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EuropaCorp's Love embarks on London shoot
Shooting starts today (July11) on Love And Other Disasters, a EuropaCorp production inco-production with Skyline and in association with Ruby Films for ten weeks onlocation in London. Love And Other Disasters is an original screenplaywritten and being directed by Alek Keshishian (Madonna: Truth or Dare),produced by Alison Owen, Keshishian and ...
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Woolcock's Mischief Night cranks up in Leeds
Shooting has begun onlocation in Leeds on Penny Woolcock's Mischief Night.Woolcock (Tina Goes Shopping, The Death ofKlinghoffer, The Principles of Lust)latest film is billed as an exuberant, wild andcontemporary comedy drama about two families (one white, one Asian) who cometogether unexpectedly on a local night of carnival trickery and festivity. ...
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Film London advises film-makers in wake of blasts
Film-makers in London have been urged to follow instructions from thepolice and emergency services in the wake of the series of bomb-blasts thatstruck the capital yesterday.The bomb attacks on London'stransport network killed at least 50 people and injured scores more. There were three explosionson the Underground and one on adouble-decker ...
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Schnabel to direct Doll for Killer, Number 9
ElizabethKarlsen's Number 9 Films has reteamed with Christine Vachon's Killer Films toproduce The Lonely Doll, which will be directed by Julian Schnabel (BeforeNight Falls, Basquiat).The film, writtenby Carl Lund, is based on the life story of Dare Wright, the beautiful andeccentric author and photographer of the best-selling Lonely Dollchildren's books.The ...
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UK film outfits launch Equalities Charter
20 of the UK's top film outfits including the UK FilmCouncil, Channel 4, BBC Films, BAFTA, and Vue Cinemas have joined forces tolaunch an Equalities Charter for Film.Billed as the first charter of its kind, it aims to promoteequal opportunities good practice and tackle issues of access, training andrepresentation, both ...
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UK industry comes together to launch Film Academies
Senior figures from the UKfilm industry, the government and the world of higher education attended aSkillset organised ceremony in London today (July 5) to launch a new network of screenacademies to train film-making talent.The network is made up ofseven existing institutions in England, Scotland and Wales. They include TheScreen Academy ...
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Robbins, Luke to star in Noyce's Hot Stuff
Tim Robbins and Derek Lukewill head the cast in Working Title's production of Phillip Noyce's HotStuff, a political thriller set in South Africa.Based on the true story ofPatrick Chamusso, an ordinary man forced to resort to terror, the film is setin a turbulent and divided South Africa in the nineteen ...
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Icon wins Allen's Match Point for UK
Icon Film Distribution has won the battle for UK rights toWoody Allen's Match Point.The highprofile deal with sales agent HanWay Films was sealed by new Icon UK presidentAlex Hamilton. Match Point has now sold to 46 territories around the world,including DreamWorks for North America. The UK was one of the ...
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Last Mitterand to open Cambridge Film Festival
The Cambridge Film Festival (July 7-17) is to open withRobert Geudiguian's Berlinale title The Last Mitterand.Tomark its 25th anniversary, the festival has lined up a sting of UK premieresincluding Kim Ki Duk's 3 Iron, Mike Figgis' Coma, HayaoMiyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle, Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers,Ingmar Bergman's Saraband and DreamWorks hit ...
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UK government calls for film policy review
The UKgovernment has asked the UK Film Council to carry out a review of policytowards British film.CreativeIndustries Minister James Purnell announced the 'stocktake of film policy' in aspeech at an Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) event in London today.Purnell, who was appointed to the post last month, also suggested ...
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Creep team crank up comedy-horror Severence
Filminghas started on Severance, a comedy-horror film from Chris Smith andJason Newmark, the director and producer team behind hit horror film Creep.The castincludes Danny Dyer, star of The Football Factory and the upcoming film TheBusiness; Laura Harris (The Faculty); Tim Mcinnerny (Blackadder)and Toby Stephens (Die Another Day). The film, which ...
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Joseph's Four Last Songs tunes up in Mallorca
Principal photography beginstoday (June 13), on the Spanish island of Mallorca, on Francesca Joseph's new feature Four Last Songs .Written and directed byFrancesca Joseph (Tomorrow la Scala!), Four Last Songs isproduced by Christopher Collins, Ruth Caleb and Mate Cantero, with David M.Thompson, Duncan Reid and Paula Jalfon as executive producers.Four ...
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Video Island raises extra£5m in backing
Online DVD rental outfit Video Island has raised a further£5m in backing from EVP, Europe's leading venture debt provider.The funding takes the total amount raised by Video Island toover £15m.EVP joins current equity investors BenchmarkCapital, Cazenove Private Equity and Index Ventures.The funding will be used to expand Video Island's DVD ...
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Veer Zaara wins at Indian film industry Oscars
Veer Zaara, a Romeoand Juliet story about a romance between an Indian pilot and his Pakistanisweetheart, triumphed on Sunday at the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA)awards ceremony held in Amsterdam. Veer Zaara, which wonthe best film prize and earned Yash Chopra a best director's award, is a timelytale of cross-cultural ...
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Cameras roll in Uganda on Last King Of Scotland
Principal photography starts in Uganda tomorrow (June 11) on The Last King OfScotland starring Forest Whitaker as Ugandandictator Idi Amin. The project was developed by FilmFour, is financed by bothFilmFour and DNA, and will be distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures andTwentieth Century Fox International.James McAvoy will appear opposite Whitaker as ...
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Touching The Void producer drafts in Day
Leading UK televisionproduction outfit Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP) has appointed Elinor Day,the former deputy head of production at FilmFour, to head up a new feature filmdivision specialising in documentaries and docu-hybrids.Factual specialist DSPenjoyed huge critical and box office success recently with theatricaldocumentary Touching The Void, which won a BAFTA for ...
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Metrodome snaps up McGuckian's Rag Tale
UK distributor Metrodome has acquired Mary McGuckian'ssatire Rag Tale which it plans to release in September/ October2005.Rag Tale chronicles a week in the life of atabloid newspaper in contemporary London. Its tyrannical chairman andobsequious editor (who also happens to be sleeping with the chairman's wife)battle for political supremacy, using staff ...
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EU approves Euros 18m Northern Ireland film and TV fund
European regulators on Wednesday approved Euros 17.7m inU.K. state aid for the promotion of Irish language TV and film. The Northern Irish Language Broadcast Fund will receivethe funds over four years, ending in 2009. European Union law allows governments to back culturalprojects. 'I am happy to approve state aid which ...
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McDonald and Rutter drafts in Rose to head marketing division
UK PR agency McDonald & Rutter has appointed Philip Roseto launch a new marketing division at the company. The new division will aim to give marketing support forfilms in production, develop sales materials for films attending film-marketsand handle key aspects of UK distribution marketing campaigns. Rose joins from Fox Searchlight ...