All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 222
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Festival hit Enemies of the People close to distribution deals
Documentary about Cambodia picks up several new awards, including top prize at Full Frame.
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NewsIcelandic industry has a few disruptions, but some short-term upside, to volcano's eruption
Icelandic film industry reports little disruption from last week’s volcanic eruption, with local crews busy assisting foreign news crews; Baltasar Kormakur shoots volcanic footage to potentially use in his new viking epic.
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Endemol plans theatrical film about Manchester City football club
Blue Moon Rising will follow the club through its pivotal 2009-2010 season, after the takeover of Sheikh Mansour and a big win against Chelsea.
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NewsPact outlines new recoupment proposals to help UK producers
UK producers body Pact will tomorrow launch a new proposal for public funding of UK film production, so that recoupment of investments would go back to producers, not to the UK Film Council, BBC Films or Film4.
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IMAX to add new theatre in Hangzhou, China
A new IMAX system will be installed in the exhibitor’s new 16-screen multiplex in Hangzhou.
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NewsParamount takes UK rights to Killing Bono from Salt
Ben Barnes and Robert Sheehan star in Nick Hamm’s Irish comedy; Paramount will release in UK and Ireland.
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Aruba International Film Festival plans green initiatives in first year
AIFF, founded by Giuseppe Cioccarelli and Jonathan Vieira,said it wanted to “play an active role in preserving and protecting the beautiful ecosystem that defines the beautiful island nation of Aruba.”
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IIFAs headed to Sri Lanka in June
The 2010 International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from June 3-5.
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NewsLondon-based Berkeley Square launches as production, finance, sales outfit
Film and finance veterans launching the venture are Paul Tamasy, Daniel Figuero, Justin Howard, Stephen Metcalfe, John Tibbs and Star Wars star Mark Hamill.
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Pearl & Dean acquired by Thomas Anderson subsidiary Image Ltd.
Thomas Anderson created the newly incorporated Image Ltd. specifically for this deal, which is subject to shareholder approval.
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NewsAbu Dhabi Festival launches $500,000 production fund
The newly rebranded Abu Dhabi Film Festival is launching a fund totalling $500,000 per year to support productions from the Arab region.
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Cinefondation selects 13 student shorts for Cannes 2010
Cannes Cinefondation has selected 13 student short films from 11 countries to screen at the festival, including the first-ever selections from Belgium’s University of Sint-Lukas and Harvard University in the US.
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Norris replaces Luckwell as UK Screen Association chair
UK trade body UK Screen has announced that Steve Norris will replace Mike Luckwell as the group’s new chairman, effective immediately.
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BBC, Script Factory to read winning screenplays from Circalit
Features screenplays will be judged by scriptwriter Tom Lazarus.
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Film Festival Zlin plans special events for 50th anniversary
The Film Festival Ziln, the oldest festival devoted to cinema for young people, will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year.The festival will run May 30-June 6 in Ziln, in the eastern Czech Republic.”We are expecing attendance at the Festival this year to be over one hundred thousand,” Film Festival Zlin ...
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NewsVisual Factory adds three European titles ahead of Cannes
London-based sales company Visual Factory has taken on three new European features ahead of Cannes.They are Grandfather Mountain (Narciso); The Silk Merchant’s Woman (Il mercante di stoffe); and Warriors of Chaos (Chaos Tage).Italian title Grandfather Mountain directed by Marcello and Dario Baldi stars Roberto Herlitzka as a lonely old man ...
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Ben Cahan launches new screenwriting online community
Final Draft co-founder Ben Cahan has set up a new online community dedicated to screenwriting.
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NewsIMAX extends venture with Tokyu for five new systems in Japan
IMAX has struck a deal for five new locations in Japan.
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NewsVerve strikes UK deal for The Arbor; Wavelength takes on international sales
Clio Barnard’s film is a fiction-documentary hybrid which will have its world premiere on April 25 at Tribeca.
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NewsMIPTV 2010: Pushing for cross-media global partners
Collaboration and transmedia ideas were the hot topics at MIPTV; this year’s event may also be remembered for all the attendees stranded in Cannes by flight disruptions.