Dragojevic's The Parade becomes a hit in Serbia, ready for regional rollout
// 20th of December, 2011
Srdjan Dragojevic’s Parada (The Parade) Number One in Home Territories
// 14th of December, 2011
There has been massive box office success for F&ME’s co-production Srdjan Dragojevic’s Parada (The Parade) making it the number one box office hit in Serbia and Montenegro for 2011 and one of the top grossing Serbian films of all time breaking the $1 million box office barrier this week.
Film and Music Entertainment in Screen
// 12th of September, 2011
F&ME producers Mike Downey and Sam Taylor talk about the new projects on their slate, plans for expansion and why having an international outlook is the key to their success.
JULIEN TEMPLE RETURNS TO RIO DE JANIERO
// 30th of August, 2011
SHOOTING BEGAN LAST WEEK ON CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION A HYMN TO THE CONTRIBUTION MADE BY MUSIC TO THE POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION OF BRAZIL FROM THE MILITARY JUNTA TO FIRST WORLD SUCCESS STORY.
Enthusiasm for "Turtle" Film Sparks Merchandising and Licensing Opportunities for Hannover House…
// 17th of July, 2011
SeaWorld Sets Turtle: The Incredible Journey for Summer Release...
// 17th of July, 2011
London and Rio sign Agreement
// 17th of July, 2011
Rock in Rio vai virar filme dirigido por Julien Temple
// 17th of May, 2011
O cineasta Julien Temple, que ficou conhecido por dirigir um documentário sobre a banda inglesa Sex Pistols, anunciou em Cannes que vai gravar um documentário no Rio de Janeiro chamado 'Children of the Revolution'.
Cannes diary: Stanley Kubrick, Penelope Cruz and Julien Temple
// 17th of May, 2011
Cannes film festival news in brief
BFI, Film London make major announcements
// 17th of May, 2011
British Film Institute (BFI) Chair Greg Dyke announced at Cannes that Oscar and BAFTA-winning The King's Speech [trailer, film focus] director Tom Hooper has been appointed to the BFI’s Board of Governors.
Pampa, Conspiracao, Globo team on 'Bresil': F&ME + TV Zero on ‘Children of the Revolution’
// 17th of May, 2011
Nicolas Traube's Paris-based Pampa Prods. and Brazil's Conspiracao and Globo Filmes are teaming on one of the biggest Franco-Brazilian co-productions to date, "Rouge Bresil," an €8 million ($11.5 million) theatrical movie and two-part telepic.
Entering its first TV deal, RioFilme, a Rio de Janeiro town hall equity investment film fund, has put up a minimum guarantee against international sales.
ANDRZEJ JAKIMOWSKI, director
// 17th of May, 2011
Jakimowski won has built a reputation for well-observed, psychologically true human dramas. Both "Squint Your Eyes" in 2002 and "Tricks" in 2007 looked at relationships through the eyes of children. "Tricks," about a 6-year-old boy trying to manipulate fate to bring a man he thinks is his father back home, was sold by Berlin-based M-Appeal to more than 30 countries.
Julien Temple Returns to Rio for Music Film Series
// 16th of May, 2011
Julien Temple, who accompanied the Sex Pistols (or rather, the bastardized post-Rotten version of them) to Rio de Janeiro for his debut feature The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, will return to the Brazilian megalopolis this year for the first in a series of city-themed music documentaries.
London and Rio Sign City to City Agreement
// 16th of May, 2011
MoU Sees Film London and Rio Film Commission Working Together to Boost Film Business in their Regions
The director begins shooting Rio de Janeiro-centric "Children of the Revolution" this year followed by "This Is London."
// 16th of May, 2011
Director Julian Temple is readying a series of documentaries based around looking at cities and their music. The series kicks off with a Rio de Janeiro doc, followed by films about London and Tijuana.
Ealing Metro nabs Julien Temple docs
// 15th of May, 2011
'Children of the Revolution,' 'This is London' to lense this year
Ealing Metro International has snapped up sales rights for five of Julien Temple's "cities and music" docus.
The first two pics, "Children of the Revolution" and "This Is London," are both skedded to lense this year.
Julien Temple, F&ME head to Brazil for rockumentary
// 15th of May, 2011
UK-based Film & Music Entertainment teams with Julien Temple for rock doc.
