said: 'I am delighted that the film will be in the London Film Festival. It is a film ...
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3DD takes on international rights to Meat Loaf doc
UK-based 3DD Entertainment is taking on international sales for the full-length documentary Meat Loaf: In Search Of Paradise. 3DD plans to start sales of the feature documentary and one-hour TV version at MIPCOM. Bruce David Klein directed the story about rock icon Meat Loaf on tour. Atlas Media Corp produced ...
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Jimi Mistry and Joanne Whalley line up for Eating Dust
Jimi Mistry, Joanne Whalley, Joseph Beattie and Clive Standen have signed up to star in Eating Dust for Glasgow-based director Jade Carmen. Carmen wrote the script with producer Louis Paltnoi. The film will start shooting at the end of October. The project, described as a 'modern Celtic comedy' is set ...
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Bourne stays ahead with $13m international weekend
Universal's The Bourne Ultimatum once again set the pace at the international box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $13m from 4,269 dates in 48 territories. The marketplace's only new entrant, Sony's Resident Evil: Extinction, opened in Mexico day-and-date with its chart-topping domestic launch and came in number one with ...
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Strategic Partners projects include Indigenes writer's debut
At the recent Strategic Partners co-production market in Canada, producers revealed a number of new projects currently in the works. In total almost 200 industry figures from the US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, South Africa, the Netherlands, and the UK were given the chance to pitch their projects to fellow ...
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AAM works on digital release of Queen Rock Montreal
Arts Alliance Media is working with Eagle Rock Entertainment and Empire Cinemas to digitally release concert film Queen Rock Montreal in cinemas across the UK. The project was shot in November 1981 and has only been seen on the big screen at its Cannes debut in 1984. The film has ...
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Keith Potter leaves Dan Films for Film Agency For Wales
Keith Potter has joined the Film Agency for Wales as its head of talent.Potter had been in charge of development for London-based production company Dan Films, working on Christopher Smith's Triangle, Tom Rob Smith's Put Together, and Jeff Noon's Creeping Zero.He is also a member of the advisory board of ...
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Robert Beeson leaves managing director post at Artificial Eye
Ending a 30-year relationship, Robert Beeson has stepped down as Managing Director of UK distribution company, Artificial Eye.His decision to leave follows on from the acquisition of Artificial Eye in the summer of 2006 by Act Entertainment Group, owner of Curzon Cinemas, and Knatchbull Communications Group. 'With the changes in ...
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Berlinale taps Dominique Green as UK delegate
As its selection period looms, the Berlinale has appointed Dominique Green as its official delegate for the UK. Green will advise the Berlinale about the UK film industry and film selection.Green, a veteran of film production, distribution and training, has collaborated with the Berlin festival for many years. In 2004 ...
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Sam Riley joins cast of Franklyn for Recorded Picture Company
Gerald McMorrow will start principal photography in London on Monday, Sept 24, on debut feature film, Franklyn, for UK-based producer Recorded Picture Company. Sam Riley, who has won raves for his leading role in Control, has joined the cast, along with previously announced Ryan Phillippe and Eva Green. The cast ...
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Blueprint takes film rights to Before I Die
Blueprint Pictures, working with its slate deal with Pathe, Film4 and the UK Film Council, has picked up film rights to Jenny Downham's debut novel Before I Die.The deal was negotiated by Caroline Wood at Felicity Bryan Agency on behalf of Catherine Clarke.David Vickling Books published the novel on July ...
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Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart wins Frankfurt Book Fair award
At the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, director Michael Winterbottom will receive the award for Best International Literary Film Adaptation for A Mighty Heart.The award, to be given Oct 12, comes with a $14,000 (Euros 10,000) prize. Winterbottom's film, which premiered at Cannes, is based on the 2003 book of ...
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Atonement joins line-up at Dinard's British Film Festival
The Festival of British Film in Dinard has announced further films in its line-up.Titles added to the previously announced Avant Premiere section include: Joe Wright's Atonement, Anand Tucker's And When Did You Last See Your Father, and Bille Eltringham's Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution.As reported last week, Dinard (Oct 4-7) will open ...
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$3m Young Cleopatra begins Egyptian shoot
UKfilm, TV and theatre company Stagescreen Productions begins shooting The Young Cleopatra, the first in a series of historical features, in Egypt on November 4. The shoot will take place at the Egyptian Media Production City (EMPC), a partner in the project, and on locations in Alexandria and around the ...
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Welsh fund backs Marc Evans documentary
The $14m ($7m) Wales Creative IP Fund is backing its first documentaries.Among the first recipients is In Prison My Whole Life, directed by Marc Evans (Snowcake) and executive produced by Colin Firth.The film follows an investigation into the trial and conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a member of the Black ...
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Meadows and Frazer collaborate again on Somers Town
Director Shane Meadows and writer Paul Frazer are working together again on Tomboy Films' Somers Town, which began shooting this week. The short film follows the lives of two boys living in the Somers Town area of London. Filming started last week for three weeks on location in the UK ...
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UK Film Councilgives $1m backing to Kidulthood follow-up
Noel Clarke, director of cult UK film Kidulthood, is to direct his first feature Adulthood, with $1m (£520,000) backing from the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund. Adulthood, written, directed and starring Clarke follows up on the first film's story.Adulthood is produced by George Isaac and Damian Jones for Cipher ...