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Leigh's Vera Drake to open London Film Festival
Mike Leigh's Vera Drake has been named as the opening night film for The Times bfi 48th London Film Festival on October 20.David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees will close the festival on November 4.The Opening Night Gala will be the UK premiere ofLeigh's Vera Drake, which starsImelda Staunton and ...
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McDonald's adds heat to Super Size Me in UK
Super Size Me directorMorgan Spurlock says a series of national newspaper adverts taken out in the UK by fast food chain McDonald's in response to his filmare both "fantastic" and "laughable"McDonald's has taken out full pageads in The Times, The Guardian, TheIndependent, The Scotsman and TheHerald. The ads, said one ...
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Politics takes centre stage at Edinburgh
Politics - and specifically theimpact of September 11 - has emerged as one of the strong themes among theBritish films showing at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival (August 18-29).Kenny Glenaan's well received Yasmin, which tracks how the attack onthe World Trade Centre alters the world of a non-devout Muslim ...
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Motorcycle kickstarts Edinburgh Film Festival
The EdinburghInternational Film Festival kicked off last night with the gala premiere of The Motorcycle Diaries, with director Walter Salles in attendance.Before the the screening of the film, Salles said: "This is a film made with an open heart and passion and it's a privilege to be here at a ...
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UK's Screen East names Crown as production chief
Oscar-nominated film and TV producer Sheryl Crown has joinedScreen East, the Screen Agency for the East of England, as its Head ofProduction.In 2000, Crown received an Oscar nomination for the Welshfeature film Solomon And Gaenor.She also produced Marc Evans first feature, House of America. Crown has worked at the BBC ...
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UK's Screen East names Crown as production chief
Oscar-nominated film and TV producer Sheryl Crown has joinedScreen East, the Screen Agency for the East of England, as its Head ofProduction.In 2000, Crown received an Oscar nomination for the Welshfeature film Solomon And Gaenor.She also produced Marc Evans first feature, House of America. Crown has worked at the BBC ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD set for October launch in UK
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is set for a UK DVDlaunch through Optimum Home Entertainment in October 2004 - just ahead of theUS Presidential Election in November.In its first ten days of release, the film had alreadyreached a total gross of £2.74m in the UK, surpassing the record set by Touchingthe ...
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UK's Metrodome names Frain as theatrical chief
UK distributor Metrodome hasappointed Sara Frain to be its new general manager-theatrical, overseeing thecompany's theatrical acquisitions, marketing and sales.Frain joins on September 2from Tartan Films, where she is director of sales and promotions.Metrodome managing directorAndrew Keyte said: "This year has seen us have the biggest theatrical hit(Monster) in our 10 ...
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ContentFilm takes UK rights to Pawlikowski's Love
ContentFilm has acquired UK rights to My Summer Of Love, the second film from award-winning director PawelPawlikowski (The Last Resort).The acquisition is the first to be made by ContentFilm plcsince their recent takeover of Winchester Entertainment.Produced by Tanya Seghatchian (Harry Potter) and Chris Collins (Tomorrow La Scala,Last Resort), My Summer ...
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Distributors eye magazine DVD goldmine
Distributors can significantly boost their revenues byallowing publishers to offer 'free' copies of DVDs in magazines, Screen's DVD:The Home Cinema Summit heard yesterday.Farfrom destroying a film's library value, giving away copies of a DVD in magazinecan also significantly boost sales in the months following the promotion.In Germany, magazines that offer ...
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Ramallah festival revs up with Motorcycle
The inaugural Ramallah International Film Festival (RIFF)kicks off today (July 8) with a special screening of Walter Salles' TheMotorcycle Diaries.RIFFis the first ever international film festival to be held in the PalestinianTerritories, and launches with a programme of some 70 films including MarcoBellocchio's Buongiorno, Notte, Michael Winterbottom's In This Worldand ...
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Spider-Man 2 smashes opening day records
Spider-Man 2 snared arecord $40.5m at the North American box office on Wednesday, beating itspredecessor to claim the biggest opening day ever in movie history.The first-day U.S.-Canadian haul for Spider-Man 2 passed the previous opening-day record of $39.4million set by the original Spider-Man movie in May of 2002 - all ...
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South Africa unveils tax breaks to attract foreign shoots
South Africa plans to offer about $41m (R252m) in taxincentives to local and foreign film companies over the next three years topromote the country as a prime filming location, Trade and Industry MinisterMandisi Mpahlwa said this week.Companies would have to spend at least $4m (R25m) inproduction costs to qualify for ...
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Cambridge unveils wide-ranging festival line-up
The Cambridge Film Festival has unveiled a wide-rangingline-up of films to play at this year's event, which runs from July 8-18.The festival says it has secured 40 UK premieres, includingPeter Greenaway's Antwerp: The Tulse Luper Suitcases Part 3, Japanese megahit Bayside Shakedown! and its sequel Bayside Shakedown! II, Richard Eyre's ...
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Time Warner readies $4.8bn MGM bid
Time Warner is putting together a nearly $5bn cash and stockoffer to acquire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from under the eyes of frontrunner SonyCorp., according to wire and newspaper reports today.Reuters says that under the deal being considered, TimeWarner would offer MGM's 74% shareholder Kirk Kerkorian about $11.50 a share inTime Warner stock ...
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UK's Channel 4 names new chief executive
UK broadcaster Channel 4 - parent of FilmFour - has named AndyDuncan as its new chief executive, succeeding Mark Thompson, who left to becomethe BBC's director general in May.Duncan, who is currently director of marketing,communications and audiences at the BBC, will take up his new post at "as soonas possible", ...
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UK censor appoints successor to Duval
UK censor the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)has named David Cooke as its new director.He will take up the post in September when the currentdirector, Robin Duval, retires.Cooke is currently Associate Political Director at theNorthern Ireland Office and has a wide experience of regulatory policy andpractice in broadcasting, drugs, ...
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Ansorge joins Anglo-Indian outfit Inspired Movies
Peter Ansorge, former head of dramaat UK broadcaster Channel Four, has joined Inspired Movies as commissioning editor/executiveproducer in charge of new film projects.Inspired Movies, an Anglo-Indian companybased in the U.K., is currently in production with Take 3 Girls, itsfirst English language film, starring Charlie Brooks (in her first role sinceleaving ...
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BAFTA names date for 2005 award ceremony
BAFTA hasannounced the dates of its Orange British Academy Film Awards for 2005, whichwill be held on Saturday February 12.As inrecent years, the BAFTAs will take place two weeks before the Oscars, which arescheduled for Sunday, February 27, 2005.Thepre-Oscar date has helped the BAFTAs grow significantly in stature, and hascemented ...
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New funding scheme for Welsh film-makers
Welsh media agency,Sgrîn Cymru Wales, has launched a new funding scheme for Welsh filmmakers.The Welsh MicrosScheme - to be financed by The Arts Council of Wales, Film Four and S4C, inpartnership with Sgrîn - is designed to enable the production of two featurefilms with budgets of up to £400,000 each ...