Manila-set Snow White finishes shoot, gets new supporters
// 15th of May, 2011
Dutch Production house Springfilm and UK producer Film and Music Entertainment have completed shooting on Manila-shot fiction feature Snow White (aka Lilet Never Happened).
Julien Temple To Direct City-Based Music Documentary Series; First Up, Rio
// 15th of May, 2011
Julian Temple will direct a series of city-based music documentaries, with the first, "Children of the Revolution," focused on the annual Rock in Rio concert in Rio de Janiero.
Principal Photography began on May 12 in Portugal on Andrzej Jakimowski’s Blind Watching
// 14th of May, 2011
Principal Photography began on May 12 in Portugal on Andrzej Jakimowski’s Blind Watching. Former Cannes Jury Member Alexandra Maria Lara and Brit actor Edward Hogg Lead a Cast of 20 Young Blind Actors in Evora and Lisbon.
Snow White (aka Lilet Never Happened)
// 14th of May, 2011
Dutch Production house Springfilm and UK producer Film and Music Entertainment announce end of shooting their Manila-shot fiction feature Snow White (aka Lilet Never Happened). Internationally known Dutch Star Johanna Ter Steege joins all local cast. Post production to take place in the Netherlands and Norway. Campaigning organisations Salinlah, Pinay Sa Holland, Small Voices for Change: An International Campaign to STOP Child Prostitution and Gabriela join the project as campaign partners.
EALING METRO INTERNATIONAL AND JULIEN TEMPLE GET READY TO ROCK IN LONDON, TIJUANA AND RIO DE JANEIRO
// 14th of May, 2011
CITIES AND MUSIC DOCUMENTARIES TO BE PRODUCED BY FILM AND MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (F&ME), B&W FILMS AND NITRATE FILM
Ealing Metro International have signed on to handle international sales rights to a series of Julien Temple ‘cities and music’ documentaries, in the first instance featuring Rio de Janeiro, London, Tijuana with a number of other key music metropolises in the pipeline.
Julien Temple Readying City-Specific Music Documentary Series (Cannes)
// 14th of May, 2011
The director begins shooting Rio de Janeiro-centric "Children of the Revolution" this year followed by "This Is London."
PRODUCTION: Blind Watching Begins Filming
// 13th of May, 2011
Polish director Andrzej Jakimowski began principal photography on Blind Watching in Portugal on 12 May 2011. The €2.05 million film is his first English language film. Jakimowski directed the acclaimed 2009 Polish Oscar entry, Tricks.
Snow White
// 15th of March, 2011
Spring, F&ME to shoot Manila Child Prostitution story http://www.screendaily.com/news/production/spring-fme-to-shoot-manila-child-prostitution-story/5023735.article
Director Jacco Groen has acquired an int'l cast for the dark film about the underbelly of child prostitution in Manila, which begins production in April. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/real-life-child-prostitution-tale-99048
Blind Watching
// 15th of March, 2011
Edward Hoff, Alexandra Maria Lara join Andrzej Jakimowski’s ‘Blind Watching’ (Berlin) http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/edward-hogg-alexandra-maria-lara-98278
Lara, Hogg join cast of Jakimowski’s Blind Watching http://www.screendaily.com/news/production/lara-hogg-join-cast-of-jakimowskis-blind-watching/5023662.article
3D The Mortician Emotionally Engaging
// 15th of March, 2011
Antonia Bird’s Cross My Mind to shoot in May
// 15th of March, 2011
uCarmen gang heads back to film with F&ME deal
// 15th of March, 2011
Macgowan Films Backs Screenwriter Judy Morris ‘Needlepoint’ (Berlin)
// 15th of March, 2011
Rock in Rio
// 15th of March, 2011
Julian Temple, F&ME head to Brazil for Rockumentary http://www.screendaily.com/news/production/julien-temple-fme-head-to-brazil-for-rockumentary/5023624.article
Cineasta britânico vem ao Brasil filmar transformações culturais no Rio de Janeiro http://www.atribuna.com.br/noticias.asp?idnoticia=79944&idDepartamento=12&idCategoria=0
Documentário será gravado durante o Rock in Rio http://jornale.com.br/portal/entretenimento/73-03-entretenimento/12343-documentario-sera-gravado-durante-o-rock-in-rio.html
Diretor inglês vai filmar documentário durante o Rock In Rio http://www.muus.com.br/diretor-ingles-vai-filmar-documentario-durante-o-rock-in-rio/
Diretor inglês filmará documentário durante o Rock In Rio 4 http://www.folhahoje.com.br/cultura/diretor_ingl_s_filmar_document_rio_durante_o_rock_in_rio_4.htm
Peter Greenaway and F&ME
// 15th of March, 2011
Greenaway readies Goltzius, Einstein Projects http://www.screendaily.com/news/europe/greenaway-readies-goltzius-eisenstein-projects/5023673.article
Greenaway fall for off beat romance http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118032147?refcatid=353
StreetKids United press releases
// 15th of March, 2011
Press articles about StreetKids United.
