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BBC Films makes two key hires

2017-07-24T10:01:00Z

EXCLUSVE: Geraldine Atlee and Eva Yates join from Film4.

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IM Global to commence sales on Walking With Dinosaurs 3D from BBC, Reliance

2010-11-01T16:38:00Z

IM Global enters AFM this week with arguably the biggest English language project in the market after it emerged today [Nov 1] that BBC Earth and Reliance Big Entertainment are partnering on Walking With Dinosaurs 3D and two other films.

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Judi Dench, Jamie Bell join Jane Eyre on eve of UK shoot

2010-03-17T00:05:00Z

Judi Dench, Jamie Bell and Holliday Grainger have joined the cast of Focus Features and BBC Films’ Jane Eyre, which is scheduled to begin shooting in the UK next week.

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Edge Of Darkness

2010-01-24T15:00:00Z

Dir: Martin Campbell. US. 2009. 117 mins.

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BBC Films and Origin Pictures to make Ordinary Thunderstorms

2009-07-01T14:07:00Z

David Thompson’s production company Origin Pictures and BBC Films have secured film rights to William Boyd’s new novel Ordinary Thunderstorms, ahead of its publication in September.

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MK2 picks up French rights to Fish Tank

2009-05-04T17:29:00Z

MK2 has acquired French rights to Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank from ContentFilm International.

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Jane Wright and Christine Langan to head up BBC Films

2009-04-27T15:40:00Z

Jane Wright has been appointed as managing director of BBC Films and Christine Langan has been appointed to the role of creative director of the division.Wright will oversee day-to-day responsibility for business, operations and marketing aspects of the division and will retain an executive producing role within BBC Films, while ...

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Justin Chadwick to direct The First Grader

2009-04-02T12:28:00Z

Justin Chadwick, whose credits include The Other Boleyn Girl, is to direct The First Grader. Ann Peacock has written the screenplay.

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The Damned United

2009-03-23T07:00:00Z

Dir. Tom Hooper. UK. 2009. 97mins.

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BBC Films, HanWay groom teen spies with Cherub

2009-02-07T06:31:00Z

BBC Films is to tap into the teen market with the adaptation of the first book of Robert Muchamore's teenage spy series. Cherub;The Recruit, which is being introduced to buyers in Berlin by HanWay Films, marks the start of what BBC Films hopes will be a book franchise aimed at ...

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IFC Films takes UK comedy In The Loop for US distribution

2009-01-23T00:54:00Z

IFC Films has bought US distribution rights to Armando Iannucci's comedy farce In The Loop, set to get its world premiere here tonight [January 22], and will release on its IFC In Theaters platform later this year.The film will also get channelled through IFC Entertainment's exclusive deal with Blockbuster. IFC's ...

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Five Minutes Of Heaven

2009-01-21T11:11:00Z

Dir: Oliver Hirschbiegl. UK/Ireland. 2009. 90 mins

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In The Loop

2009-01-20T16:58:00Z

Dir. Armando Iannucci, UK, 2008, 109 minutes.

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Ecosse, Shivas to produce Disraeli biopic

2000-06-30T18:11:00Z

Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd is being lined up to star as Benjamin Disraeli in the provisionally titled Dizzy, a feature dramatising the life of the brilliant British prime minister being produced by Mark Shivas and Ecosse Films.Gruffudd would play Disraeli at 28 years old in the film, which revolves around ...

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Bolstered BBC Films encroaches on FilmFour turf

2000-06-26T06:23:00Z

A bolstered BBC Films could be hived off from its hulking parent company and housed in new digs near London's Charlotte Street, within spitting distance of archrival FilmFour, according to plans currently being drawn up by the UK's public broadcaster. Assuming those plans get rubberstamped, BBC Films will soon re-locate ...