All articles by Tim Dams – Page 81
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EFA unveils 2003 film awards shortlist
Forty-three European films have made it onto the selection list for the European Film Awards 2003.Choosing from this list, the 1,600 members of the European Film Academy will, in the coming weeks, select the nominations in the different award categories. More than 360 films were submitted for the selection. The ...
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Goal! scores as FIFA lends support
International footballing body FIFA is to lend its support to Goal!, the ambitious football trilogy being put together by Pulp Fiction producer Lawrence Bender and Milkshake Films.Full details of the co-operative agreement between FIFA and the film's producers are set to be unveiled at a press conference on Thursday in ...
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Vivendi Universal sells Nordic pay-TV unit
Vivendi Universal has struck a deal to sell Canal Plus Television AB, its pay-TV unit in the Nordic region, to a consortium of equity firms for about 70 million euros. Vivendi said the transaction would cut debt at its Canal Plus Group unit by a net amount of Euros 54m. ...
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Fox supplies easyCinema with first ever first-run film
UK no-frills exhibitor easyCinema has struck a deal with 20th Century Fox to screen its first ever first-run film, Down With Love, starring Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger. Until now the company has been frustrated by its inability to secure first run titles from distributors in the UK. EasyCinema is ...
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Sky Movies renews output deal with UK's Entertainment
UK indie Entertainment Film Distiributors has renewed its pay-TV output deal with satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB).All of Entertainment's UK releases, including New Line films, will air on Sky. The contract secures the UK TV premieres for such blockbusters as Austin Powers 3, Lord of the Rings 2 & ...
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China shatters Tomb Raider 2 release hopes
Paramount's action sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life has been banned from playing in cinemas in China.Chinese government censors are said to have rejected the film because they felt it inaccurately portrayed the country.A number of scenes from the Tomb Raider sequel are thought to have upset ...
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Partington joins UK's Tartan Video
Alan Partington has been appointed as the new managing director of the UK's Tartan Video. Previously managing director of Metrodome Distribution and head of theatrical and video sales for Pathe, he will take up his position from Sept 1.Hamish McAlpine, owner of the Tartan Group, commented: "I am absolutely thrilled ...
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Fortissimo takes on Jarmusch's Coffee & Cigarettes
Fortissimo Film Sales has acquired world rights to Jim Jarmusch's Coffee & Cigarettes. Written and directed by Jarmusch, Coffee & Cigarettes will screen in Official Selection out-of-competition in Venice and as a Special Presentation in Toronto next month. Sales have already been completed for France (BAC Films), Italy (BIM) and ...
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Fortissimo hooked on Jarmusch's Coffee & Cigarettes
Fortissimo Film Sales has acquired world rights to Jim Jarmusch's Coffee & Cigarettes. Written and directed by Jarmusch, Coffee & Cigarettes will screen in Official Selection out-of-competition in Venice and as a Special Presentation in Toronto next month. Sales have already been completed for France (BAC Films), Italy (BIM) and ...
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Fortissimo tests out Spellbound worldwide
Fortissimo Film Sales has acquired world rights to documentary Spellbound, an account of eight ambitious young finalists in America's national spelling contest. Spellbound is currently on release in the U.S and Canada where it has taken over $5m at the box-office since its premiere earlier this year via Thinkfilm. The ...
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Euro directors lined-up for EFP Toronto panel
European Film Promotion is to present a European directors panel at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.Titled 'Cinema in the 'new' Europe: Does European filmmaking have a renewed creative edge and sense of purpose'', panellists include France's Solveig Anspach, Spain's Cesc Gay, Austria's Ruth Mader, and the UK's Peter ...
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Euro directors lined-up for Toronto EFP event
European Film Promotion is to present a European directors panel at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.Titled 'Cinema in the 'new' Europe: Does European filmmaking have a renewed creative edge and sense of purpose'', panellists include France's Solveig Anspach, Spain's Cesc Gay, Austria's Ruth Mader, and the UK's Peter ...
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Out Of Time to world premiere at Toronto
Director Carl Franklin's Out Of Time will have its world premiere as a Gala Presentation at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival. Starring two-time Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington, the film also stars Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, and Dean Cain in a story of one man's race against time to solve ...
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Political docs take centre stage at Toronto
Themes of politics and international affairs dominate the line-up of documentaries playing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.Special Presentations includes Errol Morris' The Fog Of War - a profile of Robert S. McNamara - which receives its North American premiere, while Ron Mann's Go Further - which follows ...
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BVIP seduced by F&ME's Loving Glances
UK-based independent production house Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has struck a deal with Bjorg Veland's BVIP to represent its UK/Serbia and Montenegro co-production Loving Glances (Sjaj U Ocima) for international sales.The move comes ahead of the film's competition screening at the Venice International Film Festival and its presentation in ...
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BVIP falls for F&ME's Loving Glances
UK-based independent production house Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has struck a deal with Bjorg Veland's BVIP to represent its UK/Serbia and Montenegro co-production Loving Glances (Sjaj U Ocima) for international sales.The move comes ahead of the film's competition screening at the Venice International Film Festival and its presentation in ...
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UK launch for black film-makers sales outfit
Former High Point senior sales executive Sarah Chammartin has launched a new sales company which will specialise in handling films by black film-makers.Based in the UK and called Carre Noir Film, Chammartin says the aim is provide films by black film-makers to black communities around the world. Chammartin is currently ...
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Euro pay-TV outfits set for revenue boom
For the past three years, the news emanating from most of Europe's pay-TV outfits has been consistently grim.Financial cutbacks, bankruptcies and mergers in countries such as Germany, Italy, Spain and France hit the film industry hard as the leading pay-TV players cut back on their investment in movies.However, a new ...
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Pawlikowski embarks on Love shoot
Pawel Pawlikowski, the acclaimed director of Last Resort, has started shooting his new film, My Summer Of Love.Described as a loose adaptation of the book by Helen Cross, it is the story of the friendship and burgeoning sexuality of two teenage girls - one rich, one poor - who form ...
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Screen International to sponsor EFA prize
Screen International is once again to sponsor a major prize at the European Film Awards.The Prix Screen International will be presented to the best non-European film at this year's Awards, which will be held in Berlin on Saturday Dec 6.Nominations for all categories will be unveiled in the first week ...