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NewsEdinburgh offers discounted delgate passes, student rates
In its big year of change, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is launching an ‘early bird’ pass option for industry attendees, as well as new day passes.
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NewsLondon's Hackney Picturehouse to open in autumn
It is the latest addition to City Screen’s growing number of cinema venues in the UK.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
A biopic retracing the life of the singer Claude François is currently shooting in France, while Matthias Hoene [pictured] will unleash zombies across London from Monday.
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NewsIn A Better World scoops top prize at Birds Eye View Festival
The seventh edition of the London festival celebrating women film-makers has attracted record attendance levels.
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NewsMedia convergence may push theatrical windows, report finds
Olswang’s new Convergence Survey finds that delivering consumers the content they want how and when they want it will be one key to curbing piracy.
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NewsWimbledon Film and Television Studios launched
Formerly known as Merton Studios, the newest addition to the UK studio sector is to be officially launched today by London mayor Boris Johnson.
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NewsUlrich Thomsen, Sonja Richter to star in Ireland-set Flowers of Desire
Danish-language co-production will shoot this summer for director Simon Staho.
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NewsUK's Prime Focus to move into production
UK post production company Prime Focus is launching its own production division, Prime Focus Productions, specialising in TV dramas.
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NewsMat Whitecross, Paul Viragh re-team for Coldplay-backed film noir
Ray Winstone, Jim Sturgess and Lesley Manville head the cast of the CinemaNX backed project which is being co-financed by UK rock band Coldplay.
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NewsScott Free UK plans TV co-pro adaptation of Mosse’s Labyrinth
Four-hour TV series being made with Germany’s Tandem Communications.
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NewsContentFilm, Black Camel start Scottish shoot for Barker's Outpost sequel
Black Camel’s development slate also includes feature version of short Zombie Musical, and a bigger-budget Barker thriller.
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NewsOptimum takes UK-Irish rights to animated Song of the Sea
Film in development now with Cartoon Saloon and director Tomm Moore, who worked on Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells.
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NewsHarry Treadaway, Honor Blackman to star in Optimum's Cockneys Vs Zombies
Principal photography will begin in London next week.
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NewsPeccadillo Pictures and blinkbox launch LGBT genre page
LGBT-themed titles to be available on blinkbox’s website via a unique lesbian and gay genre page.
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NewsSundance, AEG Europe plan pre-Olympics London arts festival
The event, which will include a film component, will run at London’s O2 from April 26-29, 2012.
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NewsMinghella Film Festival awards four shorts
The inaugural awards took place as part of the Minghella Film Festival on the Isle of Wight, which was set up in 2009 in memory of the late British director Anthony Minghella.
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NewsTroubled Magma looks set to appoint a liquidator
A creditors’ meeting will be held in Galway later this week for troubled Irish-based production outfit Magma European Scripting House (MESH), which now looks set to appoint a liquidator.
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NewsPeplow to leave UK's Skillset to join Sydney-based AFTRS
UK producer Neil Peplow is to leave Skillset to relocate to Australia and become director of screen content at the Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS) from May 2.
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NewsSony launches UK TV channel geared toward female audience
Sony Entertainment Television will launch on April 7 with the UK premiere of US medical drama Hawthorne, starring and executive produced by Jada Pinkett Smith.
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NewsSkillset training academy launched in UK
It will focus on seven key areas where Skillset research has revealed a short fall of qualified talent.