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All articles by Leon Forde – Page 13
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Optimum takes UK rights to French hit The Closet
UK independent distributor Optimum Releasing has acquired all UK rights from Gaumont to Francis Veber's French hit The Closet (Le Placard).The comedy, starring Daniel Auteil and Gerard Depardieu, tells the story of a forty-something man who pretends that he's gay in order to save himself from redundancy.The Closet achieved more ...
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Dinard assesses UK/French exchange
Asif Kapadia's well-received The Warrior has scooped the Golden Hitchcock at the Dinard Festival Of British Film, which carries a $2,805 (FF20,000) award to aid distribution in France and a $1,400 (FF10,000) grant to the director.Jury president Emily Watson hailed the India-set adventure story as one that had opened "a ...
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Lee Evans, Christopher Walken undertake Plots
Lee Evans and Alfred Molina have joined Christopher Walken and Brenda Blethyn in the cast of Plots With A View, a comedy set in small-town Wales which starts a six-week shoot in the UK this Wednesday (Oct 10).Directed by Nick Hurran and produced by the US' Snowfall and the UK's ...
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Film Council and CNC launch The Short Channel
The UK's Film Council has partnered with equivalent French public support body CNC to launch a short film competition aimed at promoting creative and financial co-operation between the two territories, as well as encouraging producers to develop films with a chance of travelling.Dubbed "The Short Channel" the scheme will produce ...
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Figgis' Battle to premiere at London festival
Already in the London Film Festival programme with Hotel, the follow-up to his acclaimed digital picture Timecode, experimental UK film-maker Mike Figgis will also premiere his digital documentary The Battle Of Orgreave at the event, which runs Nov 7-22.The Battle Of Orgreave portrays a June 2001 re-enactment of the ...
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Ritchie's Love, Sex, Drugs And Money starts shoot
Swept Away, UK director Guy Ritchie's follow-up to Snatch which starts a six-week shoot on location in Malta and Sardinia today (Oct 1), has changed its title to the snappier Love, Sex, Drugs And Money.The film unites Ritchie with his wife Madonna, who takes the main role of Amber - ...
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Henry sentenced for fraud against Village Roadshow
Ross Andrew Henry, former chief financial officer of Village Roadshow's US subsidiary, has been sentenced to 30 months jail by the US District Court in Los Angeles after pleading guilty to federal charges of wire fraud and "deprivation of honest services", according to Reuters news service. Henry wired money, supposed ...
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BBC and HBO to co-produce Churchill war serial
The UK's BBC Films and US cable network HBO are to co-produce a UK-shot war serial about Winston Churchill's isolation in the run-up to the second world war. Currently in pre-production at Shepperton Studios, A Lonely War is to star Albert Finney as Churchill and Vanessa Redgrave as his wife. ...
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Rival UK TV stations share Disney film output
UK terrestrial broadcasting rivals BBC and ITV have struck a joint film rights deal to acquire Disney's theatrical output from 2000. Under the deal with Buena Vista International Television, UK commercial broadcasting network ITV has picked up the rights to titles including Unbreakable, Gone In 60 Seconds, Scary Movie, Coyote ...
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DVD fever spreads across European markets
The Charlie Chaplin classic The Great Dictator will be the closing film on February 17 at this year's Berlinale with members of the Chaplin family in attendance.In addition, a gala screening is being given of the director's cut of Milos Forman's 1984 Oscar-winning film Amadeus in the festival's Official Competition ...
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Five nods each for three British films at BIFA
Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast, Joel Hopkins' Jump Tomorrow and Richard Parry's South West Nine lead the nominations for the fourth British Independent Film Awards held in London on Oct 24. Sexy Beast, one of the highlights of the recent resurrection of the British gangster genre, garnered a total of five ...
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London film festival announces programme
Walt Disney Co-Pixar animation title Monsters Inc (pictured), Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater World War II picture Windtalkers, Steve Martin comedy Novocaine and Sandra Goldbacher's Venice title Me Without You are amongst the gala screenings at November's London Film Festival.Fred Schepisi's Last Orders, which has an ensemble UK cast of ...
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Chadha plans English-language Bollywood film
UK director Gurinder Chadha, whose credits include Bhaji On The Beach and the US-set What's Cooking', is to direct an English-language Bollywood-style film set in the UK.Chadha is aiming for the all-singing, all-dancing film to cross UK and Indian cultural barriers, doing for the Bollywood musical what Crouching Tiger, Hidden ...
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UK cinema admissions rise 2.5% in 2nd quarter
Second quarter UK cinema admissions have risen by 2.5% over the same period in 2000, according to according to data from government agency National Statistics.Admissions hit 32.2m over the second quarter, which was significantly bolstered by the success of the early-summer season release of Bridget Jones's Diary, which has earned ...
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Iwerks Entertainment to merge with SimEx
Large format theatre provider Iwerks Entertainment is to merge with simulation technology company SimEx in a strategic move which will consolidate interests in an increasingly difficult marketplace.Subject to shareholder approval, the agreement will see Toronto-based SimEx acquiring Iwerks in exchange for around $0.63 per share of Iwerks common stock. Shares ...
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Eastern Europe embraces multiplex trend
With multi-screen cinema infrastructures already established in some Central and Eastern European territories such as Poland and the Czech Republic, the region's more underdeveloped territories are now seeing the initial signs of multiplex growth.Of the 12 multiplexes opened last year in the region, three were in the embryonic cinema markets ...
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Dragon and Andell merge to launch Mission
Graham Broadbent and Damian Jones, the UK producers behind Very Annie Mary and Welcome To Sarajevo production outfit Dragon Pictures, have teamed with Andrew Hauptman and Ellen Bronfman's well-heeled film operation, Andell Entertainment, to launch Mission Pictures. Mission aims to fuel an ambitious drive into internationally-oriented, bigger-budget projects with an ...
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Ricci joins Granada's Gathering
Christina Ricci has signed to star in The Gathering, a $17m UK supernatural thriller, scheduled to start shooting on Sept 3 for Granada Film and Samuelson Productions. Directed by Brian Gilbert, the film will also star Kerry Fox, and rising UK actors Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane and Simon Russell Beale. ...
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Christmas Carol to premiere at Toronto
Animated UK feature Christmas Carol: The Movie is to receive its world premiere at the forthcoming Toronto Film Festival, held Sept 6-15.The $12m Dickens adaptation is being sold internationally by the UK's Winchester Films, and is voiced by Nicolas Cage, Simon Callow, Michael Gambon, Rhys Ifans, Jane Horrocks, Juliet Stevenson ...
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UK film-makers urged to adopt lower budgets
On the day that Danny Boyle's frenetic couplet of made-for-television DV films -- Strumpet and Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise -- had well-received industry screenings at Edinburgh, UK film-makers were urged to embrace lower budgets and "liberating" new styles of production. "A lot of what goes on in UK production ...