All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 26
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Edinburgh programmes 22 docs, with gala for Man On Wire
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced that its programme will include 22 documentary features this year.There will be three galas for Chris Waitt's A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures, James Marsh's Man On Wire and Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure.In addition, festival's Document section will show 19 ...
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United Kingdom - Three Of A Kind
Bill Stephens, Daniel Baur and Oliver Simon of K5 International offer the film industry version of a selective boutique rather than a mass retailer.The three set up K5 International in January 2007 but did not announce their first title - Tom McCarthy's The Visitor - until November 2007 at the ...
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Universal International unveils first Blu-Ray slate of 29 titles
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) plans to release 29 titles on the Blu-Ray format for the first time.The first release will be TV series Heroes Season 2 on Aug 26. Heroes Season 1 will also be available on the same day on Blu-Ray.Further Blu-Ray releases later in 2008 will be ...
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Delanic signs three-year home entertainment deal with Anchor Bay
UK distributor Delanic Films has struck a DVD deal with Starz Media's Anchor Bay Entertainment UK to release a slate of feature films in the UK and Ireland.Delanic Films managing director Joe Simpson and Anchor Bay Entertainment UK Managing Director Colin Lomax announced the deal.Delanic will manage theatrical and TV ...
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BAFTA sets 2009 date for February 8, two weeks ahead of Oscars
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has set the Orange British Academy Film Awards for Feb 8, 2009 at London’s Royal Opera House.
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Reelscape kicks off with development of Wise's Small Inclusions
New UK production company Reelscape Films will make its debut with Herbert Wise's Small Inclusions, now in development. Wise has previously directed TV projects include Inspector Morse, Rumpole of the Bailey and I Claudius. Michael Gambon, Bob Hoskins and Greta Scacchi are in talks to star.Peter Sushitzky, who has worked ...
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LoveFilm-Amazon Europe deal cleared by regulators
LoveFilm International's previously announced acquisition of Amazon Europe's DVD rental business in the UK and Germany was cleared for completion by regulators yesterday. The companies plan to complete the acquisition shortly.'We are looking forward to officially welcoming customers from Amazon in the United Kingdom and Germany to LoveFilm,' said Simon ...
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Katie Melua writes original song for Faintheart
SingerKatie Melua will be the lead artist on the soundtrack to Faintheart, the MySpace community-driven feature film.Her new song Toy Collection was written especially for the film. Mike Batt (Watership Down) will serve as composer for the movie.MySpace users will be able to vote for a track by an unsigned ...
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Sofia Neves moves from Capitol to HanWay Films
UK-based sales company HanWay Films has hired Sofia Neves as director of worldwide salesand distribution.Neves starts at HanWay this week after departing her position as sales director at Capitol Films. Before her three years at Capitol, she worked at Renaissance Films and for producer Paulo Branco.She reports to Thorsten Schumacher, ...
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UKFC P&A Fund backs Happy-Go-Lucky with $412,000
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising (P&A) Fund has announced the latest films to get support for distribution.The fund is set up to support distributors releasing films that UK audiences might not otherwise be able to see, to increase viewing choices for UK audiences.The latest funding round went to:Happy-Go-Lucky ...
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Icon takes UK rights to James Marsh's Man On Wire
Icon Film Distribution (IFD) has acquired UK theatrical and home entertainment rights to James Marsh's documentary Man On Wire.The deal was done with UK production company Wall To Wall.Man On Wire won the jury prize and audience award in the World Cinema Documentary competition at Sundance.The film is about Philippe ...
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Ed Clarke leaves Capitol to be development head at Kudos
Kudos Pictures has hired Ed Clarke as head of development. Clarke spent the last three years at Capitol Films as head of development and acquisitions.Kudos Pictures, which was lead producer on David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, is the film arm of Kudos Film and TV. Its forthcoming productions include wildlife documentary ...
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Heymann starts shoot for third Digital Departures film, Starstruck
Director Lindy Heymann and producer Andy Stebbing have started principal photography on Starstruck, shooting on location in Liverpool.Leigh Campbell wrote the script about two teenage girls obsessed by a celebrity footballer.The cast features newcomers Kerry Hayes, Nichola Burley and Jamie Doyle.The project is the third and final film to be ...
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WorldTV strikes partnership with streaming company Qik
WorldTV has partnered with mobile video streaming company Qik Inc. to let both companies' users share real-time content streams via their customised WorldTV channels.Feeds, both live and archive, can be sent from Qik users mobile phones to broadcast on WorldTV URLs. Likewise WorldTV users can broadcast live video from their ...
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Gavin Reardon heads IM Global's new TV division
Sales company IM Global has expanded again by creating IM Global Television.Gavin Reardon has been named president of the new division. He was most recently president of action programming distributor And Action! Distribution.IM Global Television will acquire and license a wide range of television and digital broadcast material including ...
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Natalie Portman lines up for Ecosse's Wuthering Heights
Natalie Portman has signed up to play Cathy Earnshaw in John Maybury's new adaptation of Wuthering Heights.Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae's UK-based Ecosse Films is producing. HanWay Films is handling sales.Bernstein said: 'I'm delighted that we have attracted an actress of Natalie Portman's calibre to Wuthering Heights, she will bring ...
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Salt Shakers: rebranding Luminafilms
What's in a name' A lot if it is misleading. That is why Lumina Films has this week rebranded as The Salt Company.Lumina was originally founded in Spain to sell the Latin American films produced by Buena Onda Films. But since 2005, Lumina has been London-based with a more diverse ...
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The Edge Of Love to open Edinburgh festival on June 18
John Maybury's The Edge Of Love will be the opening gala for the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival on June 18.The Dylan Thomas love triangle drama stars Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys and Cillian Murphy.Maybury is expected to attend the gala with Knightley, Miller and Rhys.Knightley's mother Sharman Macdonald ...
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Britdoc lines up Larry Charles as keynote
Borat and Seinfeld director Larry Charles has lined up as the keynote speaker for this year's third-annual Britdoc festival. He will also offer a sneak preview of his film Religulous starring Bill Maher.This year's Britdoc festival themes are comedy and music in documentary, with scheduled visitors including Nitin Sawhney, St ...
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UK's City Screen takes overNewman software from AAM
City Screen, which runs the UK's Picturehouse cinemas, has acquired the Newman software business from Arts Alliance Media.Newman is the box-office and cinema management web-based software platform that City Screen has helped develop since its inception.City Screen said: 'theacquisition guarantees the continued development of the software to meet its ambition ...