EU FILM NEWS


Jagmohan Mundhra's film, Shoot On Sight, set in London, is getting ready for distribution-- Watch 'Shoot On Sight' Trailer

Hinglish Films at 37th Rotterdam Film Festival
The 37th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 23- February 3, 2008 has created a special section, Hinglish, to accomodate Bollywood from India. Films such as 'Beware Dogs' by Spandan Banerjee, 'English August' by Dev Benegal, 'A Flowering Tree' by Vipin Vijay, 'The Last Lear' by Rituparno Ghosh will be screened >>>

Berlin Film Festival  7- 17 February 2008


More than 19,000 film professionals from 120 countries, including 4,000 journalists, are accredited for the Berlin International Film Festival every year. The Berlinale is truly a mega event. At the same time, it is a festival of encounters and discussions. With more than 200,000 tickets sold, the Berlinale is not only a film industry meeting. It also enjoys by far the largest audience of any film festival in the world. We bring you the latest from Berlinale 2008 >>>

BAFTA Nominations 2008 announced
Shekhar Kapoor's heroine Cate Blanchett from 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age' gets a nomination for best actress. 'Kite Runner'  will contest in the Best Non-English category. The Orange British Academy Film Awards will be held on Sunday 10 February at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden. In view of the US Writers' strike, could the Baftas of Britain become the Oscars of the year? Read the list >>>

London Film Festival
This year’s 51st Festival hosted 185 feature films and 133 short films from 43 countries, 412 screenings and five films from India  >>>

Adlabs enters UK
India's giant film and entertainment company has become the second distributor from India after Eros to join the exclusive club of the UK's Film Distributors. KKC is their first film in the UK >>>

UK Top Ten: Bhool Bhulaiyaa’ & Laaga chunari..'
Distributors Eros and  ‘ Yashraj are celebrating their hits in the UK. BB & LCMD hit the UK Top Ten Chart at no. 7 & no. 8 >>>
Mipcom 2007: India will be one of the top three entertainment countries in the world in the coming years, according to the organisers of the world's biggest TV content market in Cannes, France >>>

'The Kite Runner' boys given safe haven
Hollywood film The Kite Runner, based on the best-selling 2003 novel by Khaled Hosseini, is facing a huge controversy over a sex scene between two child actors >>>

Pakistan in films
Musharraf, Jihad and ISI are on filmmakers' agenda. The Journalist and the Jihadi, an HBO documentary film, and A Mighty Heart, featuring Angelina Jolie, are watched in London >>>

Filmi Sitaaray
Sitaaray restaurant of Drury Lane, West London, is home to more Bollywood stars than you could possibly imagine. Chef Sondhi will serve starry and sizzling dishes on Diwali >>>
London Film Festival announced
Is it another dull year for Indian cinema at the forthcoming London Film Festival? The answer is yes. London Film Festival's full programme, announced >>>

UK Locations & tourists
A British report, published on 26th August 2007, says there's a need to "develop a Bollywood tourism strategy" as the UK film locations attract tourists in large numbers. The popular sites >>>
 

Warner Bros. in Hindi
Hollywood's leading studios, including Warner Bros are gearing up to collaborate with their counterparts in India to produce and finance 'Hindi' films as the US and European >>>

The Darjeeling LtdThe 51st London Film Festival has announced that Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Ltd' , almost entirely shot in India, will be this year’s Closing Gala. The film will boost travel to India >>>

Chak De India!
Shahrukh at Somerset House in central London! The news spread like wild fire. He had come to London to promote 'Chak De India', his new movie with a sense of national pride, on India's 60th >>>

UK: Asian TV Boom
Backed by Sony, top Indian and Pakistani TV executives announce expansion of Max Mix, a bouquet of TV channels, including Indian Aaj Tak and Pakistan's ARY, with
other movie channels >>>

Golden Leopard
Japanese director Masahiro Kobayashi won the Golden Leopard for his film Ai no yokan (The Rebirth) and the Best Director was awarded to Capitaine Achab by Philippe Ramos >>>

New Tax Relief works
Led by Casino Royale, pictured left, the UK film industry contributed £4.3 billion to UK GDP in 2006. A report says Government’s new film tax relief is working well >>>

UK Films 2006: KANK among top Foreign 4
171 foreign language films were released in 2006 (33.9% of all films) in 29 languages and took £29.8 million at the UK box office. Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna ... >>>

EU Cinema Report Card
926 million cinema tickets were sold, EU films earned a 28% share of admissions and a total of 862 films were produced, but there's no mention of the UK's Indian cinema >>>

'Bollywood'- derogatory
India's great actors, Naseer Shah and Om Puri caused a controversy when they  called 'Bollywood' a derogatory word at an  honour given by India-EU Film Initiative in London >>>

42nd Karlovy Vary IFF
Prestigious film festival of East Europe - 42nd Karlovy Vary of Czech Republic- ends with surprise winners. Indian actress Nandita Das was one of the jury members but Indian cinema  >>>

Eros in huge profits
London, July 4. Eros plc, the largest distributors of Indian films overseas, delivered a steep rise in fiscal full-year profits for 2007 after a year of its listing on London Stock Exchange's AIM >>>

UTV Motion Pictures
UTV Motion Pictures started trading on Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of London Stocks Exchange, from Monday, July 2 2007. The company had raised $70 million >>>

AR Rahman and “THE LORD OF THE RINGS”
The most expensive musical ever staged outside Las Vegas, featuring AR Rahman's music, opened in London on a day when Rahman's laptop went missing  >>>

'Shoot On Sight' in London
The filming of 'Shoot On Sight', a film by Jag Mundhra, is creating a buzz in London these days. Based on London bombings, SOS features an international cast >>>

Bollywood's Oscars

Perhaps this was the longest ceremony of film awards in the world- started at 7 PM on June 9 and finished at 2 AM June 10. Yorkshire, perhaps, had never seen so many media people before >>>

BAFTA for Bachchan
The British Academy of Film & Television Arts welcomed Amitabh Bachchan to a special weekend on 16 and 17 June in celebration of his exceptional career in film. Bachchan is >>>

The Great India Party!

Rakesh Mathur sends us news, pictures and gossip from the 60th Cannes Film Festival.
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