All articles by Louise Tutt – Page 20
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FeaturesRising stars take centre stage
This week’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (June 17-28) is turning the spotlight on first-time UK film-makers.
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FeaturesMarket report UK
Festival gems perform well in the UK, but usually far outside the top 100.
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Profile: UK producer Simon Jordan
A self-made millionaire with investments in restaurants, magazines and property, Simon Jordan now wants to be a British film mogul.Already a minor celebrity in the UK and popular with the tabloids as the young, outspoken owner of Championship football club Crystal Palace, Jordan is taking his first steps in celluloid ...
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International - Sunny shines at home
Showbox's big-budget war epic Sunny enjoyed a strong $3.8m opening weekend at home, to become the second highest opener in the international market last weekend after Twentieth Century Fox's The X-Files: I Want To Believe, which grossed $9m from 22 territories.Hot on the heels of local blockbuster The Good, The ...
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Thinking Global, Acting Local: Reactions to studio international ambitions
During the 1990s, some German producers preferred to license the local distribution rights for their films to German distributors at the expense of a potentially better deal with the local office of a US studio.Talking points: reaction of local producersThey were apparently driven by a 'them against us' fear the ...
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On location: Good
Fluctuations in the exchange rate caused problems for a UK production looking for savings in Hungary. Louise Tutt reports. The $16m UK production of Good headed to Hungary in search of savings but almost lost out as a result of exchange rate fluctuations.Lured to Budapest by the 20% tax allowance ...
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In focus - Festival Buzz - Cannes Talent Watch
Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu, actors, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 DaysThe understated, emotionally nuanced performances from the two young stars of Cristian Mungiu's abortion drama helped propel the Romanian title to the Palme d'Or. "The leads never put a foot wrong, giving remarkably controlled and unaffected performances," is ...
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United Kingdom - Good times
If I wasn't a Jew I'd be a Nazi," says UK producer Miriam Segal. It is a forthrightness designed to make you sit up and pay attention. Her debut film, Good, starts shooting in Budapest this week and Segal is determined it will have a shocking appeal - for all ...
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Goal! 2 signs House Of Wax director
Jaume Collet Serra, the Spanish director of Warner Bros' HouseOf Wax, has signed to direct Goal! 2, the second film in MilkshakeFilms' football trilogy. Shooting starts in October in Spain and London. Thetrilogy follows a Mexican boy from Los Angeles to play football in the UK,before transferring to a Spanish ...
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Eccleston heads to Hungary with Cougar Films' Double Life
Christopher Eccleston hassigned to star in Double Life for Sophie Balhechet and Lynda La Plante's CougarFilms. UK TV director Joe Ahearnewill make his feature debut on the film which is set and will be shot inHungary. Ahearne has previously worked with Eccleston on the TV series DrWho. Double Life is ...
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Bowie to executive produce 30 Century Man doc
David Bowie isexecutive producing a new music documentary about American rock muse ScottWalker called 30 Century Man. The projectheads up the debut slate of UK production outfit Missing In Action Films, runby former marketing and distribution executive Mia Bays.Bays is inCannes with a 10-minute promo of 30 Century Man: The ...
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Producers weigh up Belgium, China and S. Africa benefits
The benefits of shooting inBelgium, South Africa and China were outlined to international producers at afilm financing conference hosted by Screen International in London last week.The main reason to co-produce with China, said Thomas Leongof International Pacific Artists, is access to Chinese investment.'Although China is a communist country, it iscurrently ...
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Industry weighs up DVD pricing dilemma
The DVD release of Finding Nemo earlier this year hassparked a pricing revolution in France, said Jean-Paul Commins, chief operatingofficer of independent distributor France Televisions Distribution (FTD), atScreen's DVD: The Home Cinema Summit in London on Thursday.Apanel comprising Commins, Jan Rickers, head of marketing for Germany's Kinowelt Home Entertainment, and ...
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Mixed bag for international box office markets last year
2002 was the year the US majors clawed back market share at the international box office after the previous 12 months which had seen homegrown hits enjoy an unprecedented period of glory in their local markets.Record-breaking audiences were seduced by the second instalments in the Harry Potter (Chamber Of Secrets) ...
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Ranvaud proposes new sales paradigm
The producer of City Of God and Central Station is teaming up with a group of Latin American and European producers to launch a sales company. Talking at the Screen International European film finance summit in Berlin, Donald K Ranvaud said he wanted to reduce costs and improve the management ...
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Ranvaud proposes new sales paradigm
The producer of City Of God and Central Station is teaming up with a group of Latin American and European producers to launch a sales company. Talking at the Screen International European film finance summit in Berlin, Donald K Ranvaud said he wanted to reduce costs and improve the management ...
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Till maps out European cinema future
In one of his first public speeches since becoming chairman and CEO of United International Pictures (UIP), Stewart Till has said that he does not expect to see a European multi-territory distributor emerging in the near future - due to a lack of both money and expertise. "With some honourable ...
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Till maps out European cinema future
In one of his first public speeches since becoming chairman and CEO of United International Pictures (UIP), Stewart Till has said that he does not expect to see a European multi-territory distributor emerging in the near future - due to a lack of both money and expertise. "With some honourable ...
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UK industry reacts to Parker's plea for change
The British film industry is waiting on more detail from Alan Parker, the UK director and chairman of strategy body the Film Council, after he unveiled a blueprint for curing Britain of its 'little England' syndrome, partly by providing tax breaks for local and foreign distributors which invest in British ...