All UK/Ireland articles – Page 1013
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Iain Smith plans $20m rugby drama The Originals
UK-based producer Iain Smith (Cold Mountain, Children Of Men) is in advanced development on The Originals, a Chariots Of Fire-style drama about the exploits of the famous 1905 New Zealand All Black rugby team during their tour of Great Britain. The team was known as 'The Originals.'Mark Joffe is to ...
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Sci-Fi-London programmes Paragraph 78 and Wolfhound
Independent genre festival Sci-Fi-London has announced that it is to return on April 30 for five days of screenings and events. Now in its seventh year, Sci-Fi-London, or The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, will take place at the Apollo West End cinema until May 4.Films ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for Liz Mermin's Shot In Bombay
UK-based international sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on sales for Liz Mermin's latest documentary, Shot In Bombay.Little Bird produced the feature documentary, which goes behind the scenes of Bollywood film Shootout At Lokhandwala and follows the controversial trial of Indian screen legend Sanjay Dutt. The film includes the last ...
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Park Circus strikes UK theatrical deal with Arrow Films
UK distributor Park Circus Films has signed a deal to represent the Arrow Films catalogue theatrically in the UK and Ireland.Arrow's 160-plus title catalogue includes films such as Cinema Paradiso, The Millionairess and Rififi.Park Circus is the UK 's leading theatrical distributor of classic films. IT has similar deals in ...
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Film4, Ingenious, Vertigo join for new sales company Protagonist
Confirming rumours that started swirling before the American Film Market, UK companies Film4, Ingenious and Vertigo Films have joined forces to launch a new international film sales company.The outfit, called Protagonist Pictures, is fully capitalised by its three partners (who are financing equally). The intial slate isn't announced yet and ...
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Losey wraps shoot for debut thriller The Hide
Director Marek Losey has wrapped principal photography on his debut feature, thriller The Hide.The Poisson Rouge Pictures and Solution Films thriller shot at Pinewood and on location in the Southeast of England in November and December 2007.The film, written by Tim Whitnall based on his stage play The Sociable Plover, ...
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High Point to take on sales for Abrahamson's Prosperity project
Irish director Lenny Abrahamson has followed his Cannes Director's Fortnight hit Garage with Prosperity, a series of four related 'mini features' for Irish TV broadcaster RTE.High Point Media Group has taken on international rights to the project, and plans to launch it at Berlin's European Film Market rather than at ...
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Roger Beck leaves Technicolor for Ascent Media UK
Roger Beck has joined Ascent Media Group as the director of film services, a new position based in London.He will manage the film operations at Soho Images and Todd-AO.Beck had been CEO of Technicolor Creative Services and is also a veteran of Deluxe, Thames Television, Granada and Vidfilm Europe.Santa Monica, ...
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International box office drops 22% week on week with few openers
An absence of heavy-hitting new releases could be attributable to the 22.2% week-on-week drop in the international top 40 this weekend, with the only four new entrants all failing to enter the top 30. The top 40 international films generated $208.8m from 49,452 screens for the period of January 4-6. ...
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BAFTA organisers don't expect WGA strike chaos
In the wake of Monday’s announced cancellation of the Golden Globes big awards show, industry observers have been asking how other awards events, including the UK’s BAFTAS, will be affected.
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Schreiber to head Power's new home entertainment division
UK production company Power has launched a new home entertainment division. Andy Schreiber, founder and president of Los Angeles-based Forward Marketing International, will relocate to London to join Power as senior VP, Power Home Entertainment.Schreiber will be launching a Power Home Entertainment label in selected markets and selling to all ...
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LaBeouf, Riley among nominees for BAFTA Orange Rising Star prize
The BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award has announced this year’s nominees: Shia LaBeouf, Sienna Miller, Ellen Page, Sam Riley and Tang Wei.
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UK film-makers offer 'pay what you like' film download
A UK film-making team at Molehill Productionshas made a feature film available as a pay-what-you-likeoffering online, in what they say is a world first.Guy Rowland posted his film, Sam Jackson's Secret Video Diary, up for download starting Dec 28. Viewers can choose to pay as much or as little as ...
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VTR strikes deal for effects company Clarke Associates
VTR , the holding company of post-production company Prime Focus UK Group, has acquired the business interests of Clarke Associates London Limited, including the services of creative director Simon Clarke and his team.VTR has also acquired some equipment as part of the deal, including 3D workstations and associated software.Clarke Associates ...
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Machin replaces Schoukroun as THINKFilm head of international
Will Machin has been named head of international at THINKFilm International. He had been head of co-productions and sales at London-based Carnaby International and previously worked as co-president of international sales at Lola Films.He joins THINKFilm as of January 14 and will start planning for Berlin immediately. Machin will report ...
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Atonement is early BAFTA frontrunner ahead of final nominations
Joe Wright’s Atonement leads the films in contention for the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs). Atonement has 17 recognitions, but it should be noted that includes four nominations within the supporting actress category which will likely cancel each other out before nominations are finalised.
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Contender takes on UK rights forBattle For Haditha
Contender Films has acquired UK rights to Nick Broomfield's Iraq drama Battle For Haditha from HanWay Films.The deal comes after another UK distributor, Metrodome, handed back the UK rights to HanWay in late December.The drama is a feature film based on real events that occurred in November 2005 in Haditha, ...
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UK breaks box-office records in stellar 2007
The UK enjoyed a record-breaking year in 2007 with total box-office takings at $1.7bn (£904m), according to Nielsen EDI -the highest total since records began and up 8% from 2006Last year saw the release of the highest ever number of films generating more than $20m (£10m) and $40m($20m) with 23 ...
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BAFTA unveils five foreign nominees including Lust, Caution
The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) have announced five nominees for its Film Not In The English Language Award. Those films are The Diving Bell and The Butterfly; The Kite Runner; The Lives OfOthers; Lust,Caution; and La Vie En Rose.
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Halloween rebranded as London Short Film Festival
The fifth incarnation of the former Halloween Short Film festival is relaunching its programme of screenings, talks and events under the new name of the London Short Film Festival. The revitalised festival takes place today through Jan 13, and extends its venues to include London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, the ...