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UK's WFTV give lifetime achievement award to Verity Lambert
Verity Lambert, who produced the original Doctor Who TV series and feature film A Cry In The Dark, will receive Women In Film and Television's Working Title Films Lifetime Achievement Award. Lambert will be presented with the honours at the 2007 Five Women in Film and Television Awards in London ...
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Italy's Mediaset launches new free cinema channel
Italy's Mediaset, the nation's most powerful private network owned by Silvio Berlusconi, is launching Iris: a new, free, digital terrestrial channel to be devoted tofilms and cultural programming.The new channel will go on air November 30 will be under the direction of Miriam Pisani who acted previously as vice director ...
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Montreal's Delphis picks up sales rights to Christmas Story
Montreal-based sales company Deplhis Films has picked up world rights on Juha Wuolijoki's recent Finnish hit Christmas Story. The film opened in Finland November 16 through Sandrew Metronome with nearly 22,000 admissions on 60 prints to knock Ratatouille from the top position at the local box office. Delphis will introduce ...
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Warner Bros takes worldwide rights to Jeunet's Micmacs A Tire-Larigot
Warner Bros France will distribute Tapioca Films and Epithete Films' Micmacs A Tire-Larigot to be directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.The film will take a satirical look at the world of arms dealers and will be co-written by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, with whom Jeunet collaborated on Amelie and A Very Long ...
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Mumbai, London sign co-operation agreement
London and Mumbai have solidified the relationship between their two film production industries by signing a city-to-city agreement. Signed by Film London and the Film and Television Producers Guild of India, the agreement sees the two cities pledge to 'share ideas and best practice on domestic and international film production ...
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Jakarta fest to open with Persepolis, close with Lotus
The 9th Jakarta International Film Festival (Jiffest), which takes place Dec 7-16, will for the first time close with a local Indonesian film, the world premiere of Nia Dinata's Chants Of Lotus. The omnibus film of four stories addresses poignant women's issues which are rarely portrayed in today's Indonesian cinema. ...
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Pinewood shares fall after writers' strike forces shoot cancellation
Pinewood Shepperton has seen its share price tumble after the Hollywood writers' strike forced the cancellation of a major US shoot.The UK studio is facing a $6m (£3m) loss on the film. Although the studio wasn't commenting, industry sources confirmed that the film concerned is Columbia Pictures'Angels & Demons, the ...
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RTL raises Antena 3 stake
Pan-European broadcaster RTL Group has raised its stake in private Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 to 16% in a bid to expand in southern Europe.RTL paid $134m for an additional 6.23% stake in Antena 3. The move is expected to bring the group closer to Antena 3's other key shareholder, Spanish ...
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High Point sells Storm Force to MTI for North America
High Point Television, a division of UK-based sales company High Point Media Group, has sold the North American TV and video rights for Storm Force to MTI.The Belgian helicopter-rescue action film, starring Kevin Janssen, is produced by Peter Bouckaert of MMG Film & Television. High Point also sold the film ...
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Baltic Event selects 12 projects for Tallinn co-production market
Films from Croatia, Romania, Estonia and Armenia are among a dozen projects selected from a record 37 submissions for the Baltic Event's third co-production market which will be held in the Estonian capital of Tallinn from Dec 3-4. This year's lineup features: Barabbas, dir: Aleksei Muradov (Russia), a drama set ...
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Jakarta to close with premiere of Indonesian film Chants Of Lotus
The ninth Jakarta International Film Festival, or Jiffest, will for the first time close with a local Indonesian production, the world premiere of Nia Dinata's Chants of Lotus. The omnibus film of four stories addresses woman issues which are rarely portrayed in contemporary Indonesian cinema. The multiple effort is directed ...
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Curzon Artificial Eye, NFTS back Ahmed's The Last Thakur
Shooting will begin next month in Bangladesh on Sadik Ahmed's The Last Thakur, the 'Spaghetti Eastern' that is being co-produced by Curzon Artificial Eye and the UK's National Film & Television School. The film is being executive produced by Philip Knatchbull, Nik Powell and Daniel Chamier. The producer is Tamsin ...
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Mermin's Shot In Bombay secures UK run at London's ICA
Liz Mermin's latest film, Shot In Bombay, will have a two-week UK theatrical run at London's ICA from Jan 18, 2008 before going on a regional tour. The documentary goes behind the scenes of a Bollywood film, Shootout at Lokhandwala, starring Bollywood screen legend Sanjay Dutt. US director Mermin, who ...
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Central Partnership sells Revenge, Wolfhound to Weinstein Company
Russian sales company Central Partnership has struck a number of deals in the wake of the American Film Market earlier this month. Titles that have lured buyers include thrillers Revenge and fantasy epic Wolfhound, already a substantial box-office hit in Russia. Revenge has been sold to North America/UK/Australia/New Zealand and ...
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In focus - Facing the 4-month challenge
It is increasingly difficult to market the non-quantifiable film,' warns David Mamet in his book Bambi Vs Godzilla.Certainly the recent box office has been dominated by the easy sells - remakes, adaptations and sequels. And under pressure from tightening budgets and heavyweight competition from a Hollywood buoyed with private equity ...
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Halcyon days
They may not have arrived from the future like the Terminator himself, but when they announced last May that their Halcyon Company had acquired rights to the Terminator franchise Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek were still unknown quantities in the film industry big league.Six months later, with a fourth Terminator ...
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Profile: Philip Knatchbull, Curzon Artificial Eye
Philip Knatchbull, CEO of Curzon Artificial Eye, has a distinguished film background to live up to - his father, John Brabourne, produced the likes of Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet and David Lean's A Passage To India.But Knatchbull has a different sort of film mission. He aims to grow Curzon ...
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United Kingdom - Free agents
Cuba Pictures, the film and TV arm of London-based talent agency Curtis Brown, almost epitomises synergy.In late 2004, Curtis Brown's Nick Marston and Tally Garner set up the division, and they are now launching their successful first feature, Boy A, with a November 26 airing on the UK's Channel 4. ...
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TV veterans launch Apollo tax financing scheme
Veteran UK programme-makers Bill Cran and Clive Syddall have launched tax-based financing scheme Apollo TV & Film Partnerships.The venture aims to bankroll films, TV projects and documentaries qualifying as British and budgeted at up to $21m, thereby qualifying for 100% tax relief under UK regulations. Barclays Bank may arrange additional ...
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Awards Countdown - Crafts - The Perfectionist
There is a wealth of spectacular productions on offer to Academy crafts committees and voters this year, from fantasy spectacles such as Spider-Man 3, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End, Harry Potter And TheOrder Of The Phoenix, Transformers and The Golden Compassto exquisitely designed period pieces Lust,Caution, Atonement and ...