UK News – Page 596
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NewsAlan Partridge film gets release date
A first look at the upcoming Alan Partridge film has been unveiled along with an official title and a release date.
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NewsEdinburgh festival names first film
Feature documentary I Am Breathing is to receive its UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) and will also be screened around the world to mark Global Motor Neurone Disease Day.
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NewsGreyhawk completes shooting
Principal photography on micro-budget feature Greyhawk has wrapped.
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NewsReleases, P&A spend rocket in UK
FDA figures reveal increasingly congested and competitive marketplace.
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NewsHanWay takes Dirty Wars rights
The deal with sales agent Submarine bulks up HanWay’s Cannes war chest and follows the previously announced North American acquisition by Sundance Selects.
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NewsFresh Meat film in the works
EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 sitcom Fresh Meat is set to be adapted for the big screen, according to co-creator Sam Bain.
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NewsVertigo acquires Hip Hop Hoax
EXCLUSIVE: Vertigo Films has snapped UK rights to new feature doc The Great Hip Hop Hoax by director Jeanie Finlay.
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NewseOne to release Turner biopic
EXCLUSIVE: eOne will release Turner biopic, a Momentum acquisition, in 2014.
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NewsVertigo picks up SXSW doc Hawking
EXCLUSIVE: Vertigo inks UK rights to Darlow Smithson-Channel 4-PBS biopic about Stephen Hawking.
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NewsLord Puttnam event covering TV to tablets
British film producer Lord David Puttnam is to consider the “health of screen industries” at an event later this month.
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NewsSci-fi Dreck nears completion
Shooting is close to completion on Dreck, a British sci-fi thriller starring Elliot Cowan and Jonathan Pryce.
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NewsMaxine Peake to star in Keeping Rosy
Maxine Peake is to star in psychological thriller Keeping Rosy with Inbetweeners actor Blake Harrison.
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NewsSony adds new 3D solution for 4K projectors
Sony Digital Cinema is introducing a new 3D offering to allow exhibitors to screen 3D films on two Sony DCI-compliant 4K projectors: the SRX-R320SP and the SRX-R515P.
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NewsEdinburgh reveals Network participants
The second edition of EIFF’s development and mentoring programme for screenwriters, directors and producers runs until November.
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NewsSundance London adds UK Spotlight
Sundance London has unveiled its programme for the second edition set to run April 25-28 at London’s O2, with selections including Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color, documentary Muscle Shoals, and Lake Bell’s critically acclaimed directorial debut In A World…[pictured].
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NewsOz debuts top of UK box office
Disney’s 3D prequel scores $5.5m (£3.7m) debut to comfortably land at number one.
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NewsBFI to celebrate Warp Films
The BFI is to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Warp Films at its second annual Made in Britain strand with events including a live musical accompaniment of Dead Man’s Shoes.
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NewsCurzon Artificial Eye rebrands
EXCLUSIVE: Curzon Artificial Eye, the parent company of Curzon Cinemas and Artificial Eye Film Releasing, is rebranding as Curzon World.
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NewsDogwoof takes sales on The Network
Dogwoof Global has picked up international sales rights to Eva Orner’s directorial debut The Network, the story of Afghanistan’s first independent television network.
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NewsCurzon rebrands on-demand service
EXCLUSIVE: Service rebranded as Curzon Home Cinema; upcoming titles include A Late Quartet, Stories We Tell, Something in the Air.