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Warner Bros strikes mobile distribution deal with Vodafone
Warner Bros. Online and mobile phone company Vodafone have signed a distribution deal which will bring Warner Bros. Entertainment brands as well as current information on upcoming projects to Vodafone customers across the world.The global agreement covers 16 countries. Initially, Warner Bros. Online will provide Vodafone with games, screensavers, alerts ...
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Script Factory launches training scheme for film professionals
Screenwriting organisation The Script Factory is launching SCENE insiders, a new international training programme for European film professionals at the Edinburgh, London and Warsaw International Film Festivals in 2004 and at Gothenburg, Sweden in January 2005.SCENE insiders is targeted at directors, producers, distributors, readers, developers and story editors from the ...
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Chomet secures Dimension backing for Scottish animation
Belleville Rendez-Vous director Sylvain Chomet has confirmed plans to set up his own animation company, Studio Django, in Edinburgh, Scotland.The first two productions announced by Studio Django are 2D project Barbacoa and an unnamed 3D project in collaboration with Miramax division Dimension Films. Dimension chairman Bob Weinstein flew the Chomets ...
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EU cinema admissions fall 5% in 2003
Cinema attendance in the European Union's 15 member states dropped by 5% in 2003, according to first estimates from the European Audiovisual Observatory.Provisional data shows that admissions in eight of the biggest EU states fell to 890.5m last year. Germany registered the steepest drop of -9.1% to 149 million. The ...
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UK video industry bankrolls anti-piracy outfit
The UK video industry has raised £1.2m to bankroll a new company to help fight piracy.The Industry Trust for IP Awareness Ltd has been registered as a non-profit making company with the objective creating a fighting fund to tackle copyright theft, which it says is costing the film and video ...
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Singapore to host India's international Academy Awards
Singapore is to host the fifth International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards on May 22.The IIFA Awards, which are designed to raise the international profile of Indian film, have previously been held in London, Sun City in South Africa, the Genting Islands in Malaysia and Johannesburg.Stars from both Indian and ...
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Silver Bullet to open Bucharest Studios in April
Romanian production company Silver Bullet Film is to open new studio facilities in the country at the end of April.Work began on Bucharest Studios, situated in Romania's capital, at the beginning of February. Initial work is underway on a 1000 square metre sound stage, which is expected to be operational ...
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UIP confirms plans for Russian distribution office
United International Pictures has confirmed plans to open a branch office in Moscow to distribute films directly to cinemas in Russia.East West Creative Associates, UIP's partner for over 13 years, will cease trading as a distributor from that date but will continue to be involved in film production.UIP chairman and ...
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Walden denies Kidman link to Narnia
Walden Media has denied widespread rumours that Nicole Kidman is poised to take a major role in the forthcoming The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.Early this week, several New Zealand newspapers - including The New Zealand Herald, The Sunday Mail and The Dominion Post - reported that Kidman spent ...
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Duval to retire from UK film censor BBFC
British Board Of Film Classification Director Robin Duval is to retire in August after five and a half years at the helm.Duval oversaw the Board's first major public consultation exercise resulting in the Classification Guidelines published in September 2000. The Board now classifies 14,000 titles a year - up from ...
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Stars line-up for Oscar Moore script reading
A Fine Line, the winning script from last year's Oscar Moore screenwriting prize, is to have a performed reading at London's Curzon Soho cinema next week.Writing duo Ben Gooder and Philip Greenacre's script is the gripping true story of the rise and fall of Eric Hebborn and his career as ...
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Code 46 set for UK premiere at Birmingham fest
Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 will receive its UK premiere as the closing night film of this year's Birmingham Screen Festival.The event opens on March 4 with the UK Premiere screening of Woody Allen's Anything Else.The festival's line-up includes films from directors such as Julio Medem (Basque Ball); Martin Scorsese (The ...
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EasyCinema drafts in veteran exhibitor as CEO
Exhibition veteran Charles Wesoky has been appointed chief executive of no-frills UK exhibitor EasyCinema.Wesoky's appointment is part of a move by EasyCinema to win over film distributors, many of which have cold-shouldered the exhibitor by refusing to supply it with first run films.Wesoky was chairman and CEO of London-based EuroPlex ...
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Bollywood specialist Eros joins UK distributor body
Eros Group, which specialises in distributing Bollywood films in the UK, is to become a member of UK trade body the Film Distributors' Association on March 1It will be the first Bollywood distributor ever to join the FDA.Established in the 1970s, Eros has library of approximately 1,500 titles, and ...
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Void sets British box office record as biggest ever doc
Kevin Macdonald's Touching The Void has overtaken Bowling For Columbine as the highest grossing documentary in UK box office history.Released by Pathe Distribution on December 12, and now in its eleventh week in cinemas, the Bafta winning film has so far taken $3.17m (£1.68m). By comparison, Bowling For Columbine took ...
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UK's Entertainment sees profits leap on back of Rings
The UK's Entertainment Film Distributors has seen its post tax profits leap almost threefold to $61.5m (£32.6m) in the year to March 31, 2003, according to recent documents filed at official UK business registry, Companies House.The $61.5m figure compares to a post-tax profit of $24.5 for the year to March ...
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Gibson's Passion earns 18 certificate from UK censor
Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ has received an 18 certificate from UK censor, the British Board Of Film Classification.The censor ruled that the film, which is expected to open through Icon Film Distribution on March 26, "contains extended scenes of strong violence."A spokeswoman for the BBFC cited an ...
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Mendes unveils debut Scamp slate
Oscar winningdirector Sam Mendes has launched Scamp Film And Theatre, a new London basedfilm and theatre production company with co-directors Pippa Harris and CaroNewling.The company hasalso unveiled a high profile film development slate, which includes projectsfrom some of the UK's top TV dramatists such as Paul Abbott, David Yatesand Peter ...
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Mendes unveils Scamp debut slate
Oscar winningdirector Sam Mendes has launched Scamp Film And Theatre, a new London basedfilm and theatre production company with co-directors Pippa Harris and CaroNewling.The company hasalso unveiled a high profile film development slate, which includes projectsfrom some of the UK's top TV dramatists such as Paul Abbott, David Yatesand Peter ...
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EFA opens doors to Israeli, Palestinian film-makers
The European Film Academy (EFA) has invited Israeli and Palestinian film-makers to submit their films for the European Film Awards.The invitation is part of moves by EFA to open up to Mediterranean countries "which have natural and historic cinema relations with Europe," said EFA chairman Humbert Balsan.Israeli director Amos Gitai ...