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Lakeshore adds DeckterJonathan Deckter, former Arclight Films president of international sales and Morgan Creek International vice-president, has been appointed senior vice-president of international sales at Lakeshore Entertainment. He will work alongside Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard Rose, who is promoted to the same position. Meanwhile Rob Burke is promoted to executive ...
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Eros' homecoming
The Bollywood giant is positioning itself at the centre of the growing Indian industry. Liza Foreman reports. In its 30-year history, Bollywood heavyweight Eros International has come a long way as a distributor of Bollywood fare to India's growing number of expats, and is now set to return to its ...
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Cashing in on the great Indian boom
How Kishore Lulla, Eros' CEO, sees,India's future growth. With 3.1 billion tickets being served by a mere 13,000 screens, accelerated growth in multiplex cinemas and rising ticket prices, the $2bn Indian film industry will become a $10bn industry within the next five years.Although growing at 18% compound annual growth rate, ...
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Ealing partners with Lionhead for Julian Fellowes' From Time To Time
Ealing Studios has partnered with Lionhead productions for Julian Fellowes feature as a director, From Time To Time. Ealing's new sales arm, Ealing Studios International, will also take worldwide rights. The deal was negotiated between James Spring of Ealing Studios and Paul Kingsley of Lionhead Productions. The film will star ...
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UKFC allocates $11m to new funds including film festival support
The UK Film Council has allocated $11m (£5.5m) from its reserves and recoupments to go towards new funding policies through March 2010. The plans, published today in the Film in the Digital Age document, allocate the $11m of new funding to four new funds: UK Film Festivals Fund - $3m ...
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Hammer Film relaunched with European investors including Cyrte
A consortium of European investors, led by Netherlands-based Cyrte Investments, has acquired the UK's Hammer Film Producttions including its 295-title library. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, although the new Hammer will have shareholders equity and facilities of about $50m. Simon Oakes and Marc Schipper, formerly of Liberty ...
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Arts Alliance enters US market with acquisition of Hart Sharp
London-based Arts Alliance Media has expanded into the US with the acquisition of New York-based Hart Sharp Video. Hart Sharp develops, acquires, markets and distributes films for home video, DVD and digital platforms. Past releases include Super Size Me! The deal, announced by AAM CEO Howard Kiedaisch and Hart Sharp ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for Harman's feature debut Credo
UK-based sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has come on board for sales of Credo, the first feature from Alto Films (produced in association with Axis Films). Director Toni Harman makes her feature debut with the psycholoigcal horror film about five students squatting in an abandoned London building who find out they ...
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Horton and Ashton join UK's Men-from-Mars
Visual effects company Men-from-Mars has expanded its team by hiring Tom horton in a senior producing role in the management team. Horton had been managing director and head of VFX at several post companies in London, Singapore and Australia. Also, senior VFX line producer Paul Bearch has been promoted to ...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest and Unexpected Media start documentary lab
The Sheffield Doc/Fest and Unexpected Media, with support from the BBC, London Development Agency and Screen Yorkshire, are starting a new initiative to support new documentary projects. The Crossover UK programme, a five-day residential lab will work with documentary makers, new media producers and video games developers form Yorkshire and ...
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Wild Bunch's new titles include $47m Mr. Nobody with Sarah Polley
With six films spread throughout the official selection, Critics Week and Un Certain Regard, Wild Bunch is also presenting a packed line-up at the Cannes Market. In selection are Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days in the main competition, Abel Ferrara's out-of-competition Go Go Tales, Juan Antonio ...
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Film4 signs on as headline sponsor for UK's FrightFest
Film4 has signed on to become the headline sponsor of the UK's FrightFest for two years. The horror and fantasy film festival runs for five days at London's Odeon West End, from Aug 23-28. During its eighth year, the festival will present more than 30 films. The deal includes a ...
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Intandem takes on sales to Julie Delpy's thriller The Countess
London-based Intandem Films has taken worldwide sales rights to Julie Delpy's Gothic thriller The Countess. The film is inspired by the life of the 17th-century Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, whose reckless pursuit of eternal beauty transformed her into a murderous heretic. Delpy, Oscar-nominated for her screenplay for Before Sunset, not ...
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Penny Averill replaces Cussons as head of UK's WFTV
Penny Averill has been appointed the new chief executive of the UK 's Women in Film and TV (WFTV). Averill most recently worked as deputy director of the British Board of Film Classification and previously worked at UKTV. She succeeds Jane Cussons as chief executive and officially takes up her ...
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Tiscali works with AAM to launch new UK VOD service, Movies Now
Phone and Internet company Tiscali has launched its online VOD download service, Movies Now, in partnership with Arts Alliance Media (AAM).The new service launches with more than 500 films and programmes available to anyone visiting the Tiscali web site (www.tiscali.co.uk/moviesnow). Users can rent or download titles to own with prices ...
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Dreamachine handles Broomfield's improvised Iraqi war drama
Fledgling financing and sales house Dreamachine has acquired international rights to Nick Broomfield's drama Battle For Haditha, currently shooting in Jordan.The London, Paris and Toronto-based venture,created through the merger of HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams last month, will commence pre-sales in Cannes.Battle For Haditha re-enacts the aftermath of an Iraqi ...
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Intermedia-backed sales-distribution company will be called IM Global
The recently launched Los Angeles and London-based international sales and distribution company backed by Intermedia will be called IM Global, it was announced last night.IM Global, headed by president Stuart Ford and Intermedia chairman Martin Schuermann, will bring a number of Intermedia titles, as well as the slate assembled by ...
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Spider-Man 3 makes record-breaking opening
Spider-Man 3 grossed a sensational estimated $29.15m in its first day in 16 international territories on May 1, eclipsing the opening day results of the first two episodes in the same territories. Ten of the territories (eight Asian, seven European and Egypt) generated record opening or single day marks, ...
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Screenwriters Festival to take centre stage in industry debate
This year's International Screenwriters Festival falls at a critical time in the history of writers.The event, which runs from July 3-6 in the UK town of Cheltenham, has quickly established itself as a major event in the industry calendar.Last year the event, backed by Screen International, attracted such leading figures ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for Slingshot's debut feature Sugarhouse
UK-based sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on international sales for Sugarhouse (formerly known as Sugarhouse Lane), the first feature from new digital studio Slingshot Studios.Gary Love makes his feature debut with the urban thriller based on co-screenwriter Dominic Leyton's play Collision.Ashley Walters, Andy Serkis and Steven Macintosh star. Arvind ...