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Carl Clifton promoted to COO of HandMade Films International
HandMade Films International has promoted Carl Clifton to chief operating officer, in addition to his existing duties as head of international sales.Clifton joined the revived HandMade in November 2006 and has worked on a slate of films including animated title Planet 51, thriller 50 Dead Men Walking, Eloise In Paris ...
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Vertigo to produce Rupert Wyatt's Escapist follow-up The Trail
The UK's Vertigo Films has come on board for Rupert Wyatt's next feature The Trail, after already taking the rights to his debut feature The Escapist, which is world premiering in Sundance today.Vertigo will produce and take all UK rights to Wyatt's new project, and Vertigo's new partner sales company ...
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UK production spend drops 15% whileco-productions crash 43%
Feature film production spend dropped 15% in 2007, to $1.4bn (£723m) from 2006's $1.6bn (£855m), according to new research from the UK Film Council.The UKFC tracked 112 features, down from 135 in 2006 (the UKFC only tracks projects with budgets starting at $1m). The UKFC blamed the decline on the ...
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Intandem, Radical pitch slate including John Woo's Caliber
Intandem Films and its graphic novel publishing company partner Radical Publishing will be meeting with investors in the UK starting Jan 21 to present their shared business model and preview future projects. UK-based financing and sales company Intandem took an equity stake in 2007 in Los Angeles-based Radical, which is ...
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Lionsgate UK acquires Conan, Mad Money and Righteous Kill
Distributor Lionsgate UK has struck a three-picture acquisition deal with Nu Image/Millennium Films. Lionsgate UK has taken UK and Ireland rights to Jon Avnet's crime thriller Righteous Kill; Callie Khouri's comedy Mad Money; and the Conan The Barbarian revived franchise set for a new film release in 2009.Righteous Kill stars ...
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Film4 and B3 Media's FeatureLab to nurture minority scripts
UK production company B3 Media is launching the B3 FeatureLab with backing from Film4, Binger Film Lab and Skillset.The initiative will nurture four feature film scripts from black and minority film-makers who have a track record in film, TV, radio, visual arts or new media.The programme, which runs throughout 2008, ...
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Video platform blinkx adds content from Future Shorts, YoungCuts
US-based video search engine blinkx has struck deals with 13 new content partners. The new independent content providers are Calon TV, ChannelFlip.com, Channel X, Foothill Entertainment, Future Shorts, jeko.tv, Journeyman Pictures, Looking Glass International, MoMedia, Monster Distributes, Reelport, Wysiwyg Films and YoungCuts.Content will be searchable and playable at blinkx.com using ...
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Odyssey's slate includes Hornby and Scherfig's An Education
Odyssey Entertainment has announced details on a number of high-profile titles on its sales slate ahead of Berlin's European Film Market.The titles are: Lone Scherfig's An Education; John Crowley's Is There Anybody There'; Stephan Elliot's Easy Virtue;and Andy Cadiff's A Bunch of Amateurs.An Education, in pre-production, will star Peter Sarsgaard, ...
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Deals surge in Asia for Power's thriller Flood
Production company Power has announced further sales of its first feature film, $30m thriller Flood.Deals have been struck for Japan (CK Entertainment), China (New View, China Film and CCTV6), Korea (CJ Media), India (V Films), Hong Kong (TVB),Thailand (J-Bics), Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore (Ram).Tony Mitchell's Flood stars Robert Carlyle in ...
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Ealing takes on sales for Eyre's new drama The Other Man
Richard Eyre is set to start principal photography on his new dramaThe Other Man starting Feb 14.Ealing Studios International will handle international sales.The drama will star Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney and Romola Garai.Eyre will also produce with Tracey Scoffield, Frank Doelger and Michael Dreyer for Rainmark Films. David ...
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Marco Mueller confirmed for another four years in Venice
Marco Mueller has been confirmed as the artistic director for the Venice Film Festival for four more years.The new board of directors of the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia (the Venice Biennale arts festival foundation), chaired now by Paolo Baratta, confirmed the appointment at the board's first meeting today.Marco Mueller ...
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Mercury Media takes on sales for 9/11 docZero
Mercury Media has taken on worldwide sales (excluding Italy, Belgium and Russia) for Zero.Zero is a $1.5m (Euros 1m) documentary directed by Guilietto Chiesa and Franco Fracassi. Interviewees include Dario Fo and Gore Vidal.Mercury also has world sales (excluding US) for another 9/11 conspiracy documentary, Loose Change Final Cut. As ...
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Atonement leads BAFTA race with 14 nominations
Joe Wright’s Atonementleads the BAFTA nominations with 14 nods, in categories Best Film, Best British Film, Director (Joe Wright), Adapted Screenplay, Leading Actress (Keira Knightley), Leading Actor (James McAvoy), Supporting Actress (Saoirse Ronan), Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair.
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Metrodome takes UK rights to The Assembly and The Banquet
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights for two new Chinese films, The Assembly and The Banquet. Both are directed by Feng Xiaogang.The Assembly has already taken more than $30m at the Chinese box office. It is based on the true story of one man's journey during the 1948 Chinese ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for Liz Mermin's Shot In Bombay
UK-based international sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on sales for Liz Mermin's latest documentary, Shot In Bombay.Little Bird produced the feature documentary, which goes behind the scenes of Bollywood film Shootout At Lokhandwala and follows the controversial trial of Indian screen legend Sanjay Dutt. The film includes the last ...
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Park Circus strikes UK theatrical deal with Arrow Films
UK distributor Park Circus Films has signed a deal to represent the Arrow Films catalogue theatrically in the UK and Ireland.Arrow's 160-plus title catalogue includes films such as Cinema Paradiso, The Millionairess and Rififi.Park Circus is the UK 's leading theatrical distributor of classic films. IT has similar deals in ...
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Film4, Ingenious, Vertigo join for new sales company Protagonist
Confirming rumours that started swirling before the American Film Market, UK companies Film4, Ingenious and Vertigo Films have joined forces to launch a new international film sales company.The outfit, called Protagonist Pictures, is fully capitalised by its three partners (who are financing equally). The intial slate isn't announced yet and ...
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Losey wraps shoot for debut thriller The Hide
Director Marek Losey has wrapped principal photography on his debut feature, thriller The Hide.The Poisson Rouge Pictures and Solution Films thriller shot at Pinewood and on location in the Southeast of England in November and December 2007.The film, written by Tim Whitnall based on his stage play The Sociable Plover, ...
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Rotterdam programme boasts 50 feature world premieres
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced more details of its feature film programme, which will include 50 world premieres, 30 international premieres and 25 European premieres.Further, Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund will show 22 new films at the festival (nine are world premieres), all competing for the new Dioraphte ...
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High Point to take on sales for Abrahamson's Prosperity project
Irish director Lenny Abrahamson has followed his Cannes Director's Fortnight hit Garage with Prosperity, a series of four related 'mini features' for Irish TV broadcaster RTE.High Point Media Group has taken on international rights to the project, and plans to launch it at Berlin's European Film Market rather than at ...