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Byrne to head GE and NBC's $250m Peacock Equity Fund
GE Commercial Finance's Media, Communications & Entertainment business and NBC Universal have appointed Thomas M. Byrne, 40, as managing director of the $250m Peacock Equity Fund. Megumi Ikeda, 37, has been named as London-based executive director, reporting to Byrne. Peacock Equity, a joint venture between GE and NBC Universal, invests ...
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Global entertainment industry to be worth $2 trillion by 2011
The global entertainment & media market will see sustained growth and a 6.4% compound annual growth rate to hit $2 trillion in 2011, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report. In particular, convergent platforms will rise at double-digit rates and will represent more than 50% of global entertainment spending by 2011. ...
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Jamie Morgan: the explorer
Wendy Mitchell meets Jamie Morgan, a first-time documentary film-maker who created a stir in Tribeca with his provocative and personal documentary, The Workshop. Documentary film-maker Jamie Morgan set out on a personal spiritual quest and ended up with a legal battle hours before the world premiere of his film at ...
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When LUFF comes to town
Cementing its place in the international calendar, the London UK Film Focus (June 25-28) is attracting influential buyers and a growing number of premieres. Geoffrey Macnab reports. Four years after its inception, the London UK Film Focus (Luff) is now an established part of the calendar. UK sales agents are ...
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New Anglo-Jamaican co-production treaty unveiled
From Broadcast:The British and Jamaican governments are joining forces to encourage filmmakers from the two countries to work on co-productions. Broadcasting minister Shaun Woodward and Del Crooks, Jamaica's film commissioner, joined together at a specially organised press conference at the BroadcastLive trade show in London today to publicise the deal, ...
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Edinburgh Film Festival to open with Mackenzie's Hallam Foe
The 61st Edinburgh International Film Festival will open with David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe, which is largely set in the Scottish city. Jamie Bell stars alongside Sophia Myles, Ciaran Hinds and Claire Forlani in the story of a voyeuristic teenage boy who struggles with the aftermath of his mother's suicide and ...
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EM Media to offer producers tour of Nottingham
UK regional screen agency EM Media is hosting a tour of Nottingham for film and TV producers. The familiarisation tour on June 27 will include visits to the Galleries of Justic, post-production house Spool Films, and former Carlton TV studios. Similar tours have already been held in Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, ...
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Terence Davies among finalists in Northwest's Digital Departures
Northwest Vision + Media has named the 12 finalists in its Digital Departures micro-budget film-making initiative. Three teams will be selected to each make a $500,000 (£250,000) feature film in the next 14 months. Other partners on board for Digital Departures include Liverpool Culture Company, the UK Film Council and ...
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TEA joins forces with trailer company Wonderland
Design and advertising agency TEA - The Entertainment Agency, has joined forces with trailer company Wonderland, and the companies are now known as TEA: Wonderland. TEA has more than 20 years experience in print film marketing, and Wonderland is a year-old company started by Rob Darvell and Joe Pisano that ...
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Future Cinema to host Chinese themed tent at Glastonbury
Future Cinema will host the Chinese Cinema Palace at this weekend's Glastonbury music festival, in the Lost Vagueness field. The tent is inspired by Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love. The programme includes international shorts films and music videos presented by Future Shorts. Live theatre will also be ...
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Sarah Smith promoted as Aardman unveils new feature slate
UK-based animation powerhouse Aardman Features has announced a slate of six films in development, including a Christmas project written by Borat co-writer Peter Baynham, new non-Wallace and Gromit film from Nick Park and company founder Peter Lord's return to directing. These are the first new projects to be announced since ...
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Indian Film Company makes trading debut on London's AIM
The new Guernsey-registered Indian Film Company (IFC) has started trading on London 's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) today, after raising $109m by going public. Shares rose 20% on their trading debut. IFC, a Bollywood film production and film asset management fund started by Mumbai-based giant Network 18 Group, plans to ...
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Marcel Grant starts shooting third feature Just Ines
Shipwreck Film is currently shooting its third feature, Just Ines, from director Marcel Grant. The production is shooting next week in the South of France before returning to the UK to shoot in London July 14-Aug 3. Daniel Weyman and Caroline Ducey star in the story of a London businessman ...
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Rocksavage starts Norfolk shoot for drama The Wreck
Principal photography has started near in north Norfolk, UK, for David Rocksavage's 1960s-set family drama The Wreck. Jean Simmons, James Wilby, Jamie Dornan, Ophelia Lovibond and Toby Marlow head the cast. The screenplay, by Rocksavage and Margaret Glover, is about a widow living on the East Anglian coast who befriends ...
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Irons, Schlondorff, George to give Galway masterclasses
The Galway Film Fleadh (July 10 - 15) will host masterclasses in acting, directing and screenwriting given respectively by Jeremy Irons, Volker Schlondorff, and Terry George. Events confirmed so far for the 19th edition of the Fleadh include the Real Deal day-long finance and distribution seminar and a New Media ...
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Film business training: adifferent class
Europe is getting serious about film business training. Richard Brass looks at the upturn in formalised training across the continent, and speaks to graduates from some of the key courses. In most companies, the thought of letting anyone without training loose on the financial, accounting, marketing, legal and sales operations ...
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BFI says funding issues will cause job losses but no catastrophe
Amanda Nevill, director of the British Film Institute (BFI), has responded to recent speculation in UK newspapers that the BFI is on the verge of a major withdrawal of the services and resources it offers to the research and teaching community. Nevill's remarks come in the wake of the BFI's ...
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Arts Alliance hires Gwendal Auffret to run new Paris office
Digital film services company Arts Alliance Media has expanded by opening a new office in Paris, which will be the headquarters of the company's digital cinema operations in Southern Europe.The new office will cover France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.Gwendal Auffret will head the new office. He had been CEO of ...
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Granada signs VOD deal with Orange for France
Granada International has struck a non-exclusive three-year deal with Orange for VOD and SVOD platforms in France. The SVOD will launch a new drama service this month after initially concentrating on music and young people's programmes. The deal includes Granada TV titles including Brideshead Revisited as well as feature films ...
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Entertainment One to acquire UK's Contender in $97m deal
US and Canadian home entertainment company Entertainment One, parent company of Koch Entertainment, has struck a deal to acquire UK-based Contender Limited and its Contender Entertainment Group in a cash and stock deal worth about $97m (£49.4m). Contender's management team led by Richard Bridgwood will remain in place. Contender has ...