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Clapp takes chief executive post for UK exhibitors group
Phil Clapp has been named as the new chief executive of the UK's Cinema Exhibitors Association. He takes the post as of Oct 15.Chairman Barry Jenkins announced the new appointment. Clapp comes from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, where he had been deputy director for the creative industries.Clapp ...
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Once's John Carney teams with Element for Zonad
Principal photography begins today on Zonad, the new feature from director John Carney whose Sundance award winning Once is currently enjoying critical and commercial success in the US.Carney has also signed to direct Town House for Fox in Los Angeles and New England in the spring.Written by John Carney and ...
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Finnish production grinding to halt
Finnish producers' decision to stop new feature production until culture minister Stefan Wallin has increased production subsidy by $1.7m (Eu1.2m) has had immediate effect. The Finnish Film Foundation has not received a single new Finnish project applying for production support. 'Sometimes there are up to 10 applications for Finnish features ...
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Weinsteins strike US deal for El Rey De La Montana
The Weinstein Company has picked up US and Latin American rights to El Rey De La Montana, a world premiere in Toronto's Discovery section.The film, sold by Paris-based sales house Coach14, also sold to Seville Pictures for Canada after having concluded deals with the UK's Optimum, Madman for Australia and ...
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Carney and Element team for Zonad
Zonad , the new feature from director John Carney, begins principal photography hot on the heels of Carney's Sundance award-winning Once's critical and commercial success in the US. Carney is also signed to direct Town House for Fox in LA and New England in the Spring.Written by John Carney and ...
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Dublin Fest names O'Hagan as new CEO
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival has announced the appointment of Joanne O'Hagan as CEO, replacing Rory Concannon who left the festival earlier in the year to pursue his business interests. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin in Drama and French, O'Hagan began her career with independent Irish TV production ...
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Useless (Wu Yong)
Dir. Jia Zhang-Ke. China , 2007. 84mins.Perennial Venice favourite Jia Zhang-Ke is back with a documentary whose title could invite all manner of cheap shots. But it also happens to be the name of a new, and highly successful, Chinese fashion brand. The second part in a trilogy dedicated to ...
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Principal photography starts on Abraham's Point
Mackenzie Crook makes his debut as a leading man in writer/director Wyndham Price's dramatic comedy which features Joseph Millson (Casino Royale), newcomer Mariah Gale and Harriet Walter (Atonement, Babel, Sense and Sensibility). A tale of redemption, the feature marks the leading debut of Crook, well know for roles in TV's ...
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ContentFilm takes foreign sales for Coogan's Hamlet 2
ContentFilm International has come on board for foreign sales for comedy Hamlet 2, starring Steve Coogan and Catherine Keener. Coogan stars as a high school teacher who tries to save the school's drama department by writing his own sequel to Hamlet.Andrew Fleming (Nancy Drew, The Craft) will direct from a ...
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Granada, WGBH to co-produce Uncle Silas
The UK's Granada Media and US public broadcaster WGBH have struck a deal to co-produce My Uncle Silas, a mini-series based on short stories by HE Bates, set to star Albert Finney and Charlotte Rampling.Granada-owned Yorkshire Television will produce the series - about a ten-year-old boy sent to the country ...
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Podell promoted in acquisitions for Weinstein Company
Michal Podell has been promoted to senior vice president of acquisitions and business and legal affairs at The Weinstein Company.Podell, who formerly served as vice president of international business and legal affairs, is based in New York and will report to acquisitions heads Michelle Krumm and Maeva Gatineau and executive ...
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Sanchez promoted at NBC Universal Television Distribution
Maria Sanchez has been promoted to senior vice president liaison, Latin America, Spain and Portugal at NBC Universal International Television Distribution (NBC UITD).Sanchez most recently served as vice president liaison, Spain and Portugal, and will continue to be based in NBC Universal's Madrid office, reporting to NBC UITD president Belinda ...
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Sigrid Ann Davison dies at 49 after long illness
International sales executive Sigrid Ann Davison died on Aug 26 at her home in Los Angeles after a long illness. She was 49.Davison started her career at Universal Pictures International Sales before moving on to Skouras Pictures, where she served as senior vice president of international and oversaw sales, distribution, ...
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China Clipper to fly with China's Hengdian, Canada's Long Tale
Vancouver-based Long Tale Entertainment has signed with Chinese production colossus Hengdian Studios for the $30m Canada-China co-production China Clipper.Long Tale's Harry Sutherland put the package together with US MoviePlus, the LA-arm of worldwide film finance entity set up by Stuart Little producer Steve Waterman and Chris Brough, founder of Vancouver's ...
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Arthouse, Red Envelope take Wagstaff and Mapplethorpe doc
Arthouse Films and Red Envelope Entertainment will jointly release the documentary Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff And RobertMapplethorpe.James Crump's film premiered at Tribeca and will open theatrically in Los Angeles and New York at the end of the year followed by DVD release in 2008 on ...
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Price starts Abraham's Point with Mackenzie Crook
Writer/director Wyndham Price has started principal photography for Abraham's Point. The project is shooting for five weeks on location in Cardiff and the Pembrokeshire coast.Mackenzie Crook leads the cast and other actors include Joseph Millson, Mariah Gale and Harriet Walter.The film is about a antiques restorer who has strange hallucinations ...
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Rendition
Dir:Gavin Hood. US. 2007. 120mins Religious extremism is the evil of our time; creating those willing to die for a cause and those prepared to sacrifice their core values to prevent them. The murky complexities of the war on terror provide a compelling backdrop to Rendition, a smart, provocative ...
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Paul Morrison kicks off shoot for UK-Spain project Little Ashes
Factotum Barcelona, Aria Films, APT Films & Met Film started principal photography in Barcelona on Sunday for UK-Spain co-production Little Ashes.Paul Morrison directs the story of the lives and loves of Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali.Javier Beltran, Robert Pattinson and Matthew McNulty star.Morrison previously directed Solomon & Gaenor and ...
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Seema Biswas set for Deepa Mehta's Stella
Bandit Queen star Seema Biswas has signed for a lead role in Deepa Mehta's Stella, a $4m comedy set to shoot in New Delhi immediately following production of the recently announced Heaven On Earth.In a departure from form, Mehta will co-direct with her brother Dilip Mehta, production on many of ...
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DHX corrals Chris Noonan's Zebras
Chris Noonan, director of Miss Potter and Babe, is preparing to shoot his next film, the $16m (A$20m) Australia-South Africa co-production Zebras.The original screenplay by David Williamson (The Year Of Living Dangerously, Phar Lap) is based on an Apartheid-era true story of Paul Krieje, an Afrikaaner who coached a Soweto ...