F&ME has two films selected to the Berlin Film Festival 2011!
// 11th of February, 2011
Film and Music Entertainment’s two recently complete films, feature documentary STREETKIDS UNITED and THE MORTICIAN 3D (co-produced with Full Circle Films) have been selected for the Berlin Film Festival.
Flying Blind
// 20th of December, 2010
Cassandra at the Wedding
// 20th of December, 2010
Murphy to direct 'Cassandra at the Wedding'
Bruno Heller to adapt rom-com
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F&ME Boards Child Prostitution Exposé
// 14th of October, 2010
Film and Music Ent. boards 'Lilet'
// 14th of October, 2010
Groen to direct UK-Dutch co-pro Lilet Never Happened
// 14th of October, 2010
Greenaway Producer Signs 4 Film Deal
// 14th of October, 2010
Kasander, F&ME announce pact including $17.5m initial slate
// 14th of October, 2010
F&ME, Kasander Film ink pact
// 14th of October, 2010
F&ME, Kasander ink four-pic deal
// 14th of October, 2010
F&ME, Kasander team on 4 film slate
// 14th of October, 2010
F&ME EXPANDS 3D ACTIVITIES
// 18th of May, 2010
Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) expand their 3D activities and make TURTLE: The Incredible Journey available in 3D to International Distributors in Cannes Following Russian Release at the End of April. The Mortician 3D completes editing in London. Other projects in the pipeline.
F&ME BOOSTS DOCUMENTARY ROSTER
// 18th of May, 2010
Film and Music Entertainment to Bolster Expanding Documentary Roster with New Feature Documentary If You Accept (working title) currently starting production - whilst Wales-based Production Outfit Elfin Productions boards South African world cup soccer documentary Streetkids United.
F&ME BEEFS UP DEVELOPMENT SLATE
// 18th of May, 2010
Film and Music Entertainment Beefs Up 2010 Development Slate with ‘Cassandra’, ‘Culture’ and ‘Frog’ alongside screenplays in Progress by Keith English, Judy Morris and Dominic Murphy.
F&ME - TEN years old in 2010
// 4th of February, 2010
In celebration and commemoration of F&ME‘s 10th anniversary, Screen International published a special supplement to coincide with the 60th Berlinale and distributed worldwide and at the festival.
White Lightnin' listed in Mark Kermodes Top 10 Films of 2009
// 1st of February, 2010
2 F&ME actors nominated as EFP Shooting Stars 2010
// 24th of December, 2009
UK actor nominated as EFP Shooting Star for 2010
// 24th of December, 2009
Twilight gives new Brontë films wings
// 8th of December, 2009
Success of the Twilight saga books and films inspire new productions of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.
New European co-production event launches in the Alps
// 25th of November, 2009
New projects from Julien Temple (pictured) and Paul Andrew Williams are among those being presented at the inaugural European networking event in the French Alps, Co-Production Village Arc 1950.
Read the whole article
If the kids are united
// 25th of November, 2009
UK production house Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) is to produce Street Kids United, veteran filmmaker Tim Pritchard’s feature documentary about a group of British and African kids preparing for next year’s Street Child World Cup in South Africa.
Read the whole article
Iain Banks backs film version of sci-fi story
// 23rd of November, 2009
White Lightnin wins top prize in Mumbai
// 16th of November, 2009
F&ME To Venture once more into Feature Documentaries
// 16th of November, 2009
White Lightnin strikes US deal
// 16th of November, 2009
Julien Temple to direct Fake!
// 16th of November, 2009
White Lightnin’ takes top prize at Dinard
// 16th of November, 2009
Method Man digs 'Mortician' role
// 15th of November, 2009
Donkey chosen as Croatia’s entry to the foreign-language Academy Award.
// 30th of September, 2009
UK Film Council Annual Statistical Yearbook Names Film and Music Entertainment Britain’s Number Two Production Company after Working Title
// 30th of September, 2009
"Over the three year period between 2006 and 2008, Working Title came top of the list with 10 films followed by Film and Music Entertainment and Vertigo with nine each....."
