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British Film Institute and Anthony Minghella's family plan tribute
The British Film Institute and Anthony Minghella's family will celebrate his life and work and mark the first anniversary of his death with a movie marathon to be held on his birthplace, the Isle of Wight. The charity tribute will take place over the weekend of March 13 -15 and ...
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UK Film Council takes delegation to FICCI Frames in Mumbai
On the back of the success of Slumdog Millionaire and with the UK India co-production treaty in place, UK film companies will travel to Mumbai to meet their Indian counterparts and to attend the 10th edition of India's FICCI Frames Entertainment Conference. UK film sales, production, facilities and service companies ...
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Hunger dominates Irish Film & Television Awards
Steve McQueen's Hunger collected six of the major film awards at last night's Irish Film & Television Awards ceremony in Dublin. Hunger was named best film, and also collected IFTAs for actor in a lead role, film for Michael Fassbender, actor in a supporting role, film for Liam Cunningham, original ...
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ShoWest to honour Sienna Miller as supporting actress of year
Sienna Miller will be anointed as ShoWest 2009's supporting actress ofthe year when the annual convention runs from March 30-April 2 in LasVegas.Miller, who will star this summer in Paramount/Spyglass' spy actionpicture G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, will accept the accolade at thefinal night banquet and awards ceremony on ...
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Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhind-Tutt are Meant To Be for Corsan
Belgian production, finance and international sales company Corsanannounced that production began this week in Puerto Rico on theromantic comedy Meant To Be.Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhindt-Tutt, Mia Maestro, Santiago Cabrera andKris Marshall star in the tale of a guardian angel who risks becominga fallen angel when he comes to earth in ...
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Paramount scares up 30+ territory opening for Friday The 13th
Paramount and New Line's horror remake Friday The 13th will be the oneto beat when it opens day-and-date with North America in more than 30territories through PPI this weekend.Highlights are expected to come from France on February 11, Germanyand Russia on February 12 and the UK, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Spain,Brazil ...
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A dog's path to glory: The ups and downs of financing and producing Slumdog Millionaire
The UK's Film4 rarely buys a book without a production company involved, but chief Tessa Ross did just that when she first read Q&A by Vikas Swarup, the source novel for Slumdog Millionaire. 'It had a fantastic landscape, a clever plot and a way of telling the story of a ...
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Simon Ellis talks Dogging...and romance
Simon Ellis became one of the hottest rising talents of the UK film scene with his lauded short film, Soft, about a father and son coming to terms with bullying. That Bafta-nominated film won 35 festival prizes including best international short at Sundance 2008.For his first feature he isn't playing ...
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Waisbren: Don't hesitate - consolidate!
In times of trouble, the big beasts always herd together. 'Consolidate or die' has been the frequent mantra when the independent film business is under threat. It was very much the message given by Ben Waisbren, president and chief executive of Continental Entertainment Capital, during his keynote speech at the ...
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Joseph Phillips takes lead in UK family feature Halo Boy
Director Stephen Cookson is currently shooting family feature Halo Boy in London for CKM Entertainments.Joseph Phillips, a 16-year-old actor who played Michael in London's stage version of Billy Eliot, has taken the lead role in Halo Boy.Cookson says of his star: ''I was looking for not only someone who is ...
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Universum Film developing Tractors bestseller with UK's Trijbits
German distributor Universum Film has joined forces with UK-based producer Paul Trijbits of Ruby Films for the development of an adaptation of Marina Lewycka's A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian. The culture clash comedy about a dysfunctional Ukranian family living in Peterborough in the 1990s was a bestseller in ...
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Sinclair in Berlin with Feet In The Clouds
London based film-maker Kate Sinclair is in Berlin shopping Feet In The Clouds a screenplay, which she wrote, based on the award winning novel of the same name by journalist Richard Askwith. She also plans to direct the project with Christopher Eccleston lined up to play the role of Askwith. ...
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Bernard Rose's Kreutzer Sonata picked up by IFC Films for US
IFC Films has picked up US rights to Bernard Rose's The Kreutzer Sonata and will release it this year on its Festival Direct movies-on-demand label. The film, which stars Danny Huston, Elisabeth Rohm and (in a cameo) Anjelica Huston in a dissection of modern marriage based on the Tolstoy novella, ...
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NewsSteven Spielberg's Boom Blox gets video game BAFTA nomination
Boom Blox, a game developed by US based EA Casual Games in collaboration with director StevenSpielberg, has been nominated for the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards.
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Icon to re-release Man On Wire
Icon Films will be re-releasing James Marsh's Man on Wire, following its win at the 2009 BAFTA Awards for Outstanding British Film. The film is nominated for best documentary at this year's Academy Awards which take place on February 22. Man on Wire first opened theatrically in the UK inAugust ...
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Arterton to star in CinemaNX's The Disappearance Of Alice Creed
CinemaNX announces cast for its sixth feature film, TheDisappearance Of Alice Creed, to begin shooting February 9 on The Isle of Man.Gemma Arterton (Quantum Of Solace, St Trinian’s), Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky, Hancock) and Martin Compston (Sweet Sixteen, Red Road) will star in The Disappearance Of Alice Creed, a contemporary kidnap ...
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Pinewood and Shepperton to receive BAFTA award
Pinewood and Shepperton Studios will receive the award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award atthe Orange British Academy Film Awards on Sunday. Shepperton Studios and Pinewood Studios are two of the world's most prestigious studios with a history going back almost 75 years.Despite growing global competition, they have kept ...
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Analysis: Project Kangaroo from Broadcastnow.co.uk
BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 have failed in their bid to launch a joint video-on-demand service after the Competition Commission blocked their joint Project Kangaroo proposal.Click to see coverage of Project Kangaroo from ScreenDaily's sisters site Broadcastnow.co.uk.
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Thaddeus O'Sullivanto to direct Obsession
BAFTA-nominated director Thaddeus O’Sullivan (Ordinary Decent Criminal, The Heart Of Me) will direct Obsession after completing his BBC Churchillbiopic, Into The Storm.