All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 63
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Arts Alliance hires Gwendal Auffret to run new Paris office
Digital film services company Arts Alliance Media has expanded by opening a new office in Paris, which will be the headquarters of the company's digital cinema operations in Southern Europe.The new office will cover France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.Gwendal Auffret will head the new office. He had been CEO of ...
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Granada signs VOD deal with Orange for France
Granada International has struck a non-exclusive three-year deal with Orange for VOD and SVOD platforms in France. The SVOD will launch a new drama service this month after initially concentrating on music and young people's programmes. The deal includes Granada TV titles including Brideshead Revisited as well as feature films ...
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Entertainment One to acquire UK's Contender in $97m deal
US and Canadian home entertainment company Entertainment One, parent company of Koch Entertainment, has struck a deal to acquire UK-based Contender Limited and its Contender Entertainment Group in a cash and stock deal worth about $97m (£49.4m). Contender's management team led by Richard Bridgwood will remain in place. Contender has ...
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Northwest Vision + Media settles on new name
The combined agencies North West Vision and Media Training North West have announced the new name for their merged company: Northwest Vision + Media. The Manchester-based company as formed on May 1 after the regional screen agency and the media skills and training organistion joined forces. 'We deliberated for a ...
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Babelgum signs up 25 new content partners
Internet TV network Babelgum has announced new deals with 25 content owners and distributors, both newcomers and established. The content partners include the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, Minstry of Sound TV, Shine, IMG, 3DD, Off The Fence, Journeyman Films, Entertainment Rights, Film Chest and Breakthrough Films. The content includes exclusive ...
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Pinewood warns of flat film revenues from delayed shoots
UK studio Pinewood Shepperton has issued a warning to investors that its full-year revenues will only show a small increase and film-related revenues will be flat. Ivan Dunleavy, chief executive of the Pinewood Studios Group, said: 'The timing of film production is always a major variable for our film services ...
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Tribeca prize winner We Are Together partners with ONE Campaign
Documentary We Are Together (Thina Simunye), which won prizes at IDFA and Tribeca, is working with the ONE Campaign to promote the film in the US. The film is already partnered with Alicia Keys' charity Keep A Child Alive and now is also working with Bono's ONE organisation, which fights ...
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HandMade books $50m in Cannes, led by Good Friday and Planet One
HandMade Films, the sales arm of the revived HandMade plc, has reported $50m-plus sales at the Cannes Market, the best in the company's history. Sales were led by HandMade's $50m remake of The Long Good Friday and its $54m CGI animated feature Planet One. Paul WS Anderson's contemporary US version ...
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Slingshot takes on UK distribution for Cannes debut Water Lilies
New UK digital studio Slingshot has picked up all UK rights to Celine Sciamma's debut feature Water Lilies (Naissance des Pieuvres). The film premeried in Cannes Un Certain Regard. Water Lilies follows three 15-year-old French girls who are discovering first love. Slingshot had recently announced that it would branch out ...
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Momentum takes UK rights to Labaki's Cannes hit Caramel
Momentum Pictures has taken UK rights to Nadine Labaki's Caramel. The film was one of the hits of Cannes ' Directors Fortnight. Labaki's debut feature is about five different Lebanese women who come together in a Beirut beauty salon. Louis Tisne, Momentum's acquisitions manager, negotiated the deal with Roissy Film's ...
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Rang De Basanti wins best film at IIFA Awards
Rakeysh Omprakesh Mehra's political youth culture tale Paint It Yellow (Rang De Basanti) claimed the top awards, including best film, at the Idea International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards last night in Sheffield. The best actor prize went to Hrithik Roshan for Krrish, while Rani Mukherji won best actress for ...
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Artificial Eye acquires three more films on the back of Cannes
UK distributor Artificial Eye has announced three more acquisitions from Cannes, bringing its festival tally to 11 buys. The new acquisitions are Terror's Advocate (L'Avocat De La Terreur), You, The Living (Du Levande), and The Island (Ostrov).Terror's Advocate played in Un Certain Regard. Barbet Schroeder's documentary is about controversial legal ...
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New Internet TV company Babelgum launches to public
New Internet TV service Babelgum is now available for public use. The Babelgum network is now offering a capped number of free application downloads daily, and pre-registered and beta tester users are also using the service. Babelgum uses peer-to-peer technology for its service, which is free and will be advertising-supported.Initial ...
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Bollywood invades Yorkshire for IIFA weekend
The Indian film industry has invaded the UK's Yorkshire region for the Indian International Film Academy (IIFA) awards, known as the Bollywood Oscars. The awards themselves will be given out Saturday night in Sheffield, but related events started Thursday and run during the four-day event in Leeds, Hull, Bradford and ...
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Cinema Expo to honour 4 Months actress Anamaria Marinca
Cinema Expo International, held in Amsterdam later this month, will honour Romanian-born British actress Anamaria Marinca with its Excellence in Acting award. Marinca is one of the stars of Cannes Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days and will next been seen in Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without ...
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UKFC P&A Fund backs Tell No One and Black Gold
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has announced its latest awards to help with wider distribution of niche films. The latest funding recipients are:$217,553 (£110,774) to Revolver Entertainment for Tell No One (Ne Le Dis A Personne) by Guillaume Canet $123,728 (£63,000) to the BFI for A Throw ...
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Metrodome takes UK rights to Sarkies' Out Of The Blue
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights to Robert Sarkies' drama Out Of The Blue and will release the film later this summer.NZ Film has worldwide sales rights, and NZ Film's Kathleen Drumm and James Thompson negotiated the deal with Metrodome's Tom Stewart and Kate Falconer.NZ Film's Drumm also struck ...
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Contender takes UK rights to Air Guitar Nation and Very British Gangster
Increasingly active UK distributor Contender Films has taken on two new projects: Air Guitar Nation and A Very British Gangster. Alexandra Lipsitz's Air Guitar Nation, a documentary about the Air Guitar World Championships, was acquired from Media 8 Entertainment. Contender's head of marketing Matt Brightwell called the film ' a ...
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Tartan buys eight in Cannes including Summit thriller P2
Tartan Films went on a buying spree in Cannes, picking up UK and Ireland rights on eight titles. The titles acquired are: P2, Mala Noche, Breath, Time, The Good, The Bad and The Weird, I Am a Cyborg But That's Okay, and - as previously reported - Silent Light and ...
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Cast grows as Brideshead Revisited starts 11-week shoot
As principal photography starts on Brideshead Revisited, Ed Stoppard, Felicity Jones, Jonathan Cake and Greta Scacchi have joined the cast. The project is shooting for 11 weeks including five weeks at Yorkshire's Castle Howard as well as location shooting in Oxford, London, Venice and Morocco. Ecosse Films are producing for ...