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NewsDogwoof closes key deals on ‘Mystify: Michael Hutchence’ including US, France, Italy (exclusive)
Shout! Factory has taken the film for the US and is plotting a one-night-only event with Fathom Events in over 600 screens.
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NewsIndie film sector vital in supporting UK production boom, says study (exclusive)
For those working in UK-based inward investment films, 41% of career credits came from working on independent films.
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NewsMichael Caine to play Fagin in Sky day-and-date release ‘Twist’
Raff Law to lead contemporary take on ‘Oliver Twist’.
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NewsDagenham Studios looking for new partners after US backers pull out citing Brexit “uncertainty”
Film London chief Adrian Wooton argues that there’s “no evidence” for Brexit impacting UK inward investment.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival sets 2020 dates, records 2019 audience rise
The 2019 event saw 178,789 admissions in London.
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NewsGar O’Brien appointed head of film & TV at the Irish Film & Television Academy (exclusive)
O’Brien was previously programme director of the Galway Film Fleadh.
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NewsTransatlantic feature doc ‘The Rower’ starts shooting in the UK (exclusive)
Filming underway in Scotland and Northumberland.
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News‘Joker’ tops UK box office again after outstanding second weekend
Todd Phillips’ supervillain origin story took £9.7m.
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NewsLucinda Syson, Jason Flemyng team up for film and TV production company
Duo to form The Kernel Factory alongside Dickensian actor Ben Starr and financial controller Cristiano D’Urso.
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News‘Why Don’t You Just Die!’ takes top prize at Grimmfest
‘Karli’ won the horror festival’s first work-in-progress award.
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NewsMartin Scorsese talks “theme park films”, Netflix trade-off, de-ageing concerns
Legendary director delivers Bafta David Lean lecture in London.
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NewsRobert De Niro: comic book, tech-heavy films "another type of entertainment" to cinema
Actor regales BFI London Film Festival Screen Talk session with views on Trump, career highlights.
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NewsSales agents warn distributors “need to pre-buy” to compete with SVoD platforms
A discussion on the sales industry took place at the BFI London Film Festival.
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NewsUK box office preview: new openers ‘Abominable’, ‘Gemini Man’ will struggle to topple ‘Joker’
Further new openers include Lionsgate’s ‘Farming’, eOne’s ‘The Day Shall Come’.
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NewsWorking Title, BFI, Lionsgate UK join Time’s Up 4% challenge
The #4PercentChallenge pushes for greater representation of women directors.
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NewsFilm and TV boom pushes UK economy into black
The latest James Bond film and high-end drama help sector stay strong.
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NewsBafta-winner John Morton boards remake of French TV hit 'Call My Agent!' for BRON Studios, Headline Pictures (exclusive)
Series to feature A-list British and American cameos.
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NewsFelicity Jones, Shailene Woodley, Joe Alwyn, Nabhaan Rizwan, Ncuti Gatwa set for Blueprint, Studiocanal’s ‘Last Letter From Your Lover’
‘Euphoria’ director Augustine Frizzell to direct.
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News‘Cloud Atlas’ producer named UK’s Production Guild chair
Alex Boden is joined by Debbie Vertue and Jo Evans on new-look board
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NewsScreen Ireland gets €1m budget boost
The increase brings the agency’s spend for next year, which includes film and TV production and development funding, to €17.2m.