UK News – Page 482
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NewsPaddington posts record UK bow
StudioCanal’s adaptation grosses $8m (£5.1m) from its 520 sites to record the distributor’s best-ever UK opening.
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NewsAsante: support directors beyond first film
SCREEN FILM SUMMIT: Belle director Amma Asante calls on industry to support filmmakers beyond their first movie.
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NewsWest Midlands to get $4.7m cash boost
EXCLUSIVE: Film and TV productions to get funding injection.
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NewsIreland launches animation, VFX apprenticeships
EXCLUSIVE: The Irish animation and VFX industries are getting a new apprenticeship programme, backed by Animation Skillnet, Screen Training Ireland and the Irish Film Board.
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NewsAnimated Breadwinner eyeing April start
It was announced today at the VFX Summit in Dublin that the Cartoon Saloon and Aircraft Pictures production is closing finance now.
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News"No appetite for second VPF", CEA
Exhibition execs discuss the virtual print fee on panel about funding the future of digital.
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NewsWarner Bros Ireland awards first scholarship
National Film School student wins inaugrual award.
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NewsCinema ‘needs to reset itself’, DCM CEO
Cinemas must engage more with audiences outside of the theatres, according to the CEO of Digital Cinema Media.
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NewsJonathan Glazer wins Wellcome Trust-BFI Fellowship
Prize comes with access to Wellcome Trust’s scientists and research, plus £30,000.
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NewsBlinkbox secures EFD deal
Tesco-owned TVOD service Blinkbox has inked a deal with Entertainment Film Distributors to host titles including American Hustle, The Butler, Transcendence, Her and August: Osage County.
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NewsStudioCanal’s Danny Perkins to give Screen Film Summit keynote
StudioCanal UK CEO joins the summit line-up alongside Google content exec Lisa Rousseauand writer-director Jane Linfoot.
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NewsNight Will fall gets global broadcast launch
Andre Singer’s Night Will Fall will get a global broadcast launch on Jan 27, to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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NewsArrow Films acquires Rosamund Pike thriller
EXCLUSIVE: Gone Girl actress stars alongside Shiloh Fernandez and Nick Nolte.
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NewsStar Wars, Avengers boost Pinewood revenues
Pinewood Shepperton suffered a dip in revenue from its TV operations as it prepares to exit its Teddington facility.
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NewsClio Barnard: Wellcome research inspired new film
The Selfish Giant director has told Screen how the Wellcome Trust and BFI Screenwriting Fellowship has informed her upcoming project.
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NewsHeyman: 3D not right for Paddington
Producer of Gravity and Harry Potter discusses why a 3D version of Paddington was not considered.