UK News – Page 199
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News‘I Am Greta’, ‘Another Round’, ‘Lockdown The Italian Way’ opening in key European territories this week
Cinema numbers are shrinking again as Covid-19 cases rise across Europe.
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NewsUK’s £500m production insurance fund given EU greenlight
From today productions can receive compensation from the scheme for future Coronavirus-related losses.
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NewsSally Hawkins, Rhys Ifans join Cornerstone’s ‘The Fantastic Flitcrofts’ now shooting in the UK
Mark Rylance stars real-life golfing folk hero Maurice Flitcroft.
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NewsUK’s Grimmfest reveals 2020 award winners (exclusive)
Jose Luis Montesinos’ Ropes won two awards including best feature.
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NewsSignature boards David Oyelowo, Angelina Jolie fantasy ‘Come Away’ for UK & Ireland (exclusive)
Planned theatrical release in December 2020.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival pitching event to showcase UK’s black writers
The showcase and pitching event will run online on Friday, October 16.
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NewsScreen Ireland secures €9m budget boost
It marks an increase of 52% on 2020’s budget allocation.
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NewsFirst look: production underway on UK-Serbian thriller ‘The Ledge’ as GFM records sales (exclusive)
Female-driven action film has sold to North America, France, Germany.
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NewsBill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood to lead ‘Living’ for Number 9, Film4, Ingenious
Kazuo Ishiguro is writing the screenplay with Oliver Hermanus to direct.
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NewsIain Glen, Anna Maxwell Martin set for Vincent Regan’s ‘Incarnadine’ (exclusive)
The project is set to start filming in South Wales in 2021.
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NewsVertigo Releasing picks up cycling drama ‘The Racer’ for UK & Ireland (exclusive)
Sales also made to Latin America, France, Australia-New Zealand.
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NewsUK’s Film and TV Charity opens £3m mental health support programme
Whole Picture Programme is supported by Amazon Prime Video, BBC, Sky among others.
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News101 Films International boards sales on Mickey Rourke horror ‘Mammon’ (exclusive)
101 has also recorded sales on another Rourke title, ‘Take Back’.
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NewsHanWay boards pop icon Sia’s directorial debut film ‘Music’
Soundtrack to include 10 new songs by Australian singer-songwriter.
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News‘Saint Maud’ opens wide at UK box office as ‘Tenet’ stays top for seventh week
Top five takings down 47%.
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NewsJames Schamus: financial models of SVoD giants cannot be sustained
Schamus was speaking today (Oct 12) during a virtual keynote Q&A at the Film London Production Finance Market.
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NewsCharades unveils sales on Zoom-set horror ‘Host’ (exclusive)
Picture which launched on genre platform Shudder in July heads to Sitges this week.
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NewsDogwoof partners with Participant on doc library titles (exclusive)
Dogwoof has closed a deal to handle international TV and digital sales rights to Participant’s feature doc catalogue.
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NewsVue to shut a quarter of UK sites three days a week
From next week, 21 of its 87 sites will be shut Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
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NewsBFI CEO Ben Roberts: film industry needs “whistleblower space” to fight bullying and harassment
“People like the bullying and harassment principles, but they don’t quite know how to call it out.”