All articles by Tim Dams – Page 61
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NewsScreen Ireland hires Embankment Films’ Greg Martin as feature film project manager (exclusive)
Exec joins Irish screen agency after six year spell at Embankment.
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NewsLionsgate rebrands Starzplay outside North America, may spin off studio
Streamer will remain as Starz in the US and Canada.
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News‘Chernobyl’ director Johan Renck launches Sinestra with producer Michael Parets, strikes deal with Fremantle
First collaboration with Fremantle will be adaptation of Antoine Wilson’s ’Mouth to Mouth’
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NewsFormer BFI and Warp Film exec Mary Burke launches film and TV indie Public Dreams
Production company is developing projects for BBC drama, and with talent from ’The Crown’ and ‘Severance.’
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NewsFrance’s TF1 and M6 call off merger plans
Move follows meetings with the Frency Competition Authority.
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NewsEuropean Film Academy launches film heritage department
Department has begun building pan-European film heritage network.
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NewsLukas Dhont’s ‘Close’ selected as Belgium’s Oscar entry
Film won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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News‘Blackport’ reels in buyers; ‘HIP’ set for US remake; ‘The English’ travels - European Scripted Briefs
A round-up of European drama deals and appointments.
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: Beta Cinema’s Thorsten Ritter talks passing on ‘Il Divo’, his love of guitars, and his pal Rupert Everett
Ritter is EVP acquisitions, sales and marketing at Beta Cinema.
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NewsMichael Winterbottom’s 'This England' sells to 88 territories
Kenneth Branagh plays UK prime minister Boris Johnson.
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NewsNumber of UK homes subscribing to streaming platforms falls for the first time amid cost of living crisis
Ofcom says 19.2 million households now subscribe to one SVoD platform, down 350,000
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NewsGhana to host African cinema convention in bid to boost screens across continent
Inaugural Meta Cinema Forum Africa takes place in November.
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NewsNetflix commissions originals from a record 28 international markets
Ampere Anaylsis report shows scale of streamer’s international commissioning.
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NewsWalter Hill to receive Venice’s Glory to the Filmmaker award
US filmmaker’s ‘Dead for A Dollar’ screens at the festival.
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FeaturesThe BFI’s 10 biggest production awards for first half of 2022
Awarded films include ‘Chuck Chuck Baby’ and ‘Starve Acre’.
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NewsSony Pictures Classics’ Michael Barker and Tom Bernard to receive Zurich honour
Co-founders to receive festival’s Game Changer Award.
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NewsWarner Bros. Discovery UK & Ireland restructures leadership team
New general manager Antonio Ruiz unveils divisional leaders of newly merged companies.
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NewsSarajevo unveils line-up for conference programme CineLink Talks
Includes keynote with Good Chaos founder Mike Goodridge.
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NewsThe BFI’s 10 biggest distribution awards for first half of 2022
Altitude Releasing’s release of Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava received biggeste Audience Fund grant.
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NewsFrench Senate approves government plans to abolish TV licence fee
Public broadcasters to be financed through VAT revenues until the end of 2024.