All UK/Ireland articles – Page 968
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Snow and Age Of Stupid win at UK's Birds Eye View Film Festival
As the Birds Eye View Film Festival drew to a close on March 13, Aida Begic's Snow was awarded the festival's Best Feature prize. It tells the story of a Bosnian village populated only by the mothers, daughters, wives and sisters of their murdered Muslim men.Jurors for the Best Feature ...
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E1 Entertainment promote Knowing with Sci Fi UK sponsorship
E1 Entertainment will use niche marketing to promote its latest acquisition Knowing by providing the Sci Fi channel with a five figure sponsorship payment to run film ads during Sci Fi prime time slots. Directed by Alex Proyas (I, Robot), Knowing, although an action-thriller, should attract Sci Fi viewers, because ...
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Opinion: taking superheroes seriously
The global opening of Watchmen last weekend - $55.7m in North America through Warner Bros and $27.5m in 45 territories through PPI - was strong, but considered by many commentators to be disappointing.This, after all, was the most-hyped superhero movie since Iron Man and The Dark Knight last summer and ...
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Jean-Marc Vallee rocks with The Young Victoria
In the second half of 2007 French-Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee was allocated 51 days to shoot The Young Victoria. The penultimate day of shooting was set to coincide with England’s match against South Africa in the rugby union world cup final. The mainly British film crew wanted to wrap early ...
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Rhys Ifans becomesMr Nicefordirector Bernard Rose
Howard Marks is counterculture Britain's answer to a Renaissance man: an Oxford-educated drug smuggler and libertarian with a strong rebellious streak. His autobiography, Mr Nice, chronicling his journey from a small village in Wales to Oxford University and his subsequent emergence as, in the words of one UK newspaper, 'the ...
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Pathe UK strikes distribution, co-production alliance with Warner
In a deal it describes as a move to find a workable business modelfor the digital era, Pathe UK is scaling down its theatrical operation and teaming with Warner Bros Entertainment UK to distribute Pathe productions in the UK and Ireland. Pathe will continue to devise the marketing campaigns for ...
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Colson's Cloud Nine Films signs five-year deal with Pathe UK
Christian Colson, has formed his own company, Cloud Nine Films and struck a five-year development, production, sales and distribution deal with Pathe UK. Colson, who left Celador Films on March 1 2009, remains a shareholder in Celador, while Celador chairman Paul Smith was made a director of Cloud Nine Films. ...
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UK's Potboiler Productions and Slate Films join forces
Simon Channing Williams and Gail Egan of Potboiler Productions are teaming up with Andrea Calderwood of Slate Films.They will work together across a range of upcoming projects including John Le Carre’s The Mission Song, adapted by Neal Purvis and Rob Wade; classic Victorian drama Effie; Jeremy Brock’s Slave, to be ...
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Revolver picks up rights to Star Wreck
Revolver Entertainment has picked up Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning from Finnish producer Blind Spot Films for distribution in the UK and US.Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning, originally produced by a group of Tampere-based filmmakers as a micro-budget sci-fi comedy for the internet community, has become the most-watched Finnish film ...
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Sally Hawkins opens UK's Birds Eye View Film Festival
The fifth Birds Eye View Film Festival(BEV) kicked off in London last night with Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins on hand to open proceedings at the British Film Institute. The opening night showcased a selection of UK & international shorts, including Sam Taylor-Wood 's BAFTA nominated Love You More and ...
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Technology's transformation of the film business
A dance floor in Indonesia is not the most likely place for a US seller and a German buyer to negotiate an acquisition deal. Yet with the transformation of the film business due to cellphones, PDAs (personal digital assistant) and other mobile devices, anywhere is valid as a place to ...
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Going behind the scenes of Perrier's Bounty
Irish director Ian Fitzgibbon is stamping his feet. He’s not having a tantrum, he’s trying to keep warm. Cillian Murphy, however, is having a hissy fit. Having run to his car in a bid to make a quick getaway, he discovers the clampers have gotten there first. As the cameras ...
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Helen Loveridge returns with sales company Meridiana
The Meridiana is the hotel in Venice in which sales agent Helen Loveridge stayed when she was working on Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 1989 Golden Lion winner, City Of Sadness. In recognition of that triumph, it is the name she has given to her new, London-based sales outfit Meridiana Films, which aims ...
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Michael Caine to get Lifetime Achievement Award at ShoWest
Michael Caine will receive the ShoWest 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award at the final night banquet and awards ceremony on April 2.Caine will next be seen in Big Beach, Heyday Films, and BBC Films'drama Is Anybody There' that will open in Los Angeles and New York onApril 17.The Veteran English actor ...
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Nigel Wooll to produce The Brigadier with UK's Turn of the Century
Nigel Wooll, executive producer on Miss Potter and co-producer on GI Jane, is to produce The Brigadier alongside Turn of the Century Productions.The UK production company optioned the international thriller The Brigadier by Josh Rosenberg. Keith Sweitzer brought the script to Turn of the Century and will produce for the ...
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Eureka takes UK rights to Soul Power from Celluloid Dreams
London-based Eureka Entertainment has acquired the UK rights to Soul Power from Celluloid Dreams.Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's documentary about the famous 1974 R&B concert in Kinshasa, Zaire, had its world premiere at Toronto 2008. Sony Pictures Classics picked up North American and Latin American rights.Levy-Hinte produced with David Sonenberg and Leon Gast.The ...
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Content Republicto handleonline release of The Republic Of Love
Digital distribution company Content Republichas struck a dealwith The Works International to distribute Deepa Mehta's The Republic Of Love online in European territories including Benelux, Germany, Italy and France.Content Republic will release The Republic Of Love this spring as part of its recently announced deal with Babelgum as well as ...
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SWF's Scriptmarket opens for submissions
Scriptmarket, a scheme to help up-and-coming screenwriters get their films made and on screen, opens for submissions tomorrow (February 27). 'Emerging screenwriters may have written or even optioned a great spec script, but getting it noticed, getting feedback on it and getting meetings to progress it can be an uphill ...
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UK's Left Bank Pictures appoints Mackie as head of film
Suzanne Mackie has joined Left Bank Pictures as head of film, effective immediately. She joins from Harbour Pictures where she was director of development. Mackie will focus on Left Bank's film development slate including the film adaptation of Ayub Khan-Din's play Rafta Rafta, which is already in advanced stages of ...
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James Morris re-appointed Irish Film Board Chair for twelve months
After a hiatus of five weeks, Ireland’s Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen, has announced the appointment of a new governing board for the Irish Film Board following the end of the tenure of the previous board members.The new board will have a four-year remit until February 2013 ...