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Carlton, Screenvision create pan-Europe ad post
London-based Carlton Screen Advertising and Paris-based Screenvision Europe have established a new post to work on Pan-European cinema advertising campaigns. Nathalie Mangin has taken on the new post of Pan European sales manager, working across both companies. She is based in Carlton's London office.France-born Mangin previously worked at Screenvision France, ...
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Skillset, Samuelson launch new scheme for emerging producers
UK training body Skillset and production companySamuelson Productions have launched a new producer training programme.Skillset and Samuelson will select eight up-and-coming producers and place themin a rotation at some major film companies for nine months. The producers in the programmewill also attend a regular series of workshops, master-classes, and sessionswith ...
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UK publicity firm Premier PR acquires McDonald & Rutter
UK public relations agency Premier PRhas acquired another London-based publicity company, McDonald & Rutter. The two willmerge under the Premier PR name, and will be jointly run by Premier's chiefexecutive Sara Keene and McDonald & Rutterfounding partners Charles McDonald and Jonathan Rutter.Premier hasabout 40 staffers in its London headquarters and ...
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Film London launches trainee programme
Film London has now opened traineeapplications for its new Company Placement Scheme, which is offering six-monthpaid posts at film and TV production companies. Film London already has thescheme's six companies on board: Karen Hamilton Productions, TwofourProductions, Diverse Productions, Number 9 Films, Tigerlily Films, andAdventure Pictures."It is often incrediblyhard for people ...
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Pinewood profits slump due to UK tax uncertainty
Film studio Pinewood Shepperton reported disappointing financial results on Tuesday, blaming the UK film tax uncertainty of the past year and the overall downturn in UK film production. Pinewood Shepperton said that operating profits were down 70% last year, from £6.4m in 2004 to £571,000 last year. Profits fell from ...
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LoveFilm strikes download deal with Momentum Pictures
LoveFilm has struck a deal with UK distributor Momentum Pictures to add Momentum titlesto its film download service.Momentum will initially supply 100 titles fordownload at LoveFilm, including films such as Bowling for Columbine, The Mother, The Centre ofthe World, Stander, and People I Know."We're thrilled to embrace this new emerging ...
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Richard Attenborough starts Belfast shoot for Closing The Ring
Director Richard Attenborough started production Monday in Belfast on Closing The Ring,an epic love story that stars Shirley MacLaine,Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Brenda Fricker, and Pete Postlethwaite. Jo Gilbert is producing with Attenborough, with Martin Katzco-producing. Closing the Ring is apresentation of the UK Film Council, Scion Films, the Northern ...
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UK Film Council announces investment in three new films
The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund has announcedsupport of three new films in production, Pawel Pawlikowski's TheRestraint of Beasts, Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger'sSparkle, and Sarah Gavron's Seven Seas.The New Cinema Fund's investment in The Restraint of Beasts is $1.1m(£650,000). As reported by ScreenDaily in February, Pawlikowski's black comedy ...
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Troma clips headed for mobile phones
Zone Vision Network's ZoneMobile has struck a deal with Juice Mobile and Lloyd Kaufman's Troma Films to distribute film clips through mobiledevices. The clips will beavailable starting in mid-April through Zone's new Horror Channel WAP site. The deal will offer Troma clips that are under two minutes. "Zone Visioncontinues to ...
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Vividas, Prime Time offer stream of The Secret
Videotechnologies company Vividas is working with Melbourne's Prime TimeProductions to offer a feature length film stream over the Internet.The Secret, produced by Prime Time's Rhoda Byrne,is a 95-minute feature that the producers claim "reveals the great secret ofthe universe."The streamcosts $4.95 per viewing and is available at www.whatisthesecret.tv. The streamingtechnology ...
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NPA chooses I Love You, Joseff Hughes
The UK's New ProducersAlliance (NPA) has named Sandra Gorel's I Love You, JoseffHughes the winning film in its annual shorts competition. Gorel's short also won theaudience award. Her prize includes a screening at London's East End FilmFestival, a screening at the Cannes 2006 UK Film Centre through the UK FilmCouncil, ...
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Ken Loach to close Celtic festival
Film-maker Ken Loach will deliver the closing interview at this year'sCeltic Film and Television Festival, to be held in Falmouth, Cornwall. The 27th Celtic festival will run from March 29-31, with Loach's talk ending the event on March 31. Other speakers during the event are Hugo Swire,Shadow Secretaryof State for ...
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The Proposition takes top honours at Bermuda festival
John Hillcoat'sThe Proposition took the Mary-Jean Mitchell Green award for bestnarrative feature at the ninth Bermuda International Film Festival. "We were impressed with the provocative portrait of The Proposition, of whether the humanrace can overcome its base need for violence," said jury chair and actor Peter Riegert. "All the elements ...
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Croall named director of Sheffield documentary festival
The SheffieldInternational Documentary Festival has appointed Heather Croallas its new director.She starts her newpost in early April and this year's Sheffield event will be held October 30-November 5. Croall was previously director ofAustralian International Documentary Conference. She also previously worked forthe South Australian Film Corporation and as a documentary producer, ...
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The Baker to start Wales shoot for Grandville, Picture Farm
Grandville Pictures and Picture Farm Ltd. willstart principal photography on March 27 for The Baker, the feature film debutfrom writer/director Gareth Lewis. The comedy will shoot on location in South Wales for six weeks.Damian Lewis, who is the director's brother,stars as a hitman who hides out in a small Welshvillage ...
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Hahn's Midsummer Madness starts Latvian shoot
Alexander Hahn's Midsummer Madness (Janu Nakts) starts principal photography this weekend in Riga, Latvia. The comedy stars Dominique Pinon, Maria de Medeiros, Tobias Moretti, Orlando Wells, Birgit Minichmayr, Detlev Buck, Roland Düringer, and Gundars Abolins. Austria's Fischer Film, the UK's Steve Walsh Productions, and Latvia's Kaupo Filma are producing.EastWest ...
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Universal offers downloaded Kong for keeps
Universal ispartnering with DVD rental service LoveFilm tooffer UK customers a movie download-to-own service. The first release will be King Kong, which will be available for permanentdownload on April 10, to coincide with the UK street date for the DVD release. "Universal is very proud tobe the first to launch ...
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UK industry gives cautious welcome to tax changes
With the UK's new film tax credit set to go into effect April 1, the government has finally provided details about its new tax regime.Producers say there's good news and bad news in the details. Unlike its predecessors, the Section42 and Section 48 regimes, the new relief will only apply ...
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Government announces details of UK film tax regime
With the UK's new film tax credit set to go into effect in just11 days, the government has finally provided details about its new tax regime.The most significant point for producers is a change to the qualifying threshold for tax relief - at least 25% of a film's budget must ...
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Tartan starts DVD label for exploitation films
UK theatrical and home videodistributor Tartan has launched a new DVD label devoted to cult exploitationfilms, Tartan Grindhouse. The labelwill release double-DVD sets priced at $34.95 (£19.99). The label'sfirst release will be 1977's Last Houseon Dead-End Street, a horror film inspired by the Manson Family murders.That film was released with ...