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Baker and Brolin sign up for Last Chance Harvey
Kathy Baker and James Brolin have joined Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson on the cast of Overture Films' romance Last Chance Harvey, which is set to begin filming in and around London this week [Oct 1]. Eileen Atkins, Richard Schiff and newcomer Liane Balaban have also boarded the project ...
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LFF plans industry talks including one-day digital seminar
The London Film Festival is planning several special industry seminars for this year's festival. The Ateliers du Cinema Europeen (ACE) and the French Institute, with support from Skillset, the UK Film Council and the MEDIA Plus Programme will work with the LFF to host the seminar Creative Producer - A ...
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Scorsese signs on for George Harrison documentary
Martin Scorsese is set to direct a documentary feature film about the life and work of late musician George Harrison. Scorsese will also produce through Sikelia Productions with Olivia Harrison through Grove Street Productions and Nigel Sinclair through Spitfire Pictures. Olivia Harrison, the widow of the ex-Beatle, said that work ...
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UK boasts record summer at cinemas
Summer admissions in the UK reached a record 50.8 million, according to the Film Distributor Association (FDA).From June to August, cinema-going reached levels not seen in the territory for 40 years. Year-on-year admissions for the period jumped 27% and wereup a massive 44% on the same three months in 2000.Weatherconditions, ...
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Catherine Linstrum plans IVF script Perish
Catherine Linstrum, who co-wrote Cristian Nemescu's Un Certain Regard winner California Dreamin', is now working on a new script entitled Perish with her artist husband David-John Newman. Linstrum, based in South Wales, has financial backing from the Film Agency For Wales. Perish is about a young couple who lose their ...
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Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead
Dir: Stuart Urban. UK 2007. 83 minsStuart Urban's documentary is the latest in an increasingly lengthy list of films made by children about their fathers (Mark Wexler's Tell Them Who You Are, Nathaniel Kahn's My Architect and Doug Block's 51 Birch Street are three other recent examples.) Tovarisch, however, is ...
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NBC Universal International starts new digital strands
NBC Universal International has restructured its digital business to maximise its digital growth strategy. NBCUI will now organise its digital efforts in two strands: New Media Licensing and Digital Assets. LA-based Beth Minehart has been promoted to Executive Vice President, International New Media, NBC Universal International Television Distribution. She will ...
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Run, Fat Boy, Run tops UK box-office for third week
David Schwimmer's directorial feature debut, Run, Fat Boy Run, topped our UK chart for a third weekend, taking $2.4m (£1.2m) from 401 sites for a $12.8m (£6.3m) total to date.The British comedy, which is released by Entertainment Film Distributors and stars local favourite Simon Pegg, fell by 22% this weekend ...
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Brick Lane added to LFF schedule after royal snub
The annual Royal Film Performance has been cancelled for the first time in more than 60 years.This year's event was to be a screening of Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane in November, due to be attended by Prince Charles. Officials said the decision was a diary clash with an overseas trip ...
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LFF adds UK premiere of Gavron's Brick Lane
The forthcoming London Film Festival has added the UK premiere of Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane. The film will screen as a Film On The Square screening the night of Oct 26. Gavron said: 'I am delighted that the film will be in the London Film Festival. It is a film ...
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3DD takes on international rights to Meat Loaf doc
UK-based 3DD Entertainment is taking on international sales for the full-length documentary Meat Loaf: In Search Of Paradise. 3DD plans to start sales of the feature documentary and one-hour TV version at MIPCOM. Bruce David Klein directed the story about rock icon Meat Loaf on tour. Atlas Media Corp produced ...
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Jimi Mistry and Joanne Whalley line up for Eating Dust
Jimi Mistry, Joanne Whalley, Joseph Beattie and Clive Standen have signed up to star in Eating Dust for Glasgow-based director Jade Carmen. Carmen wrote the script with producer Louis Paltnoi. The film will start shooting at the end of October. The project, described as a 'modern Celtic comedy' is set ...
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Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance
Dir: Darren Ashton. Australia 95 minsFollowing two children's dance troupes as they compete for top prize in a prestigious national tournament, Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance is an intermittently amusing backstage comedy that skewers the rampaging egos and vaulting ambition of its ragbag of aspiring show-biz types. Filmed in ...
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Bourne stays ahead with $13m international weekend
Universal's The Bourne Ultimatum once again set the pace at the international box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $13m from 4,269 dates in 48 territories. The marketplace's only new entrant, Sony's Resident Evil: Extinction, opened in Mexico day-and-date with its chart-topping domestic launch and came in number one with ...
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Strategic Partners projects include Indigenes writer's debut
At the recent Strategic Partners co-production market in Canada, producers revealed a number of new projects currently in the works. In total almost 200 industry figures from the US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, South Africa, the Netherlands, and the UK were given the chance to pitch their projects to fellow ...
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AAM works on digital release of Queen Rock Montreal
Arts Alliance Media is working with Eagle Rock Entertainment and Empire Cinemas to digitally release concert film Queen Rock Montreal in cinemas across the UK. The project was shot in November 1981 and has only been seen on the big screen at its Cannes debut in 1984. The film has ...
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Keith Potter leaves Dan Films for Film Agency For Wales
Keith Potter has joined the Film Agency for Wales as its head of talent.Potter had been in charge of development for London-based production company Dan Films, working on Christopher Smith's Triangle, Tom Rob Smith's Put Together, and Jeff Noon's Creeping Zero.He is also a member of the advisory board of ...
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Robert Beeson leaves managing director post at Artificial Eye
Ending a 30-year relationship, Robert Beeson has stepped down as Managing Director of UK distribution company, Artificial Eye.His decision to leave follows on from the acquisition of Artificial Eye in the summer of 2006 by Act Entertainment Group, owner of Curzon Cinemas, and Knatchbull Communications Group. 'With the changes in ...
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Berlinale taps Dominique Green as UK delegate
As its selection period looms, the Berlinale has appointed Dominique Green as its official delegate for the UK. Green will advise the Berlinale about the UK film industry and film selection.Green, a veteran of film production, distribution and training, has collaborated with the Berlin festival for many years. In 2004 ...
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Sam Riley joins cast of Franklyn for Recorded Picture Company
Gerald McMorrow will start principal photography in London on Monday, Sept 24, on debut feature film, Franklyn, for UK-based producer Recorded Picture Company. Sam Riley, who has won raves for his leading role in Control, has joined the cast, along with previously announced Ryan Phillippe and Eva Green. The cast ...