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Plots With A View - Plato’s Breaking Point – Asylum - Anazapta

A quick update on some of our other films

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GREAT BRITISH FILMSAUGUST 2005E: info@greatbritishfilms.com

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To the latest newsletter. Bye Bye Blackbird has started successfully on the festival circuit and Asylum and Plato’s Breaking Point are in negotiations for new distribution deals.Other films continue to screen globally or figure strongly in the DVD market.

Michael McDonald

Within - Bye Bye Blackbird

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Tooth – George And The Dragon

Bye Bye Blackbird wins three awards

Premiere Picture’s Bye Bye Blackbird has started successfully on the festival circuit. The film won three awards in the official competition at the Taormina Film Festival.

The film industry magazine, Variety, in their review of Bye Bye Blackbird at the festival stated;

“Ravishing images and a stand-out central performance by Charlie Chaplin’s grandson James Thierree mark Robinson Savary’s debut feature ‘Bye Bye Blackbird’”.

The film will next appear at the International Film Festival of Tokyo in October and will feature in the World Cinema category at the Montreal Film Festival in September.

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Great British Films 2006

Great British Films is planning to announce its Premiere Picture 2006 film investment plans shortly. The films slate for 2005-6 is currently being formalised, to include a carefully selected group of commercially driven projects from different genres and of varied budgets.

We are diversifying our activities to include active involvement in co-production with established partners in the UK and worldwide.

Our joint venture with the IFA / Media Group, Brass Hat, for the funding of US studio produced films is progressing successfully and we are intending to provide our services to other financial and media companies.

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Tooth

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Within (The Void)

Cast: Fiona GlascottAmy PerfectDerek HamiltonBoyan Vukelic

Directors: John Curtis and Merlin WardProducers: Rod Akizuki, Lloyd Simandl

Marco Dell’Utri, Adam BetteridgeWorld Sales: H3O Filmed Entertainment Inc.

Four post-graduate students are trapped by a malevolent force in a remote Czech castle.H3O Filmed Entertainment, the co-producer and sales agent, is focusing on selling world rights.The film has screened to distributors in Los Angeles and also in Cannes and negotiations are currently underway with a North American distributor.

Cast: Harry Enfield (Kevin & Perry…)Richard E Grant (Bright Young Things)Vinnie Jones (Snatch)

Director: Edouard NammourProducer: Susie Brooks SmithWorld Sales: Lakeshore Entertainment

Tooth, the children’s tooth fairy story, has had its rental release in Iceland earlier in the year and its TV premiere in Hungary in June.

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Cast: Izabella Miko (Coyote Ugly)Derek Jacobi (Gosford Park)Jodhi May (Tipping the Velvet)

Director: Robinson SavaryProducer: Christine AldersonWorld Sales: MovieHouse Entertainment (UK)

Following its UK premiere at the London Film Focus event in June, Bye Bye Blackbird, the turn of the century love story, has won three awards at the 51st Taormina Film Festival on the island of Sicily scooped the following awards - The Audience Jury Award, The International Jury FIPRESCI Award and The Award of Best Photography Director to Christophe Beaucarne.The film has been selected at the forthcoming Montreal and Tokyo film festivals and submissions have been made for the Mill Valley Festival in California, USA and the British Film Festival of Dinard in Northern France.

Bye Bye Blackbird

George And The Dragon

Cast: James Purefoy (Vanity Fair)Patrick Swayze (Donnie Darko)Simon Callow (Bright Young Things)

Director: Tom ReeveProducer: Romain SchroederWorld Sales: Media 8 Entertainment

Having recently secured US distribution, George and the Dragon, the legendary tale, has its theatrical release in Italy this month.

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Scene from Tooth

Scene from Bye Bye Blackbird

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Cast: Dai Bradley (Kes)Nabil Elouahabi (BBC’s Eastenders)

Director: Nigel Roffe BarkerProducer: Melloney Roffe

Following the closing gala success at Bradford and the screening in Israel, the immigration drama, Asylum, is in the process of concluding a deal with Channel 4 International to be the films new sales agent.

Channel 4 International is committed to the distribution of all media forms and with its contacts through Channel 4 is a well respected international seller.

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Asylum

Anazapta

Cast: Jason Flemyng (Layer Cake)Lena Headey (Ripley’s Game)Ian McNiece (Bridget Jones: Edge..)

Director: Alberto SciammaProducers: David Ball, Michael Cowan &

Jason PietteWorld Sales: Lightning Entertainment

The medieval murder mystery, Anazapta, has had its DVD premiere earlier in the year in both Spain and France.The film continues to sell worldwide; with Brazil being the latest.

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Plots With A View

Cast: Brenda Blethyn (Saving Grace)Alfred Molina (Spiderman 2)Christopher Walken (Catch me if …)Naomi Watts (21 Grams)

Director: Nick HurranProducers: Spice Factory/Vine/Snowfall/DreamfishWorld Sales: Vine International/Miramax

With its end of year release in the USA pending, Undertaking Betty aka Plots With A View continues its worldwide release schedule with recent screenings in Hungary and Poland.

Cast: Joe Neves-FerreiraWilliam HallidayDelphine Lanson

Director: Nigel Roffe BarkerProducers: Melloney RoffeWorld Sales: Cinemavault Releasing Inc

Borrowing from the classic robbery/criminal genre, Plato’s Breaking Point follows Plato, a small time criminal, through the last few months of his life.

Blackhorse Entertainment are going to distribute the DVD of Plato’s Breaking Point in the UK.

Plato’s Breaking Point

Alfred Molina in Plots With A View

Scene from Anazapta

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Out Of Bounds (Dead In The Water)

This newsletter has been written with the co-operation of many of the filmmakers mentioned.

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The girls boarding school thriller, Out of Bounds, is currently on release on DVD in the USA, Germany, UK, Australia, Thailand and a number of smaller territories.

Great British Films Releasing is hoping to capitalise on Sophia Myles’ rising status. The actress has two Hollywood movies released in the next six months – ‘Art School Confidential’ and ‘Tristan and Isolde’ and there will be renewed efforts to market Out of Bounds in relation to these films.

Summer Rain

Negotiations are underway to release Summer Rain on DVD via the Eureka DVD label. Under this arrangement, it is intended that the retail version shall come out boxed with a CD of the exciting Brighton bands that provided the popular soundtrack.

Director Jonathan Glendening is currently preparing the extras that may consist of a Director and Writers commentary, Male and Female commentaries and 25 minutes of deleted scenes, Cast Auditions, TV News spots, ‘The Making Of’ and ‘Summer Rain goes to Hollywood’ and ‘Summer Rain goes to New York.’