All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 111
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Ball named chairman of Ingenious Media Active Capital
TonyBall, the former CEO of British Sky Broadcasting, has been named the chairmanof Ingenious Media Active Capital (IMAC). IMAC namedNeil Blackley as its non-executive director. He was formerly the head of UK and European Media Research at Merrill Lynch. IMAC isthe media investment company that is intending to raiseup to ...
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Lexington launches fund to develop UK projects
Lexington Film Management, a newcompany set up by the founders of London-based production company Golconda Films, is launching a UK film fund,The Lexington Film Fund LLP, to invest in development of British qualifyingfeature films. The fund seeks to raise $1.75m-$ 5.24m (£1m-£3m).Organizers said the fund will"target latter stage development projects," ...
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Rogers & Cowan launches London film office
Entertainment PR and marketing companyRogers & Cowan has opened a UK filmdivision in London. The office will concentrate on UK filmrelease campaigns, European film festivals, and international publicitycampaigns. Janine Azern will lead the new office as VPof film, reporting to LA-based executive vice presidents Nikki Parker andMichael Dalling. Emma McCorkell ...
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Capitol takes on sales for Paddy Breathnach's Shrooms
London-basedCapitol Films is handling worldwide sales for Paddy Breathnach'sShrooms, set to start shooting this spring.MichaelDouglas's son Cameron stars alongside Lindsey Haunand Jack Huston, nephew of Anjelica and grandson ofJohn.Thehorror film is about five American college students camping in Ireland. Alone in the woods,they partake of magic mushrooms and see ghostly ...
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Minghella, Craig to judge UK's youth shorts
The UK Film Council has recruited some high profile judges for its FirstLight Film Awards: actors Daniel Craig, Martin Freeman and Martin Clunes,director Anthony Minghella, TV presenter David Attenborough, comedienne Jenny Eclair.The awards ceremony willbe held on February 28 at London's Odeon West End. Prizes will be given in10 categories. ...
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AV Pictures to handle sales for thriller Played
AV Pictures has taken on sales for featurefilm Played and will be showing apromo reel of the project at Berlin's European Film Market. Sean Stanekdirects and co-wrote with Mick Rossi. Producers are Stanek,Rossi, John Daly, Nick Simunek, and Casper von Winterfeldt. The crime thriller stars Val Kilmer, GabrielByrne, Anthony LaPaglia, ...
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Nielsen NRG and Arts Alliance form research alliance
NielsenNRG and Arts Alliance Media have formed a strategic alliance to offer newresearch services to film distributors.Theresearch will use databases from Arts Alliance's consumer online DVD rentalservice LoveFilm and its cinema management service Newman.Forexample, film distributors will be able to see consumer behaviour andpreferences from the 400,000-plus UK households that ...
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Pathe, MTV, Vertigo Start Dirty Sanchez Film
Pathe Pictures, MTV FilmsEurope and London-based Vertigo Films have teamed up to start production on Dirty Sanchez: TheMovie.Pathe will distribute the filmin the UK and PathePictures International will handle worldwide sales. Jim Hickey directs withBobby Allen and Vertigo's Rupert Preston serving as producers. Jonathan Zilli, Allan Niblo, James Richardson,and Sean ...
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Minghella renews role as BFI chair
Director Anthony Minghella hasbeen reappointed as chair of the British Film Institute.Minghella's second three-year termtakes effect immediately."I am very happy to be able to renew my commitment to the bfi," Minghella said."These past three years have been a time of scrutiny and transition. Theorganisation is emerging from that period with ...
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Film London launches low-budget film scheme
Screen agency Film London has announced a new low-budgetfilm scheme in the UK,Microwave, which will fund ten low-budget films in the next three years. Each project can get up to $133,000 (£75,000) cash funding through FilmLondon (including some BBC support), and film-makers can also raise additionalsupport up to a total ...
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Arista's Adept 3 goes to Cinemart
Arista Development has announced that it has entered a new sponsorship and partnership agreement with Cinemart at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Participating writers and directors on Arista's Adept 3 scheme will attend a special series of screenings, workshops, and producers meetings during Cinemart, which runs January 29 through February ...
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Shelton, Clarke join London's Capital FX
London post-production company Capital FX has expanded its team, with Rod Shelton joining as head of digital intermediate and Liz Clarke joining as head of sales and marketing. Both formerly worked at the VTR Group. Shelton leads Capital's new digital intermediate division, which was created due to an increase in ...
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Film and TV shooting up 18% in London
UK film production may have had a down year in 2005 - with overall film production spending down 31% -- but filming in London was up 18%, according to agency Film London. That figure, however, is not just based on film shoots but also includes TV and commercial shoots as ...
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Silverline takes rights to UK film Displaced
Silverline Entertainment has takenon worldwide rights to the science fiction adventure film Displaced. The UKproject, currently in post-production, is directed by Martin Holland and producedby Mark Strange.Lancashire-based SkylandianPictures produced with Chee KeongCheung from Intense Productions as associate producer. The film is about a humanoid alien who works with a Britishsolider ...
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FACT battles DVD piracy in Glasgow, London
FACT, the UK's Federation Against CopyrightTheft, announced that a police raid on a Glasgow flat has closed the largest illegal DVDdistribution facility discovered in Scotland to date. More than 25,000 DVDs were seized.Strathclyde Police arrested a manfor allegedly selling illegal DVDs on the street, and then discovered thefacility based on ...
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The Works gets on board Winterbottom's new film
London-based sales company The WorksInternational has acquired the international sales rights to Michael Winterbottom's TheRoad to Guantanamo, which will premiere incompetition at the Berlin Film Festival.The film is based on the true storyof four British men who travel from the UK to Pakistan to attend a wedding, just after 9/11. ...
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Britdoc provides support for Sundance doc Black Gold
Britdoc, the Channel 4Documentary Film Foundation, is providing completion and marketing funding forthe documentary Black Gold, directedby Nick and Marc Francis.Black Gold looks at the global economy through the story of hugely profitablemultinational coffee companies and the coffee farmers in some of the world'spoorest countries such as Ethiopia. The marketing ...
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UK Production looks healthier for 2006
With news earlier this weekthat UK production spending was down 31% in 2005, theindustry is on shaky ground going into 2006. The good news is that 2006 isexpected to be a stronger year in terms of both inward investment from Hollywood and wholly UK films, thanks in large part to ...
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The Constant Gardener leads Bafta nominations
The Constant Gardener leads the nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards with 10 nominations. Brokeback Mountain and Crash followed with nine each. Good Night, And Good Luck, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Pride & Prejudice each scored six nominations, and Capote has five. Gardener, a UK-German co-production, ...
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New UK festival will combine two French events
Thefirst Renault French Film Festival will be presented at nine UK cities - London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee - in March. Thisfestival combines two previous events, the French Film Festival UK and the Renault French Film Season with UniFrance. "Audiences did not understand why there ...