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UKFC P&A Fund gives $600,000 to Curse Of The Golden Flower
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has announced its latest funding round to support distribution of specialised films: The Curse of the Golden Flower, $601,6695 (£300,000) to Universal Pictures International My Best Friend, $300,738 (£150,000) to Optimum Releasing This Is England, $180,433 (£90,000) to Optimum Releasing Guys and ...
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Colleen Woodcock to replace Celine Haddad at Pathe UK
Pathe UK has appointed Colleen Woodcock as head of creative affairs. Woodcock worked in development in production in Los Angeles for a decade, involved in projects including The Usual Suspects and Con Air, and she returned to the UK in 2001 to join Michael Kuhn's Qwerty Films as head of ...
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Focus starts UK shoot for Miss Pettigrew starring McDormand
Production starts this week on location in the UK for the Focus Features comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, starring Frances McDormand. The seven-week shoot will be held in and around London for five weeks with two weeks at Ealing Studios. Bharat Nalluri, whose most recent credit is the ...
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Optimum strikes UK deal for Waititi's Eagle Vs Shark
Distributor Optimum Releasing has acquired the UK rights to Taika Waititi's debut feature Eagle Vs Shark. Separately, Capelight Films has taken the German rights. The New Zealand feature, a comedy about two misfits starring Loren Horsley and Jemaine Clement, premiered at Sundance before playing in Rotterdam and Berlin. Ainsley Gardiner ...
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Intermedia plans new international sales company with Ford at helm
Intermedia Films unveiled a new international sales and distribution venture yesterday with former First Look International (FLI) president Stuart Ford installed as president and managing director. Ford arrives at the unnamed Los Angeles- and London-based company with the bulk of the core team he assembled over the past year at ...
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Industry Trust tries new approach with anti-piracy campaign
The UK-based Industry Trust for Intellectual Property Awareness has announced plans to start a new campaign to change its approach for fighting film and TV piracy. The current 'piracyisacrime' campaign is thought to be too lecturing, and is being replaced with a more behavioural change approach to encourage the public ...
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Fox signs on for downloads through AAM's Vizumi platform
UK-based digital distribution services company Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has struck a deal with 20th Century Fox for Fox content to be offered for download on AAM's Vizumi Network. The deal covers new and catalogue titles for download-to-rent and download-to-own through vizumi.com and AAM's distribution partners including LoveFilm, AOL UK ...
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ContentFilm takes on world sales of August starring Josh Hartnett
ContentFilm International has taken on worldwide rights to Austin Chick's August, which start shooting today in New York City. Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Adam Scott and Rip Torn will star. Charlie Corwin, David Guy Levy and Clara Markowicz of Original Media are producing alongside Hartnett and Elisa Pugliese of 57th ...
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Northwest England's proposed new agency lands two leaders
As the northwest UK 's two audiovisual organisations are planning to merge, the chief executive and managing director of the combined organsation have been named. Alice Morrison has been appointed chief executive with Lynne McCadden taking the MD post of the as-yet-unnamed organisation. The merger talks are ongoing between North ...
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Celluloid Dreams and HanWay Films: the power of two
There is a temptation to see the merger between Hengameh Panahi's Celluloid Dreams and Jeremy Thomas' HanWay as a commentary on the scary state of today's arthouse business. But the real issue is what it says about the digital future.The most obvious conclusion to draw from the merger of two ...
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Buy the book
From Oscar-feted films such as The Last King Of Scotland and Notes On A Scandal to the new wave of fantasy films led by Eragon, book adaptations are scoring at the global box office and reaping critical acclaim. The literary option market is showing no sign of deflation, with producers ...
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India's UTV to float film production arm on London AIM
Indian media conglomerate UTV Software Communications is to transfer all its worldwide film production activities into one of its overseas subsidiaries, which will move to be listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange.The move is a clear signal of the interest of the group in ...
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Dreamachine licenses Last Emperor to Image Entertainment
Dreamachine, the new company formed by the merger of HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams, has struck its first deal. Image Entertainment signed an exclusive North American licensing agreement with Dreamachine over four films in the Recorded Picture Company library: Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr ...
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Elan Cross Stephens joins Welsh film agency's board
Elan Closs Stephens has joined the board of the new Film Agency for Wales. She was present for the Film Agency's first meeting of the Film Education Forum, to encourage the education sector to work together to encourage film education. Cross Stephens also chaired an open consultation about the Agency's ...
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Lena Headey and Lily Cole join cast of St Trinian's
Ealing Studios has added to the cast of St Trinian's, the contemporary update of the popular 1950s film franchise about a girl's school. Joining the cast are Lena Headey, Lily Cole, Toby Jones, Celia Imrie, Anna Chancellor, and Gemma Arterton. Playing some of the modern-day students are rising talents Talulah ...
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300, Bean 2 lead spectacular international weekend
300 returned to winning ways as Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) action hit beat Mr Bean's Holiday by a whisker to the number one spot overseas.The film added an estimated $32m from 6,500 prints in 61 markets to raise the tally to $173m. It shot to the top in Germany ...
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European film financing: a private phenomenon
A $500m deal between Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Bob and Harvey Weinstein raise $490m in equity through Goldman Sachs. A $500m deal between Virtual Studios and Warner Bros. A $600m equity deal between Relativity Media and Sony and Universal. The figures from the equity funding boom among Hollywood studios ...
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Pinewood: studio tour
No-one knows what caused the fire that burned down the famous 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios in July 2006, but its rapid rebuilding symbolises the upturn in fortunes at Pinewood Shepperton.The $15.7m (£8m) new stage was finished in March. Now, even before an official launch, the 007 stage is back ...
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Script advice available to UKFCunsuccessful applicants
Applicants to the UK Film Council's Development Fund will now be able to get free feedback on unaccepted scripts thanks to a deal with The Script Connection. Consultants Lisa Neeley and Richard Tindall of The Script Connection and their team will offer independent assessments of the scripts not taken on ...
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Warner Music moves into theatrical with UK release of Blue Blood
Varsity boxing documentary Blue Blood was acquired by Warner Music Entertainment in February 2007 and marks the company's first theatrical release. The film will open in selected UK cinemas May 11 with a DVD release planned for later in 2007. Warner Music Entertainment has acquired boxing documentary Blue Blood and ...