UK News – Page 528
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NewsDoc/Fest launches new initiative
Future Producer School, aimed at ambitious feature documentary producers, is in addition to the record number of pitch opportunities at the festival.
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NewsPhilip Seymour Hoffman's final film sold to UK
Electric Entertainment marks first major territorial sale of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final film as a leading man to Arrow Films in the UK.
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News300 dismantles Lego in the UK
Warner Bros’ sequel scores $4.6m (£2.8m) debut to top UK chart; Fox’s The Grand Budapest Hotel records Wes Anderson’s best-ever UK bow.
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NewsFemale filmmakers festival reveals line-up
London’s Birds Eye View Film Festival will include 10 UK premieres and titles from Girls star Lena Dunham and Kelly Reichardt.
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NewsBBC Films, Shine enter The Farm
BBC Films and Shine Pictures have acquired the rights to Child 44 author Tom Rob Smith’s new psychological thriller, The Farm.
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NewsUK tour for 'Stones Throw' doc
Syndctd Entertainment to distribute documentary about iconic record label doc, featuring interviews with Kanye West and Snoop Dogg, in UK and across Europe.
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NewsUK PM commits to TV tax break
Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to continue to back high-end film and TV tax credit breaks, claiming that they are “working so well”.
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NewsGiuseppe Tornatore to shoot in UK
EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Paradiso director reunites with The Best Offer team on upcoming film.
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NewsFeature Film Company relaunches
Former UK distribution firm Feature Film Company has been re-launched as an independent production, finance and consultancy company with an adaptation of football hooligan bestseller Running With the Firm.
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NewsHirst adapting Hemingway’s Moveable Feast
EXCLUSIVE: Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast is being adapted for the big screen by Elizabeth screenwriter Michael Hirst and actress Mariel Hemingway.
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BFI names marketing director
Richard Shaw appointed BFI director of marketing, communications and audiences.
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NewsWeekend star wraps directorial debut
Chris New, one of the stars of the acclaimed Weekend, has just wrapped principal photography on his feature directorial debut A Smallholding.
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NewsDirectors UK, BBC pilot women directors scheme
Organisations launch return-to-work training initiative for female TV directors.
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NewsBBC unveils arts doc festival
The BBC has announced details of a new arts documentary festival that will take place as part of the Glasgow International Festival.
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News'Kells' team preps Afghan animation
Irish animation outfit Cartoon Saloon, one of the producers behind Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells and upcoming Tomm Moore animation Song of the Sea, is in development on new project The Breadwinner, a co-production with Canadian company Aircraft Pictures.
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NewsNicholas Hoult, StudioCanal aboard Kill Your Friends
Nicholas Hoult to lead UK dark-comedy, distributed in UK by StudioCanal.
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NewsBradley Quirk to join Altitude
EXCLUSIVE: Pathe executive to join Altitude as head of development.