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All articles by Leon Forde – Page 14
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UK's Peakviewing to build SA animation studio
The UK's Peakviewing Transatlantic has announced plans to open an animation studio in South Africa.The Johannesburg facility will produce both 3D graphic animation and claymation features, in a move intended to bolster Peakviewing's programming capabilities.Current production schedules aim at producing one claymation and two animated films per year, and the ...
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IMAX posts 37% half-year losses
Despite efforts to cut costs and streamline its business, embattled large format operator IMAX Corp has posted a 37% drop in revenues this half-year compared to the same period in 2000.In the company's half-year results, revenues over the first six months are $73.7m compared with $117.6m over the same period ...
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Four more join Meera Syal's Anita & Me
Max Beesley, Kathy Burke, Ayesha Dharker and Lynn Redgrave have joined the cast of Anita & Me, an East Is East-style comedy adapted from the book of the same name by UK writer, actress and comedian Meera Syal.Icon Film Distribution has UK rights for the film, budgeted at under $4.3m ...
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Warner Village Cinemas' millionth online ticket
Warner Village Cinemas UK, a division of Warner Bros. International Theatres, has sold its millionth online ticket, through its website (www.warnervillage.co.uk), just two years after launch.Since going live in July 1999, the system, which was conceived and created in-house, has posted a 20% year-on-year rise in online bookings, and there ...
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Cinemark embarks on alternative programming
In an exploratory move which will test the viability of alternative programming in cinemas, US circuit Cinemark Theatres has announced plans to screen a live concert by US rock band Sugar Ray in a handful of its US theatres. The band's August 15 concert in Georgia will be broadcast live ...
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InFilm in trio of development deals
InFilm Productions, the UK outfit which most recently co-produced Rose Troche's The Safety Of Objects, has struck development deals for three of its gestating projects.Artists Independent Network, Luc Roeg and Charles Finch's London-based production and management company, has boarded The Duchess Of Malfi to develop and co-produce. Billed as a ...
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Ster Century re-finances and avoids sale
Having failed to find a buyer since it was put up for sale last year, pan-European exhibition circuit Ster Century Europe has secured an $80m re-financing package and has now been taken off the market.Corporate restructuring will see Ster Century housed within a new consolidated film entity being proposed by ...
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UK's lukewarm development culture heats up
Last week, the UK Film Council announced its first round of long-term slate funding deals with six production outfits. The $7m (£5m) annual development fund is designed to give promising companies long-term support in beefing up their development capabilities, both in terms of property acquisition and personnel. Fragile Films, Archer ...
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Film Council hands development sums to UK six-pack
The Film Council's development fund has announced slate development deals with six UK production companies, worth $1.767m (£1.262m) from its annual coffers of $7m (£5m).Long term deals have been struck with Fragile Films, Archer Street Tiger Lily, Kuhn & Co, Autonomous, Dragon Pictures and The Jim Henson Company.A separate slate ...
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Injustice goes ahead, despite threats
Audience members last night (11 July) took over a London screening of the feature length documentary Injustice after legal threats prompted staff at the venue, the Conway Hall, to try and abort the screening.London-based documentary production company Migrant Media had hired London's Conway Hall and installed a video projector and ...
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Edinburgh announces 2001 festival line-up
The 55thEdinburgh International Film Festival, the last under the tenure of departingfestival director Lizzie Francke, will once again have a strong British showingwith world premieres for Udayan Prasad's Gabriel And Me written by Billy Elliot's Lee Hall, as well as for Film Four's TheWarrior and twodigitally-shot BBC features directed by ...
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Walters joins Memory Of Water
UK actress Julie Walters is re-teaming with Lewis Gilbert, director of Educating Rita, the film which won her a Best Actress nomination at the 1983 Oscars.The Memory Of Water is currently shooting on the Isle Of Man before moving to Twickenham Studios in London. The film, which wraps on August ...
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Secret Agent to be made by Darwin, DNA
UK National Lottery franchise DNA Films has pacted with independent UK producer Lucy Darwin to develop and produce Leonardo Secret Agent, an action adventure comedy.Written by Jonny Kurzman, a former independent producer and short film-maker, Secret Agent was optioned by Darwin earlier this year. DNA will fund development, and company ...
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Boswell For The Defence concludes early
Period legal drama Boswell For The Defence has ground to a halt after producers were unable to secure a final tranche of financing for the $14m film ahead of the scheduled start of photography in the UK next week.Boswell, set up between the UK's Scala Productions, German fund MBP and ...
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UK cinema industry unites to create marketing body
As part of its remit to develop a sustainable film industry, UK strategy and funding body, The Film Council, has joined the All Industry Marketing for Cinema (AIM) to create a company to promote and market generic cinema-going in the UKThe newly-created Cinema Marketing Agency (CMA) is officially launched next ...
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Alibi founder Jones quits UK sales outfit
Gareth Jones has stepped down as managing director of UK-based international sales and distribution outfit Alibi Films International. Alibi, which will now restructure its business, has no immediate plans for a replacement.Jones, who co-founded the company with partners Roger Holmes and Linda James in June 1999, will continue to work ...
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Gareth Jones quits as Alibi chief
Gareth Jones has stepped down as managing director of UK-based international sales and distribution outfit Alibi Films International. Alibi, which will now restructure its business, has no immediate plans for a replacement.Jones, who co-founded the company with partners Roger Holmes and Linda James in June 1999, will continue to work ...
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Nike launches award for digital sports shorts
Sports giant Nike has become the latest corporate entity to explore the crossover between consumer marketing and film production.The sporting goods manufacturer has launched an annual 'UK Young Directors Awards' in association with London-based short film company Britshorts. The scheme offers an $8,500 (£6,000) award for amateur filmmakers to produce ...
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Cinema Expo closes on bullish note
"It doesn't get a whole lot better than this."That was the message to delegates attending Cinema Expo in Amsterdam from distributors unveiling what has been a well-received array of product - much to the relief of embattled European exhibitors."There is a higher than normal degree of anticipation," said Richard Segal, ...
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Cinema Expo leaves sour taste for concessions
Internet and telephone booking may have been heralded as a glorious new dawn for ticket sales, but delegates at Cinema Expo conference in Amsterdam were this week warned about its impact on concessions.Barry Jones, business development manager for Coca-Cola Greater Europe, pointed out that 40% of Swedish tickets are sold ...