All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 71
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United States/United Kingdom - Arcane Worlds
Producer Meg Thomson has had an interesting journey since growing up in Pennsylvania. At Harvard University, she met her UK-born future business partner in Arcane Pictures, George Duffield. She worked in the Los Angeles film production world before moving to the UK eight years ago to work on Arcane's first ...
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Sony signs VOD deal with VirginMega in France for TVs and PCs
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has struck a new video-on-demand (VOD) deal with France's VirginMega.The deal will cover content online at virginmega.fr and subscribers to the Alice IPTV platform and Mes Videos a la Carte service. Viewers will get 48 hours of unlimited viewing on either platform, with downloaded films ...
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Dreamachine licenses Last Emperor to Image Entertainment
Dreamachine, the new company formed by the merger of HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams, has struck its first deal. Image Entertainment signed an exclusive North American licensing agreement with Dreamachine over four films in the Recorded Picture Company library: Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr ...
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Sony rebrands A+ as Animax and plans mobile, VOD offerings
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has rebranded its A+ Channel as Animax. The dedicated anime channel is available in Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. SPTI also noted that it is in advanced negotiations to launch the channel in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Animax is already ...
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Universal offers downloads to own in Germany through T-Com
Universal Pictures International Entertainment, NBC Universal International Television Distribution have signed agreements for new download-to-own offerings and renewed VOD offerings through Germany's T-Com and it's T-Online VOD, T-Home and IPTV service.This makes T-Com the first retailer offering studio content as secure download-to-burn in Germany. The service will launch in the ...
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Elan Cross Stephens joins Welsh film agency's board
Elan Closs Stephens has joined the board of the new Film Agency for Wales. She was present for the Film Agency's first meeting of the Film Education Forum, to encourage the education sector to work together to encourage film education. Cross Stephens also chaired an open consultation about the Agency's ...
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Bermek tapped for tax at European Audiovisual Observatory
The European Audiovisual Observatory has announced plans to start studying tax law. Hasan Bermek, a lawyer of Turkish nationality, has joined the Strasbourg-based Observatory to head the tax law study team. He will build a network of tax specialists in eac hof the Observatory's 36 member states. Dr. Susanne Nikoltchev, ...
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Lena Headey and Lily Cole join cast of St Trinian's
Ealing Studios has added to the cast of St Trinian's, the contemporary update of the popular 1950s film franchise about a girl's school. Joining the cast are Lena Headey, Lily Cole, Toby Jones, Celia Imrie, Anna Chancellor, and Gemma Arterton. Playing some of the modern-day students are rising talents Talulah ...
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Script advice available to UKFCunsuccessful applicants
Applicants to the UK Film Council's Development Fund will now be able to get free feedback on unaccepted scripts thanks to a deal with The Script Connection. Consultants Lisa Neeley and Richard Tindall of The Script Connection and their team will offer independent assessments of the scripts not taken on ...
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Warner Music moves into theatrical with UK release of Blue Blood
Varsity boxing documentary Blue Blood was acquired by Warner Music Entertainment in February 2007 and marks the company's first theatrical release. The film will open in selected UK cinemas May 11 with a DVD release planned for later in 2007. Warner Music Entertainment has acquired boxing documentary Blue Blood and ...
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Paradiso moves into Netherlands distribution with Amsterdam office
Brussels-based Paradiso Filmed Entertainment has opened new offices in Amsterdam to handle theatrical distribution in the Netherlands. Patrick Terryn, COO theatrical, and Guy Bronselaer, marketing Manager, are currently supervising the Dutch team, assisted by consultants Heleen Rouw and Dirk de Lille. Paradiso's first release in the Netherlands will be Guillermo ...
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Ben Whishaw set to join Campion's Keats story Bright Star
UK actor Ben Whishaw is in final negotiations to star in Bright Star as 19th-century poet John Keats. Jane Campion will write and direct the period romance about the relationship between Keats and Fanny Brawne, who will be played by Abbie Cornish. The project is set to start shooting for ...
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Rang De Basanti leads Idea IIFA Awards nominations
The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) has announced nominations for the 2007 Idea IIFA Awards, which will be given out in Sheffield, UK, in June.In the main categories, hit Rang De Basanti led the nominations with 14 nods. Omkara scored 11 and Lage Raho Munnabhai and Dhoom 2 with 10 ...
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Tine Klint takes international sales post at Nordisk
Tine Klint has taken over as the new head of international sales at Denmark-based Nordisk Film. Klint started her career at Trust Film/Zentropa Film in 1999 and worked as a sales executive and project manager. She leads the sales team that also consists of Susan Wendt, Sanne Arlo, Nicolai Korsgaard, ...
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Odeon and Sky Filmworks signs up Contender as DVD partner
Odeon and Sky Filmworks, the joint distribution venture between the companies, has signed a deal with the UK 's Contender Entertainment Group for DVD distribution The deal covers an initial period of one year, for DVD releases of all titles that Filmworks acquires during the next 12 months. The first ...
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HanWay and Celluloid Dreams merge to create dreamachine
In a move that will shake up the international sales world, Jeremy Thomas' UK-based HanWay Films and Hengameh Panahi's Paris-based Celluloid Dreams are planning to merge. The new sales, production and financing venture, dreamachine, will be based in London, Paris and Toronto. Financial terms have yet to be disclosed, but ...
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Pinewood launches website for rebuilt 007 Stage
The Pinewood Studios Group has launched an official website for the rebuilt 007 Stage, located at www.007stage.com. Europe 's largest sound stage has been rebuilt and reopened following the July 2006 fire that made the stage unusable. Currently, the internal area of 59,000-square-feet makes it the biggest stage in Europe. ...
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AAM signs downloadable content deal with Revolver Entertainment
UK-based digital distribution services company Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has struck a deal with distributor Revolver Entertainment for Revolver's content to be offered for download on AAM 's Vizumi Network. The deal covers an initial 30 titles for download-to-rent and download-to-own through AAM 's distribution partners including LoveFilm and Empire. ...
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Park Circus joins UK trade group FDA
Park Circus Films has joined the UK's Film Distributors' Association (FDA), the trade body of UK theatrical distributors. The Glasgow-based company is the UK's only commercial distributor specialising in classic films. It becomes the FDA's 18th member and one of 12 indies on the FDA Council. 'As the UK market ...
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Aardman signs exclusive three-year, first-look deal with Sony Pictures
UK-based Aardman Features will enter a three-year, exclusive first-look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) for all of Aardman's features in development. Aardman, known for Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and Flushed Away, ended its increasingly tense partnership with DreamWorks in late January 2007. The new pact was struck with ...