All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 44
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Pinewood hopes to expand with new live-work media community
Pinewood Shepperton plans to seek planning permission for an extension to Pinewood Studios, on land adjacent to the current Pinewood Studios site in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.The proposed Project Pinewood will include a variety of locations for film and TV, including permanent working sets of streetscapes and location recreations such as ...
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Goteborg Fund selects six projects from developing countries
The Goteborg International Film Festival Fund has named the latest projects it is backing, with cooperation from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA. The fund, set up in 1998, supports film-makers working in countries in transition. The following six projects were selected from around 100 applications to receive development ...
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Sheffield awards include Talk To Me, We Are Together
The Sheffield Doc/Fest (Nov 7-11) handed out its first Grierson: Sheffield Awards as the UK festival closed this weekend. The Green Award went to Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth about the global climate crisis, the Innovation Award went to Mark Craig's Talk To Me about voicemail messages, and the Youth ...
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Alexis Dos Santos starts UK shoot for Unmade Beds
Alexis Dos Santos has started principal photography in the UKthis week for his second film, Unmade Beds. The project, which will shoot for five weeks in London and Nottingham, stars Deborah Francois, Fernando Tielve, Michiel Huisman, Iddo Goldberg and Richard Lintern. The story follows a man who arrives in London ...
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Pathe closes string of AFM deals for Salles' Linha De Passe
Pathe International has announced a slew of sales for Walter Salles' Linha De Passe following its first footage screening at the AFM.Deals have been done for France (Diaphana), Italy (RAI), Benelux (Cineart), Greece (Spentzos), Portugal (CLMC), and Israel (Shani). Pathe Distribution will handle the UK release.Daniela Thomas co-directed the film, ...
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Jan Dunn and Pauline McLynn team for comedy drama script
Actress Pauline McLynn is starting work on her first screenplay, with her recent collaborator Jan Dunn. Dunn, who directed McLynn in Gypo and in the recent shoot for The Calling, is working with McLynn on the untitled comedy drama. McLynn, best known for her TV role on Father Ted, is ...
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Kolerova joins Sony International as Russian sales director
Katerina Kolerova has joined Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) as sales director for Russia and the CIS.Kolerova is based in Moscow, and previously worked at VID Entertainment Group. Sony had served the territory out of its London office but said it was responding to the burgeoning Russian content market with ...
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Momentum strikes UK deal for Nic Balthazar's Ben X
Momentum Pictures has taken UK rights to Nic Balthazar's directorial debut Ben X, sold by Films Distribution. Films Distribution executive director of worldwide sales Didar Domehri and Momentum's acquisitions manager Louis Tisne negotiated the deal. Balthazar's directorial debut is based on the book When Nothing Was All He Said and ...
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Frontrow's AFM pickups include The Babysitters and Eddie The Eagle
Middle Eastern distributor Frontrow Entertainment picked up eight films at the recent AFM. Theprojects includeThe Babysitters and Goal 3, both from Peace Arch. From HanWay Films, Frontrow acquired David Cronenberg's The Talking Cure, Eddie The Eagle to star Steve Coogan, Wim Wenders' The Palermo Shooting, Gorillaz documentary Bananaz and horror ...
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Dodona sees 50% digital conversion by 2013, pushed by 3D
Half of the world's cinema screens could be digital by 2013, according to predictions from Dodona Research. A total of 4,627 screens have been converted as of September 2007, representing about 5% of the global total. Dodona analysts estimate that the potential market for digital cinema equipment could be $8bn.Report ...
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Verhoeven to receive award at 12th Capri film festival
Paul Verhoeven will receive the Capri Cult Award at the 12 Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival (Dec 27-Jan 2).Verhoeven will also talk about his forthcoming film Azazel, starring Milla Jovovich and Dan Stevens, adapted from the novel by Boris Akunin, set in 19th century Russia. Marc Canton serves as festival ...
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Sony signs digital download deal with Videoland and Movie MAX
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed an electronic sell-through deal with two DVD rental companies in Benelux: Videoland and Movie MAX. The deal covers new and library titles from Sony Pictures available for digital download from the companies' online sites in Belgium, Luxemburg and The Netherlands. The service went ...
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Dubai to start new Gulf Film Festival in April
The Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone Authority, organisers of the Dubai International Film Festival, have announced plans to launch a Gulf cinema event. The competitive Gulf Film Festival, in assocation with Dubai Studio City (also a partner in DIFF), will be devoted to films from the United Arab Emirates, ...
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Paula Jalfon moves from Ingenious to BBC Films
Paula Jalfon has joined BBC Films as commercial manager. She is the former head of production at Ingenious. Jalfon will be responsible for managing third-party financing for BBC Films, seeking new local and international sources of funding, and overseeing sales, marketing and distribution for the BBC Films' slate. Jalfon will ...
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Screen WM sets up new $8m film production fund
Screen WM, the UK's regional screen agency for the West Midlands, has gotten increased an $8m (£4m) for production funding of film and digital media over the next four years. The new Media Produciton Fund is open to film and digital projects from across the UK, and an emphasis will ...
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Frears comes on as patron for Met Film School
Stephen Frears has come on board as the first patron of the Met Film School, based at Ealing Studios in London. Frears will serve as an ambassador for the school as well as participating in debates, conversations and advice sessions with school directors about the school's future. Frears said: 'Alexander ...
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Grant and Meaden's Shipwreck starts post on Just Ines
UK-based Shipwreck Film, which has just finished its debut feature Coffee Sex You, is now in post on its next project, Just Ines. Writer/director Marcel Grant's Just Ines stars Daniel Weyman and Caroline Ducey and was shot in the South of France in the UK during four weeks. Post will ...
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Arts Alliance Media's Vizumi adds Metrodome content
UK distributor Metrodome has become the latest content partner for Arts Alliance Media's Vizumi Network. AAM will offer Metrodome titles for download to own for $20 (£9.99) and download to rent for $6 (£2.99) at Vizumi's own site and partner sites Tiscali, LoveFilm, and Empire magazine. Films available at the ...
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First Prix Image at EFAs to go to Menegoz and Heiduschka
This year's European Film Awards will include the new Prix Eurimages, to recognise European co-production. The first award will go to two producers who have worked on many co-productions: Margaret Menegoz and Veit Heiduschka.Menegoz is Unifrance president and managing director of Les Films Du Losange and she has produced films ...
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Arthouse strikes exclusive UK/Ireland output deal with Revolver
Arthouse Films has struck an exclusive output and distribution deal for the UK & Ireland with Revolver Entertainment.Revolver will handle all rights to Arthouse titles in those territories and also launch the label in the UK and Ireland.The multi-year deal covers more than 10 titles per year. The initial slate ...