Media and Film and Music Entertainments Turtle: The Incredible Journey to open in 7 European territories following North American Premiere in Toronto. Miranda Richardson in Toronto.
// 30th of September, 2009
E1 Snaps Up UK Distribution Rights to Horror/Slasher/Thriller Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (RWWM)
// 30th of September, 2009
White Lightnin’ Opens in the UK via Momentum Pictures
// 30th of September, 2009
Dominic Murphy’s psychobilly thriller goes wide in UK plus follows up Sundance and Berlin with competition screenings in Dinard, Warsaw and Sitges.
http://www.momentumpictures.com/flash#main
Film and Music Entertainment bag Major Slate Development cash to Add to their Development Funding Pot. The MEDIA Programme of the EU to fund F&ME 2010 Development Slate.
// 30th of September, 2009
Brit distribs focus on production
// 27th of September, 2009
Companies favor creative control over acquisitions
When indie Brit distrib Revolver announced it was launching a standalone production arm earlier this September, it became the latest U.K. distrib to move into the world of film production.
Read the whole article
Film and Music Entertainment’s Buick Riviera Selected for Variety Critic’s Choice 2009
// 17th of June, 2009
Event marks the 12th collaboration between Variety and European Film Promotion, which now groups national orgs from 29 countries. Program is selected by Variety crix and coordinated by senior international critic, Derek Elley.
Turtle film set to become Hollywood blockbuster
// 16th of June, 2009
The story behind Turtle: The Incredible Journey, a film tracking the journey of a loggerhead turtle as she travels across the Atlantic Ocean and narrated by twice Oscar-nominated actress Miranda Richardson.
UK's F&ME joins sci-fi comedy Iron Sky
// 21st of May, 2009
London-based Film and Music Entertainment has boarded Blind Spot Pictures’ Iron Sky as co-producer.
The $7.2m (€5.5m) project, directed by Timo Vuorensola, is also produced by 27 Films Production, Energia Productions and Cinet.
White Lightnin' team sign with WME for worldwide
// 21st of May, 2009
The team behind Sundance hit and Berlin Panorama title White Lightnin' - UK director Dominic Murphy and producers Mike Downey and Sam Taylor - have signed a worldwide representation deal with William Morris Agency for themselves and their associated companies.
Read the full article @ www.screendaily.com
Isabella Films and F&ME go Dutch
// 21st of May, 2009
Zagreb Film Festival Retrospective to be dedicated to Film and Music Entertainment’s Mike Downey and Sam Taylor
// 21st of May, 2009
Zagreb Film Festival Retrospective to be dedicated to Film and Music Entertainment’s Mike Downey and Sam Taylor.
Launch of a new $1 million Development Fund
// 21st of May, 2009
Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) Announces the Launch of a new $1 million Development Fund. Fund to be split between F&ME in-house projects and third party properties.
Start of Post Production on three features: Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre, Donkey and A Congregation of Ghosts
// 21st of May, 2009
Film and Music Entertainment buck UK Co-Production Trends and Announce Start of Post Production on three features: Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre, Donkey and A Congregation of Ghosts - with three further co-productions readying to shoot in 2009. Total budgets amount to $17,000,000.
Post production Begins on Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre at Molinare in London
// 19th of March, 2009
Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre is an epic tale about a group of whale watchers, whose ship breaks down and they get picked up by a whale fishing vessel...
United Kingdom - Sustainable development
// 18th of March, 2009
London-based Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) is a business on the move. It doesn't have a great deal of choice in one respect - the company's Tottenham Court Road offices are to be demolished to make way for a new rail network.
Molinare Pact with Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME)
// 16th of February, 2009
Leading UK Film and TV Facilities Village, Molinare, Pact with Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) on long term multi-picture facilities/housekeeping deal. Five films already slated in first twelve months, more to follow.
White Lightnin' scores a hit in both Sundance and Berlin
// 3rd of February, 2009
Before the first midnight screening of "White Lightnin' " Sundance programmer Trevor Groth noted that "sometimes we show films that defy categorization" and this film certainly lived up to that. A rollicking, terrifying trip through good-times Americana and nightmares of madness and revenge, the film tells the not-entirely-true story of Jesco White.
White Lightnin' earns Berlinale Panorama spot
// 17th of January, 2009
Dominic Murphy's Sundance-bound directorial debut White Lightnin' is among the first titles to win a place in the 2009 Panorama section at Berlin.
