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Notorious hoaxer helps to create picture of art forger
// 27th of May, 2008
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F&ME strikes three-film deal with Finland’s MRP
// 20th of May, 2008
The UK’s Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has struck a deal with Finland’s MRP Matila Rohr Productions for three feature films over the next two years.
Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) Pact with Finland’s MRP Matila Rohr Productions for three feature films over the next two years
// 19th of May, 2008
3D Epic Underwater Iceland, psychological thriller The Debt and classic police noir, The Priest of Evil
Finland's leading producer, distributor and facilities provider MRP Matila Rohr Productions and London-based production house F&ME have joined forces to replicate the success of their 2007 animation collaboration Quest for For a Heart to produce three feature films over the next two years.
Film and Music Entertainment Pact with Icelandic Film Company on slasher/horror/thriller Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (RWWM)
// 16th of May, 2008
Shooting starts in August
Leading Nordic producer and studio owner The Icelandic Film Company have joined forces for the third time with London-based producers Film and Music Entertainment to produce the English-language Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (RWWM) directed by Julius Kemp following the closing of finance in Cannes yesterday.
Film and Music Entertainment Pact with Ed Blum to direct FAKE! and The Laughter Clinic
// 14th of May, 2008
Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) the London-based production company run by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor have pacted with director Ed Blum (Scenes of a Sexual Nature) on two of their upcoming projects, art heist movie FAKE! and comedy The Laughter Clinic which Blum’s Tin Pan Films will also co-produce.
Film and Music Entertainment wrap up 3 films in the first North American slate, and announce their 2008 slate backed up by a $1 million development fund
// 26th of March, 2008
Shooting on three Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) projects wrapped up in North America last week, bringing to a close a busy twelve months working largely outside of Europe, in the wake of changes to the UK system of tax funding last year.
Film and Music Entertainment and Lumina Films Announce Shooting Begins on White Lightnin’ a collaboration with the UK Film Council and Vice Films of New York
// 23rd of November, 2007
Shooting has just got underway on White Lightnin’ - the feature film debut of leading international commercials director Dominic Murphy. The film was developed by Film and Music Entertainment and Vice Films, and is being produced by Mike Downey and Samantha Taylor for Valley Films/Mountain Productions, their UK producing co-venture with Vice Films.
Spain's S2 sings for The Turtle Song
// 25th of May, 2007
Stephane Sorlat's Madrid-based S2 International has rights in Spain and Portugal to Nick Stringer's documentary The Turtle Song from Sola Media.
Film and Music Entertainment Launch North American Slate: Four Films to Shoot in 2007 with budgets Totalling $20 Million
// 17th of May, 2007
Partners include UK Film Council, Momentum, Big Wave, Lumina Films and Sola M
Headlining the slate is the debut feature of commercials whiz Dominic Murphy, White Lightnin’: The Jesco White Murders, which has begun pre-production and is set to start shooting in North Carolina on July 30th.
Polyband takes German rights to The Turtle's Song
// 16th of May, 2007
Munich-based Polyband Medien, a subsidiary of Splendid Medien, has acquired German rights to Nick Stringer's The Turtle's Song, a documentary following the epic journey of a baby loggerhead turtle.
Border Post unites former Yugoslav states
// 27th of April, 2007
Croatian director Rajko Grlic has scored a highly significant hit throughout the former Yugoslavian states with Border Post (Karaula).
Border Post in Competition San Sebastian
// 11th of September, 2006
Border Post (Karaula) will screen in competition at this year's San Sebastian International Film festival. The announcement comes hard on the heels of the enormously successful box office results in its home territories and its award winning turn at the Croatian National festival in Pula in July.
Son of Man scoops top award at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival
// 11th of September, 2006
Mark Dornford-May's township-based life of Christ, Son of Man, which screened in world cinema competition at Sundance earlier this year, and picked up the best film prize at the Los Angeles Pan African Film festival, has added another award to the list when it garnered the prestigious Founders Award at the Traverse City Film Festival.
F&ME Completes Two New Films
// 4th of September, 2006
Completion has now taken place on two of the latest films on the F&ME slate in time for the winter festival season. The first is Anastezsi, directed by Miguel Alcantud produced in co-production with Mate Producciones in Madrid and Sintra in Rome.
Downey and Taylor become partners in Shotgun Pictures
// 31st of August, 2006
F&ME principals; Mike Downey and Sam Taylor have become partners in Shotgun Pictures, an investment vehicle for low budget films. The first three films completed are Adrift, which has sold worldwide via Summit and opens in the UK at the beginning of September via Pathe...
Son of Man and the Festival Circuit
// 7th of July, 2006
Son of Man (Jezile) by Mark Dornford-May has proved as popular with worldwide festivals as Mark's first film U-Carmen ekhayelitsha and is so far to be screened at 15 festivals with yet more to be confirmed. The film made its worldwide debut at Sundance Film Festival where it was invited to compete in the World Cinema section.
Eleven Men Out – Nation Wide Tour
// 5th of July, 2006
Eleven Men Out is currently on tour with the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival across the UK having proved popular at the London venue. It is due to screen at several venues including the Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Edinburgh, Cambridge and Glasgow.
F&ME website redesigned
// 16th of May, 2006
We are happy to present you our new, freshly redesigned website!
Guy X competes in Montreal
Having just returned from Edinburgh, where the UK premiere took place, Guy X will now compete at the new Montreal film festival – Festival International de Films de Montreal held from the 18th – 25th September.
Strings release - 28/06/2005
The magical film 'Strings' by Anders Ronnow Klarlund is now out on general release across the UK. F&ME co produced this feature with the Scandinavian BOB Film Sweden AB, Bald film and Nordisk Film. This mythological tale of a young prince on a quest to revenge his father’s death is told through crafted puppetering...
Guy X: UK release - October 14th
Guy X tells the story of young recruit Rudy Spruance (Jason Biggs), an American solider who ends up in a military hospital in Greenland, a hospital that according to the files doesn’t exist.