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Control wins further prizes at Chicago festival
Anton Corbijn's Control, which earlier this week picked up 10 British Independent Film Awards nominations, is one of three films to be awarded the Chicago International Film Festival's Audience Choice Award.Control shared the honour with Carlitos Ruίz Ruiz and Mariem Perez Riera's Puerto Rican comedy Lovesickness and Jon Dunham's US ...
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Wales agencies plan Greenlighting conference in November
The Film Agency For Wales and MEDIA Antenna Wales are planning a two-day Greenlighting Your Film conference in Cardiff Nov 12-13.The event will consist of talks, panels and case-study discussions. Speakers will include Angus Finney, Graham Begg, Ivana MacKinnon, Tom Roberts, Mare Evans, and Rebekah Gilbertson.'From polishing the script to ...
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Amnesty and MySpace back premiere of Abu-Jamal doc
MySpace and Amnesty International are backing the simultaneous world premiere tonight of documentary In Prison My Whole Life at both the Times bfi London Film Festival and the Rome Film Fest. Marc Evans, whose Snow Cake opened the Berlinale in 2006, directs. Livia Firth and Nick Goodwin Self produce, with ...
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Irish scheme shortlists 10 for low-budget features
Catalystproject, the new Irish low-budget feature scheme, has selected its shortlist of 10 film-making teams, three of which will be greenlit. Catalystproject was launched with a series of seminars earlier this year, with 270 participant writers, producers and directors selected from nearly 400 applicants. Filmmakers participated in a series of ...
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Vue to open $10m new all-digital 10-screen complex in Hull
Vue Entertainment says it plans to launch Europe's first newly built fully digital cinema.Vue has invested $10m in the Princes Quay development in Hull, with the 10-screen all-digital cinema to open Dec 14.Vue Hull will be equipped with the latest in digital projection technology, including a 10 Terabyte server that ...
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Michael Sheen to host Britannia Awards in LA
Michael Sheen, who portrayed the former British Prime Minster Tony Blair in The Queen, will host the 16th Annual BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 1.Sheen, who recently appeared as a presenter at the Hollywood Film Awards, will next be seen in the drama Music Within and ...
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Miller leads trio of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment promotions
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has promoted three executives in the company's international group, led by T Paul Miller's appointment as senior vice president of international and general manager of emerging markets.Also elevated in the corporate ranks are Claude Borna, promoted to vice president of retail marketing, Europe, and Orrie ...
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Unrelated
Dir: Joanna Hogg. UK, 2007, 100minsBritish film-makers have never been comfortable making thoughtful, provocative arthouse movies about the tribulations of bourgeois families. It is a style of film-making in which the French have long excelled but that UK directors generally steer clear of in case of being thought affected or ...
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Vito Rocco's MySpace winner Faintheart starts shooting
Faintheart, the winning film in the MySpace MyMovieMashUp competition, is starting principal photography this week.Director Vito Rocco beat out 800 other hopefuls in the contest to get his film greenlit with a budget of $2m (£1m). The project, being billed as 'the world's first user-generated feature film,' is a romantic ...
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blinkx strikes content indexing deal with Dogwoof
Video search engine blinkx has partnered with Dogwoof.com for online film content. blinkx will transcribe and index video content from Dogwoof.com and allow users to watch Dogwoof's content at blinkx.com.Dogwoof.com offers its own indepently produced content as well as films from international film festivals. blinkx already has 14m hours of ...
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Capitol bolsters AFM slate with new films from Redford, Hackford
Capitol Films has announced several high-profile new projects on its slate for next week's American Film Market.Capitol will introduce buyers to Robert Redford's next directorial project, Against All Enemies, which will star Bruce Willis; as well as Taylor Hackford's next film Love Ranch, starring his wife, Oscar winner Helen Mirren ...
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Cork's top shorts are Toyla and The Apology Line
The Corona Cork Film Festival ended Oct 21 with a sold-out screening of Ang Lee's Lust, Caution. The festival estimates that more than 35,000 people attended films during the seven days of the festival, pushing box office takings up 9% from 2006.Several films sold out including the opening and closing ...
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ContentFilm promotes Harry White to head of sales
ContentFilm International has promoted Harry White to head of sales.White has been with ContentFilm International since 2002 and has worked on Black Book, Thank You For Smoking, Nightwatching, Transamerica, and Closing The Ring.He is based in ContentFilm's satellite office in Los Angeles. He will be attending next week's AFM along ...
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Corbijn's Control leads BIFAs race with 10 nominations
Anton Corbijn's debut feature Control, about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, leads the nominations for the 10th annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs). Control, which premiered in Cannes, has 10 nominations, including Best Independent British Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Newcomer (Sam Riley), and Best Screenplay. Following closely behind ...
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Adlabs joins UK's Film Distributors Association
Hindi film UK distributor Adlabs has joined the UK's Film Distributors' Association (FDA). The Bollywood distributor becomes the 21st member company in the trade body. Adlabs was founded in India in 1978 and the UK business was established 15 months ago. Its releases include Marigold, Krrish, and Dil Apna Punjabi. ...
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Lions For Lambs
Dir: Robert Redford. US. 2007. 88 mins.A talky, stagebound curio of a movie, Lions For Lambs is far from the high-octane Hollywood mega-movie its star pedigree would suggest. On the contrary, its star power - Robert Redford, who also directed, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise - may help to draw ...
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Irish Film Board cautions against expectation of completion funding
With as many as 15 ultra low- and no-budget features being made without official funding 'below the radar' in Ireland each year the Irish Film Board held an information session at the Cork Film Festival to address producers' expectations of receiving completion funding from the agency. Calling it a 'reality ...
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UK producers need to think globally and diversify
The UK film industry would be in great shape - if only it was based in the US. That was the somewhat daunting message for delegates at the UK's first Production Finance Market, which kicked off today, organised by Film London in partnership with the Times BFI London Film Festival.The ...
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Paramount strikes digital download deal with Arts Alliance
After signing a virtual print fee digital cinema deal with Arts Alliance Media recently, Paramount is now also working with the company for digital downloads. Paramount Digital Entertainment International will provide Paramount Pictures films for digital distribution on AAM's Vizumi network (including partner sites such as LoveFilm and Tiscali), both ...
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Momentum restructuring creates new TV/new media role for Dutton
UK distributor Momentum Pictures is restructuring its home entertainment, TV and new media departments. The restructuring was announced by Xavier Marchand, president of international distribution at parent company Alliance Films. Ken McMahon has been named head of home entertainment, and Kristin Ryan will act as marketing manager home entertainment while ...
