All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 143
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FeaturesPerfect pitch
One of the biggest challenges facing the producers of a wave of new low-budget UK music films is how to afford the crucial soundtrack rights.
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FeaturesPerry gears up for fight
As the Irish government considers scrapping the Irish Film Board, Simon Perry tells Geoffrey Macnab why the board is vital to Irish film culture.
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FeaturesThe strength of independent ties
Metrodome and Palisades Tartan are the latest to strike a deal, as distributors are forced to make alliances in a changing market.
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NewsOptimum backs edgy Brit flick Here Comes The Summer
Distributor Optimum Releasing is backing edgy new British movie Here Comes The Summer, which is due to begin shooting on location in London in September.
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NewsWorking Title to make redundancies
Flagship UK production company Working Title is understood to be making up to six redundancies from its 45-strong workforce.
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NewsFuture Films and Aramid Capital hit by Soho blaze
A major fire broke out in the London offices housing leading film financiers Future Films and Aramid Capital earlier today.
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FeaturesThe end of the Russian gold rush?
The days when Russian buyers would pay big money for small films are over (for now) as the Russian market adjusts to a weak ruble and declining box office. Geoffrey Macnab looks at what this means for international sales agents and producers
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NewsING Belgium withdraws from film financing
Financial services company ING Belgium has scrapped its film financing activities to concentrate on its core business.
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NewsTilda Swinton takes Scottish film festival on tour
Actress Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins, the former director of the Edinburgh Film Festival, are hitting the Highland trail with the first travelling film festival ever staged in the UK.
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NewsBBC Films and Origin Pictures to make Ordinary Thunderstorms
David Thompson’s production company Origin Pictures and BBC Films have secured film rights to William Boyd’s new novel Ordinary Thunderstorms, ahead of its publication in September.
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NewsLondon UK Film Focus retains its pull with international buyers
The London UK Film Focus, the annual showcase for new British Films, launched Monday (June 29) attracting more than 100 international buyers to the capital.
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NewsHandMade Plc shares suspended as it fails to produce accounts
Shares in HandMade Plc, the UK-based film company, were suspended yesterday (June 30) as it emerged the company has yet to publish audited accounts for the year to December 31, 2008.
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NewsNetherlands Film Festival appoints new director
In a move that has been warmly received in Dutch film circles, Willemien van Aalst has been appointed as the new director of the Netherlands Film Festival (NFF).
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FeaturesTheatres of opportunity
The UK’s ambitious exhibition sector is pioneering new release concepts to defy the credit crunch and harness the territory’s cinema-going boom.
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FeaturesThe market paradox
What does the growing conservatism among even specialist distributors mean for smaller sales agents with no obvious commercial fare and untested film-makers trying to break through?
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NewsMeridiana closes European deals on Altiplano
Cannes Critics’ Week entry Altiplano has been racking up sales since its premiere on the Riviera last month.
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NewsOppostion grows to the sale of Ingmar Bergman's Faro home
There is growing disquiet over plans to auction off Ingmar Bergman’s iconic home on the Baltic island of Fårö.
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NewsPaul Schrader to attend Nottingham's first ScreenLit fest
Writer-director Paul Schrader is to attend the inaugural ScreenLit, Film, TV & Writing Festival at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema (29 June to 5 July).
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NewsArtificial Eye snaps up Cannes prize winners
UK distributor Artificial Eye has taken UK rights to Mia Hansen-Love’s Father Of My Children (Le Pere De Mes Enfants).
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NewsBjorkman’s Ingmar Bergman short to get British premiere next month
Stig Bjorkman’s Images From The Playground: Ingmar Bergman At Work will receive its British premiere at the Barbican next month.