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NewsJez Butterworth writes feature about The Clash for Ruby
Olivier Award-winning playwright Jez Butterworth is writing the script for a feature about legendary punk rock group The Clash, which is due to shoot in 2011.
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Jackson-Cohen, Gleeson join Intrepid's The Raven in Hungary
Intrepid Pictures has begun principal photography in Hungary on The Raven starring John Cusack, Alice Eve and Luke Evans.
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Columbia hires Craig to adapt Quebec hit Fathers And Sons
Columbia Pictures has hired Peter Craig to adapt the French-Canadian phenomenon Fathers And Guns.
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Miller, Savin line up untitled CBGB's project
The Bottle Shock film-making team of Randall Miller and Jody Savin have lined up an untitled project about legendary club CBGB’s and the birth of the New York punk scene.
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CMG bullish on sales prospects for House Of The Rising Sun
Edward Noeltner’s Beverly Hills-based Cinema Management Group has announced that principal photography started yesteday [November 30] on House Of The Rising Sun.
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New film commission Film Link to be based out of Elstree
A new UK film commission is being launched in January to replace UK regional screen agency Screen East, which went into liquidation in October.
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NewsBFI's Amanda Nevill: 'This is an organisation that does make money, unlike the Film Council'
After yesterday’s announcement that the BFI would be taking on a number of key activities formerly overseen by the Film Council, Screen’s Wendy Mitchell spoke to BFI Director Amanda Nevill about how the BFI would have to change moving forward.
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NewsDavid Tennant, Dougray Scott to star in United
Jack O’Connell and Sam Claflin will also star in the BBC film, which is based on the story of Manchester United’s Busby Babes.
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NewsUK industry mostly welcomes BFI move, but wants more detail quickly
There was a mostly bullish response from the industry to UK Culture Minister Ed Vaizey’s new plans for the Government’s support of film.
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NewsCreative England's jobs impact on regional agencies not yet known
Speculation is growing that the three major centres of the newly announced Creative England will be Bristol in the South, Manchester in the North and Birmingham in the Midlands.
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NewsVaizey again calls for Sky to invest in British film production
At his speech outlining the UK Government’s plans for film, Culture Minister Ed Vaizey once again called on Sky to invest in British film production.
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NewsUPDATED: Vaizey puts BFI in charge of Government's film plans, Lottery funding
Vaizey says Lottery funding to increase to £43m/year, regional agencies move under Creative England, new Ministerial Film Forum to be launched in January.
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NewsFilm London takes on UK-wide inward investment, export role
Adrian Wootton says there will be a distinctly separate unit that will be UK-branded to work on UK-wide inward investment and export of British films.
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NewsTreadaway, Jones to star in Cheerful Weather
Luke Treadaway and Felicity Jones lead the cast of Donald Rice’s debut feature.
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NewsFilm Bazaar’s fourth edition wraps with deals, awards
Umesh Kulkarni’s Temple (Deool), a Marathi-language satire set in rural India, took the Hubert Bals award at the close of the fourth edition of India’s Film Bazaar (Nov 23-26).
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NewsJeremy Thomas feted by AMPAS in London
The crème de la crème of the British film industry turned out last night in central London for a glittering tribute to the legendary producer.
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NewsBlack & Blue board Brit comedy Loser
Dominic Burns’s London comedy How To Stop Being A Loser is being co-produced by Black & Blue Films.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase this week
A slate of new international co-productions has been added to Screenbase, with Dubai Flamingos, Michael Haneke’s latest film, Love and There Be Dragons among them.
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NewsMartin Scorsese to executive produce Argentine mentee's feature
Martin Scorsese has come on board to executive produce the next feature by young Argentine director Celina Murga.
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NewsScreen launches Local Markets Report
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