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TwentyTwenty Vision to co-produce Rafi Pitts' The Hunter
Berlin-based production house TwentyTwenty Vision will be the German co-producer on Iranian-British director Rafi Pitts' fifth feature The Hunter.Speaking exclusively to Screendaily.com, Pitts explained that the drama will be produced by AMA Media Productions - which co-produced his 2006 Berlinale competition film It's Winter (Zemestan) - and Aftab Negaran Productions, ...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest's pitching forum attracts record submissions.
Sheffield Doc/Fest's MeetMarket has received 385 entries from documentary film-makers, an increase of almost 200% from last year.The initiative, which launched in 2006, is a pitching forum that uses online systems to match film-makers' project ideas with UK and international buyers.Submissions have been received from first-time and established filmmakers, including ...
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UK effects studio Framestore looks to outside investment
Framestore, the Oscar-winning provider of visual effects, animation and computer generated imagery announced that it plans to consider interest in the company from potential new investors.The company hopes to aid the growth of its business and has instructed Hawkpoint Partners to investigate options, including the introduction of an external investor.William ...
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Award winning director McPherson starts shoot for The Eclipse
Shooting has started on the latest feature-length drama from Tony-award winning Irish playwright and director Conor McPherson.Based on a supernatural love story by Wexford writer Billy Roche, the film stars Aidan Quinn, Ciaran Hinds and Iben Hjejle. Rob Walpole of Treasure Entertainment is producing.Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning costume designer Consolata ...
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Metrodome and Rialto strike double deal for Seraphine
Metrodome has joined forces with Rialto on a deal for Martin Provost'sSeraphine.Metrodome takes on all UK and Ireland rights while Rialto takes on New Zealand and Australia rights.The deal was brokered by Metrodome's CEO Peter Urie, general manager distribution Sara Frain and head of acquisitions James Brown with Yohann Comte ...
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Mandragora starts production of first feature Dark Nature
Glasgow-based Mandragora Productions has started production on its first feature film, Dark Nature, directed by Marc de Launay.Mandragora's previous productions include shorts such as Contorted Hazel in 2006 and The Last Noel in 2004. De Launey's work as director on Channel 4 television series Vids , earned him a BAFTA ...
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Hammer resurrection as production of The Wake Wood begins
The long-awaited resurrection of British horror label Hammer Films has finally happened. Production has just begun on The Wake Wood. This is Hammer's first horror movie since To the Devil a Daughter starring Christopher Lee in 1976 and its first feature of any sort since The Lady Vanishes in 1979.The ...
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F&ME kicks off shoots for three new UK co-productions
Mike Downey and Sam Taylor's UK production company Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME) pushes its busy slate forward with the start of principal photography on three new features: Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre, Donkey and Beneath The Surface.All three are co-productions, shooting - respectively - in Iceland, Croatia/Herzegovina and China/Sudan. All ...
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In Focus: Filmanthropy
The British Beekeepers' Association, the National Pig Association and the Women's Institute might not be the most obvious partners for documentary makers but it is a sign of a growing crossover between the film world and the third sector that all attended this summer's inaugural Good Pitch.Held during the UK's ...
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Evolutions invests $1.8m in new post equipment
Evolutions, Soho, the London-based post-production facility, has invested $1.8m (£1m) in new technology from Avid, FilmLight and Digidesign.The upgrade and installation of new equipment comes as part of Evolutions' expansion with its new Great Pulteney Street building. The company's machine room is now centralised at that site and connected via ...
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Met Film starts distribution services arm for self-distribution
Met Film has launched Met Film Distribution, which will work with independent film-makers who want to self-distribute their films.The first proejct for the new distribution outfit will be Heavy Load, also a Met Film production, a documentary about a punk band with disabilities.The co-production with the BBC, IFC and ITVS, ...
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Pinewood Shepperton revises plans for Project Pinewood in UK
UK studio Pinewood Shepperton has revised its plans for new studio facilities, sets and housing next to its site in Buckinghamshire. Project Pinewood originally envisaged building 2,250 homes but following consultation with local residents that number has been reduced to 1,500. Almost 70% of the site will now remain as ...
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Cinema16 plans new World Short Films collection
The popular Cinema16 DVD series will continue with World Short Films, a new short film collection to be launched on Nov 17 in the UK.The DVD includes 16 shorts, including Andrea Arnold's Oscar-winning Wasp, Guillermo Del Toro's previously unreleased Dona Lupe; cult hit Forklift Driver Klaus; Park Chan Wook's only ...
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NewsLFF's Power To The Pixel to host new innovative Forum
The Times BFI London Film Festival will again partner for Power To The Pixel, The Digital Distribution and Film Innovation Forum.
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MercuryMedia to handle UK launch of doc I.O.U.S.A.
MercuryMedia has taken on UK distribution of Patrick Creadon's I.O.U.S.A.The feature-length documentary has already been released theatrically in the US and premiered at Sundance.It will have its European premiere Nov 5 as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest and will then open in the UK from Nov 27 at Picturehouse Cinemas as ...
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Fact Not Fiction moves political thriller shoot from UK to Jordan
UK outfit Fact Not Fiction Films has finished the six-week UK portion of the shoot for new feature 31 North 62 East.The shoot now moves to Jordan later this month.The $2m project is independently financed.Producer/director Tristan Loraine is working with DoP Sue Gibson.The political thriller is about a British Prime ...
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Fantastic Films takes on sales for animated Fox's Tale
Los Angeles-based Fantastic Films International has taken on international sales and distribution rights to A Fox's Tale.The animated feature from Hungarian director George Gat was co-written with Peter Doka.Gat's Dyn Entertainment is producing with Bill Chamberlain's Pinewood-based UK outfit Parallel Pictures.The voice cast will include Freddie Highmore, Bill Nighy, Miranda ...
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Jamie Carmichael moves to ContentFilm's LA office
ContentFilm Plc, has announced that Jamie Carmichael, President of its film division ContentFilm International (CFI), has re-located from London to the group's Santa Monica office. CFI has brought to the international market films such as Jason Reitman's Thank You For Smoking, Black Book directed by Paul Verhoeven, Duncan Tucker's Transamerica ...
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Nighy, Blunt, Grint, Everett star in UK comedy Wild Target
Principal photographyhas begunon the comedy Wild Target starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint and Rupert Everett.Jonathan Lynn is directing the story of an uptight hitman who falls for his intended victim from a screenplay by Lucinda Coxon based on Pierre Salvadori's 1993 French film Cible Emouvante that earned two ...
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London Film Festival boosts industry credentials
The Times BFI London Film Festival has expanded its industry programme with a series of events aimed at the international film business.They include the third Production Finance Market, bringing together international financiers and producers. This year, the market will run over two days from October 20th-21st.The three-day innovation event Power ...