All UK/Ireland articles – Page 1072
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Weinsteins closes Attenborough's Ring with Content
The Weinstein Company has taken US rights to Richard Attenborough's Closing The Ring from ContentFilm International.The film had its world premiere in Toronto. The epic love story, set in the present day and World War II, is about an American woman who looks back on a wartime promise. Shirley MacLaine, ...
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Intandem to finance and sell $25m thriller Tatua
Intandem Films has taken on rights to action thriller Tatua and will raise and structure the financing of the $25m project.The sci-fi action thriller is written by comic book veterans Rob Prior and Paul Jenkins. Todd Breau and Kari Hollend will produce.Gary Smith, chief executive of Intandem Films, said: 'This ...
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The Works gets investment boost from Milcoz; takes UK rights to Mongol
The Works Media Group has also announced that Milcoz Films has made an equity investment of $1.6m (£763,097), bringing its stake to 29.9%.Also, The Works UK Distribution continues its AFM deals by picking up UK rights to Mongol. Production and finance company Milcoz is run by Costa Theo, who has ...
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Ealing takes on sales for The Damned United, now with Hooper
Ealing Studios International is handling international sales on The Damned United, which will now be directed by TV veteran Tom Hooper after Stephen Frears has left the project.The $10m film reunites The Queen's screenwriter Peter Morgan, actor Michael Sheen and producers Andy Harries and Christine Langan. Harries and Langan, who ...
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Lumina swims with Maringouin's Big River Man
Lumina Films has taken on worldwide rights (excluding the UK) for John Maringouin's documentary Big River Man.The film is now in post-production, and Lumina is helping with finishing funds. A Sundance launch is possible.Big River Man follows eccentric Slovenian endurance swimmer Martin Strel as he attempts to swim the Amazon.'It's ...
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Martha Fiennes works with Intandem for Blown
UK-based Intandem Films has acquired worldwide rights to the espionage thriller Blown, which Martha Fiennes will direct.The story delves into the world of espionage, terrorism and big business through the eyes of a ruthless MI5 agent.The $15m film's cast will include Thandie Newton, who will play a high-class call girl. ...
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TLA takes US, UK rights for Filmax's comedy Boystown (Chuecatown)
TLA Releasing has acquired all North American and UK rights from Filmax to Juan Flahn's Spanish comedy Boystown (Chuecatown) and plans a late 2008 release in North America.The madcap story centres on an estate agent who murders elderly women and offers their apartments to upwardly mobile gay couples in a ...
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The Works takes UK rights to Joy Division
The Works UK Distribution has taken UK rights from Katapult Films to Grant Gee's Toronto hit documentary Joy Division. The deal was negotiated between Mark Ankner of Endeavor, David Jourdan of Katapult and Laurence Gornall from The Works. The Works plans a UK theatrical release in 2008.The film has already ...
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UK's Magnet Films starts shoot for James Abadi's UK comedy
Principal photography has started on UK comedy The Story of ____. Finlay Robertson, Lee Boardman, Tamsin Egerton, Peter Bowles and Rik Mayall star.The film is about the record industry travails of a band named FUCK, which is played by Andrew Thomas Jones, Joe Absolom, AMeet Chana and Desire Dubunet. James ...
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Velvet Octopus gets tangled with 3-D animated Spyro
Velvet Octopus will handle sales for a new 3-D CGI animated feature based on Vivendi Games' Spyro franchise.Ash Shah's The Animation Picture Company has optioned the rights to Spyro from Vivendi's Sierra Entertainment division.John Davis (I, Robot, Eragon) will produce The Legend Of Spyro, which has just started production. Creative ...
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Cronenberg takes The Talking Cure with Jeremy Thomas
David Cronenberg's next film will be an adaptation of Christopher Hampton's play The Talking Cure, re-teaming him with Crash producer Jeremy Thomas.Cronenberg will shoot the project in Germany in mid-2008, after he finishes work on his opera version of The Fly.The Talking Cure follows the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, Carl ...
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Moviehouse, Ipso Facto and Soda team for new UK micro-studio
UK producer Christine Alderson (who co-produced Berlinale hit Irina Palm) has spearheaded the launch of a new UK micro-studio. Moxie Makers joins together Alderson's production company Ipso Facto Films with sales company Moviehouse Entertainment and UK distributor Soda Pictures to work on a slate of up to four low-budget features ...
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Magnolia's Magnet takes on Toby Wilkins' Splinter
Magnolia Pictures' new genre label Magnet has swooped on its second acquisition in the last couple of days and taken North American rights to Toby Wilkins' directorial debut Splinter. The film is nearing completion and centres on a young couple on the run that finds themselves besieged in a ...
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UK short festival Encounters partners with Babelgum
After striking partnerships with the Soho Shorts Film Festival and the Giffoni Film Festival, Internet TV platform Babelgum has now struck a deal with the Encounters Short Film Festival.Encounters, which will host its 13th edition this month in Bristol, UK, will now offer festival participants the chance to broadcast their ...
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Fresh heir: Director Jean-Marc Vallee and producer Graham King on the set of The Young Victoria
It is an unseasonably warm mid-October day at Blenheim Palace and under a cloudless blue sky in one of the courtyards of the Oxfordshire stately home, French-Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee prepares for his next shot. He is in the final week of the 10-week shoot of The Young Victoria, a ...
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Persepolis, Unrelated take prizes at London Film Festival
The Times BFI London Film Festival closed last night with its Sutherland Trophy going to Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis.The Sutherland is for the most original and imaginative first feature at the festival.The Sutherland jury said the film was 'an astonishing and courageous film which captures a universal story ...
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High Point sells Extraordinary Rendition to North America and Latin America
High Point Media Group has kicked off AFM with two new sales for Jim Threapleton's Extraordinary Rendition. The film was sold to North America (BFS Entertainment) and Latin America (LAPTV). Extraordinary Rendition, starring Andy Serkis and Omar Berdouni, is about an innocent man abducted from London and interrogated abroad.'We are ...
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UK government pledges $9.3m support for film festivals
The UK government has announced a $9.3m (£4.5m) three-year package of support for British film festivals.Culture Secretary James Purnell said the money was intended to raise the profile of British film and to broaden the interest in cinema.The money will come from the National Lottery. The UK Film will make ...
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Curzon Artificial Eye expands product scope with Hunt buy
Signaling its increasing appetite for mainstream fare, UK distributorCurzon Artificial Eye has taken UK rights to Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me, starring Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler and Matthew Broderick.Then She Found Me is one of five new titles that Curzon Artificial Eye has picked up on the autumn ...
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UK's Boulevard signs exclusive Fox deal for UMD format for PSP
Boulevard Entertainment, the UK DVD distributor, has branched out into the Universal Media Disc (UMD) format, used for PlayStation Portable, and signed an exclusive three-year UK deal for UMD releases for Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The deal covers new and library titles from Fox, Pathe and MGM. New releases ...