All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 53
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Berlinale taps Dominique Green as UK delegate
As its selection period looms, the Berlinale has appointed Dominique Green as its official delegate for the UK. Green will advise the Berlinale about the UK film industry and film selection.Green, a veteran of film production, distribution and training, has collaborated with the Berlin festival for many years. In 2004 ...
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Sam Riley joins cast of Franklyn for Recorded Picture Company
Gerald McMorrow will start principal photography in London on Monday, Sept 24, on debut feature film, Franklyn, for UK-based producer Recorded Picture Company. Sam Riley, who has won raves for his leading role in Control, has joined the cast, along with previously announced Ryan Phillippe and Eva Green. The cast ...
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Blueprint takes film rights to Before I Die
Blueprint Pictures, working with its slate deal with Pathe, Film4 and the UK Film Council, has picked up film rights to Jenny Downham's debut novel Before I Die.The deal was negotiated by Caroline Wood at Felicity Bryan Agency on behalf of Catherine Clarke.David Vickling Books published the novel on July ...
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Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart wins Frankfurt Book Fair award
At the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, director Michael Winterbottom will receive the award for Best International Literary Film Adaptation for A Mighty Heart.The award, to be given Oct 12, comes with a $14,000 (Euros 10,000) prize. Winterbottom's film, which premiered at Cannes, is based on the 2003 book of ...
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Atonement joins line-up at Dinard's British Film Festival
The Festival of British Film in Dinard has announced further films in its line-up.Titles added to the previously announced Avant Premiere section include: Joe Wright's Atonement, Anand Tucker's And When Did You Last See Your Father, and Bille Eltringham's Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution.As reported last week, Dinard (Oct 4-7) will open ...
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United Kingdom - Shooting from the hip
Our success is down to the people we have," says Revolver Entertainment's MD and founder Justin Marciano, not in a boastful way but giving credit where credit is due. "We have one of the best unknown teams in the industry."Staying unknown, however, could be a challenge as Revolver celebrates its ...
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DeMille, Saltman and Beck join Image Entertainment
California-based Image Entertainment has hired three new industry executives: Steven DeMille, Steve Saltman and J. Beck.DeMille will serve as senior VP, marketing. He comes from First Look Home Entertainment.Saltman has been named senior VP, domestic TV sales and he most recently worked at DEJ Productions.Finally, Beck has been hired by ...
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Paul Morrison kicks off shoot for UK-Spain project Little Ashes
Factotum Barcelona, Aria Films, APT Films & Met Film started principal photography in Barcelona on Sunday for UK-Spain co-production Little Ashes.Paul Morrison directs the story of the lives and loves of Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali.Javier Beltran, Robert Pattinson and Matthew McNulty star.Morrison previously directed Solomon & Gaenor and ...
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Santoro may climb Old Mountain for Buena Onda Americas
Latin American specialists Buena Onda Americas, in Toronto as a partner with Canana on Cochochi, is in pre-production on The Old Mountain, a $2.7m Brazilian story to shoot in 2008.Producers are talking to actor Rodrigo Santoro about coming on board and Fernando Meirelles may executive produce; Ondamax will handle sales.The ...
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Price starts Abraham's Point with Mackenzie Crook
Writer/director Wyndham Price has started principal photography for Abraham's Point. The project is shooting for five weeks on location in Cardiff and the Pembrokeshire coast.Mackenzie Crook leads the cast and other actors include Joseph Millson, Mariah Gale and Harriet Walter.The film is about a antiques restorer who has strange hallucinations ...
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ContentFilm takes foreign sales for Coogan's Hamlet 2
ContentFilm International has come on board for foreign sales for comedy Hamlet 2, starring Steve Coogan and Catherine Keener. Coogan stars as a high school teacher who tries to save the school's drama department by writing his own sequel to Hamlet.Andrew Fleming (Nancy Drew, The Craft) will direct from a ...
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BIFAs set 10th anniversary awards for Nov 28
The 10th annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) have set a date for Nov 28. Nominees will be announced Oct 23.James Nesbitt will again host this year's awards, which move to the Roundhouse in London.BIFA directors Johanna von Fischer and Tessa Collinson said: 'In our 10th anniversary year we are ...
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Clapp takes chief executive post for UK exhibitors group
Phil Clapp has been named as the new chief executive of the UK's Cinema Exhibitors Association. He takes the post as of Oct 15.Chairman Barry Jenkins announced the new appointment. Clapp comes from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, where he had been deputy director for the creative industries.Clapp ...
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UK producer Sutherland works with Lenz on The Little Prisoner
UK producer Mairi Sutherland, long-time collaborator with Robbie Moffat, is working with lauded Canadian film composer and music supervisor Jack Lenz, veteran of The Passion Of The Christ.Lenz who has written a script, The Little Prisoner, about the killing of Mona Mahmudnizhad and 9 other Baha'i women in 1980s Iran.Sutherland, ...
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Odd Lot's Suburban Girl moves in with Image Entertainment
Image Entertainment has taken US theatrical, home video and non-broadcast digital rights to Suburban Girl and Undead or Alive.Both films were sold by Odd Lot Entertainment.Suburban Girl is a romantic comedy starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alec Baldwin. Marc Klein wrote and directed the project based on two short stories ...
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Joy Division director Grant Gee plans next film
As buyers continue to negotiate for hot documentary Joy Division, which had its world premiere here, the creators of the film are already eyeing their next projects.Director Grant Gee, who previously made 1998 Radiohead documentary Meeting People Is Easy, says he isn't ruling out future music related ideas, and would ...
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After whirlwind Toronto, Nair heads to Mumbai for Shantaram
New York-based director Mira Nair left Toronto Saturday night after a short 24-hour visit to the festival - she's now in Mumbai preparing for her largest film yet, Shantaram.The $100m project, for Warner Bros with Graham King's GK Films producing and Plan B on board, starts shooting Jan 19 for ...
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Revolver strikes DVD deal with Image for new US operation
UK distributor Revolver Entertainment has opened a US home-video division, based in Los Angeles, and has signed an exclusive distribution deal with Image Entertainment.Image will have exclusive home video and digital distribution rights to Revolver's North American releases, and expects to distribute about 12-15 titles during the deal's first year.The ...
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Content on board for Liebesman's Manbreak starring Sevigny
ContentFilm International has taken on foreign sales for suspense thriller Manbreak, directed by Jonathan Liebesman. CAA has domestic sales rights.Liebesman previously directed 2006 hit The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.Chloe Sevigny is attached to star and further casting will be announced soon.Manbreak is about four people who sign up for ...
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Fact merges with fiction at UK festival
Three-day festival Crossing The Line examines the development and history of projects which tread the fine line between truth and fiction. Presented by DocHouse and the BBC, the festival is opened by UK director Ken Loach with a keynote speech about the popular crossover form of TV and film that ...