All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 40
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Peace Arch signs letter of intent for $35m ContentFilm deal
Peace Arch Entertainment Group has entered into a letter of intent to acquire ContentFilm.The letter of intent is non-binding and subject to various conditions and due diligence. The deal is worth 19,500,000 Peace Arch shares plus cash of $35m. The total deal value based on a pure cash offer, is ...
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Contentfilm/Fireworks take on CBC library
ContentFilm's division Fireworks International has struck a deal to acquire international distribution rights for CBC's international sales assets. The library includes a programme catalogue of about 135 titles, representing 700 hours of TV programming. Canada-based CBC still retains broadcasting rights and archives. The transaction is subject to due diligence and ...
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UKFC backs Universal's Lust, Caution release with $400,000 in support
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has announced the its funding of specialised releases in UK cinemas. The latest supported films are:$403,170 (£200,000) to Universal Pictures for Ang Lee's Lust, Caution $201,587 (£100,000) to The Works UK Distribution for Richard Attenborough's Closing the Ring $50,072 (£24,839) to Park ...
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Whitton launches Belfast production outfit with Attenborough, Gilbert
Robert Whitton, commercially property investment expert and CEO of aAIM Group, has launched a new production company with director Richard Attenborough and producer Jo Gilbert.The company is named Real Holywood Productions, after its Belfast neighborhood. Real Holywood intends to focus on Northern Ireland-based productions.Attenborough and Gilbert recently shot the partially ...
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Revolver takes on UK distribution of U2 3D
UK distributor Revolver Entertainment will handle the UK distribution of U2 3D.Revolver will distribute the film in Real D, IMAX 3-D and other digital 3-D formats across the UK on Feb 22, 2008.The film, which was shown as a work in progress in Cannes, is directed by Catherine Owens and ...
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UK police arrest four people and seize 10,000 pirate DVDS
UK police have arrested four people and seized 10,000 counterfeit DVDs in raids based on information gathered by the Federation Against Copyright Theft. The raids were on three stalls at Western International Market in Hounslow, Middlesex and at two addresses in Slough, Berkshire. Officers from Hounslow Borough of the Metropolitan ...
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MMG takes Flemish, French remake rights to Dutch hit Love Is All
Dutch production company Motel Films has sold the remake rights to its hit romantic comedy Love Is All to Belgian film producer MMG.MMG, which previously worked on Ben X and Winky's Horse, plans two different remake versions, one each for the Flemish and French markets. COO Peter Bouckaert found the ...
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BBC World Cinema nominees include Climates, Lives Of Others
BBC Four World Cinema Award has announced the nominees for its 2008 prize, sponsored by Pioneer.The nominees are Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives Of Others, Michel Gondry's The Science Of Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Climates, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes And A Century.The award, now ...
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Control, Atonement lead London Critics' Circle nominations
Anton Corbijn's Control and Joe Wright's Atonement lead the nominations for the London Critics' Circle Film Awards. Each has eight nominations. Other films with multiple nominations include There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men and The Lives Of Others, with four nominations each.The awards will be handed out ...
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United Kingdom - Off The Record
EMI has a long history as a record label - everyone from the Beatles to Coldplay - but its burgeoning film business owes much to two men and their motorcycles."Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to meet with us about a soundtrack, and we ended up doing the DVD release ...
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United States - Slings and arrows
Writer-director Alex Holdridge has been on Hollywood's radar for several years, yet circumstances led him to shoot his third feature, In Search Of A Midnight Kiss, for just $12,000.Holdridge, who attended the University of Texas, was living in Austin when he was inspired to move into film by the early ...
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Atonement leads Golden Globe nominations
Joe Wright’s Atonement leads the nominations for the 65th annual Golden Globes, voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Atonement has seven nominations, for best film, director (Joe Wright), screenplay (Christopher Hampton), actress (Keira Knightley), actor (James McAvoy), supporting actress (Saoirse Ronan), and score (Dario Marianelli).
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Sony pacts with Tiscali UK for on-demand TV offerings
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) and Tiscali TV have launched a new video on demand service, called Screen Gems, as part of Tiscali's on-demand TV platform in the UK.The service initially includes catalogue TV series such as Bewitched, Starsky & Hutch and Charlie's Angels, with new Sony shows to be ...
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UK regional critics name awards after Richard Attenborough
The UK Regional Critics' Annual Film Awards have been renamed The Richard Attenborough Film Awards. The awards were founded a year ago and will be known as the Attenborough Awards from 2008. The awards are given in six categories: film of the year, filmmaker of the year, actor and actress ...
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Hammer's first new film to air episodes on MySpace
Hammer Films is set to produce its first horror film in 30 years, and has created a joint venture with MySpace to broadcast episodes of the feature, entitled Beyond The Rave. MySpaceTV will co-produce the project, which will initially air as 20 'webisodes' on MySpace before being released as a ...
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The Kite Runner to close Dubai festival on Dec 16
Marc Forster's The Kite Runner is the surprise closing film for the Dubai International Film Festival.The Dec 16 closing night event will welcome the book's author Khaled Hosseini and the film's cast including Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Zekiria Ebrahami, Ali Danesh Bakhtyari, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada and Sayed Jafar Massihullah, along ...
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GEM works for DVD, theatrical launch of Peterson films
GEM Entertainment has taken UK and US rights to seven features from UK-based Global Films, EdgeImageBank, Norwood Pictures, and Mnemonics Pictures. Nick Peterson, also known as a musician under the name Virtual Alien, directed all of the films. Five that will be released on DVD are: Writing On The Wall, ...
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Clare Morrow to join Screen Yorkshire in Industry Development
Regional screen agency Screen Yorkshire has announced that Clare Morrow will head its Industry Development team. Morrow takes her post in January. Until April she was controller of programmes north for ITV, and currently works as a freelance executive producer and manager of the Broadcasting and Creative Industries Disability Network. ...
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Future Shorts launches new Secret Cinema series in 6 cities
Future Shorts and Future Cinema are launching a new events series, Secret Cinema. The monthly screenings will surprise guests with unannounced films shown at themed locations with surprise scores, special guests and live installations. The series starts Dec 16 in London, and will continue in Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow ...
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Sky gets UK broadcast rights to Oscars and Golden Globes
UK TV company Sky has announced that it will broadcast the Golden Globe Awards live on Sky Movies Premiere for the first time. Live red carpet coverage and awards highlights will be shown on Jan 13 and Jan 14 on Sky One, in Sky's exclusive UK broadcast deal. For the ...