All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 42
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Bracewell lines up Richard E Grant, Laura Fraser for Cuckoo
UK producers Punk Cinema are starting a shoot this week for Richard Bracewell's Cuckoo, his second film following acclaimed low-budget debut The Gigolos. Richard E Grant, Laura Fraser, Antonia Bernath, Adam Fenton and Tamsin Greig star in Cuckoo, a thriller about lies and jealousy. The story follows Poilly, a woman ...
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London Film School recruits new patrons for funding appeal
The London Film School (LFS) has welcomed a new group of patrons who support the School's capital appeal. The $14m (£7m) two-year appeal will raise funds to establish a new, larger LFS in London's West End. The new space will have teaching and film-making facilities with public cinemas, a bar ...
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Fox Baja veteran Arneson moves to Hungary's Korda Studios
After its first shoot for Universal's Hellboy 2 wrapped last week, new Hungarian studio Korda Studios has announced some new key members of its team.Charlie Arneson has been appointed studio manager at Korda. He comes to Hungary after 10 years as head of Fox Baja Studios in Mexico, best known ...
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Prime Focus strikes acquisition deal for Post Logic and Frantic
The Prime Focus Group has moved into the North American market with the acquisition of Post Logic Studios, based in New York and Los Angeles, and Frantic Films VFX, which has offices in Los Angeles, Winnipeg and Vancouver.Financial terms were not disclosed. Prime already has six visual effects and post-production ...
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Control takes top honours at British Independent Film Awards
Anton Corbijn's Control was the big winner at tonight's tenth-annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).Control won Best British Independent Film, Best Director (Anton Corbijn), Best Supporting Actor/Actress (Toby Kebbell), Best Newcomer (Sam Riley), and the Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director (Corbijn). The film, a black-and-white biopic of Joy ...
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Pretty Pictures acquires French rights to Hallam Foe
Pretty Pictures has acquired French rights to David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe from UK-based sales company Independent.Mackenzie's drama, which won the Silver Bear in Berlin, stars Jamie Bell and Sophia Myles.Pretty Pictures head James Velaise negotiated the deal with Independent's head of sales Abigail Walsh. 'We are absolutely thrilled that ...
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Coffee company Cafedirect plans series of three features
Cafedirect, the UK fairtrade coffee and tea company, is undertaking a film project that will include three feature-length films.Cafedirect's The Trilogy will be three large-scale productions for commercial release that will reflect future society based on the current social, economic, political and environmental global issues.The company is seeking film and ...
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High Point closes UK TV deal for Extraordinary Rendition with BBC
High Point Media Group has sold UK TV rights to the BBC for Jim Threapleton's Extraordinary Rendition. The feature, starrin Andy Serkis and Omar Berdouni, is about an innocent man who is suspected of terrorism. High Point has also sold the project for Danish TV (Danmarks Radio) and all Benelux ...
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Birds Eye View festival to include women's comedy programme
The UK 's Birds Eye View festival, devoted to women's film-making, will run March 6-13, 2008, at London 's ICA and BFI Southbank, followed by a local tour to Manchester, Newcastle and other UK locations. The 2008 programme will include a special comedy retrospective celebrating women in silent comedy, including ...
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EFA FIPRESCI Award goes to Alain Resnais' Private Fears
The International federation of film critics, FIPRESCI, will give this year's European Film Academy Critics' Award to Alain Resnais' Private Fears In Public Places (Coeurs). FIPRESCI said that Resnais 'treats the characters the way an affectionate puppeteer would treat his creatures. He contemplates their comings and goings with the benevolence ...
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Doug Davis joins blinkBox as acquisitions director
Online film and TV company blinkBox Entertainment has appointed Doug Davis as acquisitions director.Davis had been advising the company and is now with blinkBox full time, signing up film and TV partners for the service.He had previously been a TV agent at William Morris in London and had also served ...
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Hungary's Korda and Colorfront strike strategic partnership
Hungary's Korda Studios and new Budapest-based post-production company Colorfront have signed a partnership agreement to offer Colorfront services to productions based at Korda.Colorfront will have satellite offices and post facilities based at Korda and the companies will be connected by a high-speed fiber-optic network, enabling work such as color-graded digital ...
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Eros and Carving Dreams to launch venture with Roshan project
Eros International has struck a co-production joint venture with Carving Dreams Motion Pictures, a new division of management and marketing company Carving Dreams Entertainment. Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan, who has been a client of Carving Dreams for two years, will star in the first joint feature between the companies.Kishore Lulla, ...
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Soundtracks - Meet the music supervisors: Randall Poster - Poster soundtracks a life
"I have an abiding passion for music and movies," says Randall Poster, the renowned music supervisor of films ranging from Rushmore to The Aviator. His skill is evident in a diverse crop of projects including The Darjeeling Limited, The Nanny Diaries, The Savages and I'm Not There, and forthcoming films ...
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Soundtracks - A one-stop shop for film scores
Becky Bentham and Karen Elliott of London-based Hot House Music like to think of themselves as a "one-stop shop" for film music.They are a boutique agency for composers, provide music supervision and score co-ordination, and can even create hypothetical budgets at the financing stage. They are presently working on How ...
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United Kingdom - Free agents
Cuba Pictures, the film and TV arm of London-based talent agency Curtis Brown, almost epitomises synergy.In late 2004, Curtis Brown's Nick Marston and Tally Garner set up the division, and they are now launching their successful first feature, Boy A, with a November 26 airing on the UK's Channel 4. ...
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Mermin's Shot In Bombay secures UK run at London's ICA
Liz Mermin's latest film, Shot In Bombay, will have a two-week UK theatrical run at London's ICA from Jan 18, 2008 before going on a regional tour. The documentary goes behind the scenes of a Bollywood film, Shootout at Lokhandwala, starring Bollywood screen legend Sanjay Dutt. US director Mermin, who ...
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High Point sells Storm Force to MTI for North America
High Point Television, a division of UK-based sales company High Point Media Group, has sold the North American TV and video rights for Storm Force to MTI.The Belgian helicopter-rescue action film, starring Kevin Janssen, is produced by Peter Bouckaert of MMG Film & Television. High Point also sold the film ...
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UK's WFTV give lifetime achievement award to Verity Lambert
Verity Lambert, who produced the original Doctor Who TV series and feature film A Cry In The Dark, will receive Women In Film and Television's Working Title Films Lifetime Achievement Award. Lambert will be presented with the honours at the 2007 Five Women in Film and Television Awards in London ...
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Rotterdam reveals first competitors from Japan, Malaysia,Thailand
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 23-Feb 3) has selected the first three films for its VPRO Tiger Awards Competition. They are genre-bending autobiographical family project Waltz In Starlight by Shingo Wakagi (Japan); Pusan award winner Flower In The Pocket by Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia) about two motherless brothers; and ...