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NewsElba to produce Caton-Jones drama
Idris Elba [pictured] will be one of the producers of new UK feature One Square Mile.
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NewsBBC3 doc initiative goes multiplatform
BBC3 new documentary director initiative Fresh is being extended online and will now acccept short form documentaries.
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NewsMTG completes DRG acquisition
Broadcaster Modern Times Group has acquired British distributor DRG for an undisclosed sum.
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NewsFilmDistrict pays $10m for US rights to Rocketman
Rocket Pictures and Icon/AI Film’s red-hot Cannes market project about the life of Elton John has found its US home, sources confirmed to Screendaily on Wednesday evening [12]. Good Universe handles international sales and introduced to buyers on the Croisette.
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NewsTemple's Marvin Gaye film stalls
Fresh questions have been raised about the likely completion date for Julien Temple’s Marvin Gaye film Sexual Healing.
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Cinelabs acquires Bucks Media Services
David Webb has been appointed as European sales director for the group.
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NewsBradford ties with Bollywood school
BFI hosts launch of Bradford-Whistling Woods International Film School.
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NewsBuyers download Boermans' App
EXCLUSIVE: Highpoint secures deals on Bobby Boermans’ interactive thriller.
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NewsNFTS launches Attenborough fund
Sir Ben Kingsley and Lord Puttnam among those to honour the veteran British actor-director at the launch of a young filmmakers fund created in his name.
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NewsFilm tax avoidance scheme closed
A film tax avoidance scheme which routed profits of a tax advisory business through employee benefit trusts has been closed by a tribunal.
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NewsSadie Frost, Emma Comley launch production company
EXCLUSIVE: Blonde to Black Pictures kicks off with psychological drama Buttercup Bill.
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NewsFinancier not guilty in Revolver case
CORRECTED: UK financier and actor found not guilty of harassment.
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NewsMoo Man hits Kickstarter target
Directors of the Sundance hit succeed in raising finance for a UK release through Kickstarter.
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NewsStudent Academy Awards names winners
Miss Todd, directed by Kristina Yee from the UK’s NFTS, wins Best Foreign Film - the first animated feature to ever win the category.
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NewsLevel K ignites Rocket sales
Kim Mordaunt’s Tribeca and Berlinale winner The Rocket has been snapped up in the UK and Middle East among others.
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NewsAfter Earth tops UK box office
Sony’s sci-fi starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith scores $3.5m (£2.25m) debut to dethrone The Hangover Part III; eOne’s Behind the Candelabra debuts with $797,000 (£512,604) from 131 sites.
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NewsVue Entertainment sold for $1.5bn
Vue Entertainment is to be sold by private equity group Doughty Hanson for £935m ($1.5bn), a move that Vue CEO Tim Richards has described to ScreenDaily as “very postitive”.
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NewsBritdoc launches Euro film fund
Britdoc has unveiled a new fund open to independent documentary filmmakers across Europe – and revealed the first two recipients.
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NewsContent secures Milius rights; StudioCanal takes UK
Content Film has snapped up international sales rights (excluding Spain) to a documentary about John Milius, the director of Conan the Barbarian and screenwriter behind Apocalypse Now.
