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NewsUKFC: Biggest box-office hits and other stats
A look at the top 10 performing films backed by the UKFC; and stats on UKFC funding.
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Production wraps on Atlas Shrugged - Part One
Production has wrapped on Strike Productions’ Atlas Shrugged – Part One based on Ayn Rand’s rousing 1957 novel about the collapse of American society after leading thinkers and creators go on strike.
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NewsUKFC: Hunt says he 'wants to hear everyone's opinions' on planned closure
Jeremy Hunt cites UKFC’s £3m budget on overheads as one reason to abolish the organisation.
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NewsUKFC: A snapshot of the organisation
Since its creation in 2000, the UK Film Council has invested over $248m (£160m) of Lottery funding into more than 900 films, helping to generate over $1.1bn (£700m) at the box office worldwide.
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NewsUKFC: John Woodward says target is to close down by April 2012
Woodward tells industry that today’s move by DCMS “is short-sighted and potentially very damaging, especially as there is at present no roadmap setting out where the UK Film Council’s responsibilities and funding will be placed in the future.”
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Group rallies to save UK's Bray Film Studios
A campaign has been launched to oppose the potential demolition of the Bray Film Studios, which were set up in 1951 by British horror label Hammer Films.
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Watchmen producer pounces on film rights to comic book The Untamed
Watchmen and Hellboy producer Lloyd Levin has acquired film rights to Stranger Comics’ The Untamed ahead of the comic’s publication.
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Quartet to adapt Will Eisner's graphic novel A Contract With God
Alex Rivera, Tze Chun, Barry Jenkins and Sean Baker are to direct the late Will Eisner’s graphic novel A Contract With God.
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China, Singapore sign co-production agreement
China and Singapore have signed a film co-production agreement which covers feature films and telemovies across live-action, animation and documentaries.
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This week’s hot projects on Screenbase
The latest films on Screenbase include the debut features by France’s Sylvain Fusé and Italy’s Ruggero Dipaola, as well as a Spanish-Cuban co-production helmed by Alejandro Brugués and the new production by Maïwenn Le Besco.
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NewsWoody Allen continues seven week Paris shoot; Bruni scenes to shoot in August
Woody Allen’s French co-producer and line producer Raphaël Benoliel has confirmed more details about Allen’s Summer Project 2010, which started shooting on July 5.
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Script Factory launches third script development scheme
Winners will get to meet BBC Films and have a lunch with Peter Morgan.
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Puchon It Project award goes to James Leong's Camera
Asia’s largest genre film fest, the Puchon International Film Festival (PiFan) wrapped its third Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) today with the top Puchon Award for the It Project market going to James Leong’s Camera.
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Leung, Chung join cast of Bruce Lee, My Brother
Tony Leung Ka-fai and Christie Chung have joined the cast of Hong Kong studio Media Asia Film’s Bruce Lee, My Brother, which is being made to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the late action star’s birthday.
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Metan enters into strategic relationship with China's Ruyi Film
Los Angeles-based Metan Development Group has entered into a strategic relationship with China’s Beijing Ruyi Xinxin Film Investment Company under which they will work together on film and TV projects.
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NewsShin to direct Hong Kong sci-fi epic Future Fighters
Korean filmmaker and animation producer Nelson Shin has boarded $10m 3D sci-fi epic Future Fighters, with Hong Kong’s Ken Siu as assistant director.
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NewsBernal, Furstenberg start shooting thriller The Loneliest Planet
Gael Garcia Bernal and Hani Furstenberg have been cast as the leads in Julia Loktev’s thriller The Loneliest Planet, which is set to commence principal photography in the republic of Georgia on July 26.
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NewsAdrian Grenier's producing partner launches Bert Marcus Productions
Adrian Grenier’s producing partner Bert Marcus has launched Bert Marcus Productions, the company behind the upcoming documentary Teenage Paparazzo, and announced its next few projects.
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Hugh Dancy, Kathryn Hahn join cast of My Idiot Brother
Anthony Bregman of Likely Story and Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub of Big Beach have hired Hugh Dancy and Kathryn Hahn to join the comedy My Idiot Brother.
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NewsHansel and Gretel headed for live-action 3D update
Producers are Scott Gardenhour from The Institute (co-founded with Michael Bay) and Kira Madallo Sesay from Kalliope Films.
