All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 79
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UK investigations lead to arrest of 16 pirate DVD suspects
The UK 's Federation Against Copyright Theft announced that its anti-piracy investigators have worked with law enforcement officials to target pirate DVD sellers at markets in Durham and Nottingham, England. There were 16 suspects arrested: nine at Tanfield Lea, Durham and seven at Hucknall, Nottingham. More than 18,000 pirate DVDs ...
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Colin Farrell heads to Belgium for In Bruges shoot
UK playwright Martin McDonagh, who won an Oscar for is short Six Shooter, will start shooting his feature debut In Bruges on Feb 5 in the Belgian city. The cast for the project -- Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Clemence Poesy, Jeremie Renier, Jordan Prentice and Thekla Reuten -- is gathering ...
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HandMade recruits Walters to write story of SAS man David Stirling
HandMade Films has signed on UK writer Rupert Walters to write a screenplay based on the life of Special Air Service (SAS) creator David Stirling. HandMade has optioned Alan Hoe's biography David Stirling - the Authorised Biography. The books gives a detailed account of the history of the multi-national SAS ...
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BBC World Cinema prize goes to The Death Of Mr Lazarescu
The fourth BBC World Cinema Award was handed out to Cristi Puiu's The Death Of Mr Lazarescu. The BBC Four award was given out Jan 25 at London 's National Film Theatre. Romanian director Cristi Puiu accepted the prize from actress Emily Watson and the awards host Jonathan Ross. Tartan ...
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Faye Dunaway starts shoot for Flick in Wales
David Howard's Flick is now shooting in and around Cardiff and at the Barcud Derwen Studios through Feb 10. Howard wrote and is directing the project, which is produced by Rik Hall and executive produced by Cross, Linda James, Pauline Burt and Bryn Roberts. Financing is from Finance Wales' IP ...
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Love spreads
It has been a busy few months since LoveFilm merged with rival Video Island in April 2006. Simon Calver, CEO of the combined company who previously led Video Island (known for its consumer brand Screen Select), can point to an impressive set of statistics: the company is the number one ...
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Patrick Malone heads digital film services at Ascent Media
Ascent Media Creative Services has named Patrick Malone as its director of digital film services, a newly created position.Malone has responsibility for all elements of digital feature film production across One Post, St Anne's Post, Soho Images and Todd AO.Malone joined Ascent in 1997 from Framestore CFC. He moved to ...
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Paramount signs first-look deal with MTV Films Europe
Paramount Pictures International has signed a three-year first-look deal with London and Los Angeles-based Zilli Films, which operates MTV Films Europe. CEO and founder Jonathan Zilli and head of development and production Bobby Allen run Zilli Films, which has the license to develop MTV branded feature films in Europe. MTV ...
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Celtic Media nominees include The Flying Scotsman
The short list of nominees has been announced for the Celtic Media Festival 2007, which will be held in Skye from March 28-30. The event recognises work from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. The festival has 17 categories across film, radio and TV. Among the film nominees are feature-length ...
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Diffusion gets all UK rights to Joachim Trier's Reprise
New independent distributor Diffusion Pictures has acquired all UK and Ireland rights to Joachim Trier's Reprise. Reprise stars Espen Klouman Hoiner and Anders Danielsen Lie in the story of two twenty -something friends who are struggling to write novels. It picked up awards at festivals including Toronto and Karlovy Vary ...
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Anaphylaxis starts shooting at Ealing Studios
Filmart productions started its six-week shoot for Anaphylaxis! at London's Ealing Studios on Jan 8. The low-budget feature is the first on Filmart's slate. Ayman Farahat is writing, directing and producing. The cast is led by Guy Defferary and Katia Winter. The story follows a pathologist, who is allergic to ...
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Greengrass to direct Iraq story Imperial Life for Working Title
Paul Greengrass has signed on to direct the adaptation of Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Imperial Life In The Emerald City for Working Title and Universal. Lloyd Levin, who also worked with Greengrass and Working Title on United 93, will produce with Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Universal will distribute worldwide. ...
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Passion shoots for the stars
In an otherwise ordinary office in Central London, Passion Pictures has a shelf with quite a collection of awards, including MTV moonmen for Gorillaz videos and an Oscar for 1999 documentary One Day In September. The fact there are no spotlights or fancy display cases for the statuettes reflects the ...
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United Kingdom - A Galaxy far, far away
It came as quite a surprise in 2003 when Disney put its $50m prized adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy in the hands of Hammer & Tongs, the duo of director Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith who had made commercials and music promos but no features. The ...
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Slingshot hosts first online test screening for Sugarhouse Lane
New UK digital production and distribution company Slingshot Studios has hosted the world's first online test screening for its first feature, Sugarhouse Lane . For the screening, Slingshot partnered with LoveFilm, Arts Alliance Media and Nielsen NRG for the project, which screened the film to more than 500 people in ...
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UK distributor and sales company The Works secures $4m in financing
The Works Media Group has announced that in late December it successfully closed a share placing through Seymour Pierce Ellis. The share placing, when combined with a loan facility, gives the UK-based company a further $4m in financing. The Works' sales slate include Shane Meadows' This Is England and Sarah ...
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Europa Cinemas to present third award at Berlinale Panorama
Europa Cinemas will again present its label prize to the best European film in the Panorama section of the Berlinale. This will be the prize's third year in Berlin, in addition to Europa Cinemas awards in Cannes, Venice and Karlovy Vary. This year's jury includes four Europa Cinemas exhibitors. They ...
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Bateman appointed director of Rushes Soho Shorts
Joe Bateman has joined Rushes Soho Shorts Festival as festival director, effective Feb 19. The event is now in its ninth year. He had recently been working at London members club The Hospital as head of cinema and event programming. He previously was head of special programming and private events ...
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Universal signs Working Title's Bevan and Fellner for seven more years
Universal has renewed its ties with Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for another seven years, the studio confirmed. Bevan and Fellner launched the UK powerhouse production company in 1992 and joined forces with Universal starting in 1999. Their current contract had been due to expire at the end ...
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Driessen and Mackey promoted at Fortissimo
Sales company Fortissimo Films has announced that Nelleke Driessen has been promoted to managing director of the company, based at its head office in Amsterdam. She had been the co-managing director since 2004 and joined Fortissimo as an executive in 2000. Also, Fortissimo has promoted Nicole Mackey to executive vice ...