All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 100
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Central Europe could see admissions boom by 2010
Cinema admissionsin central Europe could pass 80 million by 2010, an increaseof 40%, according to a new report from Dodona Research.The Cinemagoing Central Europe report profilesBulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia andSlovenia. Each of those countriessaw a downturn in admissions in 2005, led by Romania's 29% drop, ...
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Bradfield joins Tartan Video in new marketing post
Mylene Bradfield has been named catalogue marketing managerat Tartan Video. Thenewly created post will focus attention on Tartan's catalogue titles. Bradfieldhas served as marketing manager for Momentum Pictures' DVD label and Channel 4 DVD. "Mylene will make a lively addition to the team at a timewhen Tartan Video's popularity is ...
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Kapakas starts shooting Uranya in Crete
Writer-director CostasKapakas has started shooting his second feature Uranya in Crete.Kapakas is shooting in the village of Fres.The comedy is set in a small mountaintown in 1969, when US Vice President Spiro Agnew visits, the town gets itsfirst TV, the village eccentric searches for treasure, and teenage boys flockto an ...
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Magnet Films to start UK shoot for In Your Dreams
UK-based Magnet Films willstart production June 14 on romantic comedyIn Your Dreams.The $5.8m (£3.15m) projectstars Dexter Fletcher, Parminder Nagra,Linda Hamilton, Sarah George, Elize Du Toit and Robert Portal.Gary Sinyoris writing, directing and producing. Also producing is Jonathan Weissler. David Frost and Michael Rosenberg are on board asexecutive producers. The film ...
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Ruby Red Chequer finishes UK shoot
Writer/director Jan Dunn and producer Elaine Wickhamof Medb Films have completed shooting for theirsecond feature film, Ruby Red Chequer.The project stars Bob Hoskins, JosianeBalasko and Jody Latham in the story of a Britishwidower who falls for his foreign neighbour. The 19-day shoot started in Kent on May 10.Dunn says the ...
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Laura Hardman rejoins Cornwall Film Festival
LauraHardman has rejoined the Cornwall Film Festival as festival director aftertaking maternity leave during the 2005 event. The festival, in its fifthyear, will move its main venue to Falmouth's Princess Pavilion. This year's event will be heldfrom November 16-19 at various Falmouth locations including the National Maritime Museum and University ...
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Carolina Herrera starts new film awards with UK's NFTS
Fashionbrand Carolina Herrera New York is launching its new 212Innovation Awards, with the first year to focus on film.Thedesign company is working with the National Film and Television School in the UK for the awards, with support fromthe UK government's Arts & BusinessNew Partners scheme.The competitionis open to aspiring film-makers ...
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Pathe's busy Cannes led by Loach's Barley
Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes TheBarley came away from Cannes with the Palme d'Orand a slew of sales for Pathe Pictures International.Pathe sold rights to Cinequanon for Japan, Triangel Film for Sweden, Shani Films for Israel, Dongsoong Art Center for South Korea, Best Film for Poland, Ster-Kinekor for South ...
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UK producers plan remake of The House On Straw Hill
New London-based production company De Naray Sothcott Entertainment plans to shoot its first featurethis summer. The project is a $1.5m remake of 1975 British horror film The House On StrawHill. Bob Keen, who has worked asa crewmember on Hellraiserand Dog Soldiers, will direct. Jonathan Sothcott and Constantine de Naray will ...
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Arts Alliance upgrades UK digital screens to JPEG2000
Digitalcinema services company Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has upgraded all 50 QuVIS servers installedduring Phase 1 of the UK Film Council's Digital Screen Network to be JPEG2000compatible. Thisbrings the network in line with the new standards being adopted by the DigitalCinema Initiative, a consortium of Hollywood studios. Disney'sThe Wild has ...
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UK's Firefly plans film about Beslan tragedy
UK production company Firefly Films is developing a feature film about the2004 Beslan School tragedy. The tentative budget is planned at about $9.4m (£5m) and alate 2007 or early 2008 shoot is planned in Europe. Screenwriter Richard Lasser is developing the script and a director will bebrought onto the project ...
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Bruce Everett joins Pinewood Shepperton
Pinewood Sheppertonhas appointed Bruce Everett as strategy director for post production. Everett, who previouslyserved as managing director of London-based St Anne's Post, will work with thePinewood Shepperton team to bring in new post production business."Bruce brings a wealth ofexperience in all forms of post production and we are looking forward ...
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Raindance jury to include Lou Reed and Judi Dench
The London-based Raindance Film Festival has lined up jury members for its 14thevent. Raindance jurors will include musicians Lou Reed and Marky Ramone, actors Parminder Nagra and Judi Dench, Touching The Void director Kevin Macdonald, Requiem For a Dream cinematographer Matthew Libatiqueand photographer/video director/film-maker AntonCorbijn. This year's Raindance will run ...
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Nic Roeg to present masterclass at Screenwriters Festival
The first InternationalScreenwriters Festival, scheduled for June 27-30 in Cheltenham, has added a masterclass with Nicolas Roeg and Allan Scott, director and screenwriter of classic Don't Look Now. The pair will screen theirfilm Cold Heaven and discuss their collaborativerelationship. Other speakers confirmed forthe inaugural event include producer Kevin Loader and ...
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UKFC, Pathe and BBC start new development fund
Pathe and BBC Films areworking with the UK Film Council's Development Fund to launch a new fund todevelop film projects. The parties have committed aminimum of $560,000 (£300,000) for the fund's first 12 months - $280,000 (£150,000)from the UK Film Council and $140,000 (£75,000) each from BBC Films and Pathe. ...
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Cinema Expo award goes to Francis Veber
CinemaExpo International will present this year's lifetime achievement award toFrench director, producer and writer Francis Veber. Veber will be presented with his award at theconference's awards ceremony on June 29. Gaumontchairman Nicolas Seydoux will present him with theaward."CinemaExpo is honoured to pay tribute to such a well-known figure of both ...
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Magnolia strikes US deal for Severance
Magnolia Pictures has takenUS rights for Severance, sold by HanWay Films during the Cannes Market. The horror-comedy isdirected by Creep's Christopher Smithand stars Danny Dyer and Laura Harris.The plot follows an armscompany that sends its sales division to a weekend retreat in Eastern Europe, where they are attacked by war-crazed ...
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EEAP signs licensing deal with The Weinstein Company
Berlin-based licensing and distribution company EasternEuropean Acquisition Pool (EEAP) has struck a licensing agreement with TheWeinstein Company for exclusive rights to distribute a group of 15 WeinsteinCompany films in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria. EEAP will also represent selected titles from thatgroup of 15 films in the ...
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Sweden shuts down file swappers The Pirate Bay
Swedish authorities haveshut down The Pirate Bay, a file-swapping site that had been used for onlinepiracy of films, music, software and games. The Pirate Bayhas more than one million users as a BitTorrent "tracker"site. The film industry had filed a criminal complaint in Sweden against the site in November 2004. ...
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IFP Market adds cash documentary prizes
IFP has announced the first cash prizes for the IFP Market.IFP and The Fledgling Fund are presenting $20,000 in new cash awards to documentaryfilmmakers during the 28th annual IFP Market in New York from September17-21. The two juried awards of $10,000 will go to filmmakers withprojects in the Spotlight on ...