All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 86
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London Film Festival honours Arnold's Red Road
The Times BFI London FilmFestival ended its 50th anniversary edition tonight with a screening ofAlejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel.While the festival islargely non-competitive, there were four main awards presented at the closingceremony. The Sutherland Trophy for most original and imaginative first featurewent to Andrea Arnold for Red Road,the Fipresci prize went ...
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HanWay takes on Merchant Ivory library
HanWay Films has beenappointed to represent the worldwide rights to the Merchant Ivory library offilms.HanWay is now selling 21 ofJames Ivory and Ismail Merchant's features including Howards End, Heat AndDust, Maurice, Bombay Talkie, Shakespeare Wallah, The Europeans andThe Mystic Masseur. All titleshave been fully re-mastered by James Ivory and will ...
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Fremantle pacts with Verve for Mischief Night
Fremantle Home Entertainmenthas struck a new joint venture with UK distributor Verve Pictures for therelease of Penny Woolcock's Mischief Night. This marks Fremantle's first foray into theatrical distribution.Both parties get all UKrights including free TV, DVD and digital distribution rights and Fremantlesaid the deal was important as multi-platform releasing grows ...
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UK film Focus sets 2007 dates for June 25-28
The London UK Film Focus hasset its 2007 dates for June 25-28 and will move to its new home at therenovated BFI Southbank. The fourth LUFF will invite150 buyers to screen about 40 British films. The event has yet toannounce further plans for its new Production Finance Market, a CineMart-styleevent ...
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UK film Focus sets 2007 dates for June 25-28
The London UK Film Focus hasset its 2007 dates for June 25-28 and will move to its new home at therenovated BFI Southbank. The fourth LUFF will invite150 buyers to screen about 40 British films. The event has yet toannounce further plans for its new Production Finance Market, a CineMart-styleevent ...
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Greenaway wraps shoot for Nightwatching
Peter Greenawayhas wrapped a seven-week shoot in Poland and Wales for his Rembrandt story Nightwatching, which is timed with the 400thanniversary of the painter's birth.Martin Freemanstars as the Dutch master, with the cast also including Eva Birthistle, JodhiMay, Emily Holmes and Chris Britton.The mystery/dramais set in 1642 follows the events ...
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Lena Headey tapped for next Sean Ellis feature
UK actress Lena Headey hasbeen cast as the female lead in Sean Ellis' forthcoming spy thriller Broken. Ellis is writing anddirecting with Lene Bausager producing. The London-based shoot starts nextweek. The plot follows a woman who leaves a coffee shop and sees herselfdriving past in a car. Ellis, previously aphotographer, ...
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Future Films opens US office to cash-flow state credits
London-based film financingand production company Future Films is launching a new US office with the aimof cash flowing the growing number of state-sponsored film productionincentives. Simon Horsman will be CEO of Future Films USA LLC, which will bebased in Los Angeles.Future's US arm will havemore direct contact with projects and ...
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Fintage House renews Hungarian contract for Said Boudarga
Globalentertainment services company Fintage House has renewed its contract with SaidBoudarga until the end of 2010. Boudarga has been with FIntage since 2000 andwill continue as managing director of the Budapest-based Fintage Magyar,supervising the office and international licensing agreements and royalty collections.'Said is keyexecutive in our Film & Television division ...
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Capitol on board for new Knightley, Lohan film
London-based sales companyCapitol Films has announced it has taken on financing and worldwide sales forJohn Maybury's The Best Time Of Our Lives and Rigoberto Castaneda's Blackout. The Best Time Of OurLives (working title) stars KeiraKnightley and Lindsay Lohan in the story of an unlikely friendship betweenDylan Thomas' former sweetheart Vera ...
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3DD signs deals with Hidden Treasures and Koch
3DD Entertainment has signedexclusive distribution deals with Hidden Treasures Productions and KochEntertainment.The deal with HiddenTreasures covers worldwide DVD rights (excluding North America) to two-partdocumentary Secrets Of The Occult,about ancient and modern claims of the occult. The deal with Koch is forall rights, excluding North American DVD rights, to the 1980s ...
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New $20m equity fund deals with Regent MB
The new US equity fundMotion Picture Fund of America has raised its first $20m and signed a 12-film,three-year deal with financier, producer and distributor Regent MB of BeverlyHills and Munich.MPFA head Pete Maggi andco-manager Gino Dileo struck the deal with Regent co-presidents JeanetteBuerling and Maggie Monteith.The companies willco-finance four films ...
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McAuley joins Paramount Home Entertainment UK
Charlie McAuley has beenappointed managing director for Paramount Home Entertainment UK and Ireland.Based in London, he will oversee marketing, sales and distribution in thoseterritories and will report to Don Hunton, senior vice president of Paramount HomeEntertainment, Asia Pacific, UK and Ireland.McAuley previously worked atUniversal Pictures International where he served as ...
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Don Letts signs development deal with Fremantle
UK director Don Letts hassigned a first-look development deal with FremantleMedia Enterprises, toprimarily develop music and pop culture documentaries. Fremantle gets the rightsto develop and exploit Letts' ideas across its TV, home entertainment andancillary businesses. The deal was brokered by Pete Kalhan, the company'ssenior vice president, home entertainment & archive ...
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Ewan McGregor on board for HanWay's Franklyn
Ewan McGregor will star inGerald McMorrow's Franklyn, whichwill shoot on location in the UK in summer 2007. UK stalwart Jeremy Thomas isproducing McMorrow's feature film debut based on his original screenplay. Thestory is about four lost souls in a futuristic London society where there is noseparation between church and state. ...
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HanWay takes on sales for Winterbottom's Genova
HanWay Films has acquired worldwide rights outsidethe UK for Michael Winterbottom's forthcoming Genova,which now has Colin Firth attached to star.Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton's London-basedproduction company Revolution Films is producing with co-financing from Film4(which holds UK rights). Winterbottom will shoot the project in spring 2007 onlocation in Italy with post-production will ...
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High Point takes on sales for Tom Collins' Kings
High Point Films has takenon international sales for Tom Collins' Kings, the big-screen adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play TheKings Of The Kilburn High Road.The project stars ColmMeaney in the story of a group of Irish men who emigrated to London but returnto their hometown after 25 years for a friend's ...
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Groening's Into Great Silence takes EFA Prix Arte
The European Film Academy'sdocumentary Prix Arte will be awarded to Philip Groening's Into GreatSilence (Die Grosse Stille). The jury for the award wascomprised of director/producer Adela Peeva from Bulgaria, director ThomasRiedelsheimer from Germany and producer Dorota Roszkowska from Poland.The jury said: "PhilipGroening's thoughtful film touches on the mystic quality of ...
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Hildebrand named MD of Future's UK office
FutureFilms has tapped Qwerty Films veteran Andrew Hildebrand as managing director ofFuture's UK operations.Hildebrandhad been head of commercial and business affairs at Michael Kuhn's QwertyFilms, working on films including Kinsey and I Heart Huckabees. He previously served as director of business affairs at Film4,head of business affairs at Channel 4 ...
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Northern Lights sets industry summit attendees
The Northern Lights Film FestivalIndustry Summit is firming up plans for its Nov 17-18 event in Newcastle uponTyne. The summit will includepanel discussions, case studies, lectures, pitching sessions, speed meetings andnetworking opportunities. The festival will alsoannounce a winner of the Orange North Star Short Film Award 2006, which comeswith a ...
