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HanWay and Celluloid Dreams brands revived as Dreamachine concentrates on library
Just three months after the splashy merger of HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams, their joint venture company Dreamachine has now announced that the Celluloid and HanWay brands will be run as separate first-run sales and acquisition businesses in London and Paris, as they traditionally had been. The companies had sold ...
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Goldfinger UK re-release draws $85,561 on one night
Continuing the strength of the UK box office, Park Circus' re-release of 1964 James Bond classic Goldfinger grossed $85,561 (£42,000) on Tuesday, July 31 as a one-night-only special presentation. The film, newly digitally restored by Lowrey Digital, showed digitally in 136 cinemas across the UK. Goldfinger was the opening film ...
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UKFC P&A Fund backs French hits La Ve En Rose and Tell No One
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has announced it latest round of supported projects. They are: $307,980 (£151,606) to Icon for Olivier Dahan's La Vie En Rose $225,056 (£110,774) to Revolver Entertainment for Guillaume Canet's Tell No One $203,146 (£100,000) to Pathe for Laurent Tirard's Moliere $10,158 (£5,000) ...
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Northwest screen agency starts lab for multi-platform content
UK regional screen agency Northwest Vision + Media is starting a new multi-platform lab for content producers. The linked training and funding initiative Alchemy, set up with consultants Olsberg SPI, will include a residential strategy workshop, a product development period and a networking event. The lab is geared to TV, ...
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Aardman works with Atom Films on animated shorts
From Broadcast: Aardman has teamed up with film download website Atom Films to launch a series of exclusive animated shorts. The Oscar-winning UK production company behind Wallace and Gromit has delved into its archive and created a series of Pib and Pog shorts. The series, which features two kids TV ...
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Arts Alliance strikes three-year digital deal with Park Circus
Arts Alliance Media has signed an exclusive agreement with UK distributor Park Circus to provide digital cinema content services for their theatrical releases for three years.The agreement covers services including digital mastering and creation and secure distribution of DCI-compliant digital prints.Park Circus specialises in distribution of classic titles for theatrical ...
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Australia launches landmark website for film history
A comprehensive website showcasing Australia's extensive filmmaking history is about to be launched today in Sydney.The Australian Film Commission (AFC) received A$2.4 million to create the site - www.australianscreen.com.au - and executive producer Ron Saunders worked with a different curator for each genre. 'To the best of our knowledge this ...
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AAM 's Thomas Hoegh joins UK Film Council board
Arts Alliance Media founder and CEO Thomas Hoegh has been appointed to the board of the UK Film Council. He joins the board immediately for four years. Hoegh also sits on the boards of LoveFilm, City Screen, Inlive Interactive, the Metropolitan Film School and Slingshot Studios. He also produces and ...
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Virgin Media to offer downloads of First Light project
First Light Movies, the UK's young people's film-making scheme, has become a content partner for Virgin Media and FilmFlex Movies, to offer the First Light shorts on demand to Virgin Media customers.The films are made by 5 to 18-year-olds and will now be offered for 50p on the service. Films ...
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Babelgum offers content from Giffoni Film Festival
New Internet TV service Babelgum has started festival broadcasts with Italy's Giffoni Film Festival.An entire Babelgum channel will be devoted to the Giffoni event, which is now in its 37th year. The festival concentrates on films for children.The channel is currently offering a selection of shorts from the 2006 festival ...
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Tokyo multiplex to screen hit TV show Winter Sonata
A special version of Korean hit television drama Winter Sonata will be screened at Toho's flagship Roppongi Hills cinema in Tokyo. All 20 episodes of the series will be shown on Tuesday mornings from July 10 to September 11, featuring extra footage only shown once previously on NHK's BS satellite ...
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Worldwide digital 3D screens treble
Hollywood's increasing investment in exclusive 3D movies is driving the surge in custom-made screens, writes Diana Lodderhose. The number of digital 3D cinema screens has nearly trebled during the first six months of 2007, suggesting exhibitors are stepping up to meet Hollywood studios' increasing investment in exclusive 3D movies.According to ...
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Valerio Zingarelli joins Babelgum as new CEO
New Internet TV platform Babelgum has appointed Valerio Zingarelli as its new CEO. Zingarelli succeeds Babelgum co-founder Erik Lumer, who will now focus on strategic product development. Zingarelli previously worked at Vodafone, where he was global director of networks and service platforms, and he also served as an independent board ...
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3 Mills joins Sohonet network
London-based 3 Mills Studios has installed entertainment-industry Internet platform Sohonet. Sohonet provides high-speed connectivity to a system of users that already includes Pinewood Studios, Warner Bros, Technicolor, HBO, The Mill and Framestore CFC. 'As a leading UK facility, it is essential that our clients be provided with the best possible ...
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UK Film Council, BBC Two plan digital release of British classics
The UK Film Council and the BBC Two are working together for the theatrical release of new digital presentations of seven British film classics. The Summer Of British Film season runs from late July to September 11. New digitap prints of the restored films will go out through the Digital ...
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Kadokawa starts streaming features on mobile phones
Kadokawa Group Holdings (Kadokawa GHD) has begun streaming feature films, TV dramas and animation titles from its library through mobile giant NTT DoCoMo's i-mode cell phone internet connection service. Short films, music videos and animation clips have been popular mainstays in recent years, but Kadokawa's service marks the first time ...
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Arts Alliance signs content deal with HP's Video Merchant arm
Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has signed a deal to become the international content provider for HP's new Video Merchant Services business. HP will now offer AAM's film content to distribution partners around the world, including North America. HP Video Merchant Services powers online video web stores and provides content fulfilment ...
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Celestial Pictures launches kung-fu mobile TV channel
Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures has launched a mobile TV channel, Kung Fu TV, on leading Thai mobile network provider Advanced Info Service (AIS). The channel features original kung-fu content from Celestial's Shaw Brothers film library, ranging in length from 30 seconds to three minutes, including video clips of fight sequences, ...
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UK's Vue cinemas to offer live Formula One coverage
UK cinema chain Vue Entertainment is continuing the diversification of its programme offerings by hosting a live Formula One event. In a first, Vue will screen Formula One racing live and uninterrupted from the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on July 8. The event will be broadcast to big screens ...
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Greece gets first digital screens at two Village sites in Athens
Greece will get its first two digital cinema installations as Village Cinemas digitises two of its largest screens in Athens, Village Faliro and the Village Park 20. Spacevision designed the Village system with both Kodak and Christie components, with 3D capability from Real D. Kodak's JMN3000 player has been installed ...