All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 81
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Metrodome's aims for Days Of Glory
Metrodome's new CEO Peter Urie helps the distributor gain independence, more funding and bigger films like Away From Her. Metrodome has been the sort of dependable arthouse distributor that has gone about its work quietly without much fanfare. That's changing as the company has been increasingly in the headlines recently ...
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Berlin competitors include Soderbergh and De Niro
The 2007 Berlinale has announced the first six films selected for this year's competition. They include Christian Petzold's Yella from Germany, marking the director's return to Berlin competition after Ghosts (Gespenster) in 2005. The new film, a world premiere, follows a young woman who tries to escape a bad marriage ...
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DiCaprio double nominated for SAG awards
The Screen Actors Guild hasannounced nominees for its 13th awards, with Leonardo DiCaprio nominated inboth the leading actor and supporting actor categories for Blood Diamond and TheDeparted, respectively.Babel, Dreamgirls and Little Miss Sunshine eachearned nominations in three categories, with Notes On A Scandal, The Departed, Blood Diamondand Little Children each ...
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South Bank Awards nominees include The Queen, Red Road and United 93
TheSouth Bank Show Awards has announced the nominees for its 11th annual honours,to be presented on January 23 at the Savoy in London.Thenominess are spread across arts categories, with the best film nominees beingStephen Frears' The Queen, Paul Greengrass' United 93 and Andrea Arnold's Red Road. LarryCharles' Borat: Cultural Learnings ...
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Screen Actors Guild nominates DiCaprio for two films
The Screen Actors Guild has announced nominees for its 13th awards, with Leonardo DiCaprio nominated in both the leading actor and supporting actor categories for Blood Diamond and The Departed, respectively. Babel, Dreamgirls and Little Miss Sunshine each earned nominations in three categories, with Notes On A Scandal, The Departed, ...
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London counterfeit DVD factory discovered
The UK's Federation AgainstCopyright Theft has announced that four men have been arrested in Thamesmead,southeast London, after a counterfeit DVD factory was raided. Two Bexley Police officerstracked two men after noticing suspicious behaviour on Redbourne Road. The area was then searched and police dogs and ahelicopter were called in.The three-floor ...
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Orange extends cinema ticket programme and strikes Disney content deal
Mobile phone network Orange has announced plans to continue its cinema ticketpromotion Orange Wednesdays into 2008.The programme offers 2-for-1cinema tickets on Wednesdays across the UK to Orange customers. Now Orange's two million broadband and dial-up Internetcustomers will also be eligible for the deal, previously offered only to mobilecustomers. In ...
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Scott Frank's The Lookout to open SXSW
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference & Festival will open with the world premiere of The Lookout, written and directed by Scott Frank, who was Oscar nominated for his Out Of Sight screenplay.Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Isla Fisher, Matthew Goode and Jeff Daniels star in the story of a man with ...
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Sara Keene changes roles at Premier PR
Sara Keene has stepped down as one of the chief executives of Premier Public Relations to take on a role as non-executive director. She will act as a consultant to the board and will continue to run Premier's Personal Department, which handles publicity for individual celebrities including Daniel Craig, Kate ...
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Artificial Eye founder Andi Engel dies
Andi Engel, founder of UK distribution company Artificial Eye, died in Lubeck, Germany on Dec 26.Engel was born in Berlin in 1942. He and wife Pam Engel set up Artificial Eye in London in the mid-1970s and the company became the UK's leading distributor of arthouse and foreign-language films. Act ...
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Aria Films signs on to represent Cinecitta in UK
London-based AriaFilms has been appointed the UK intermediary for Cinecitta Studios in Rome.Carlo Dusilaunched Aria in 2002 as an international co-financing and productionspecialist. The company's work with Cinecitta will aim to grow high-levelproductions with emphasis on the studio's post-production facilities.The legendaryCinecitta, known for productions from Fellini's classics to recent filmsincluding ...
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Sohonet upgrades services at Pinewood
Digital media network Sohonethas recently completed a total upgrade in the fiber infrastructure at PinewoodStudios. The studio worked closelywith Sohonet to plan and implement the upgrade, which enhances Pinewood's networkingand data-transfer capabilities. A similar upgrde is ongoing at SheppertonStudios.Since 2002, Pinewood hasbeen a part of the Sohonet community, which also ...
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Warp X and Channel 4 on board for Breakout scheme
Warp X andthe Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation (Britdoc) have partneredforBreakout, a year-longdevelopment programme for black and minority ethnic film-makers. The programmeis supported by Skillset and Breakout Training and Development in associationwith Screen East and the University of East Anglia.Thenational scheme will work with writers, directors and writer/directors onlow-budget ...
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Metrodome strikes UK deal for Sherrybaby
UK distributor Metrodome has acquired all UK rights to the award winning drama Sherrybaby, starring Maggie Gyllenhaaland written and directed by Laurie Collyer. The deal was negotiatedbetween David Jourdan, general manager from US sales agent Katapult and Metrodome's general managertheatrical Sara Frain and acquisitions manager Kate Falconer.Frain said: 'Maggieproves once ...
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Welsh TV producers team with Pact
Pact plans to merge with TeledwyrAnnibynnol Cymru (TAC)/Welsh Independent Producers, which representsindependent TV companies in Wales. The groups have agreed tomove towards a formal merger. The Welsh body will have access to Pact's greaterresources and lobbying power. TAC currentlyrepresents about 70 businesses.TAC said it expected abilingual strategic board to be ...
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Pinewood Studios Group relaunches website
As part of its rebranding as the Pinewood Studios Group - including Pinewood,Shepperton and Teddington Studios - the company has re-launched its website. The new site has enhancedservices for both clients and consumers and has added an online shop. The sitewill be updated daily with news and other content as ...
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Met Film School adds two-year BA in film-making
London-basedMetropolitan Film School has launched a new two-year BA degree in film-making,which will start in October 2007.The schoolsaid this course would offer practical training in digital film production,with an estimated contact time with tutors of 50% compared to the usual 20%.Producer and school director Jonny Persey said: "Creating aprofessional working ...
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Nordisk on board for White Night
Nordisk has taken on salesfor drama White Night by JannikJohansen.The project is shooting nowwith a cast including Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Anne Sophie Byder, RikkeLouise Andersson, and Morten Grunwald.Birgitte Skov and Morten Kaufmann are producing for NimbusFilm in collaboration with Fine & Mellow. Backers for the $3.2m (Euros 2.4m)film include ...
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Cage and Connery pledge support for Bahamas festival
The third BahamasInternational Film Festival (BIFF) wrapped on Dec 10 with local residentsNicolas Cage and Sean Connery lending very vocal support to expanding theevent. Cage, who recently joined Connery as a Bahamian homeowner, was thesubject of the festival's Chopard career achievement award. "I want to bring in people I know ...
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Berger promoted to president at Warner Bros UK
Joshua A. Berger has been promoted to President & Managing Director, Warner Bros. Entertainment United Kingdom and Ireland.Berger has been with Warner for 17 years, most recently serving as Executive Vice President & Managing Director, WBEUK.He will continue to oversee all of the company's business in the UK, including theatrical ...