UK News – Page 137
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NewsCarnaby boards UK feature ‘Kindling’ starring ‘Sex Education’, ‘The Witcher’ actors (exclusive)
‘The King’s Speech’ exec producer Mark Foligno produced ‘Kindling’.
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NewsPremier unveils restructured filmed entertainment division
The UK-based comms agency has announced promotions and new hires.
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NewsLorton Entertainment launches content fund to invest in film and TV
Group says it has raised ’signficant capital’ for drama and documentary fund
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NewsFilm Seekers boards ‘Pizza With Love’ starring Colin Morgan and Rosabell Laurenti Sellers (exclusive)
Feel-good drama will be pre-sold internationally at Cannes.
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NewsSadiq Khan, Film London’s Adrian Wootton, UFEG head Donna Langley in diversity pledge
NBCUniversal’s Below-the-Line Traineeship.
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NewsBrilliant Pictures acquires survival thriller ‘Jericho Ridge’ as production wraps (exclusive)
Nikki Amuka-Bird, Michael Socha star.
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NewsSci-fi feature ‘Rubikon’ sells to UK, Japan, France and South Korea (exclusive)
Austrian disaster movie, sold by The Playmaker Europe, has market premiere next week at Cannes’ Marché du Film
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NewsFilm Soho to launch virtual production studio in central London (exclusive)
The UK-based film and TV company will present a preview of the technology at Cannes.
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NewsMister Smith boards US romantic comedy ‘Which Brings Me To You’, starring Lucy Hale
It will be directed by ‘The Hating Game’’s Peter Hutchings.
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NewsKirk Jones set to direct ‘You’ve Been Trumped’ drama series for Vertigo Films
The four-part series will dramatise the events around a Scottish community’s fight against Donald Trump’s golf course.
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NewsThe Bureau acquires French doc company Folamour (exclusive)
The Bureau has acquired 100% of Folamour’s shares.
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NewsAmazon, MGM, Disney+ execs on Inside Pictures programme headed by Andrew Macdonald (exclusive)
The prestigious exec training programme is delivered by the NFTS and supported by the BFI.
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NewsVenice drama ‘Pilgrims’ sold to North America, Central and Eastern Europe (exclusive)
Reason8 handles sales on the title.
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NewsThe Writers Lab UK & Ireland for women over 40 years old returns for 2022 (exclusive)
Lab is supported by Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films.
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NewsScreenSkills film and animation funds receive record levels of contribution from industry
‘Wonka’, ’Downton Abbey: A New Era’ and ’Dungeons & Dragons’ are among the contributors.
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NewsM-Appeal secures raft of sales for buzzy Australian drama ‘Lonesome’ (exclusive)
Craig Boreham’s film premiered in Seattle and will play at the Sydney International Film Festival next month.
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NewsSingle print feature ‘The Afterlight’ sets self-distributed UK-Ireland cinema tour (exclusive)
Charlie Shackleton’s film exists as a single 35mm print.
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NewsBFI appoints two new female board members to represent Wales and Scotland
Romana Ramzan and Anwen Griffiths will join the board of governors
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NewsCannes Un Certain Regard title ‘Harka’ picked up for France, first look revealed (exclusive)
Film Constellation represents worldwide sales, co-repping North America with CAA.
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NewsEmbankment unveils first look at Lone Scherfig’s ‘The Movie Teller’ (exclusive)
The Spanish-language film is in production in Chile’s Atacama Desert.