UK News – Page 617
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NewsGFT and Edinburgh's Filmhouse launch online player
Venues have joined forces with Distrify to offer online streamings of curated films.
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NewsSkyfall soars to the top of the UK box office
The long-awaited return of Bond doesn’t disappoint as it scores $32.4m (£20.1m) through Sony to break records in the UK.
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NewsPablo Trapero to direct Working Title's crime drama Six Suspects
EXCLUSIVE: Pablo Trapero is on board Paul Raphael and Working Title’s India-set crime drama adapted from Vikas Swarup’s novel by John Hodge.
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NewsUK premiere of Astérix to open 20th French Film Festival UK
Astérix and Obélix: God Save Britannia [pictured] will screen in four cities as it opens the festival, which runs Nov 8-Dec 2.
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NewsTaussig named Revolver MD; "new focus" for Gunslinger
Nick Taussig to oversee more co-productions for Gunslinger.
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NewsSky Atlantic lines up top directors for Footprint docs
Bafta and Academy Award-winning directors Beeban Kidron and Errol Morris [pictured] have been commissioned to produce feature-length films for Sky Atlantic’s Footprint strand.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Ewan McGregor will star in thriller Son Of A Gun, and Clio Barnard finished shooting The Selfish Giant.
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NewsDamian Jones to produce viral video director's debut feature
EXCLUSIVE: Newport State of Mind’s MJ Delaney will make her feature debut with adaptation of hit Edinburgh Fringe play.
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NewsEaling Metro boards Falklands War thriller Destroyer with Paul Bettany, Matthew Goode attached
EXCLUSIVE: Warp and Crab Apple produce the emotional story surrounding warship HMS Coventry, which was sunk during The Falklands War; Transmission pre-buys Australia-New Zealand.
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NewsRowley's Molly Moon starts shooting in London
Cast includes Raffey Cassidy, Dominic Monaghan [pictured], Emily Watson, Lesley Manville and Joan Collins.
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NewsQueen visits BFI; Royal Collection to be digitised
The Queen, alongside an invited audience of members from the British film industry, watched a screening of rare works from the BFI National Archive, which has looked after the Royal Collection since the late 1960s.
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NewsProtagonist hits AFM with Yann Demange’s '71, Monsters sequel
EXCLUSIVE: StudioCanal has pre-bought UK rights to ‘71; Protagonist’s slate also includes Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England and Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant.
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NewsMarc Evans to direct Birthright
Israeli-Palestinian comedy was presented at last week’s Pixel Pitch at PttP’s Cross-Media Forum.
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NewsK5 boards sales for My Brother The Devil
Sally El Hosaini’s drama won awards in Sundance and at the recent London Film Festival.
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NewsThe Hunger Games, Arthur Christmas nominated for BAFTA Children's Awards
Gary Ross’ popular adaptation [pictured] and Aardman’s animation receive two nods each.
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NewsWinners of Imagination short film competition revealed
The five winners of the Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series film competition, offering budding filmmakers the chance to make their own short film, have been named.
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NewsThe Selfish Giant wraps principal photography
Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant, based on Oscar Wilde’s short story, has wrapped principal photography after shooting for six weeks in Bradford.
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NewsAl Pacino, Jeremy Renner, Julianne Moore topline Mister Smith’s Imagine
Al Pacino will star as an ageing rocker who reconnects with his son and his music in Dan Fogelman’s directorial debut.
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NewsLondon Film Festival deals emerge
A raft of distribution deals were secured throughout the London Film Festival, it has emerged, including controversial title Compliance.