SUNDANCE BOUND “WHITE LIGHTNIN”SNAPPED UP BY BERLIN’S PANORAMA. JESCO WHITE BIO-FANSTASY STRIKES A CHORD WITH GILMORE AND SPECK
// 16th of December, 2008
F&ME, Murphy team for MASS prod'n
// 9th of December, 2008
Upcoming British director Dominic Murphy is teaming with veteran finance and production house Film & Music Entertainment, headed by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor, on a slate of projects under the resurrected banner MASS Prods.
Read the full article @ www.hollywoodreporter.com.
UK's F&ME lines up slate deal with Dominic Murphy
// 9th of December, 2008
Dominic Murphy, whose debut feature White Lightnin' will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, is to team up again with Mike Downey and Sam Taylor of Film and Music Entertainment on a slate of projects.
The films will be produced by their newly revived MASS Productions label.
F&ME Launch New Production Label
// 9th of December, 2008
"White Lightnin'" Director Dominic Murphy and Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) Kickstarts MASS Production as Long Term Multi Picture Production Partnership
F&ME signs Filmbank pact
// 12th of November, 2008
U.K. company also agrees Content deal
U.K. production house Film & Music Entertainment, which is chaired by helmer Stephen Daldry, has struck a series of distribution pacts.
Filmbank Distributors, a joint venture company owned by Warner Bros. Ent. and Sony Pictures Releasing, will distrib the F&ME catalog across all media in the U.K.
Downey and Taylor's F&ME launches new $1m development fund
// 12th of November, 2008
UK-based Film And Music Entertainment s initially backing a slate of five projects for 2008, including Keith English's The Enemy with Pathe and Silverlight.
You can read the full story here.
UK 's F&ME secures deals to exploit catalogue across all media
// 12th of November, 2008
Production house F&ME allies with Filmbank, Content Film and Content Republic in separate deals to exploit catalogue.
You can read the full story here.
Ed Blum signs on for two $15m F&ME features
// 12th of November, 2008
Scenes Of A Sexual Nature director ready for two new features, FAKE! and The Laughter Clinic with Mike Downey and Sam Taylor's Film and Music Entertainment.
You can read the full story here.
F&ME goes fishing for English-language Icelandic horror film
// 12th of November, 2008
The film will start shooting in August with director Julius Kemp. Financing was closed here in Cannes.
You can read the full story here.
F&ME kicks off shoots for three new UK co-productions
// 12th of November, 2008
Mike Downey and Sam Taylor's UK production company starts shoots of Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre, Donkey and Beneath The Surface.
You can read the full story here.
F&ME adds to co-production slate
// 12th of November, 2008
'Debt,' 'Iceland,' 'Mission' join lineup
U.K. production shingle Film and Music Ent. has added a string of European co-productions to its lengthy slate.
Finnish director Joona Tena’s psychological thriller "The Debt," his follow-up to local hit "FC Venus," is limbering up for a spring shoot in Wales on a Euros 2 million ($2.9 million) budget.
F&ME, HB Films agree U.K. deal
// 12th of November, 2008
Agreement covers at least a dozen films
London-based shingle Film and Music Entertainment has signed a distribution deal with U.K. indie distrib HB Films, which will see HB release at least a dozen F&ME co-produced pics.
Initial releases under the deal will be a re-release of Milcho Manchevski’s Oscar-nommed "Before the Rain" and Danish thriller "Murk."
HB FILMS/MAIDEN VOYAGE PICTURES PACT WITH FILM AND MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
// 7th of October, 2008
HB FILMS/MAIDEN VOYAGE PICTURES PACT WITH FILM AND MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT IN A DISTRIBUTION VENTURE TO RELEASE A DOZEN F&ME CO-PRODUCTION TITLES . FIRST FILMS SLATED FOR NOVEMBER THIS YEAR.
Film and Music Entertainment buck UK Co-Production Trends and Announce Start of Principal Photography on three features: Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre, Donkey and Beneath the Surface
// 24th of September, 2008
Two further F&ME projects White Lightnin’ and The Turtle’s Song in last phase of delivery and another three readying to shoot early 2009.
Prolific London indie production house, Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) , run by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor announced this week start of principal photography on three feature film projects, all European co-productions shooting in Iceland, Croatia/Herzegovina and China/Sudan. Post production on all three will take place in London.