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The Works signs DVD deal with Universal Pictures UK
The Works UK distribution has just signed an exclusive home entertainment output deal with Universal Pictures UK. Universal will release The Works Distribution titles on video and DVD and the UK, while The Works will continue to handle theatrical distribution. One of the first titles under the new deal will ...
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Tartan takes UK and Irish rights to Driving Lessons
Distributor Tartan Filmshas acquired all UK and Ireland rights to Driving Lessons, starring Julie Walters, Rupert Grint,and Laura Linney. The film is the directorialdebut from Mrs Brown screenwriterJeremy Brock, who also wrote the original story about an aging actress(Walters) who develops an unconventional friendship with a poetry-lovingteenage boy (Grint)."Driving Lessons ...
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American Dreamz opens ninth Bermuda festival
The ninth Bermuda International Film Festival willkick off tonight with a screening of Paul Weitz's American Dreamz,a satire of American politics and show business starring Dennis Quaid, Willem Dafoe, Hugh Grant and Mandy Moore. The festival has expanded to a nine-day event thisyear, and will close March 25 with Julian ...
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Script Factory, Skillset start programme for crossover film writers
UK training organizations The Script Factory and Skillset have announced a new initiative, Writers' Circle,to find new screenwriters from the worlds of theatre, literature, TV, radio,and stand-up comedy. The programme will support eight'conversion' writers who have already had success in other fields andwant to cross over into film. ...
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UK's Forward scores Yates, Cole and Cattaneo projects
Forward Films foundersTracy Brimm and Kate Myers are working on their firstslate of 10 features in development, with directors including Peter Cattaneo, John Crowley, David Yates and Nigel Cole.Brimm and Myers quietly startedthe London-based production company in January 2004 after meeting years earlieras colleagues at ICM -- Brimm in Los ...
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Goal! 3 goes ahead with plans for World Cup shoot
Milkshake Films hasconfirmed that it will go ahead with previously announced plans to shoot atthis summer’s World Cup in Germany for the final instalment in its football trilogy, Goal! 3.“We’ll be filming the crowdsand filming the action, filming a dozen games or so entirely in documentarystyle,” Milkshake chairman and producer ...
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Arts Alliance Media partners for Norwegian digital rollout
Arts Alliance Media has announced two steps forward forEuropean digital cinema. AAM said it has formed a new partnership with newly-formedNorwegian industry group Kristiansand Digital CinemaAlliance for a trial roll-out of up to 10 digital screens in Norway.Three screens have already been equipped with digital projection equipment sofar. The trial, ...
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London's Met Police forms filming unit
London'sMetropolitan Police is forming its first Metropolitan Police Filming Unit.The dedicated police team will supportfilming in the capital. A team of officers, trained in both film issues andassociated police procedure, will provide a single point of contact for filmingrequests requiring police assistance.The unit will liaise with all police departments including ...
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New Line plans open auditions for Golden Compass star
New Line Cinema has announced a UK-widecasting call to find a young actress to play the lead role, LyraBelacqua, in its forthcoming feature The Golden Compass. Shopgirl director AnandTucker will direct The Golden Compass,the first in New Line's planned trilogy based on Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials books. Deborah Forteof ...
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King Kong takes top prize at Empire Awards
UK filmmagazine Empire crowned King Kong thebest film at its awards last night in London. Kong beat fellow nominees Star Wars Episode III:Revenge Of The Sith, War OfThe Worlds, Crash, and Sin City."Thisfilm was made with a lot of passion and a lot of love, the script was crafted,it was ...
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UK's First Light launches new competition in North East
FirstLight, the UK Film Council's youth filmmaking scheme, has started a newcompetition in the North East. The Futures in Motion competition will be opento 170 schools and 43 youth groups.Studentswill submit a short film proposal about how Lottery funding has impacted theircommunity. The winning group will work with film and ...
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Lionsgate UK acquires Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah
Lionsgate UKhas acquired Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah for UKdistribution. Grant, who has acted in films including Withnail & I and Gosford Park, made hisdirectorial debut with the drama, a semi-autobiographical portrait of hischildhood in Swaziland.Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Julie Walters, Nicholas Hoult,and Miranda Richardson star. "We are thrilled to be ...
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Bafta elevates video games industry on par with TV and film
The British Academy of Film andTelevision Arts (Bafta) has boosted its recognitionof the video games industry. Bafta has now made videogames equal to film and television, and will put increased emphasis on theBritish Academy Video Games Awards. The gamesawards will move to October 2006 to coincide with the London Games ...
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Warp Films kicks off low-budget arm Warp X
UK production company WarpFilms has opened its new low-budget division Warp X, part of the new low-budgetfilm scheme started by the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and FilmFour, with funding from regional screen agencies EMMedia and Screen Yorkshire, and support from distributor Optimum Releasing.(Michael Kuhn's Qwerty Films is also ...
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Cast lines up for Vaughn's Stardust
Robert De Niro,Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, and Sienna Miller have joined the cast of Matthew Vaughn's Stardust. The fantasy love story is about a young man(Cox) travelling into a magical world to win the heart of his beloved (Miller).Vaughn wrote the script with Jane Goldman, based on Gaiman's1997 ...
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FACT adds more information to website
The UK's Federation Against CopyrightTheft (FACT) has re-launched its website with more emphasis on newsand information for the media as well as updates on currentlegislation related to film piracy and a web-based form for consumers to reportpirate activities."Thenew FACT website addresses consumers, journalists and law enforcement and wesee it as ...
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Oscar win for Inside Pictures alumni
Two alumni of the Skillset's training programme Inside Pictures have won an Oscar. Producers Kenton Allen and Mia Bays, who met on the 2002 Inside Pictures programme, won for the Academy Award for short film Six Shooter, directed by Martin McDonagh. "Congratulations to Mia and Kenton for a fantastic ...
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Horgan to take MD role at UIP following restructure
John Horgan will serve as managing director of UIP following its restructuring at the end of the year, the company announced. Horgan, who is currently the senior VP of operations based in UIP's London headquarters, will take his new post from January 1, 2007. He has worked at UIP since ...
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UK to recognise film societies on March 11
TheBritish Federation of Film Societies (BFFS) will hold its national Film Societyof the Year Awards ceremony at the National Film Theatre in Londonon March 11. AnthonyMinghella will present the awards, now in their 60thyear. "Iam delighted to be involved with the BFFS in recognising the superbcontribution made by film societies ...
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Flood surges forward in South Africa, London
TonyMitchell's disaster film Flood hasstarted shooting, with a cast including Robert Carlyle, JessalynGilsig, Tom Courtenay, Joanne Whalleyand David Suchet. Power'sJustin Bodle is producing alongside Peter McAleese. The film is production from the UK's Power, known for its TV dramas andminiseries, with South Africa's Moonlighting Films and Canada's Muse Entertainment. Michael ...