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Kings to get US showcase through Directors Guild
The Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (SDGI) in association with the Directors Guild of America (DGA), has announced that the winner of this year's Directors Finders Series Award is Kings, directed by Tom Collins. Kings will be showcased on Sept 28 in the DGA Theatre on Sunset Boulevard in Los ...
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Directors in Warp X's Darklight include McKeon and Bhide
Low-budget studio Warp X has selected the four directors going forward in its Darklight: Women Direct Horror scheme. The directors are Smita Bhide, Miranda Bowen, Corinna Faith and Juliet McKeon. Each will now work with Warp X to develop their individual projects. Bhide's project is about a young Indian woman ...
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Lionsgate UK to release Power's first feature Flood
UK production company Power has signed a deal with Lionsgate UK to handle the theatrical launch of Power's first feature film, Flood.Lionsgate will release the film at a central London cinema in August and may roll-out from there.The $30m project is directed by Tony Mitchell and stars Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn ...
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Showroom and Workstation hire team for new Festival Centre
Showroom and Workstation are moving ahead with plans for a new Festival Centre in Sheffield, UK. London-based architectural studio Carmody Groarke will design the centre. The firm previously worked on a new film studio in Australia, the refurbishment of the Electric Ballroom in London and Antony Gormley's Light Pavilion. The ...
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UKFC's new Capital and Access Fund opens applications
The UK Film Council's new Capital and Access Fund for cinemas will give Lottery Funding of $1m (£500,000) to independent cinemas to update buildings and facilities and better serve impaired audiences. The fund will assist cinemas with essential capitol projects including expansions or improvements such as access for disabled cinema-goers. ...
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Italian Film Festival UK plans leading ladies retrospective
The Italian Film Festival UK is planning a retrospective dedicated to the leading ladies of Italian cinema. The Signore & Signore season will run Sept 27 to Nov 29 in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The programme will cover more than four decades of films in a range of styles. The ...
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Roma Khanna to leave CHUM for NBC Universal International
Roma Khanna has been named president, Global Networks and Digital Initiatives, at NBC Universal International, based in London. She takes up the new position on Sept 17 after leaving Canada 's CHUM Television, where she was co-head and senior vice president of content. She will report to Peter Smith, president ...
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London Film Festival to open with Cronenberg's Eastern Promises
After world premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises will serve as the opening-night gala at the London Film Festival on Oct 17.The Canada-UK co-production for Kudos and Serendipity Point stars Viggo Mortenson as a London-based Russian mobster who crosses paths with an innocent ...
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Kent companies form new Film Syndicate
The new Kent Film Syndicate will launch with a screening of locally shot Ruby Blue from Medb Films.Producer Elaine Wickham and writer/director Jan Dunn shot the drama Ruby Blue, starring Josiane Balasko and Bob Hoskins, in Ramsgate and surrounding areas.The Syndicate will host the preview screening on Friday in Ramsgate. ...
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UKFC P&A Fund backs French hits La Ve En Rose and Tell No One
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has announced it latest round of supported projects. They are: $307,980 (£151,606) to Icon for Olivier Dahan's La Vie En Rose $225,056 (£110,774) to Revolver Entertainment for Guillaume Canet's Tell No One $203,146 (£100,000) to Pathe for Laurent Tirard's Moliere $10,158 (£5,000) ...
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Simpsons and Transformers lead UK to record weekend
UK cinemas enjoyed record-breaking performance this weekend, raking in $56.8m (£28.11m) at the box office thanks to impressive returns from new releases The Simpsons Movie and Transformers. Fox's much-awaited Simpsons flick grossed $18.6m (£9.2m) over the three-day period from 499 screens. This brings its total of $27.5m (£13.6m) including Thursday ...
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Asmik Ace takes on Japanese distribution for Shadow Of The Moon
Channel 4 International has brokered a deal for Asmik Ace Entertainment to handle the Japanese theatrical release for In The Shadow Of The Moon. Asmik Ace plans a 2008 launch for the Sundance hit documentary, which is being released by ThinkFilm in the US, Vertigo Films in the UK and ...
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Britdoc gives international prize to Devil Came On Horseback
The second-annual Britdoc festival wrapped Friday with its international jury prize going to Darfur project The Devil Came On Horseback by Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern.The winner of the Screen International British competition was Kim Longinotto's Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go, about a school for children with severe emotional ...
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Cause and effects
From Harry Potter to Sunshine, the UK's post houses are creating world-class effects work. But how is the sector being affected by the exchange rate and increasing competition from India' Geoffrey Macnab reports. The past 12 months has been something of a banner year for the UK post sector. From ...
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Rushes Soho Shorts adds documentary competition
The ninth Rushes Soho Shorts Festival in London will run July 28-Aug 3 with screenings of 90 short films across the categories of newcomer, animation, music video, and this year's addition, documentary, as well as a series of educational and networking events.Screenings will centre around the Curzon Soho and highlights ...
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Venice lines up strong English-language programme
Hollywood will be jetting to the Lido for the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival where a cluster of top shelf US directors are unveiling their current projects in a festival that underscores the force of English-language cinema.While six American pictures have made the competition cut, they are flanked ...
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Berczeller wins Britdoc Pitching with Through A Glass, Darkly
At today's More4 Pitching Forum at the Britdoc Festival, Paul Berczeller was named top pitcher with his project Through A Glass, Darkly. He wins $2000 (£1000) in a cash prize.He presented the project, about the son of a man involved in an infamous CIA LSD experiment, with producer Nikki Parrott ...
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UK anti-piracy groups celebrate charges brought against market owners
The UK's anti-piracy groups are welcoming a judgment handed down at St Albans Crown Court that says a market can be held accountable for pirated materials sold by its traders. The case was brought by Hertfordshire Trading Standards against Wendy Fair Markets Ltd and its directors Nicholas Hobday and Sally ...
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UK cinema admissions up 6% in first half of the year
UK admissions rose 6% year-on-year for the first half of 2006, according to the country's distributors' organisation.Visitor numbers rose to 76.9 million with box-office revenues reaching $815m (£396.8m.)The figures from the Film Distributor's Association highlight two key factors:The popularity of local films, including Mr Bean's Holiday, Hot Fuzz , Miss ...
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Axiom and Matador wrap shoot for UK drama There For Me
Director Sallie Aprahamian has wrapped principal photography on UK romantic drama There For Me.The film is the first collaboration between Axiom Films and Matador Pictures. Axiom developed the film in association with Matador and Regent Capital's Cinema Two. Arts Alliance Media's MetFilm is also co-financing.Douglas Cummins of Axion produces with ...