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Blank Slate for UK ethnic minority film-makers
The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and b3 mediaare launching a new digital short film project to support black and ethnicminority filmmakers. The Blank Slate scheme, funded by the NationalLottery, is expected to commission eight shorts to be produced by spring 2006.Filmmakers from across the UKcan apply to make ...
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United Artists notches up sales on hot trio
United Artists has sold Girlfight, Kingdom Come and Songcatcher to a raft of territories following the trio's sale to Shochiku for Japan at Cannes.Girlfight went to Australia (REP); South Africa (Ster-Kinekor); Portugal (Atalanta); Israel (Shani); Benelux (Cinelibre); and the Middle East (Almassa). The Sundance and Cannes title previously went to ...
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Australian VoD licenses Granada International films
Australianvideo-on-demand company Reeltime has signed a dealwith Granada International to license select film and television programmesfrom Granada's library.OnceReeltime launches in early 2006, the Granada content will be made available to all of its ISPpartners.Thedeal covers unspecified films and TV programmes including Prime Suspect,Cracker, 7Up and Nanny 911."Weare delighted to see ...
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Fifteen films compete for Swiss Film Prize
Michael Steiner's comedy Mein Name Ist Eugen, which with 500,000 admissions has become the third most successful Swiss film in the last 30 years, is among the nominated films for the 2006 Swiss Film Prize.A nine-person nomination commission selected 15 films for the best feature film, documentary and short film ...
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US Producers Guild to honour Eastwood, Corman
Clint Eastwood and RogerCorman will be honoured at the Producers Guild of America's (PGA) annual awardsceremony on Jan 22 2006 in Los Angeles.Eastwood, whose producingcredits include the Oscar winning Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven, will receive the Milestone Award and Corman, whose prolific career hasspawned The Wild Angels and Deathrace3000 ...
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New Saw ready to make the cut next Halloween
LionsGate Films has announced it will release a third Saw film for Hallowe'en next year. Currently scheduled for an October 27, 2006 release, the news of Saw III mirrors last year when the surprise success of the low budget original quickly prompted the announcement of a sequel for this year.Produced ...
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Hopkins to receive HFPA DeMille Award
Anthony Hopkinswill collect the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Cecil B DeMille Awardfor lifetime achievement at the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan 16,2006.Hopkins hasreceived six Golden Globe nominations including four as best actor for Nixon,The Remains Of The Day, The Silence Of The Lambs and Magic.He won the bestactor ...
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Darker Potter still promising box-office magic
The 12A UK and PG-13 US certificates for Harry Potter And The Goblet OfFire won't damage its box-office strength when it opens tomorrow,according to Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, president of distribution Warner BrosPictures International.In fact, she believes the older certification may even prove to be a benefit by attracting teenagers."The movies have ...
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Online rental to take half the home DVD market by 2009
By 2009, more than half of the UK's home videorentals will be online transactions, according to a new report from ScreenDigest. Currently, online rentals (ordered via theInternet and delivered by post) are just over 10% of the UK market. The report predicts that similar patterns willemerge in Europe, with Germany's ...
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GreeneStreet reteams with Polson on Tenderness
GreeneStreet Films isreuniting with Swimfan directorJohn Polson on the upcoming thriller Tenderness. Principal photography isscheduled to begin in early 2006 on the adaptation of Robert Cormier's novelabout a teenage serial killer and the 16-year-old runaway seduced by his charm.GreeneStreet will financeand is serving as producer along with Howard Meltzer of ...
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Pressman revives Mutant Chronicles with Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane will star in thelong-in-development sci-fi environmental thriller The Mutant Chronicles for Pressman & Company based on ParadoxEntertainment's board game of the same name. The UK's Simon Hunter willdirect the project after Ed Pressman financed a $70,000 seven-minute trailedshowcasing the young filmmaker's talents and screened it for Jane, other ...
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IFC offers ten minutes of Manderlay on iPod
IFC Films has launched anovel long-lead marketing strategy for Lars von Trier's Manderlay by offering the first 10 minutes of the filmexclusively for iPod users. The clip will becomeavailable on Nov 18 as the distributor aims to generate world of mouth on thesecond instalment in the Danish enfant terrible's USA ...
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Chello delays stockmarket flotation
Chello, the Dutch broadband Internet group, has delayed its proposed flotation until at least next week while it enters into "strategic discussions" with UK cable operator Telewest, according to the UK's Financial Times.Chello is reportedly in talks with Telewest about a deal that would give the company a stronghold in ...
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Favela, Brand win top IDA honours
Matt Mochary and JeffZimbalist's Oscar shortlisted cultural activism story Favela Rising and Rachel Boynton's expose of Bolivian politicalintrigue Our Brand Is Crisis havebeen awarded joint top honours in the International Documentary Association's(IDA) feature competition. The filmmakers will collecttheir prize at the 21st Annual IDA Awards Gala Benefit on Dec 9 ...
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Frears wraps shoot for The Queen
Stephen Frears has completed principal photography on his new feature The Queen. Shooting wrapped in Paris on November 10 after a nine-week shoot on location in Scotland and around London.The film looks at the way the British royal family and Prime Minister Tony Blair responded to the death of Princess ...
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UK Film Council to support South African writers
Ahead of the planned signing of a UK-South African co-production treaty, the UK Film Council has announced a partnership with South Africa's National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) to launch a new initiative for South African writers.The new competition aims to fast-track "high concept screenplays which are aimed at the ...
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Film-makers to pitch 55 projects at Mannheim Meetings
New feature projects by Ireland's Johnny Gogan, Georgia's Nana Djordjadze, Poland's Robert Glinski and Nigeria's Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda are among 55 films from Europe, Canada, Latin America and Africa with a total production volume of Euros 84m being pitched at this year's Mannheim Meetings co-production market. From November 21-25, 600 pre-arranged ...
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Danish box-office stronger than much of Europe
Denmark's box office is faring better than the rest of Europe. With many European countries seeing ticket sales dip 15-20%, Denmark is only down about 7% over last year, and with blockbusters such as Harry Potter and King Kong forthcoming, Danish box-office performance could be on par with last year ...
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Brothers Of The Head
Dirs: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe. UK. 2005. 90mins.Keith Fulton and Louis Pepetake a small step from documentary to mockumentarywith Brothers Of The Head, a bizarreriff on the source novel by Brian Aldiss.The story of conjoined twinbrothers and their brief rush of rock star fame during the 1970s is technically beyond ...
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Go West
Dir/scr: Ahmed Imamovic. Bosnia-Herzegovina.2005. 100mins.Coming after his successful short, 10 Minutes, Ahmed Imamovic's debut feature Go West shows definite promise, as he attempts to present a solidfolksy melange of sex, politics and violence in the best traditions of Balkancinema.Focussing on the gaycommunity, atrocities against who have largely been overlooked in ...