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Paddy Considine, Royston Tan set for Encounters screenings
Singapore's controversial director Royston Tan will head up the Spotlight on Singapore event at this year's Encounters Short Film Festival in the UK.With a record number of entries from more countries than ever before in its 13 year run, the festival has selected shorts from as far as Belarus, Ecuador ...
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Icon takes on sales of library titles from NZ Film Commission
Icon Entertainment International has struck a deal with the New Zealand Film Commission to represent 24 library titles for world sales outside of the Asia Pacific region. The Commission expects that Icon will represent many other library titles after agreements have been struck with relevant producers. Titles covered under the ...
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Lust, Caution boasts highest screen average internationally
French film 99 Francs was the highest new entry in this weekend's international chart as it generated $3.7m from 431 sites in three territories, putting it just within the top 10 in its opening weekend. (See Screen International's full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, here.) The French comedy, directed ...
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Aardman plans Wallace and Gromit short for BBC TV
Aardman's famed Wallace and Gromit characters, last seen on the big screen in 2005 feature Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, are returning to a 30-minute format for TV. Trouble At' Mill will be shown on BBC 1. The short is in pre-production now and will start shooting in January 2008 to ...
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Fat Boy outruns new releases to lead fourth week at UK box office
British comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run dominated the UK box office for the fourth weekend in a row, keeping a firm hold of the number one slot with a $2.01m (£988,788) take from 398 sites.The film, released by Entertainment Film Distributors, is one of four films that refused to budge ...
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Seachd producer withdraws from BAFTA over Oscar snub
Award-winning Scottish producer Chris Young has resigned from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in protest at the academy's refusal to submit any British film in the foreign language category. Young's Gaelic-language feature Seachd-The Inaccessible Pinnacle was thought to be a front runner for the British submission. BAFTA ...
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Park Entertainment takes on sales for Cheung's Bodyguard
Park Entertainment is handling world sales for Bodyguard - A New Beginning. UK-based director Chee Keung Cheung has finished principal photography on the action movie, which shot in Hong Kong and northwest England. The cast features Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, Richard Ng, Vincent Sze, Mark Strange and Nathan Lewis. Park Entertainment also ...
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BBC Films restructures with new board working under Jane Tranter
In London this morning, Jane Tranter, Controller BBC Fiction, spelled out her vision for a newly revamped BBC Films. 'The BBC's commitment to BBC Films is as absolute as it ever has been,' Tranter said.The major change is now that BBC Films will be managed by a new four-member BBC ...
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Summer wraps UK shoot for The Works, Vertigo
Kenny Glenaan has wrapped principal photography on Summer for The Works International and Vertigo Films. Summer shot for five weeks in and around Bolsover, Derbyshire. Post-production will start in Glasgow next week. Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets and Rachael Blake star with newcomers Sean Kelly, Matthew Workman, Jo Doherty, Christopher Russell, ...
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ContentFilm takes on thriller Balibo with LaPaglia
ContentFilm International has taken on world rights (outside Australia and New Zealand) to Robert Connolly's thriller Balibo starring Anthony LaPaglia. The film is based on the true events of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. LaPaglia plays Australian TV journalist Roger East, who runs a local news agency ...
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BBC Films restructuring creates board including Langan and Wright
As expected, the BBC has announced a restructuring of BBC Films. Jane Tranter, Controller BBC Fiction, has said that the film arm's day-to-day management and decision-making will be the responsibility of a new board, comprised of Christine Langan (comissioning editor, BBC Films), Jamie Laurenson (executive producer, BBC Films), Joe Oppenheimer ...
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UKFC Development Fund restructures single-project funding
The UK Film Council's Development Fund, which will hand out an average of $8m (£4m) per year through 2011, has announced a number of changes to the way it funds single projects. Tanya Seghatchian, the Harry Potter and My Summer Of Love producer who took over as head of the ...
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Irish Arts Minister boosts production fund by $2.8m
In his first major announcement since he took on responsibility for film in June, Irish Minister for Arts, Sport & Tourism, Seamus Brennan, has confirmed additional funding of $2.8m(Euros 2m) for the Irish Film Board (IFB), to encourage international film and television projects to shoot in Ireland. The extra money ...
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Orange to sponsor BAFTAs for two more years in 2008-2009
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts says that phone company Orange has extended its sponsorship of the film awards for two more years in 2008 and 2009. Orange has already sponsored the BAFTAs for 10 years. Hattie Magee, head of partnerships for Orange UK, said: 'We are delighted ...
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Grumbar promoted to distribution president at Icon
Hugo Grumbar has been promoted to president of distribution for Icon Film Distribution. He had been head of group marketing. In the new position, he will oversee all marketing, publicity and distribution operations; he reports to chief executive Martin Bigham. Also at Icon, Mark Fisher has been named Group Financial ...
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Future Shorts relaunches UK festival in London tonight
After a summer break, the Future Shorts festival is relaunching tonight.The London festival kicks off tonight at the Greenwich Picturehouse, before screeing at other London locations through Oct 30. Regional screenings will be held in Glasgow, Bristol, Cardiff, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Manchester, Norwich and Exeter. The festival's selections ...
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Fry, Brand, Fisher and Lily Allen to star in Austen spoof
UK-based Sprout Productions is in pre-production on period comedy Jane Austen Handheld with director Tristram Shapeero, who makes his feature film debut after working on TV's Green Wing, Peep Show and Brass Eye. Carrie Fisher, Stephen Fry, Russell Brand and Lily Allen will star in the comedy spoof of Pride ...
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ContentFilm does a run with skiing documentary Steep
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights (excluding North America) for Steep. Mark Obenhaus directed the documentary about big mountain skiing, and it was filmed in locations including Alaska, Wyoming, Canada, France and Iceland.The featured skiiers include Ingrid Backstrom, Chris Davenport, Doug Coombs, Shane McConkey, Andrew McLean, Seth Morrison, Eric ...
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Ian Foster takes MD job for Universal UK home entertainment
Ian Foster has been named managing director, Universal Pictures UK, a division of home entertainment company Universal Pictures International Entertainment. Foster had been commercial director at Entertainment UK Ltd and previously served as managing director of Demon Music Group. He is based in London and reports to UPIE president Eddie ...
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Chuck And Larry make it to top of international box office
Universal/UPI's comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry ruled the roost overseas at the weekend courtesy of an estimated $9.3m haul from 2,512 venues in 38 territories. The comedy climbed to $38m following a weekend session that was punctuated by seven number one debuts in Germany, Mexico, Austria, ...