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For No Good Reason to open London International Animation Festival
Charlie Paul’s biopic of British artist Ralph Steadman is one of three feature films showing at this year’s edition, which runs Oct 25-Nov 4.
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Taken 2 delivers $45.1m int'l; Looper posts $109m; Impossible wows in Spain
UPDATE: EuropaCorp’s Liam Neeson thriller had too much in the tank for its competitors as distributor Fox International reported an estimated $134.8m running total after two weekends and $220.9m worldwide. Sci-fi Looper added $9m excluding China to cross the century mark after 17 days. And JA Bayona’s The Impossible [pictured] ...
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Regent Street Cinema restoration moves forward after Heritage Lottery Fund grant
Currently the space is used as a lecture theatre but it will be reborn as a state-of-the-art modern cinema.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Gangs of Wasseypur picked up by Mara Pictures
UK indie to distribute Mira Nair’s LFF title [pictured] and both parts of Anurag Kashyap’s gangster epic following negotiations initiated at this year’s Cannes.
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Tom Harper to direct Woman in Black follow-up
EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-nominated Harper [pictured] will direct sequel to horror smash; plot to revolve around Eel Marsh House four decades after original, shoot likely next spring.
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Titanic Studios expands by 42,000 sq ft
Belfast studio hub, currently hosting HBO’s Game of Thrones, launches £8.3m extension.
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Altitude takes on sales for Son of a Gun starring Ewan McGregor
Jerrycan director Julius Avery to shoot film in early 2013.
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Gone Too Far moving from stage to screen
Olivier Award-winning play Gone Too Far is being adapted as a feature film by Poisson Rogue Pictures with backing from the BFI Film Fund.
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TF1, Qwerty, Alliance tuning Suite Francaise with Dibb, Williams, Scott Thomas
Saul Dibb attached to direct Michelle Williams and Kristin Scott Thomas in WWII romance-drama.
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Screen Facilities Scotland awarded £10,000
Screen Facilities Scotland, a collaboration of Scottish-based film, television and commercials facilities firms, has won a £10,000 prize for business development.
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Ben Roberts to deliver keynote at Production Finance Market
The sixth Film London Production Finance Market (Oct 17-18) has confirmed its keynote speaker will be the new Director of the BFI Film Fund, Ben Roberts.
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Nada Cirjanic and David Bishop to lead sales team at Protagonist
Jennifer Fattell joins company as sales manager.
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Creative England funds two new features
Wrapt Films’ Here & Now [pictured] and Vicarious Dreams’ Here Comes the Summer awarded funding through the Advantage Media Production Fund.
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BFI to honour Burton and Bonham Carter; LFF jurors to include Trapero, Garai, Yates
Jury presidents are David Hare, Hannah McGill, Roger Graef, and David Heyman.
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Beardsall and Minghella's Island Pictures goes on road trip with Kirk Jones
Island Pictures, the new London-based film and TV production company set up by Sarah Beardsall and Dominic Minghella, will partner with director Kirk Jones on Are We Nearly There Yet?.
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Film4 launches new iPad app
Information available on 500+ films from the company’s 30-year history.
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Dogwoof to spin Ballroom Dancer in UK
Dogwoof picks up Raindance and Tribeca winner by directors Andreas Koefoed and Christian Bonke.
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Halflife by Al Smith wins inaugural Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize
Al Smith has won the first ever Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize for Halflife, a coming-of-age love story about two brain-damaged teenagers on a road trip.
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Production underway on The Sea
John Banville’s adaptation of his Man Booker Prize winner set to shoot for five weeks in County Wexford, Ireland; Independent are handling international sales and will distribute in UK and Ireland.