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Asmik Ace takes on Japanese distribution for Shadow Of The Moon
Channel 4 International has brokered a deal for Asmik Ace Entertainment to handle the Japanese theatrical release for In The Shadow Of The Moon. Asmik Ace plans a 2008 launch for the Sundance hit documentary, which is being released by ThinkFilm in the US, Vertigo Films in the UK and ...
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Britdoc gives international prize to Devil Came On Horseback
The second-annual Britdoc festival wrapped Friday with its international jury prize going to Darfur project The Devil Came On Horseback by Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern.The winner of the Screen International British competition was Kim Longinotto's Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go, about a school for children with severe emotional ...
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Cause and effects
From Harry Potter to Sunshine, the UK's post houses are creating world-class effects work. But how is the sector being affected by the exchange rate and increasing competition from India' Geoffrey Macnab reports. The past 12 months has been something of a banner year for the UK post sector. From ...
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Rushes Soho Shorts adds documentary competition
The ninth Rushes Soho Shorts Festival in London will run July 28-Aug 3 with screenings of 90 short films across the categories of newcomer, animation, music video, and this year's addition, documentary, as well as a series of educational and networking events.Screenings will centre around the Curzon Soho and highlights ...
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Venice lines up strong English-language programme
Hollywood will be jetting to the Lido for the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival where a cluster of top shelf US directors are unveiling their current projects in a festival that underscores the force of English-language cinema.While six American pictures have made the competition cut, they are flanked ...
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Berczeller wins Britdoc Pitching with Through A Glass, Darkly
At today's More4 Pitching Forum at the Britdoc Festival, Paul Berczeller was named top pitcher with his project Through A Glass, Darkly. He wins $2000 (£1000) in a cash prize.He presented the project, about the son of a man involved in an infamous CIA LSD experiment, with producer Nikki Parrott ...
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UK anti-piracy groups celebrate charges brought against market owners
The UK's anti-piracy groups are welcoming a judgment handed down at St Albans Crown Court that says a market can be held accountable for pirated materials sold by its traders. The case was brought by Hertfordshire Trading Standards against Wendy Fair Markets Ltd and its directors Nicholas Hobday and Sally ...
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UK cinema admissions up 6% in first half of the year
UK admissions rose 6% year-on-year for the first half of 2006, according to the country's distributors' organisation.Visitor numbers rose to 76.9 million with box-office revenues reaching $815m (£396.8m.)The figures from the Film Distributor's Association highlight two key factors:The popularity of local films, including Mr Bean's Holiday, Hot Fuzz , Miss ...
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Axiom and Matador wrap shoot for UK drama There For Me
Director Sallie Aprahamian has wrapped principal photography on UK romantic drama There For Me.The film is the first collaboration between Axiom Films and Matador Pictures. Axiom developed the film in association with Matador and Regent Capital's Cinema Two. Arts Alliance Media's MetFilm is also co-financing.Douglas Cummins of Axion produces with ...
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Iggy Pop and Andrea Arnold join forces for Raindance jury
The London-based Raindance Film Festival has announced the jury for this year's 15th anniversary edition.Continuing tradition of including musicians on the jury, Raindance confirmed that Iggy Pop and Mick Jones will both serve as jurors for the 2007 festival (Sept 25-Oct 7).Other jurors will be film-makers Penny Woolcock, Andrea Arnold, ...
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Kelly Reilly to lead cast for Watkins' thriller Eden Lake
Kelly Reilly will star with 300's Michael Fassbender and This Is England newcomer Thomas Turgoose in Eden Lake for director James Watkins.Celador's Christian Colson (The Descent) is producing with Waking Ned producer Richard Holmes. The $4m (£2m) project will shoot July 29-Sept 8 in the London area.The thriller, which Watkins ...
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The Independent becomes sponsor of Sheffield Doc/Fest
The UK 's Sheffield Doc/Fest has recruited The Independent newspaper as the festival's presenting media sponsor. The festival will now be known as Sheffield Doc/Fest in association with The Independent, and the sponsorship deal also includes editorial, advertising and marketing initiatives. Heather Croall, festival director of Doc/Fest, said: 'With The ...
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Ratatouille's Remy recruited for UK anti-piracy campaign
The UK's Industry Trust for IP Awareness is working with Disney and Pixar for an anti-piracy campaign starring Ratatouille's Remy the Rat. The new anti-copyright theft spots will launch in cinemas Friday. Remy is seen dismissing pirated films for their poor quality and lack of taste. The initiative is also ...
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Indian Film Company backs six new projects including Loot
The Indian Film Company, the Bollywood producer which recently started trading on the UK's Alternative Investment Market in June, has invested $24m (£12m) in six new film projects to be produced over the next year. The new projects bring Indian Film Company's slate of productions to a total of 20 ...
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Film industry said to contribute nearly $9bn to UK economy
The UK film industry contributed about $8.9bn (£4.3bn) to the UK's gross domestic product in 2006 - a 39% increase in two years, according to a new Oxford Economics report supported by The UK Film Council and Pinewood Shepperton. That figure represents direct impact from core film activities such as ...
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Bastion takes on Godley's debut Where The Treetops Glisten
New UK independent producer Bastion Pictures has optioned the rights to Where The Treetops Glisten, which will mark the debut feature of Kevin Godley, who previously worked on music videos and documentaries. Godley co-wrote the script with Adrian Deevoy. The film is about executives at a TV company specialising in ...
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Peccadillo takes UK rights to XXY and Poltergay
UK distributor Peccadillo Pictures has acquired all UK and Ireland distribution rights to Lucia Puenzo's XXY as well as home entertainment rights for Eric Lavaine's Poltergay. XXY won the Cannes Critics' Week Grand Prix and Rail D'Or. Ines Efron and Martin Piroyansky star in the story of a young hermaphrodite ...
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Potter rockets past $350m in overseas grosses
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix consolidated its gains from last weekend's memorable launch and seized an estimated $100.8m to cross $350m overseas after less than two weeks.Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) fifth entry in the children's fantasy series drew approximately 14m admissions from 13,000 prints in 58 ...
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Film24 channel launches on UK's Sky platform
A new independent channel has launched on Sky's platform. The Film24 (channel 158) launches as a channel about film, not airing films.The original programming covers large and small films and DVD releases, new talent, regional cinema, films in production and more behind-the-scenes programmes.Nicky Davis, CEO of Film24 says: ' Movies ...
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Harry Potter's own book launch poses only real competition to ever-rising Phoenix
Every fan of the franchise knows it's not in Harry Potter's nature to be a bully, but the film version of his exploits is a different beast entirely and has been swatting rivals like flies since it was released around the world last week.The fifth episode in the fantasy series, ...