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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.

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Success of the Twilight saga books and films inspire new productions of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Zagreb Film Festival Retrospective to be dedicated to Film and Music Entertainment’s Mike Downey and Sam Taylor.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

White hot commercials maestro Dominic Murphy's directorial debut, White Lightnin',  which tells the tragi-comic story of the life of Appalachian mountain dancer Jesco White, is one of the first  titles selected by the Berlin Film Festival's  Panorama chief Wieland Speck, after the Berlinale's traditional December screenings in London this weekend.

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.

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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.

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Upcoming British director, Dominic Murphy, whose debut feature White Lightnin' will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, is to team again with Mike Downey and Sam Taylor of Film and Music Entertainment on a slate of projects to be produced by their newly revived MASS Productions label.

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.

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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.

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Production house F&ME allies with Filmbank, Content Film and Content Republic in separate deals to exploit catalogue.

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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.

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The film will start shooting in August with director Julius Kemp. Financing was closed here in Cannes.

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Mike Downey and Sam Taylor's UK production company starts shoots of Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre, Donkey and Beneath The Surface.

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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.

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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."

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London-based film distributor HB FILMS and leading UK independent film production house Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) have joined forces to release a slate of F&ME’s co-productions as well as third party acquisitions from their European and US production partners. Initial films to be released in 2008 include a re-release of Milcho Manchevski’s Academy Award Nominated and Venice winner Before the Rain and Danish thriller Murk written by Thomas Jensen.

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.

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.

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.

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 (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.

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.

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.

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.

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 (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.

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...

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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 18^th – 25^th September.