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The BBC today launched New Music Shorts 2007 – an initiative offering aspiring filmmakers a £5,000 budget to make a music-based short film with a professional production company and have it premiered at the BBC Electric Proms festival in October.BBC Electric Proms, BBC Film Network and BBC New Talent are [...]

Simultaneous release of film in Cinema and DVD will boost studio revenues – but optimal distribution strategy differs between countriesFilm studios in the US can boost revenues by 16 if films are released simultaneously in cinemas, on rental DVD and through video-on-demand (VOD), a global study shows for the first [...]

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.The big event in the film awards calendar, the day before the Oscars, is the Independent Spirit Awards, which honour low budget films, made outside the major studio system. The event, held in a marquee on the beach in Santa Monica [...]

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.Representatives from the Oscar-nominated Foreign Language films attended a question and answer session at the Academy’s Beverly Hills headquarters on Saturday, a day before the Oscars..After showing clips from the films, the directors answered questions from the thousand-strong audience at the [...]

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.One of the most highly regarded film directors in modern cinema has finally joined the top echelon of the film industry – Martin Scorsese picked up the Best Director Oscar at this year’s ceremony at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. His [...]

REBUS APPOINTMENT FOR KAHLEEN CRAWFORD CASTINGKahleen Crawford, one of the film & TV industry’s most exciting emerging young casting directors, has been hired to cast all four episodes of the new series of Rebus, one of ITV’s most popular drama serials.Number 24 in the ratings of Billboard’s top TV shows [...]

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.“It all started with a short,” the Oscar-winning short (Teenage Father, 1978) – and Oscar-nominated feature (Ray, 2004) – director Taylor Hackford to an audience of more than a thousand people in Hollywood, gathered to watch this year’s ten Oscar-nominated short [...]

ODEON Hatfield Goes DigitalBell Theatre Services installs First DCI Compliant Digital MultiplexHatfield, 9 February 2007 – Bell Theatre Services today announced the digital conversion of the 9 screen multiplex at ODEON, Hatfield. The equipment, which has been installed and maintained by Bell Theatre Services, is the first DCI compliant fully [...]

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.More than a hundred and forty nominees for the seventy ninth Academy Awards – and special award winners – attended the annual Oscar Nominees’ Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton hotel, on Monday.The event is one of the more informal gatherings of [...]

THE UK REGIONAL CRITICS’ FILM AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCEDGUILLERMO DEL TORO’S “PAN’S LABYRINTH” NAMED FILM OF THE YEAR6th February 2007 – Cinema Days announced today the results of the inaugural vote for The UK Regional Critics Film Awards.Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” has been awarded the prestigious accolade of Film of [...]