All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 17
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Tom Stewart plans to leave Metrodome for High Fliers
Tom Stewart will depart his post as general manager, home entertainment, at UK distributor Metrodome as of July 25 to become head of acquisitions for High Fliers. Stewart has been at Metrodome for five years, heading the home entertainment department for the past two and a half years. He had ...
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Danny Huston to lead Edinburgh's Michael Powell jury
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), which kicks off its edition in June on the 18th, has announced the jury for the Michael Powell Award for best British film and the PPG Award for best performance in a British feature film.Actor Danny Huston will head the jury (he also stars ...
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NBC Universal sells German free channel Das Vierte
NBC Universal Global Networks has stuck an agreement to sell its free-to-air German channel Das Vierte to Mini Movie International Channel. NBC Universal said the sale of Das Vierte is part of its strategic plan to focus on the expansion of its pay-TV channels internationally. Das Vierte, which airs US ...
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iTunes opens 700-film UK film download store
Confirming a move oft speculated in recent months, Apple has now launched its iTunes Movie Store in the UK.The UK store launches with about 700 feature films for rental or purchase. Content partners include 20th Century Fox, Disney, MGM, Sony Paramount, Warner Bros, and Lionsgate UK. Universal is not offering ...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment buys Dutch games company
Sony Pictures Entertainment has closed its acquisition of Dutch entertainment company 2waytraffic.The company works on games, variety and reality shows.'The acquisition of 2waytraffic is part of our strategy to expand global production and distribution of light entertainment content,' said Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of SPE. 'This opens the door ...
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Diving Bell writer Harwood joins Screenwriters Festival
The Screenwriters' Festival (July 1-3) continues to add high-profile speakes to its line-up. New to the programme is novelist/playwright/screenwriter Ronald Harwood, who will interviewed onstage by psychiatrist Raj Persaud. Harwood has worked on screenplays for Roman Polanski's The Pianist and Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly.This presentation, sponsored ...
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Joe Pavlo joins post house Men From Mars
Joe Pavlo has joined post-production company Men From Mars as senior VFX supervisor/head of 2D.He won an Emmy for BBC/HBO's Rome and has also worked on features including Batman Begins and The Da Vinci Code.In addition to on-set and in-house vfx supervision, Pavlo will spearhead the expansion of Men From ...
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Moszkowicz elected to head European Producers Club
The European Producers Club has elected Martin Moszkowicz, from Constantin Film in Germany as its new president. Jean Cazès, who previously served as president, h as been elected vice-president.This move marks the first time since the EPC's founding in 1993 that the group has a non-French president. The group said: ...
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Icon takes UK rights forKen Loach's Looking For Eric
Icon Film Distribution has acquired UK theatrical and home entertainment rights to Ken Loach's new feature, Looking For Eric, shooting now on location in Manchester.Wild Bunch is selling the film, which came about through a series of conversations between Loach, writer Paul Laverty, footballer Eric Cantona and producer Rebecca O'Brien. ...
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Odeon Sky Filmworks takes on The Stone Of Destiny
Odeon Sky Filmworks has taken all UK rights to Charles Martin Smith's Stone Of Destiny from Arclight Films.Odeon Sky Filmworks head Tony Miller signed the deal with Arclight president Gary Hamilton.The comedy drama premieres at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on June 21.The cast features Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Robert ...
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Hellboy II to kick off Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House
Film4 has announced the programme for its Summer Screen series at London's Somerset House.The people's premiere of Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army kicks off this summer's programme on July 31.The series continues through Aug 9 with Pan's Labyrinth/The Exorcist/Peter And The Wolf (Aug 1); Brokeback Mountain (Aug ...
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UK groups band together for new film education strategy
The British Film Institute, FILMCLUB, First Light Movies, Film Education and UK Film Council are launching a new UK-wide film education strategy in partnership with the regional screen agencies and Skillset.The UK currently spends about $24m (£12m) on film education, and the UK Film Council is pledging a further $1.5m ...
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Hockman named non-executive chairman of Cutting Edge
David Hockman, former chairman and CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Polygram Music Publishing, will serve as non-executive chairman for Cutting Edge.Cutting Edge's group of companies supplies music to the film, TV, advertising and gaming industries.The group companies include Liz Gallacher Music Supervision and Air-Edel Associates; services include music supervision, ...
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Revolver joins UK's Film Distributors' Association
The UK's Film Distributors' Association (FDA) has added Revolver Entertainment as its newest member.The FDA now has 22 member companies.Revolver, which was founded in 1997, has released films including Kidulthood, Tell No One, andMy Brother Is An Only Child. Releases coming soon include Female Agents and The Wackness.Revolver chief executive ...
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Australia's Prodigy, UK's TFD rejoin for thriller Road Train
Producers Michael Robertson of Australia's ProdigyMovies and Paul Cowan and Chris Wheeldon of the UK's TFD will again work together on Road Train.The supernatural thriller will mark the debut of director Dean Francis, working from a script by Clive Hopkins.Prodigy and TFD also worked together on crocodile horror hit Black ...
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Finnish industry starts sound awards to honour Jyrala
Film director Mika Kaurismäki, singer/actor Samuli Edelmann, producer Pete Eklund, sound designer Joonas Jyrälä and Kari Jyrälä are working together to start a new foundation to honour late Finnish sound designer Paul 'Pappa' Jyrala, who died in 2007.The new association plans to launch the Pappa Awards for New Talents. Sony ...
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The Works plans September UK release for Jar City
The Works UK Distribution is taking on the UK release of Baltasar Kormakur's Oscar submission and local box-office hit Jar City.The thriller is based on award-winning Icelandic novel Tainted Blood (Myrin). It stars Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson as a police inspector who has to investigate a murder that might be tied ...
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan to lead Sarajevo Competition jury
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced the feature film competition jury for its August event.Turkish writer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, fresh from his Best Director win in Cannes for Three Monkeys, will serve as president of the jury.The other jury members are UK director Hugh Hudson, Croatian actress Marija Skaricic, German ...
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Pathe sees strong Cannes Market; including a dozen Cheri deals
Pathe International has announced a slew of deals after a successful Cannes Market.Stephen Frears' Cheri, making its market premiere, sold to Italy (Rai), Latin America (California Filmes), CIS (Maywin Media), South Korea (Mars Film), Portugal (Castello Lopes), the Middle East (Teleview), Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Vizion), Greece (Audiovisual), ...
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Liberation takes UK rights to Daylight Robbery from AV
UK distributor Liberation Entertainment has acquired UK rights to thriller Daylight Robbery from sales company AV Pictures.AV has also sold the film for Australasia (All Interactive), Benelux (European Film Partners), Brazil (PlayArte), CIS (Lizard), France (Swift Prods), Japan (New Select), Poland (Carisma), Thailand (J-Bics) and Turkey (Horizon International).Gavin Braxton, CEO ...