All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 28
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Contender, Seville buy Franklyn and Eddie from HanWay
Growing UK distributor Contender Films, now owned by Canada's Entertainment One, has acquired all UK rights for features Franklyn and Eddie The Eagle, both sold by HanWay Films.Also, Entertainment One's Seville Pictures took Canadian rights to both titles.Gerald McMorrow's feature debut Franklyn is a story of four lost souls in ...
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Jobson starts Edinburgh shoot for New Town Killers
Richard Jobson has started shooting chase thriller New Town Killers in Edinburgh.Dougray Scott, Alastair Mackenzie, James Pearson and Charles Mnene lead the cast.Jobson also wrote the story, which follows two disenchanted bankers who try to play manhunt with society's marginal figures.Luc Roeg of London-based Independent is producing with Jobson. Backers ...
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Fortissimo takes on Tribeca world premiere Chevolution
Fortissimo Films has acquired all rights outside North America for the documentary Chevolution.Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment financed the film.Trisha Ziff and Luis Lopez directed the documentary about Alberto Korda's iconic photograph of Che Guevara. The film's interviewees include Gael Garcia Bernal, Antonio Banderas, Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine ...
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Cannes Atelier to welcome Lou Ye, Benedek Fliegauf
The fourth Cannes Atelier of the Cinefondation will welcome 15 projects from 14 countries. The selections include the new films from Milky Way director Benedek Fliegauf and Summer Palace director Lou Ye.Now in its fifth edition, L'Atelier seeks to help directors with financing and project completion.The directors and producers will ...
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Aspect Film takes on sales for Journal Of A Contract Killer
UK-based sales company Aspect Film Ltd has taken on worldwide rights to Tony Maylam's female assassin thriller Journal OfA Contract Killer.The story is based on true events in the UK and Italy about an assassin who turns on her mafia bosses after her child is kidnapped. Justine Powell and Isabella ...
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Celtic Media Festival selects seven feature dramas in shortlist
The 2008 Celtic Media Festival has announced the shortlist of seven films competing for the Bronze Torc for Excellence for Feature Length Drama.They are The Last King Of Scotland, Kings, Cre na Cille (Graveyard Clay), The Midnight Drives, Dressing Granite, Calon Gaeth, and Seachd - The Inaccessible Pinnacle.The festival will ...
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Seven Arts strikes investment deal with UK's Zeus Partners
Los Angeles-based Seven Arts Pictures has struck a deal with Manchester, UK-based financial services company Zeus Partners to raise investment capital for Seven Arts' production and distribution activities.The first part of the investment closed March 19 and the rest is expected to close by the end of June.The investment covers ...
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Going into battle: Interview with Vertigo's Rupert Preston
Vertigo may be best known for its lad-friendly hit productions by Nick Love, including The Football Factory, The Business and Outlaw, but that is only one part of the story.The financing, production and distribution company, founded in 2002 by producers Allan Niblo and James Richardson, distribution veteran Rupert Preston (formerly ...
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Jodie Whittaker goes to South Africa for Turner's White Wedding
Jann Turner has started a South African shoot for White Wedding, her feature film debut.The romantic road movie is shooting across South Africa from Johannesburg and Durban to the Eastern Cape and Cape Town.Jodie Whittaker, who starred in Venus and St Trinian's, takes the lead opposite South African veterans Kenneth ...
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Aria, Full Circle, Axis 3D team for UK thriller The Mortician
London-based production outfits Aria Films and Full Circle films are partnering with Axis3D to shoot a new UK thriller using new 3D technology.The Mortician will combine genres of urban noir, contemporary fairytale and psychological thriller to tell the story of one alienated man in a decaying metropolis who is forced ...
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Screen South, Skillset launch co-production producer scheme
Screen South and Skillset, in partnership with Cine Regio and sales association Film Export UK, are launching the new Cine-Euro Co-Production Training Programme.The nine-month programme will help 8 UK producers develop, market, finance and seek partners for European co-productions. The 12 events, including one-to-one consultations and training seminars start in ...
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Martin Price joins UK post-production house Concrete
Martin Price has joined post-production house Concrete.Price will be responsible for the research and development of new markets and will also help to further build the Concrete brand to grow and expand the business.Price is co-founder of non-linear editing facility P3 Post, and also served as head of post production ...
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Marcich promoted to president, MD for MPA's EMEA branch
The Motion Pictures Association (MPA) has promoted Christopher Marcich to president and managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).Marcich is a 13-year-veteran of MPA's EMEA arm, most recently serving as senior vice president and managing director.He assumes the new title immediately and reports directly to MPA president ...
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United Kingdom - For the very first time
When Madonna unveiled Filth & Wisdom on February 13 in the Berlinale's Panorama programme, most critics were fairly harsh but the film's screenings were sold out and the project became one of the festival's talking points - not bad for a first-time director.Even as a household name, Madonna tried to ...
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HanWay to handle Jean Doumanian catalogue
Jean Doumanian Productions has appointed HanWay Films to represent worldwide sales and distribution rights for its catalogue.Titles include David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner, David Gordon Green's All The Real Girls, and Woody Allen's Don't Drink The Water. The library of titles also includes early roles from Cillian Murphy (Sunburn), Clare ...
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Brisbane, 4, Bra Boys take audience prizes at London Aussie fest
The London Australian Film Festival closed March 16 with a record 7,000 attendees in its 14th year.The audience awards went to Louise Alston's All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane for best feature; and a tie of Tim Slade's 4 and Sunny Abberton & Macario de Souza's Bra Boys as best ...
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On-demand market could hit $1.1bn in 2012
On-demand media could generate revenues of $1.1bn by 2012 in the US and Europe, according to a new report from Screen Digest.That will include $665m of new revenue and the rest replacement for DVD spending.Screen Digest noted that the on-demand market 'has the potential not only to revolutionise how consumers ...
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Quantum of Solace to have early UK launch Oct 31
Sony Pictures Releasing (UK) has set an early Oct 31 opening date in the UK for the next James Bond film, Quantum Of Solace. On that Friday, the 22nd Bond film will open at the Odeon Leicester Square and at cinemas across the UK.The date is a week before the ...
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Goldby's The Waiting Room to open East End Film Festival
London's East End Film Festival will open April 17 with the city premiere of Roger Goldby's The Waiting Room.The drama about the tangled love lives of a group of Londoners stars Anne-Marie Duff, Ralf Little and Rupert Graves. Sarah Sulick produced.The cast also features Frank Finlay, Zoe Telford, Phyllida Law, ...
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EM Media backs four shorts through DV Shorts scheme
UK regional screen agency EM Media has commissioned four films through its DV Shorts scheme, run with the UK Film Council.DV Shorts, now in its sixth year, has selected the following projects:Tandem from writer/directors John and Tom Turrell, with Rachel Dargavel producing for Perfume Films. A comical look at relationships ...