All articles by Orlando Parfitt
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News‘Bond’, ‘Merchant Of Venice’ producer Nigel Goldsack dies aged 62
Goldsack also helped develop films with Werner Herzog, Mike Newell and Michael Radford.
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‘Pain And Glory’, ‘An Officer And A Spy’, ‘The Traitor’ lead 2019 European Film Awards nominations
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite and Céline Sciamma’s Portrait Of A Lady On Fire are just behind with three nominations.
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“Legendary, peerless”: film industry pays tribute to the UK’s Nik Powell
“He will be sorely but affectionately missed by the thousands of people who he inspired to effect change.”
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BFI revamps Vision Awards, launches new training programme
Awards will see up to £2.5m in lottery funding allocated to 20 UK-based producers or producer teams.
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Ben Affleck to star in Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Hypnotic’ for Solstice Studios, Studio 8
The project is the first film green lit under the Studio 8 and Solstice Studios strategic partnership.
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Academy responds to Nigerian Oscar entry ‘Lionheart’ ruling (update)
Film ruled out of international feature race by Academy for containing too much English dialogue.
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Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, Shailene Woodley join Kevin Macdonald’s 'Prisoner 760'
BBC Films developed the project and financed alongside 30West and Topic Studios.
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The UK’s Pinewood Group confirms plans to pull out of Wales
weePinewood Group will stop operating its Cardiff site next year.
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‘Game Of Thrones’ creators drop out of ‘Star Wars’ to focus on Netflix projects
“There are only so many hours in the day, and we felt we could not do justice to both Star Wars and our Netflix projects.”
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Rachel Weisz to star as Elizabeth Taylor in ‘A Special Relationship’ for See-Saw Films
The project is directed by Bert Bertie and written by Simon Beaufoy.
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Cannes mayor unveils major revamp plans, including expanding Palais
The mayor of Cannes David Lisnard has announced a €500m ($555m) project to revamp the French city.
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Gotham Awards: 'Marriage Story', 'Uncut Gems', 'The Farewell' lead 2019 nominations
Also up for best feature are Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers and Trey Edward Shults’ Waves .
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‘Supernova’ starring Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci wraps, scores deals for The Bureau
The drama has been filming near Keswick in the UK’s Lake District.
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IDFA unveils 2019 competition line-up, record female representation
Festival brass say 64% of competition titles directed by women, representing record 47% of total programme.
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Indie 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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Colombian thriller 'Monos' wins top prize at 2019 BFI London Film Festival
Meanwhile Mati Diop’s Atlantics wins Sutherland Award in First Feature Competition.
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‘Sound Of Metal’ wins top prize at Zurich Film Festival
Romanian director Alexander Nana’s Collective won the international documentary film prize.
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Curzon, BBC strike UK deal on Claire Oakley’s LFF premiere ‘Make Up’ (exclusive)
BBC to make the film available eight weeks after the cinema release.
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Netflix reports significant UK growth in 2018
Revenue for the streaming giant last year was up 44% compared to 2017, from €26.9m to €48m ($53m). Profits rose 37% to €2.34m, compared to €1.5m in the previous year.
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Studiocanal, Heyday Films team up for ‘Pippi Longstocking’ feature
’Paddington’ collaborators are in early development on a film version of the classic children’s books alongside the Astrid Lindgren Company.
