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Edinburgh's Powell jury includes Geoff Gilmore and Kate Dickie
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), which kicks off Wednesday with Hallam Foe, has named the members for its members of the Michael Powell Award jury. The jury includes Sundance Film Festival director Geoff Gilmore, UK writer Jonathan Coe, actresses Natalie Press and Kate Dickie, and critic Jay Weissberg. The ...
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UTV partners with Virgin for new superhero books and films
India-based UTV Motion Pictures and its SpotBoy production arm are working with Virgin Comics, a division of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, to collaborate on four new superhero franchises. The brands will be leveraged across publishing, film, animation and gaming. The stories will initially be released as graphic novels published worldwide ...
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Edinburgh works with Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation
The Edinburgh International Film Festival will present two films from Martin Scorsese's new non-profit World Cinema Foundation.EIFF artistic director Hannah McGill said the festival will screen Moroccan documentary Transes and Brazilian feature Limite, both restored by the foundation (Limite will be presented partially restored).The screenings are the first public showings ...
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BBC's Alexei Boltho takes Paramount acquisitions post
Alexei Boltho, who is currently business development manager for BBC Films, will take on a newly created acquisitions post at Paramount Pictures International (PPI). As of Aug 20, Boltho will be PPI's Director Co-production and Acquisitions, working out of Paramount 's London headquarters, which will in September move from Hammersmith ...
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Universal, LoveFilm, News International work on Bourne USB promo
In an unusual marketing initiative, UK newspaper News Of The World will give away exclusive Bourne UltimatumUSB sticks with the Aug 12 edition of the newspaper at select WHSmith stores. The promotion from Universal Pictures, LoveFilm and News International will let users plug the sticks into PCs or MACs to ...
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Archer named interim director general for UK's Industry Trust
The UK's Industry Trust for IP Awareness has today announced the appointment of Paul Archer as interim director general. Archer will take the position from Aug 13 when current director general, Liz Bales, departs for maternity leave. Bales will return in spring 2008. Archer previously served as video sales director ...
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Birds Eye View encourages opening-weekend attendance
The UK's female-centric film festival Birds Eye View is starting a new initiative, the First Weekenders Club, to support features directed by women. During the crucial first weekend at the box office, Birds Eye View will contact its subscribers about selected films to raise both awareness and audience numbers. 'We ...
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Terence Davies among 6 finalists for Digital Departures funding
Northwest Vision and Media has selected six finalists in its Digital Departures micro-budget scheme. The six teams now working on scripts and three will be greenlight by an industry panel for funding of $502,000 (£250,000) each. The projects are: documentary Time And The City written and directed by Terence Davies ...
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Sigur Ros film to get UK theatrical release after Reykjavik premiere
Shooting People Films is working with EMI for a planned UK theatrical release of band Sigur Ros' first film, Heima. Lilo & Stitch director Dean DeBlois led the project, using an Icelandic crew. The documentary-style project was filmed at 15 locations last summer during the band's tour of Iceland. The ...
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Park Circus takes on world rights to Icon back catalogue
UK distributor Park Circus has struck a deal with Icon Entertainment International to handle Icon's back catalogue worldwide, both theatrically and non-theatrically. The library includes more than 350 titles such as The Passion Of The Christ and The Big Easy. The deal represents Icon productions and also other properties including ...
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Ascot Elite takes German-speaking rights to This Is England
Swiss independent distributor Ascot Elite has taken all German-speaking European rights to Shane Meadows' This Is England from sales company The Works International. Meadows' somewhat autobiographical story of a young boy influenced by skinheads in 1980s England won the best film and best newcomer (Thomas Turgoose) awards at the British ...
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LoveFilm hires BBC iPlayer expert Ben Lavender
Ben Lavender will join LoveFilm as group digital and product director. He joins LoveFilm from the BBC, where he was project manager for celebrity stock market Celebdaq and also pioneered the recent launch of the BBC iPlayer. At LoveFilm, he will develop LoveFilm - including leading new features - across ...
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Mia Bays joins Film London's micro-budget Microwave scheme
Film London's Microwave low-budget scheme has recruited a new production executive, Mia Bays, who takes over from Sol Gatti-Pascual. Bays recently produced Scott Walker - 30 Century Man and the Oscar-winning short Six Shooter. Microwave, which is producing 10 features with budgets under $202,000 (£100,000), is gearing up to start ...
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HanWay and Celluloid Dreams brands revived as Dreamachine concentrates on library
Just three months after the splashy merger of HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams, their joint venture company Dreamachine has now announced that the Celluloid and HanWay brands will be run as separate first-run sales and acquisition businesses in London and Paris, as they traditionally had been. The companies had sold ...
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Goldfinger UK re-release draws $85,561 on one night
Continuing the strength of the UK box office, Park Circus' re-release of 1964 James Bond classic Goldfinger grossed $85,561 (£42,000) on Tuesday, July 31 as a one-night-only special presentation. The film, newly digitally restored by Lowrey Digital, showed digitally in 136 cinemas across the UK. Goldfinger was the opening film ...
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London International Animation Festival to host 200+ films
The London International Animation Festival will host its fourth event Aug 21-26 at the Curzon Soho, Renoir Cinema, the Horse Hospital and the Rio Cinema.The programme includes more than 200 films over six days, including work from 28 countries. The international competitive programmes include films such as Don Hertzfeldt's Everything ...
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Grierson trusts partners for new awards at Sheffield Doc/Fest
The Sheffield Doc/Fest has partnered with the UK 's Grierson Trust to launch three new UK documentary awards. The Grierson: Sheffields are in the categories of The Green Award, The Youth Jury Award and The Innovation Award. The partnership kicks off this year at the November festival, with the new ...
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Silence Is Golden tops prizes at Rushes Soho Short Festival
The ninth Rushes Soho Short Film Festival ended its week-long event last night in London, with the Ascent Media Short Film Award going to Chris Shepherd's Silence Is Golden. The runners up in that category were James Larkin's Interior Bedsit Day and Simon Ellis' Soft. The Era Animation Award went ...
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Britdoc: international incidents
This year's Britdoc festival underlined why UK documentary film-makers are turning to the international market. Wendy Mitchell reports. Oxford's Britdoc festival hopes to distinguish itself from other UK festivals by setting its sights on the international market for feature documentaries. This year's event (July 25-27), with increased ranks of US ...
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UK 's Footprint Films aims to raise initial $22m with new film fund
Yet another player has entered the UK film financing landscape. Film finance house Footprint Films has worked with The Route Group to launch the Footprint Film Fund, which aims to raise an initial $22m and a further $21m during its first year of operation. Footprint said it would offer a ...