All UK/Ireland articles – Page 1042
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ContentFilm thunders on with sales for Elephants feature
ContentFilm International is working with new nature project Elephants Of The Okavango and has already closed deals with Germany (Falcom), France (Euro TV), CIS and Baltics (MGN), Hungary/Czech/Slovak Republics (Intersonic), Latin America (SWEN), the Middle East (Gulf) and The Netherlands/Belgium (A Film).The narrative-style documentary feature follows a family of African ...
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Optimum and Lionsgate get lifted with UK DVD company Elevation
Optimum Releasing (and its parent company StudioCanal) has set up a joint venture with Lionsgate UK to jointly acquire home entertainment company Elevation Sales. Elevation will now handle the sales and distribution of all DVD product for both Optimum Home Entertainment and Lionsgate UK. The company will also carry third-party ...
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ICA picks up six films including Chabrol's Comedy Of Power
ICA Films has picked up six new titles for UK distribution.They are Sandhya Suri's I For India from Celluloid Dreams; musical documentary When The Road Bends: Tales Of A Gypsy Caravan from Fortissimo; Marwan Hamed's The Yacoubian Building from BAC Films; Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon from Match Factory; Claude Chabrol's ...
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TLA takes UK rights to boxing drama Poor Boy's Game
TLA Releasing has acquired all UK rights from Montreal-based Seville Pictures to Clement Virgo's boxing drama Poor Boy's Game.The film received its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year and is available for sale in the market here.The story stars Rossif Sutherland as a young white boxer ...
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Screen East gets $4.4m investment boost from ERDA
UK regional screen agency Screen East has secured a $4.4m (£2.2m) investment fund for the East of England that will support a minimum of 20 fictional features, documentary, TV and digital media projects.The Content Investment Fund is backed by the European Regional Development Fund and will be used for production ...
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Opening weekend frenzy goes online with moviePol.com
Here in Cannes, film-maker Mary McGuckian has launched a new online network, moviePol.com, for online film premieres. The secure site has been developed during the last year, designed by film-makers for film-makers. moviePol.com is now accepting online submissions from all industry sources, directly from film-makers, their representatives, sales agents or ...
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Northern Ireland gets $24m boost in new three-year plan
The Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission has unveiled a new three-year strategy and restructured its funding programmes. In a nod to the digital era, the group has been renamed Northern Ireland Screen, and has gotten a new $24m package of support from Invest Northern Ireland.The new Northern Ireland Screen ...
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New Cinema Fund backs new Winterbottom and Warp X titles
The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund is backing several new projects including Michael Winterbottom's next film and thriller Donkey Punch, being sold in Cannes market by Lumina. The Film Council has awarded:$1.3m (£659,331) to Olly Blackburn's thriller Donkey Punch, in post-production for Warp X and being sold by Lumina ...
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Love Me Not gets Wasted
New UK independent production company Loves Me Not Films has secured the option on its debut feature project Wasted.The British drama, written by Livy Austin, tells the story of the harsh reality behind the lives and loves of ordinary women living in the hard, professional city of London and explores ...
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Lionsgate UK gets Independent's In The Hands Of The Gods
Lionsgate UK has taken the UK and Ireland rights to In The Hands Of The Gods, which had its world premiere in Cannes Market last night.Independent is handling sales on the feature, which is about five young British freestyle football fans who travel the world in hopes of meeting Diego ...
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Soda strikes UK deal for Gaelic-language Seachd
Seachd -The Inaccessible Pinnacle has become the first Gaelic-language Scottish feature to secure UK theatrical distribution. Produced by Christopher Young and directed by Simon Miller, it has been acquired by Soda Pictures for an autumn 2007 release in the UK.The film has its first Cannes market screening on Monday and ...
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Lumina strikes The Workshop deal with UK's Revolver
In the run-up to Cannes, increasingly aggressive UK distributor Revolver has been on a buying spree.Among a handful of titles it has picked up in recent weeks is Jamie Morgan's provocative documentary The Workshop, one of the buzz titles at last month's Tribeca Festival. (Lumina is selling the film in ...
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Carnaby crawls into the Doghouse with Jake West
London-based Carnaby International has picked up worldwide rights to Jake West's comedy horror picture Doghouse, it was announced in Cannes.The company will introduce the project, due to shoot in the autumn, to buyers during the Cannes market.Also making its market debut is Welsh comedy, Bridge Of Lies, from Bafta-winning director ...
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Lionsgate bites Jinga's werewolf film Wild Country
New UK sales company Jinga Films has closed a North American deal with Lionsgate for Craig Strachan's Scottish horror project Wild Country.Creative Axa has taken Japanese rights. Peter Capaldi and Martin Compston star in the film, which twists the werewolf genre with a teen pregnancy angle.Jinga's slate also includes thriller ...
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Vinnie Jones brings weight to The Heavy
Making his directorial debut, Marcus Warren will commence principal photography on UK thriller The Heavy from May 20. Shooting in and around London for six weeks, utilising many of the Capital's major landmarks, The Heavy stars former champion boxer Gary Stretch (Dead Man's Shoes, Alexander) as a down on his ...
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Mira Nair to executive produce Taraprevala's Little Zizou
Sooni Taraprevala, the award-winning screenwriter of The Namesake, Salaam Bombay and Such A Long Journey, is at work in Mumbai on her directorial debut, Little Zizou.The film, which started shooting late last month, stars Boman Irani and Mahabanoo Kotwal. It is being executive produced by Taraprevala's long-term collaborator, Mira Nair.The ...
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Edinburgh starts rising talent and acting awards for 2007
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced two new initiatives this year: a new UK Talent Showcase, entitled Trailblazers, in association with Skillset; and a new performance award, the PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film, which will be sponsored by The Premier Property Group.About 20 ...
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Suvari, Huston and Murino join Garden Of Eden
The UK's Berwick Street Productions has recruited Mena Suvari, Jack Huston Caterina Murino, and Richard E Grant will star in their forthcoming The Garden Of Eden, which John Irvin (Hamburger Hill) will direct from Ernest Hemingway's story.Omega Entertainment is handling sales.The project will shoot at Cuidad de la Luz in ...
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Williams, Howard and Wood line up for Sturridge's Bronte
Icon Entertainment International has taken on international sales for Charles Sturridge's Bronte. Lined up to play the Bronte sisters are Michelle Williams, Bryce Dallas Howard and Evan Rachel Wood. ICM is representing North American rights.Bronte is the story of Charlotte, Anne and Emily Bronte, the sisters who grew up in ...
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Future Films and Celsius come on board for Vivaldi biopic
Boris Damast's Vivaldi biopic is picking up momentum. Producer and financier Future Films has now boarded the project, being made by Hand Picked Films and Mechaniks'. In Cannes today, it was confirmed that Celsius Entertainment will be handling sales. Joseph Fiennes stars as the legendary composer. Also in the cast ...