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Love's Business completes casting
Human Traffic's Danny Dyer is to star in Nick Love's Costa del Crimestory The Business, which Content International will present at the AFM.Dyer will appear with TamerHassan (Batman Begins), Roland Manookian (The Football Factory)and Georgina Chapman (Shanghai Knights) in the film, which startsprincipal photography Sept 20 in Malaga, Spain. The ...
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Spacey outfit wins Orientrose backing
UK company Orientrose is totake a 13% stake in Trigger Street Independent, the newly-formed low-budgetoffshoot of Kevin Spacey and DanaBrunetti's Trigger Street production company.Orientrose also has anoption for a further 32% of the company for a payment of $500,000. The othershareholders include a trust of which Spacey is a beneficiary, ...
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Rank puts Deluxe up for sale
The UK's Rank Grouphas put its Deluxe Film and Deluxe Media division on the block after profitsfell by nearly a third at the division.Chief executive Mike Smithsaid the board in principle believed it would be an opportune time to divestthe Deluxe units. Profit at the division, which replicates and distributesfilms, ...
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Gilliam completes key Tideland casting
Terry Gilliam has cast nineyear-old Jodelle Ferland as the star in his upcoming Tideland, alongside a cast that includes US actress JenniferTilly and Janet McTeer and Brendan Fletcher.Ferland is already somethingof veteran, having racked up a string of TV credits including KingdomHospital, Carrie and Wolf Lake since she started acting ...
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Content boards Love's Business
ContentFilm has boarded hot "Costa delCrime" picture The Business, the company announced on Thursday.Directed by Nick Love, the picture is setduring the 80s amongst British ex-pats and criminals in the south of Spain andis being billed as similar in style to Pulp Fiction.Love, who recently shot football hooliganfilm The Football ...
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Pinewood Shepperton profits surge
Pinewood Shepperton hasposted strong figures for its first interim results since floating in May.The film studio combineposted pro-forma profits of £3.8m for the six months to June, up 31.6% on thesame period last year. Studio facilities' sales rose more than 10%, hitting£11.3 m, on the back of Charlie And The ...
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UK Film Council celebrates p&a fund success
The UK Film Council isclaiming a success for the first year and a half of its p&a fund forspecialised films, unveiling figures showing that titles backed by the £1m fundhave grossed £15m at the box-office.The fund, which underwroterelease costs on such films as WhaleRider, Goodbye Lenin! and The StationAgent, has ...
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Edinburgh Fringe to be subject of new UK feature
The UK Film Council'sPremiere Fund and FilmFour have teamed on Festival,an ensemble comedy set during the Edinburgh Fringe which will shoot on locationat the famed theatre and comedy festival this month.The production marks thefeature debut of writer-director Annie Griffin, who won a BAFTA for Book Group, the Friday night comedy ...
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Civilian Content secures $13m in tax funding
In a welcome boost after itsNew Zealand period piece River Queen stalled mid-shoot, UK media concernCivilian Content aims to double its production levels this year after securinga $12.9m (£7m) tranche of funding.The publicly-listed companyhas accessed the production funding through its partnership with financierSureFire, which has raised the money through UK ...
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McKellen joins Magic Roundabout cast
Ian McKellen has joinedKylie Minogue and Robbie Williams in voicing Pathe's $20m CGI animated feature The Magic Roundabout.Having played the wizardGandalf in The Lord Of The Rings, theOscar-nominated actor will be playing a less stereotypical wizard in thefeature version of the kids' TV show.His character is Zebedee, a moustachioed jack-in-a-box ...
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Beyond The Sea secures post-production investment
Kevin Spacey's Trigger Productions has secured $500,000 for post-production on his Bobby Darin biopic Beyond The Sea as the first move into film from a new UK investment company.The investment comes through Orientrose, a recently-listed cash shell company formed by UK business advisory company Griffin Group. Orientrose also said it ...
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Seven Arts aims for London stock market listing
PeterHoffman's Seven Arts Filmed Entertainment is to secure a listing on London'sAIM stock market for smaller stocks through a reverse takeover of costumejewellery business Cabouchon.Cabouchonwill purchase Seven Arts for £4.8m in new shares, changing its name to SevenArts Pictures and selling its current business and assets to Julie Ann Wing,its ...
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Soccer trilogy bends it like Beckham
Echoing the off-pitch sagaof real-life England captain David Beckham, the second instalment of footballtrilogy Goal! will tell the story ofa star player's fall from grace against the backdrop of Spain's Real Madridclub.While the first film willdetail the footballer's rags-to-riches rise at English club Newcastle United,producer and co-writer Mike Jefferies said ...
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...as Gavin Film takes international sales on Yasmin
SimonBeaufoy drama Yasmin has been pickedup for international sales by industry veteran Bill Gavin's Gavin Film ahead ofits screenings at the Locarno and Edinburgh festivals.Thestory of a westernised Asian woman in a white society was written by The Full Monty writer Beaufoy anddirected by Kenny Glenaan, who won the Michael ...
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Momentum announces acquisitions, sales appointments
UK distributor MomentumPictures has appointed Lara Thompson as head of acquisitions and Andy Leyshonas head of sales.Thompson has been with thecompany for four years, joining as PA to the MD and moving into acquisitionsunder Sally Caplan until her earlier departure this year."She has strongrelationships within the industry as well as ...
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Cox, Nesbitt, Goode join Allen cast
Brian Cox, Matthew Goode and James Nesbitt have joined thecast of Woody Allen's upcoming UK film.The trio will appear alongside Scarlett Johansson, EmilyMortimer and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers when principal photography starts July 12thon location in and around London.Financial partners in the film include BBC Films, Magic HourMedia, Thema Production and Invicta ...
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ContentFilm blames Winchester for loss
UK-US producer, distributorand sales company ContentFilm has posted a pre-tax group loss of £15.2m for theyear ending March 31.The loss includes an £8mwrite down against the film library Content acquired when it took overpublicly-listed UK media group Winchester Entertainment. It marks a £4m rise onthe loss recorded for the year ...
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Berlin Music Fair to target film licensing
Film licensing is one of thetarget areas for a new music trade fair to be held in Berlin in SeptemberThe event, held under the banner GlobalMusic Buyers Fair, will bring together some 40 independent labels with the aimof exploring fresh opportunities for themusic business. The agenda includes such areas as ...
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Works sells Italian pair to Oz's Palace
UK-based sales agency TheWorks has sold two Italian titles to Palace Pictures for Australia and NewZealand.The distributorpicked up Paolo Sorrentino's Cannes Competition film The Consequences OfLove and Matteo Garrone's psychological thriller Primo Amore, whichpremiered in Competition at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.Both films wereproduced by Fandango's Domenico Procacci, who ...
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Dench, Sutherland round out Pride cast
Judi Dench, DonaldSutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Tom Hollander and Penelope Wilton have joined thecast of Working Title Films' Pride And PrejudicePrincipal photography startson July 19 on the adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. The film, which starsKeira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Rosamund Pike and Jena Malone, will shootentirely on location around England until ...