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All articles by Leon Forde – Page 16
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AOL Time Warner expands US online ticketing
AOL Time Warner has formed two separate alliances to expand online ticketing services to over 5,000 entertainment venues in the US, covering more than 85% of cinemas capable of offering internet ticketing.A multi-year pact - dubbed AOL Box Office By Ticketmaster - was struck to distribute the company's ticketing services ...
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AtomShockwave Corp launched with $22.9m funding
AtomShockwave Corp - the company created by Shockwave.com's high-profile acquisition of Atom Corporation - has launched with $22.9m of financing.The new company, combining online short film specialist AtomFilms and interactive entertainment provider Shockwave.com, syndicates games, films and animation to on- and offline customers in traditional and emerging media, such as ...
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The Film Company boards Russell's Louse Of Usher
London-based sales outfit The Film Company has boarded Ken Russell's The Fall Of The Louse Of Usher as international sales agent, handling all rights.The film, an update of Edgar Allen Poe's story, is currently being shot on digital video by Russell, who also produces through his Gorsewood Studios outfit. Seminal ...
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UK film production affected by animal virus
With much of the UK's countryside under virtual lockdown to curb the burgeoning foot-and-mouth epidemic, producers are beginning to feel the disruption as rural locations become inaccessible, and the scramble begins to find suitable replacements."Most scripts will have a bit of greenery in them," says Gavin Northover, location manager on ...
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Escapist collared by UGC International
UGC International has boarded Gillies Mackinnon's The Escapist as worldwide sales agent.The film, currently in pre-production prior to shooting later this month, tells the story of a man who reinvents himself as a ruthless criminal so that he can get incarcerated in the same prison as the man who killed ...
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Free digital conversion offer for US theatres only
A joint venture of communications giant Qualcomm and film processors Technicolor this week unveiled an ambitious plan to kick-start the digital conversion of the exhibition industry by installing and maintaining the necessary equipment free of charge in a thousand US theatres. But, despite acknowledging the global dimension of the exhibition ...
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IMAX unveils high definition digital projector
Canadian large-format specialist IMAX Corp has unveiled plans to build a new high definition digital projector, which, says the company, will be able to screen the world’s largest high-quality digital image and give twice the performance of digital projectors.Capable of filling large stadium-style theatres with screens of up to 80ft ...
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Film Council shines First Light on kids' scheme
UK film super-body the Film Council has partnered with Hi8us Projects for a new £1m scheme, which aims to give children the opportunity to make short films on digital video.Birmingham-based Hi8us Projects - a charity with a record in creating film and television projects with young people - will run ...
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Pathe, FilmFour team for bigger budget films
The UK's FilmFour and Pathe have formed an initial two-year alliance to jointly acquire and distribute large-budget films in the UK. Under the terms of the collaboration, the companies aim to pick up at least two titles over the next twelve months, and will split profits equally. The companies will ...
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UK welcomes yet another short film prize
The UK's FilmFour has partnered with mobile communications giant Orange to launch a major short film prize, which carries £10,000 and the opportunity to develop a feature with FilmFour Lab, the low budget arm of FilmFour.Aiming to find the UK film-makers of the future, the award - which supersedes Orange's ...
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Large Screen Format gets downsized
Further fallout in the Large Format cinema sector is being predicted, following the news that IMAX Corporation has slashed 13% of its 1000-strong workforce.The job cuts come as part of a broader corporate restructuring plan, according to the company, which involves the consolidation of the manufacturing of sound and projection ...
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Tartan picks up Fat Girl for UK release
Tartan Films has picked up all UK rights to Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl (A Ma Soeur!) at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it has just won the $14,000 (DM30,000) Manfred-Salzgeber Film Prize. Metro Tartan Distribution will release the film in the UK later this year.The picture explores the unflinching ...
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London critics fete John Malkovich, Billy Elliot
Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich was named film of the year at the 21st London Film Critics' Circle awards last night, held at London's Savoy Hotel. The film also bagged prizes in the director and screenwriter of the year categories, for Jonze and Charlie Kaufman respectively. Christopher Nolan, meanwhile, picked ...
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UK's Hit Entertainment acquires Lyrick
UK licensing and merchandising company Hit Entertainment has acquired US rival Lyrick in a $275m reverse takeover that unites the companies behind popular children's characters Bob The Builder and Barney The Dinosaur.Hit is to help fund the deal by placing new shares to raise $106m, most of the cash payment ...
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Daldry, Ramsay join FilmFour's literary slate
The UK's FilmFour is lining up several high-profile book adaptations as part of its 2001 development slate, including projects with hot UK talents Stephen Daldry, Lynne Ramsay, Jonathan Glazer and Peter Cattaneo. Cattaneo, the director of The Full Monty, who is currently in post-production for FilmFour on Lucky Break, is ...
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BSkyB reports loss; breaks 5m subscribers mark
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB has reported first-half pre-tax losses of $163.4m (£112m), compared to $89.7m (£61.5m) the previous year, but has also smashed its own target to sign five million subscribers by the end of 2000.As of December 31, the company said it had amassed 5,051,000 direct-to-home subscribers, a tally ...
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London's Electric Cinema set to reopen
The Electric Cinema, one of London's most celebrated theatres, is to reopen on February 21 after a seven-year hiatus with a charity gala screening of Stephen Frears' Liam.The cinema's initial programme also includes screenings of Marc Singer's acclaimed documentary Dark Days, a re-release of The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, ...
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Gladiator leads nominations for revamped Baftas
Ridley Scott's Gladiator leads the race for the 2001 film awards of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, which are lent extra significance this year with a pre-Oscar date on February 25.Gladiator, which has grossed $444.7m worldwide, racked up 15 nominations, including film, original screenplay, cinematography, sound and ...
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UK cinema admissions the highest for 26 years
As expected, UK cinema attendance hit a 26-year high in 2000, despite November admissions dropping 30% over the same period in 1999. According to year-end figures from the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) more than 142.5 million tickets were sold, compared with 139 million in 1999.Strong box office performances towards the ...
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Connery has Highland fling with Queen Of Scots
Sean Connery is set to throw his weight behind the long-gestating Scottish period epic Mary, Queen Of Scots.Fountainbridge Films, the Scottish actor's production outfit, is set to board the lavish period piece, which is set up with co-financiers BBC Films and Intermedia. Intermedia already has a production pact with Fountainbridge.Acclaimed ...