UK News – Page 416
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NewsScreen, Broadcast partner with Sheffield Doc/Fest
Screen and sister publication Broadcast will be media partners of the UK’s leading documentary festival in 2016.
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NewsUK-China producers join forces; 'The Proving Ground' first project
EXCLUSIVE: China’s Thunder Communications and UK’s Poisson Rouge to collaborate on up to five titles; first drama centres on a real investigation into mysterious biological weapons that were used against the Chinese.
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News'Sword Master 3D' cuts US, UK deals
EXCLUSIVE: Well Go USA has acquired North American and UK rights to Derek Yee’s highly-anticipated martial arts epic Sword Master 3D.
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NewsBroadbent and Begg scoop UK VES awards
The inaugural UK Visual Effects Society Awards takes place later this week.
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NewsStudiocanal goes 'Across The Waters' for UK
Scandinavian sales agent TrustNordisk has closed a raft of deals post-Berlin.
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News'Kung Fu Panda 3' tops UK box office
eOne’s The Divergent Series: Allegiant posts disappointing non-final $2.6m (£1.83m) debut, including previews, from 528 sites.
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NewsCreative England parts with senior film executive
EXCLUSIVE: 45 Years, Spooks: The Greater Good executive Richard Holmes made redundant amid company cuts.
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NewsSony Pictures Television backs Faye Ward's Fable Pictures
Faye Ward’s indie production outfit is currently producing Laurel & Hardy biopic Stan And Ollie.
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NewsIM Global names trio of new hires
The Los Angeles-based production, sales and financing venture, whose upcoming slate of releases includes Free State Of Jones, has bulked up its finance, business and legal affairs, and marketing and publicity divisions.
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NewsFrightFest to relocate with new headline sponsor
The UK genre event will take place in an expanded format at Vue Shepherd’s Bush this year.
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NewsJames Bond, 'Dr. Strangelove' designer Sir Ken Adam dies aged 95
Two-time Oscar winner Adam was the first production designer to receive a knighthood.
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News'Where To Invade Next' to open Sheffield Doc/Fest
Director Michael Moore will attend the festival for the first time since 1998.
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NewsA24 picks up 'Free Fire' for the US
The cutting-edge distributor, fresh from its recent three-Oscar haul, has acquired US rights to UK wunderkind Ben Wheatley’s thriller.
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NewsHave Your Say: Brexit – are you in or out?
VOTE NOW: With the EU Referendum just around the corner, we’ve decided to conduct research in order to have a better understanding of how Brexit could affect the Creative Industries, and, more importantly, how you feel about the UK potentially leaving the European Union.
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NewsBFI’s third Vision Awards to back "emerging producers" with $3.6m
Around 20 producers to receive funding; BFI separately increases overhead support on all single development awards.
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NewsScotland’s Wardpark Studios bids for $5.7m expansion
The proposed development would see the studio grow to 78,000sq ft, but some MSPs have voiced scepticism over the project’s scale and timing.
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NewsMonumental, BBC Films team on James Rhodes biopic
EXCLUSIVE: Alison Owen and Debra Hayward’s Monumental to produce feature based on pianist’s memoir.
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NewsRobert Redford, Jason Segel sign up for 'The Discovery'
The actors have joined Rooney Mara in Charlie McDowell’s sci-fi romance as it gears up for a production start later this month in Rhode Island.
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News'Lilting' director Hong Khaou boards Mark O’Halloran drama
EXCLUSIVE: Dublin-based Roads Entertainment readies Trade and Pat Collins biopic Song Of Granite.
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NewsOrla Brady-Vincent Perez drama 'The Price Of Desire' gets UK deal
EXCLUSIVE: Northern Soul sub-distributor boards drama following the true story of Irish artist Eileen Gray.