Exclusive: Coffee & Cigarettes launches Vr arm and inks film deal with Extreme sports brand.
Marketing and distribution agency Coffee & Cigarettes have launched virtual reality production and distribution arm Virtual Reality Entertainment.
The London-based outfit is set to offer 360° filming and post production services to clients across the film, music and sports entertainment industries and will look to create its own narrative driven content.
The company has already produced four short-form pieces of Vr content but will also look to distribute third party 360° film and Vr content.
Coffee & Cigarettes has signed a partnership with sports brand Extreme and a 360° feature co-production is scheduled for 2016 following filming at the channel’s motor sports events throughout 2015.
The outfit is aiming to have the first production ready to release at a similar time to the consumer launches of the Samsung Gear Vr, Oculus Rift, Sony PlayStation Vr, Htc Vive and other Vr devices early next year.
Tom Clark, director...
Marketing and distribution agency Coffee & Cigarettes have launched virtual reality production and distribution arm Virtual Reality Entertainment.
The London-based outfit is set to offer 360° filming and post production services to clients across the film, music and sports entertainment industries and will look to create its own narrative driven content.
The company has already produced four short-form pieces of Vr content but will also look to distribute third party 360° film and Vr content.
Coffee & Cigarettes has signed a partnership with sports brand Extreme and a 360° feature co-production is scheduled for 2016 following filming at the channel’s motor sports events throughout 2015.
The outfit is aiming to have the first production ready to release at a similar time to the consumer launches of the Samsung Gear Vr, Oculus Rift, Sony PlayStation Vr, Htc Vive and other Vr devices early next year.
Tom Clark, director...
- 12/17/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Aus/Nz distributor hires Coffee & Cigarettes as European consultant.
Australia/New Zealand distributor Umbrella Entertainment has appointed Coffee & Cigarettes as its European acquisitions consultant.
Under the agreement Eduardo Panizzo will acquire for Umbrella as part of his remit at Coffee & Cigarettes, the London-based marketing and distribution agency he founded with Tom Clark 12 months ago.
Umbrella’s upcoming releases include Fred Schepisi’s Words & Pictures, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Jim Mickle’s Cold In July.
Jeff Harrison, Umbrella Entertainment managing director, commented: “Eduardo and the Coffee & Cigarettes team bring a wealth of experience in buying for a multitude of territories, and we are excited about the addition to the acquisitions team at Umbrella.”...
Australia/New Zealand distributor Umbrella Entertainment has appointed Coffee & Cigarettes as its European acquisitions consultant.
Under the agreement Eduardo Panizzo will acquire for Umbrella as part of his remit at Coffee & Cigarettes, the London-based marketing and distribution agency he founded with Tom Clark 12 months ago.
Umbrella’s upcoming releases include Fred Schepisi’s Words & Pictures, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Jim Mickle’s Cold In July.
Jeff Harrison, Umbrella Entertainment managing director, commented: “Eduardo and the Coffee & Cigarettes team bring a wealth of experience in buying for a multitude of territories, and we are excited about the addition to the acquisitions team at Umbrella.”...
- 4/3/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Coffee & Cigarettes exec to acquire for Aus/Nz distributor.
Australia/New Zealand distributor Umbrella Entertainment has appointed Coffee & Cigarettes executive Eduardo Panizzo as its European acquisitions consultant.
Panizzo will acquire for Umbrella and continue to work at Coffee & Cigarettes, the London-based marketing and distribution agency he founded with Tom Clark 12 months ago.
Umbrella’s upcoming releases include Fred Schepisi’s Words & Pictures, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Jim Mickle’s Cold In July.
Jeff Harrison, Umbrella Entertainment managing director, commented: “Eduardo and the Coffee & Cigarettes team bring a wealth of experience in buying for a multitude of territories, and we are excited about the addition to the acquisitions team at Umbrella.”...
Australia/New Zealand distributor Umbrella Entertainment has appointed Coffee & Cigarettes executive Eduardo Panizzo as its European acquisitions consultant.
Panizzo will acquire for Umbrella and continue to work at Coffee & Cigarettes, the London-based marketing and distribution agency he founded with Tom Clark 12 months ago.
Umbrella’s upcoming releases include Fred Schepisi’s Words & Pictures, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Jim Mickle’s Cold In July.
Jeff Harrison, Umbrella Entertainment managing director, commented: “Eduardo and the Coffee & Cigarettes team bring a wealth of experience in buying for a multitude of territories, and we are excited about the addition to the acquisitions team at Umbrella.”...
- 4/3/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Micro-budget finance market to run alongside London’s Pfm.Scroll down for full list of projects
FilmLondon is launching a new UK-wide micro-budget finance market that will run alongside London’s Production Finance Market.
The Micro-Market, supported by Creative Skillset’s Film Skills Fund, will provide 19 production teams with one day of meetings with financiers looking for films budgeted at €1m ($1.36m) and under.
The teams will meet representatives from sales companies, investment funds, post houses, online and VOD platforms and public agencies and also get training in pitching ahead of the market which will take place on Oct 16-17.
Adrian Wootton, chief executive of Film London and British Film Commission, said: “Having identified a need among emerging UK producers, we have developed a unique event connecting micro-budget film-makers with financiers looking for projects in that bracket.
“The Micro-Market also includes a critical training component, so we are encouraging essential skills around pitching and packaging projects...
FilmLondon is launching a new UK-wide micro-budget finance market that will run alongside London’s Production Finance Market.
The Micro-Market, supported by Creative Skillset’s Film Skills Fund, will provide 19 production teams with one day of meetings with financiers looking for films budgeted at €1m ($1.36m) and under.
