All articles by Orlando Parfitt – Page 29
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NewsCineworld to acquire Canada’s Cineplex in $2.1bn deal
Cineplex is the largest operator in Canada with 165 cinemas, 1,695 screens and a 75% market share of the territory’s box office.
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NewsWhat could the UK election result mean for the local film industry?
The decisive victory for Boris Johnson has brought clarity over Brexit for the UK’s creative sector, but also despair from industry professionals.
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NewsLucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy to receive Bafta Fellowship
All the recent ’Star Wars’ films have been shot in the UK,
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NewsSee-Saw Films hires ‘Killing Eve’ producer Elinor Day
She will help to expand See-Saw Films’ TV slate in the UK.
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NewsBafta reveals new members for 2019
New members include filmmakers Lynne Ramsay, Haifaa al-Mansour, Fox Searchlight’s Kate Gardiner and Screen Scotland’s Isabel Davis.
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NewsGermany’s The Match Factory appoints new acquisitions team (exclusive)
Tobias Pausinger, Caitlin Smith join as part of a restructure of its development and acquisition department.
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NewsUK’s Raynham Hangar Studios secures £5m investment to expand
The Norfolk site has previously hosted Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir.
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News‘For Sama’ wins top prize at 2019 BIFAs
’The Personal History Of David Copperfield’ finished with five awards, the highest of the night, from 11 nominations.
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NewsMark Adams steps down as artistic director of Edinburgh Film Festival
Rod White will deliver the 2020 edition
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News‘Succession’ writer Lucy Prebble awarded 2019 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship
Prebble is creator of the TV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl and is executive producer and writer for Emmy award-winning HBO drama Succession,
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NewsShowcase reinstates 'Blue Story' in UK venues (updated from reports)
Chain reportedly reverses earlier decision following consultation with Paramount.
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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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News‘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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News“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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NewsBFI 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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NewsBen 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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NewsAcademy 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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NewsJodie 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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NewsThe 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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News‘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.”