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Hot International Trailer: ‘Byzantium’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 1, 2013 @ 11:38pm PSTTags: Byzantium, Neil Jordan

An international trailer has surfaced for Neil Jordan‘s vampire movie Byzantium. The trailer boasts of Jordan’s connection to Interview With A Vampire, but Jordan’s 1984 scary lycanthrope fairy tale The Company of Wolves (with Angela Lansbury!) or even his work on Showtime’s The Borgias would be more of a lure than the director’s 1994 misadventure with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. IFC Films picked up U.S. theatrical rights last year at Toronto but hasn’t set a release date. This potentially intriguing story about a pair of vampires on the run stars Gemma Arterton, Caleb Landry Jones, Daniel Mays, Jonny Lee Miller, Sam Riley and Saoirse Ronan.

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Toronto: IFC Sinking Teeth Into Neil Jordan Vampire Tale ‘Byzantium’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday September 11, 2012 @ 12:20pm PDTTags: Byzantium, IFC, Neil Jordan, TIFF Wrap-Up, Toronto Film Festival
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EXCLUSIVE: In the second seven-figure deal so far today at the Toronto Film Festival, IFC is acquiring U.S. rights to Byzantium, the vampire film by Neil Jordan that has festgoers feeling the filmmaker has returned to the terrain of Interview With The Vampire. I’m told that the deal coming together is several million dollars in minimum guarantee and marketing commitment. While IFC has been heavy into multiplatform, this film has designs on a theatrical release broadening out to several hundred screens.

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Scripted by Moira Buffini, Byzantium stars Gemma Arterton, Caleb Landry Jones, Daniel Mays, Jonny Lee Miller, Sam Riley and Saoirse Ronan. It is produced by Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen. The story focuses on two vampires who are on the run from the past and who are hiding a terrible secret. Read More »

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FIRST LOOK: Saoirse Ronan In ‘Byzantium’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Monday February 13, 2012 @ 2:15pm PSTTags: Byzantium, Neil Jordan, Saoirse Ronan

EXCLUSIVE: Below is the first image from Neil Jordan’s Byzantium which just wrapped principal photography. The film stars ‘teen action queen’ Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley, Caleb Landry Jones, Jonny Lee Miller and Danny Mays. It’s produced by Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen of Number 9 films, Alan … Read More »

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Global Showbiz Briefs: UK, China, Ireland

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 10:28am PSTTags: Byzantium, CCTV, China, Ed Vaizey, Irish Film Board, ITV, Neil Jordan

‘Harry Potter’ Among Warner Bros Movies To Land At ITV
ITV announced that it has acquired free-to-air broadcast rights to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince along with other movies as part of a wide-ranging multiyear deal with Warner Bros. The pact was unveiled today by Warner Bros International Television Distribution president Jeffrey Schlesinger and ITV’s Angela Jain. Other films in the package include recent titles 300, I Am Legend and Body Of Lies as well as library fare like The Matrix trilogy and Mystic River. ITV was already home to the previous Harry Potter films.

British Culture Minister In Town This Week; BFI Adds To P&A Fund
Ed Vaizey, the UK’s minister for culture, communications and creative industries, arrived in Los Angeles on Monday for two days of powwows with studio and indie execs. Joining Vaizey is British Film Commission CEO Adrian Wootton as the duo aim to further develop relationships in town and boost the number of U.S. productions shooting in Britain now that the UK’s tax rebate system has been extended to at least 2015. The sojourn will also give Vaizey a chance to peruse the U.S. biz ahead of the publication of a comprehensive film policy review. Meanwhile, the British Film Institute today announced it would devote an additional £1 million to its P&A Fund in order to help get films like Lynne Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin and Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus out to wider audiences. Read More »

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