All UK/Ireland articles – Page 1035
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Universal promotes Nicholas, Edwards and Perez in London
Universal Pictures Internataional Entertainment, the international home entertainment division of NBC Universal, has announced several staffing changes in its London-based management team. Melanie Nicholas has been promoted to senior vice president, marketing. In addition to her current responsibilities for International Licensees and Russia, she will now also lead international marketing ...
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Sugarhouse
Dir: Gary Love, UK 2007, 92mins A claustrophobic psychodrama that never quite shakes off its stage origins, Sugarhouse is performed with ferocious intensity by its three leads. First-time director Love creates a genuine sense of menace. He also effectively cranks up the tension even if the plotting ultimately seems contrived ...
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Optimum, TWC set October UK launch for Sicko
Optimum Releasing and The Weinstein Company are teaming to release Michael Moore's Sicko in the UK on Oct 26. Optimum previously released Moore's hit Fahrenheit 9/11. Moore 's exploration of the US health care system, Sicko has already grossed about $24m at the US box office. Danny Perkins, managing director ...
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Tonderai starts five-week UK shoot for Hush
Writer/director Mark Tonderai started shooting his debut feature film Hush on Aug 20 for Warp X, Shona Productions and FearFactory. The suspense thriller will shoot on location in Sheffield and the East Midlands over five weeks. Will Ash and Christine Bottomley star in the story of a couple who barely ...
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Raindance to offer content through Joost
Raindance.tv, the online and mobile film portal founded by the Raindance Film Festival with dandy productions, Dogwoof Pictures and Crucible Media, has partnered with Internet TV platform Joost. Joost users will now be able to view - for free - Raindance.tv's independent features, shorts and documentaries. Offerings include UK thriller ...
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Wet weather contributes to sunny UK box office
One of the wettest ever summers in the UK contributed to a record-breaking number of ticket sales last month.The Film Distributors Association says 21.8 million cinema visits were made in July, the equivalent of one in three of the population.The previous highest monthly total in recent years was 19.0 million ...
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Corbijn takes major honours at Edinburgh
Anton Corbijn's Control emerged as one of the major winners at the 61st Edinburgh International Film Festival. Corbijn's stunning monochrome biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis was one of the discoveries at Cannes this year and has continued to build critical acclaim and industry buzz. In Edinburgh it won ...
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Saxon
Dir/scr/ed: Greg Loftin. UK. 2007. 92mins.Evoking resonances of vintage Clint Eastwood fare like High Plains Drifter, Saxon stars Sean Harris as Eddie, a prodigal son who returns to the council estate of his youth. An ex-con, he has recently parted company with an eye and is desperately seeking cash to ...
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Odyssey takes on sales for $65m Nutcracker: The True Story
UK-based sales company Odyssey Entertainment has struck a deal to handle international sales and distribution of Anderi Konchalovksy's Nutcracker: The True Story (working title).The $65m film is set in 1920s Vienna and adapts the classic story that inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet. Konchalovsky and Chris Solimine wrote the screenplay, and the film ...
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Challenge sees Roeg in his element
Rather unusually for my movies, it does have a beginning and an end,' Nicolas Roeg says as an introduction of his new feature Puffball at the Galway Film Fleadh in July.That is not to say the 79-year-old director, who made his mark with challenging films including Don't Look Now, Bad ...
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Slingshot and Screen WM to co-produce seven features
UK regional screen agency Screen WM and new digital studio Slingshot Studios have struck a slate co-financing deal that will cover seven features during the next two years. Screen WM's production funds will finance 25% of film budgets, with the rest covered by Slingshot and its financing partners. Screen WM ...
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Bruce Dickinson-penned Chemical Weddingstarts shooting
London-based Focus Films has started production on supernatural horror film Chemical Wedding. Julian Doyle, who edited Terry Gilliam's Brazil and Time Bandits, will direct. The story is based on an original screenplay by Bruce Dickinson, frontman of Iron Maiden. Dickinson will provide the soundtrack to the film. Warner Music has ...
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Liberation plans Oct theatrical release for Manufacturing Dissent
Los Angeles and London-based Liberation Entertainment is planning a UK theatrical run for the documentary Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore. The film will open Oct 5 at London's Prince Charles Cinema.Director/producers Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine made the film that chronicles Michael Moore's transition from film-maker to liberal icon and ...
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NPA to offer producer training at BFI Southbank
The UK's New Producers Alliance has partnered with the British Film Institute to offer the NPA's 9-Point Producer Training Sessions at the new BFI Southbank's Delegates Centre starting from September 2007.The 9-point programme includes the following sessions: role of the producer, company set-up, developing a project, market and audience, finance, ...
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Film4 partners with Edinburgh theatre for new talents
Film4 and Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre are starting a new $59,800 (£30,000) partnership to explore the crossover between theatre and film.The initiative will let Channel 4, Film4 and Traverse select promising new theatre talents to build long-term relationships working in film and television. The programme includes a first-look deal for plays ...
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The Darjeeling Limited will close London Film Festival
The London Film Festival will close Nov 1 with the UK premiere of Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. The director will be in London to also give an interview as part of the festival's TCM Screen Talks.Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman star as three American brothers who try ...
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Raindance announces international feature programme
The 15th Raindance Film Festival, which runs Sept 25-Oct 7 in London, has announced this year's programme of features and feature documentaries. Highlights include Kim Ki-Duk's Breath, John Barker's Bunny Chow, Japanese blockbuster The Amazing Lives Of The Fast Food Grifters by Mamoru Osuii, US paparazzo-related project Being Michael Madsen ...
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Pusan Promotion Plan selects 35 projects for 10th edition
The Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) has announced the line-up for its tenth anniversary edition. 35 projects from 18 countries have made the final cut, out of more than 200 submissions. Once again the PPP mixes masters and newcomers, including Cannes Camera D'Or winner Bahman Ghobadi, Berlinale Silver Bear winner Wang ...
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Pathe and BBC Films team for live-action Jungle Book
Pathe and BBC Films are working together on a $50m live-action version of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books. The comedy adventure will start preparations in September 2007 with director John Downer, who has previoulsy worked on nature-oriented films including Pride. Richard Kurti & Bev Doyle (Robin Hood) are writing the ...