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Annette Caulkin MBE dies aged 94
Caulkin worked in the UK film industry across four decades, starting at the NFFC in the late 1950s.
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NewsShaun Williamson co-writing new British comedy
Williamson [pictured] also set to star in This Is Jayde: The One Hit Wonder.
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NewsIFC strikes US deal for Cheerful Weather For The Wedding
IFC Films has acquired all US rights to Donald Rice’s Cheerful Weather For the Wedding, which had its world premiere at Tribeca.
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NewsBrave hits its target as it topples Ted at the UK box office
Disney/Pixar’s latest shoots an estimated $8.1m (£5.2m) debut, including previews; Bourne Legacy records second highest opening of franchise.
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NewsNetflix clocks 1m UK subs in record time
Rival European SVOD service LoveFilm has more than 2 million members in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.
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NewsThe Arab British Centre unveils new week-long film season
Safar: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema runs Sept 21-27 at London’s ICA.
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NewsMorgan, Straughan among screenwriters to deliver lectures for BAFTA & BFI
Third screenwriters’ lecture series to take place during Sept 26-Oct 27.
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NewsCreative England launches crew and locations databases, plans more crew networking events
The networking event at Elstree on September 19 will be the eighth in the nationwide programme.
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Fifth Column to give theatrical release in UK to Tempest docudrama
Fifth Column Films will self-release its latest feature, Tempest, starting on Oct 26 in the UK.
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Kaleidoscope, Scanner-Rhodes launch production outfit, Femi Oyeniran writes first film
Mirror Image launches with urban comedy written by Femi Oyeniran.
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NewsChris O’Dowd writing feature, hopes to continue to work with Baby Cow
EXCLUSIVE: Bridesmaids and The Sapphires star is writing feature set against backdrop of Irish boom and bust.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
German director Leander Haussmann’s [pictured] new feature as well as a second film about Norwegian nobleman Peter Wessel Tordenskiold are among the newly added productions this week.
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UK man jailed for four years for online piracy
A website owner who created and ran one of the world’s most popular pirate websites has been sentenced to four years imprisonment in the UK.
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NewsFalk Hentschel joins cast of Emmerich’s White House Down
StreetDance 2 star to play one of the mercenaries who invades the White House.
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NewsHoly Motors to close Cambridge Film Festival
32nd edition to take place Sept 13-23, featuring Hope Springs, Snows Of Kilimanjaro and To Rome With Love on the opening night.
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NewsTed carries on dancing at the UK box office
Universal’s comedy defies good weather and Olympics fever to retain top spot; Step Up Revolution debuts softly in third with $1m (£650,000).
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NewsDocHouse returns with Michael Grigsby's We Went To War
Grigsby’s film [pictured] is one of three documentaries screening throughout September as part of the London-based year-round festival.
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NewsExamining a new model: BT and The Sun sponsor Fox’s distribution of Chariots of Fire
Last month the The Sun and BT sponsored Fox UK’s re-release of British classic Chariots of Fire. Screen talked to Fox UK MD Cameron Saunders about the unusual model.
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NewsAsif Kapadia to mentor winner of BFI-Nintendo shorts competition
Kapadia to mentor winner of a Nintendo and BFI shorts competition, backed by Ridley Scott.