All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 62
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UK's Vue cinemas to offer live Formula One coverage
UK cinema chain Vue Entertainment is continuing the diversification of its programme offerings by hosting a live Formula One event. In a first, Vue will screen Formula One racing live and uninterrupted from the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on July 8. The event will be broadcast to big screens ...
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Stephen Frears to speak at Screenwriters Festival
Stephen Frears is the latest big name speaker to join the line-up for next week's International Screenwriters Festival in the UK. The director of The Queen, Dirty Pretty Things, The Grifters and High Fidelity will talk about how he collaborates with screenwriters in a conversation with critic Nigel Floyd.Oscar nominee ...
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Medb Films wins Kent Business Award
The Ramsgate-based UK mini-studio Medb Films has just won the top prize in the Creative Industries Category at the Kent Business Awards. Medb was founded by Elaine Wickham and Jan Dunn, the pair behind acclaimd British dogme feature Gypo and the newly completed Ruby Blue, starring Bob Hoskins and Josiane ...
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Greece gets first digital screens at two Village sites in Athens
Greece will get its first two digital cinema installations as Village Cinemas digitises two of its largest screens in Athens, Village Faliro and the Village Park 20. Spacevision designed the Village system with both Kodak and Christie components, with 3D capability from Real D. Kodak's JMN3000 player has been installed ...
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Michael Kang and Teddy Zee: Wild West 32nd
Wendy Mitchell meets director Michael Kang and producer Teddy Zee, whose gangland drama West 32nd marks the first US production for Korean powerhouse CJ Entertainment.It was a memorable meeting of minds at Sundance 2005, where director Michael Kang was premiering his coming-of-age story The Motel, and producer Teddy Zee was ...
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Byrne to head GE and NBC's $250m Peacock Equity Fund
GE Commercial Finance's Media, Communications & Entertainment business and NBC Universal have appointed Thomas M. Byrne, 40, as managing director of the $250m Peacock Equity Fund. Megumi Ikeda, 37, has been named as London-based executive director, reporting to Byrne. Peacock Equity, a joint venture between GE and NBC Universal, invests ...
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Global entertainment industry to be worth $2 trillion by 2011
The global entertainment & media market will see sustained growth and a 6.4% compound annual growth rate to hit $2 trillion in 2011, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report. In particular, convergent platforms will rise at double-digit rates and will represent more than 50% of global entertainment spending by 2011. ...
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Jamie Morgan: the explorer
Wendy Mitchell meets Jamie Morgan, a first-time documentary film-maker who created a stir in Tribeca with his provocative and personal documentary, The Workshop. Documentary film-maker Jamie Morgan set out on a personal spiritual quest and ended up with a legal battle hours before the world premiere of his film at ...
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Locarno to honour actresses in Italian cinema
The 60th Locarno International Film Festival is planning a special programme, Signore & Signore, of 19 films that highlight great actresses in Italian Cinema. The programme is supported by Cinecitta Holding and curated by Piera Detassis.The films stretch from 1941 to today, and all will be shown in Locarno on ...
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Paramount plans Japanese theatrical unit after UIP office shuts
Following the news that United International Pictures (UIP) Japan will close at the end of 2007, Paramount Pictures International (PPI) has announced that it will start its theatrical distribution buisiness in Japan at the start of 2008. PPI Japan will be combined with the existing Paramount Home Entertainment Japan. Andrew ...
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Edinburgh Film Festival to open with Mackenzie's Hallam Foe
The 61st Edinburgh International Film Festival will open with David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe, which is largely set in the Scottish city. Jamie Bell stars alongside Sophia Myles, Ciaran Hinds and Claire Forlani in the story of a voyeuristic teenage boy who struggles with the aftermath of his mother's suicide and ...
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EM Media to offer producers tour of Nottingham
UK regional screen agency EM Media is hosting a tour of Nottingham for film and TV producers. The familiarisation tour on June 27 will include visits to the Galleries of Justic, post-production house Spool Films, and former Carlton TV studios. Similar tours have already been held in Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, ...
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Terence Davies among finalists in Northwest's Digital Departures
Northwest Vision + Media has named the 12 finalists in its Digital Departures micro-budget film-making initiative. Three teams will be selected to each make a $500,000 (£250,000) feature film in the next 14 months. Other partners on board for Digital Departures include Liverpool Culture Company, the UK Film Council and ...
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UCI Italia buys 10 cinemas from Cinestar Italia
UCI Italia, a division of the Odeon & UCI Cinema Group, has signed a pact to acquire 10 cinemas from Cinestar Italia. The sites include 104 screens. The deal means that UCI Italia adds cinemas in Mestre, Pordenone, Ferrara, Reggio Emilia, Andria, Molfetta, Messina, Piacenza, Como & Alessandria. Odeon and ...
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TEA joins forces with trailer company Wonderland
Design and advertising agency TEA - The Entertainment Agency, has joined forces with trailer company Wonderland, and the companies are now known as TEA: Wonderland. TEA has more than 20 years experience in print film marketing, and Wonderland is a year-old company started by Rob Darvell and Joe Pisano that ...
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Future Cinema to host Chinese themed tent at Glastonbury
Future Cinema will host the Chinese Cinema Palace at this weekend's Glastonbury music festival, in the Lost Vagueness field. The tent is inspired by Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love. The programme includes international shorts films and music videos presented by Future Shorts. Live theatre will also be ...
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Sarah Smith promoted as Aardman unveils new feature slate
UK-based animation powerhouse Aardman Features has announced a slate of six films in development, including a Christmas project written by Borat co-writer Peter Baynham, new non-Wallace and Gromit film from Nick Park and company founder Peter Lord's return to directing. These are the first new projects to be announced since ...
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Indian Film Company makes trading debut on London's AIM
The new Guernsey-registered Indian Film Company (IFC) has started trading on London 's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) today, after raising $109m by going public. Shares rose 20% on their trading debut. IFC, a Bollywood film production and film asset management fund started by Mumbai-based giant Network 18 Group, plans to ...
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Marcel Grant starts shooting third feature Just Ines
Shipwreck Film is currently shooting its third feature, Just Ines, from director Marcel Grant. The production is shooting next week in the South of France before returning to the UK to shoot in London July 14-Aug 3. Daniel Weyman and Caroline Ducey star in the story of a London businessman ...
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Rocksavage starts Norfolk shoot for drama The Wreck
Principal photography has started near in north Norfolk, UK, for David Rocksavage's 1960s-set family drama The Wreck. Jean Simmons, James Wilby, Jamie Dornan, Ophelia Lovibond and Toby Marlow head the cast. The screenplay, by Rocksavage and Margaret Glover, is about a widow living on the East Anglian coast who befriends ...