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Black & Blue starts shooting UK comedy Mixed Up
Black & Blue Films has started shooting UK comedy Mixed Up. The story, set in a record shop, stars Billy Murray, Adele Silva, Terry Stone, Zara Dawson, Lee Otwayterry Stone, Anna Brecon, Faye Tozer, Lisa McAllister, Giles Alderson, Sylvester McCoy and Abi Titmuss.The privately financed project is shooting on location ...
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TLA signs deal with Jinga for Richards' Summer Scars
Jinga Films has signed an all-rights North American deal with TLA Releasing for Julian Richards' Summer Scars.TLA will release through its TLA Presents and Danger After Dark labels.The coming-of-age thriller recently won two Welsh BAFTA Awards.'This success is all about the newcomers,' said Julian Richards at the BAFTA Cymru Awards ...
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Holly Weston follows Madonna film with UK horror Splintered
Simeon Halligan is making his feature directorial debut with psychological horror/thriller Splintered.Holly Weston, who recently appeared in Madonna's Filth & Wisdom, plays the lead as troubled teen Sophie, who leads a group of friends into trouble in the countryside before she is captured. The cast also features Stephen Martin Walters, ...
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Bill Lawrence named creative director at Showroom, Workstation
Bill Lawrence has been named to the new post of creative director at Sheffield, UK-based Showroom and Workstation.He will will be responsible for all of the company's creative programming including films, seasons, retrospectives, cross artform exhibitions and projects and entertainment.Bill was most recently Head of Film at the National Media ...
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Irish courts approve $96,540award to children shown in doc
Five young school children whose images were used without permission in the Oscar-nominated documentary, Deliver Us From Evil, about American paedophile priest Oliver O'Grady, have had settlements totalling more than $96,540 (Eu62,500) approved by the Dublin Circuit Civil Court.The children's parents had sued director Amy Berg and Disarming Films, both ...
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Protagonist takeson sales forBBC Films' In The Loop
New UK sales company Protagonist Pictures has taken on its first third-party project, Armando Iannucci's In The Loop.Principal photography has now started on the BBC Films, UK Film Council and Aramid Entertainment project.Optimum Releasing has pre-bought UK theatrical rights to the political comedy.Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Peter Capaldi, ...
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The Works International takes on sales for Palka's Good Dick
UK-based sales company The Works International has taken on rights for Good Dick, which premiered at Sundance.Glasgow-born Marianna Palka directed, produced and stars in the Los Angeles-set film, about an awkward romance between a porn-addicted loner and a video-store clerk. The cast also features Jason Ritter, Eric Edelstein, Mark Webber, ...
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Forbidden Kingdom kicks into top international spot on Screen's chart
Martial arts adventure The Forbidden Kingdom came up trumps this weekend with a $16.8m take from 10 territories, making it this weekend's number one international film. The top 40 international films generated $104.2m across 36,933 screens from the period of April 25-27.For the full chart, compiled by Len Klady, click ...
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Sky works on new simultaneous deal for Lionsgate titles
Sky Movies and Lionsgate UK are offering two Lionsgate titles, 3:10 To Yuma and War, free to Sky Movies subscribers on Sky Box Office the same time they are available for all other Sky Box Office viewers at a cost of about $8 (£3.99).The move is unusual because of the ...
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Nine get funding from London Artists' Film and Video Awards
Nine London-based film and video artists will receive funding to produce new work through the 2008 London Artists' Film and Video Awards (LAFVA), supported by Film London in partnership with Arts Council England.This year's award recipients, each receiving up to $40,000 for proposed projects, are: Luciano Zubillaga; Stephen Connolly; Sarah ...
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James, Machin, Davies join Film Agency For Wales board
The Film Agency For Wales has added three new board members. They are journalist/producer Alison James, THINKFilm International's Will Machin and Welsh media studies lecturer Cath Davies.The appointments were announced by Agency chairman Peter Edwards.Edwards said: 'The first 18 months of the life of the Film Agency has been an ...
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Bekkie Sunley named brand manager for LoveFilm
Bekkie Sunley has joined LoveFilm as brand manager.She joins LoveFilm from Universal Music Group, where she had product manager and marketing coordination roles across Universal Classics & Jazz, and Universal Music TV.Sunley will report to head of brand marketing Fliss White, who said: 'Bekkie is a welcome addition to the ...
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Irish Film Board appoints O'Neill and Notley to business roles
The Irish Film Board (IFB) has appointed Patrick O'Neill to the new position of industry affairs executive and Laura Notley to the role of business affairs co-ordinator.O'Neill will work closely with IFB head of business affairs and deputy CEO, Teresa McGrane, on IFB policy and will manage one-off IFB projects ...
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Miramax partners with Vaughn's MARV for The Debt
Miramax Films is partnering with Matthew Vaughn and Kris Thykier's London-based MARV Films on The Debt. Miramax has acquired world rights to the screenplay, which reunites Vaughn with his Stardust co-writer Jane Goldman.The film is a re-make of the Israeli film The Debt (Ha-Hov), a spy thriller about three Mossad ...
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Hunger to open Cannes Un Certain Regard
Steve McQueen's Hunger about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands is to open the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes. The film was a surprise ommission when the festival line-up was announced last week but its presence was confirmed today.British artist McQueen co-wrote the screenplay with award-winning playwright Enda Walsh (Disco ...
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Irish Film Board proposes new Irish and world cinema TV channel
The Irish Film Board (IFB) has announced a proposal for a new Irish TV channel, using new digital infrastructure, which will be dedicated to broadcasting the best of Irish, European and world cinema.The proposal has been made to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for inclusion in Ireland's ...
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Three newcomers claim UK Film Council Development Fund awards
The first awards from theUK Film Council's new Development Fund for first features include three complete newcomers to the industry.The trioare all screenwriters working on features: Neil Knowles for slacker comedyThe Bailey Method; Elena Fuller fordramaGreener about ayoung woman coming to terms with the death of her mother; and Richard ...
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Lionsgate UK launches local production initiative with three projects
Lionsgate UK has confirmed plans to increase investment in UK films, intending to develop, co-produce and co-finance at least two British features per year.The initiative kicks off with three UK features set to shoot in 2009: Stiff by Dan Mazer, Emily-Jane Secret Mum as a co-production with Elton John and ...
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Edinburgh unveils new cult section calledUnder the Radar
The 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) will host a new section celebrating cult film, Under the Radar.'The term 'cult cinema' has become mere marketing-speak in recent years,' EIFF artistic director Hannah McGill said in statement issued to the press. 'With this new section, we want to re-animate the spirit ...
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Sarah Marshall hopes 8 territories won't forget this weekend
The start of the blockbuster season is almost upon us and with one week to go before Paramount Pictures International (PPI) unleashes Marvel's Iron Man around the globe, the release schedule is predictably subdued.Universal's comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall gets a push this weekend with eight launches through UPI including Russia ...