UK News – Page 432
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NewsDogwoof to handle sales of Jennifer Peedom's 'Mountain'
EXCLUSIVE: Feature documentary made by the Australian director of Sherpa [pictured].
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NewsWellcome Trust reveals film investment plans
Charitable foundation to back projects exploring themes relevant to biomedical research.
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News'Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2' tops UK box office
Sony’s Spectre falls to second with $5.8m (£3.85m) for $128.3m (£84.6m) and has overtaken Avatar as the highest grossing IMAX release in the UK.
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NewsGSP takes UK rights to 'Unromantic Woman'
EXCLUSIVE: Film Bazaar’s Co-Production Market project Joan Carr-Wiggin’s An Unromantic Woman has presold to the UK, with GSP Studios picking up the film from Toronto-based production company Paragraph Pictures.
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NewsDownton Abbey's Joanne Froggatt begins 'Starfish' shoot
British film to co-star Da Vinci’s Demons’ Tom Riley.
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NewsStudy: Amazon trails rivals in original content race
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon’s five most popular original shows in the US, UK and Australia are struggling to keep pace with the best offerings from HBO and Netflix, according to research by Parrot Analytics.
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NewsLaw firms Lee & Thompson and Forbes Anderson Free to merge
The combined entertainment law firms will operate under the Lee & Thompson name.
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NewsDavid Heyman, NBCUniversal launch television venture
Heyday Television will create content in both the UK and USA, which NBCUniversal will then distribute.
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NewsEquity fund pledges $60m for UK creative industries
The UK government’s British Business Bank has backed a private equity fund aimed at the country’s creative industries.
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NewsRichard Ayoade to host BIFAs
Director and comic actor to take over hosting duties for the 2015 Moët British Independent Film Awards.
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NewsGlasgow Film Festival to launch first industry strand
Festival will also see a focus on Argentine cinema and on classic Hollywood double acts.
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News'Amy' director Asif Kapadia, Working Title's Tim Bevan join Screen Film Summit
Award-winning director and producer to join execs from BBC Films, StudioCanal, See-Saw Films, eOne and more at annual summit.
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NewsDavid O Russell to deliver BAFTA lecture
American Hustle director to give talk in London in December.
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NewsOdeon-UCI chief issues warning to UK cinema industry
Speaking at today’s UKCA conference, Ian Shepherd said that the industry’s current good health is not necessarily permanent and more needs to be done to sustain growth.
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NewseOne swoops on Oasis documentary
EXCLUSIVE: Fledgling UK film outfit Lorton teams with eOne for release, executive produced by Amy director Asif Kapadia.
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News'Spectre' scores UK box office hat-trick
Sony also notch highest new entry as The Lady in the Van posts terrific $3.5m (£2.3m) from 540 sites, and becomes second distributor ever to record a 1-2-3 at the top of the chart.
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NewsSeagrove, Hannah, Keating join 'Another Mother's Son'
Second World War drama begins UK shoot; first image revealed.
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NewsKudos absorbs Shine Pictures, Lovely Day
Lovely Day and Shine Pictures are to be absorbed into Kudos following Diederick Santer’s appointment as joint CEO of the UK production company.