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Film London sets second PFM for October 20-21
Film London has set dates for its second Production Finance Market (PFM) for October 20-21, 2008, during the Times BFI London Film Festival. The inaugural event in 2007 attracted 70 producers, 35 distributors/sales agents and 36 major financiers. Film London head of international Helena Mackenzie said she expected attendance figures ...
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Sheffield to rock with music, film festival
The UK's will get a new music and film festival in April as Sensoria launches in Sheffield.The highlights will include a programme of Jarvis Cocker's films (including one new work); a full audiovisual performance of The Fading Room: Memories and Remixes from Future Loop Foundation; and live music accompanying The ...
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Fandango Portobello stirs up deals for Quiet Chaos
Fandango Portobello has seen chaotic interest in Competition title Quiet Chaos (Caos Calmo). The Italian drama, directed by Antonello Grimaldi and sarring Nanni Moretti and Valeria Golino, has sold to nine territories ahead of official Competition screening tomorrow. Deals have been struck with France (BAC), Spain (Alta), Benelux (Cineart), Switzerland ...
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Sam Dunn joins Jane Giles at British Film Institute
Sam Dunn will join the British Film Institute as head of DVD as of Feb 18.He joins Jane Giles, who as recently reported has come to the BFI as head of content.Dunn had been in the home entertainment division at Tartan Films for seven years. He most recently served as ...
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We Are Together joins with (RED); EMI to release March 3 in UK
EMI, the (RED) campaign and Channel 4 are kicking off a 12-month activity plan tied to the release of award-winning documentary We Are Together by Paul Taylor.The documentary, which won prizes at festivals including IDFA andTribeca, is about a choir at the Agape orphanage in South Africa, wheremost of the ...
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Berlin Today short prize goes to Pakistan's Maheen Zia
At a Sunday night dinner at the Berlinale Talent Campus, the Berlin Today Award 2008 went to Maheen Zia from Pakistan for her short Match Factor.Wim Wenders presented the prize, now in its fifth year. Zia's short is about an Iraqi man who finds himself the subject of a manhunt ...
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European admissions fall 2.2% in 2007
Total box-office admissions in European Union countries fell 2.2% in 2007 compared to 2006.The Europe's European Audiovisual Observatory says that 910m tickets were sold, which means 2007 was still well above the low of 898.8m in 2005.Bucking the trend was the UK up 3.7% and Italy up 8.4%.Eastern Europe saw ...
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Disney becomes fifth studio on board for AAM digital deployment
Walt Disney Studios is the latest studio to come on board with a digital cinema deployment agreement with Europe's Arts Alliance Media.The non-exclusive, long-term deal is for digital cinema rollout across Europe.Under the terms, Disney will supply European exhibitors with its features in digital formats and will contribute towards the ...
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Content closes slew of Splinter deals, including Icon for US/Australia
ContentFilm International has closed a slew of deals on Toby Wilkins' Splinter here at EFM.The film has gone to UK & Australia/New Zealand (Icon), Italy (DNC), The Middle East (Gulf Film), Mexico (Gussi), Czech and Slovak Republics (AQS), Poland (Best Film), The West Indies (Caribbean Film Services), Singapore (Cathay), Venezuela ...
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Compston to star in Ipso Facto's Souled Out
Martin Compston, the rising star of Sweet Sixteen and Red Road, will star in Souled Out for Ipso Facto Films' low-budget slate Moxie Makers and Dreamfinder Productions.The cast also features Gerard Kearns (The Mark Of Cain, Shameless) and Jennifer Ellison (The Phantom Of The Opera). Moviehouse will handle international sales. ...
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Image gets Emotional with three-film Celluloid Dreams deal
Image Entertainment has struck a three-film deal with sales company Celluloid Dreams. Image has taken North American rights for Far North and US rights for Emotional Arithmetic and The Color of Freedom (formerly titled Goodbye Bafana).The deal was brokered by Celluloid president Hengameh Panahi and Image Entertainment UK's managing director ...
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Edinburgh to host retrospectives for Jeanne Moreau, Shirley Clarke
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) will host retrospectives this year on French actress Jeanne Moreau and late American actress and director Shirley Clarke. The Moreau programme is a joint initiative with the British Film Institute. The Clarke programme will include The Cool World, Portrait of Jason, The Connection and ...
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Generator kicks off five-film genre slate with Red Mist
Generator Entertainment is kicking off with a new slate of five genre films - with budgets of about $3m each - starting with Paddy Breathnach's new supernatural thriller Red Mist, which started shooting for 24 days in Belfast on Monday. The project marks Breathnach's follow-up to Shrooms.Arielle Kebbel (The Grudge ...
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ContentFilm takes international sales on Moverman's The Messenger
Oren Moverman, writer of Jesus' Son and I'm Not There, is set to make his directorial debut with The Messenger.Mark Gordon and Lawrence Inglee will produce for the Mark Gordon Company, with Zach Miller and Ben Goldhirsh of Reason Pictures.ContentFilm International will handle international sales. Shaun Redick and Nate Bolotin ...
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ContentFilm takes on Stephen Leslie's comedy-horror Release
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights (excluding the UK and Germany) to comedy-horror Release, to be directed by 2007 Screen International Star Of Tomorrow Stephen Leslie.Cinetic will represent North American rights and has also arranged financing.Damian Jones (The History Boys) will produce and casting will be confirmed soon. The ...
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ContentFilm to sell Hawaii story Barbarian Princess from Marc Forby
ContentFilm International is handling worldwide sales on the forthcoming drama Barbarian Princess to star Q'orianka Kilcher (The New World), Shaun Evans, Barry Pepper and Will Patton.Marc Forby will direct. The shoot starts March 14 on location in Hawaii and in the UK.The crew includes Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck, production designer ...
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Metrodome takes all UK rights to Before The Rains
Metrodome Distribution has taken all UK rights to Santosh Sivan's Before The Rains from Maximum Films and Echo Lake Entertainment. The deal was brokered by Charlotte Mickie of Maximum, Doug Mankoff of Echo Lake, and Metrodome's Peter Urie, Sara Frain and Kate Edwards.Metrodome is planning a summer 2008 release. The ...
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Momentum takes on Hamlet 2 for UK
Building on its buzz from Sundance, Hamlet 2's EFM sales are starting to heat up with Momentum taking UK rights.Focus Features acquired the worldwide rights to the film in Sundance and handled the UK deal, which was said to be worth well above $2m.Andrew Fleming directed the comedy starring Steve ...
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Downey and Taylor's F&ME launches new $1m development fund
UK-based Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME) has created a new $1m development fund, backed by private equity, EU MEDIA support and in-house financing, and is initially backing a slate of five projects for 2008. F&ME's Mike Downey is in early development with F&ME chairman Stephen Daldry on a Charles Darwin ...
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Blood, Country, Control take London critics awards
Ahead of Sunday's BAFTA awards, Joel & Ethan Coen's No Country For Old Men was named film of the year by the London Critics Circle on Friday night.Paul Thomas Anderson was named best director for There Will Be Blood, which is playing here in competition.Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be ...