The teams will meet representatives from sales companies, investment funds, post houses, online and VOD platforms and public agencies and also get training in pitching ahead of the market which will take place on Oct 16-17.
Adrian Wootton, chief executive of Film London and British Film Commission, said: “Having identified a need among emerging UK producers, we have developed a unique event connecting micro-budget film-makers with financiers looking for projects in that bracket.
“The Micro-Market also includes a critical training component, so we are encouraging essential skills around pitching and packaging projects...
- 10/7/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Popular Cbbc program Wizards vs. Aliens will make its U.S. debut on The Hub network on June 1. Scott Haran stars in the lead role as 16-year-old Tom Clark, a teenager in a family of wizards. So from the show's title, you can pretty much guess what he'll be doing in the 12-episode series. Percelle Ascott plays his best friend, Benny Sherwood. Benny's parents on the show are played by British TV vets Don Gilet and Nina Sosanya. The Hub will first air Wizards vs. Aliens' two-part opener at 7Pm on June 1; subsequent episodes will follow every Saturday at 7:30Pm.
- 5/3/2013
- by Emmanuel Akitobi
- ShadowAndAct
A short film raising funds for homelessness charities aims to tell the real story of people living on the streets
In a dank side street off Covent Garden's piazza in London, an elderly man sways along the pavement, a battered carrier bag in one hand, a white stick in the other. A little boy with a cut lip creeps behind him. You suspect the tourists passing by might not notice them if it were not for the camera crew following the pair.
The Truth About Stanley, a short film being made to raise funds for the Big Issue and Anchor House, a hostel and life skills centre for homeless adults in east London, charts the friendship between two characters living rough on the capital's streets. Stanley, played by Kenyan star Oliver Litondo (recently seen in The First Grader), takes 10-year-old runaway Sam, played by Raif Clarke, under his wing, captivating...
In a dank side street off Covent Garden's piazza in London, an elderly man sways along the pavement, a battered carrier bag in one hand, a white stick in the other. A little boy with a cut lip creeps behind him. You suspect the tourists passing by might not notice them if it were not for the camera crew following the pair.
The Truth About Stanley, a short film being made to raise funds for the Big Issue and Anchor House, a hostel and life skills centre for homeless adults in east London, charts the friendship between two characters living rough on the capital's streets. Stanley, played by Kenyan star Oliver Litondo (recently seen in The First Grader), takes 10-year-old runaway Sam, played by Raif Clarke, under his wing, captivating...
- 12/8/2011
- by Rachel Williams
- The Guardian - Film News
Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick) and the squad are called in to investigate the murder of an actress, Judy Lynn ( Rhea Seehorn). Tod is placed at 36 hours. There is evidence of sexual activity but not of sexual assault. Judy was suffocated with a cushion, and she has a trace of thread on her mouth from where she bit onto the cushion. There's blood in the hall and spatter on the picture on the wall. Flynn (Tony Dension) and Sanchez (Raymond Cruz) demonstrate what most likely happened to Judy. Taylor (Robert Gossett) reminds Brenda of the final interview she has with the Mayor and she ignores him, wanting to proceed with the case. Tao (Michael Paul Chan) asks someone to disconnect the cable on the other side of the closet. Remember this for later. Stewart (Jd Cullum) found her and called for help. He directed her in one of his shows and he...
- 11/24/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
Rock Hudson Andrew Davies and Andre Shafer's Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger was screened in the 2010 Berlin Film Festival's Panorama sidebar. [Rock Hudson documentary synopsis.] Universal star Rock Hudson, one of the top box-office attractions in the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s, died of AIDS complications in his Beverly Hills home in 1985. Hudson, who was gay, lived a closeted life; he was briefly married to his agent's secretary and reportedly managed to broker a deal with scandal sheet Confidential when the gossip rag threatened to expose him. Among Hudson's best-known vehicles are Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession (1954) and All That Heaven Allows (1955), both co-starring Jane Wyman; George Stevens' Giant (1956), in which Hudson's co-stars were Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean, and for which he received his only Best Actor Academy Award nomination; Charles Vidor's poorly received but highly popular A Farewell to Arms (1957), with Jennifer Jones; Robert Mulligan's...
- 6/26/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Producer John Breglio and the Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. will bring Broadway uptown for four weeks only with Dreamgirls at the Apollo Theater, prior to the national tour of the new production of the groundbreaking musical. The national tour of Dreamgirls will kick-off at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater (253 West 125 Street) beginning previews Saturday, November 7, 2009, and opening Sunday, November 22, 2009, for 4 weeks only, through Sunday December, 6, 2009.
Dreamgirls is directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom with co-choreography by Shane Sparks, scenic design by Robin Wagner, costume design by William Ivey Long, lighting design by Ken Billington, sound design by Acme Sound Partners, and media design by Howard Werner for Lightswitch. With music direction by Sam Davis, orchestrations by Harold Wheeler, and Vocal Arrangements by David Chase & Cleavant Derricks, Dreamgirls is produced by John Breglio for Vienna Waits Productions in association with Chunsoo Shin, Jake Productions & Broadway Across America/TBS.
This brand-new production will...
Dreamgirls is directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom with co-choreography by Shane Sparks, scenic design by Robin Wagner, costume design by William Ivey Long, lighting design by Ken Billington, sound design by Acme Sound Partners, and media design by Howard Werner for Lightswitch. With music direction by Sam Davis, orchestrations by Harold Wheeler, and Vocal Arrangements by David Chase & Cleavant Derricks, Dreamgirls is produced by John Breglio for Vienna Waits Productions in association with Chunsoo Shin, Jake Productions & Broadway Across America/TBS.
This brand-new production will...
- 11/4/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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