UK News – Page 618
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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.
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NewsBox office hits The Thieves and Masquerade to bookend London Korean Film Festival
Seventh edition of the festival runs Nov 1-11.
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NewsAltitude's AFM slate includes Hardy's The Good People, Raisani's Outpost 37
Rafe Spall [pictured] joins cast of Altitude’s Kill Your Friends.
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NewsDogwoof strikes home entertainment deal with Fusion Media Sales
Deal starts Jan 1 and will include titles such as The Queen Of Versailles.
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NewsMadagascar 3 swings into top spot at the UK box office
Paramount’s animation scores $9.6m (£6.0m) opening, including previews, to topple Taken 2; distributor records a one-two as Paranormal Activity 4 scares up $4.1m (£2.5m).
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NewsKaleidoscope acquires The Seasoning House
London-based sales outfit takes worldwide rights on Paul Hyett’s directorial debut [pictured] which premiered at FrightFest, and will screen it at AFM.
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NewsSarah Bemand joins Margaret as account director
London-based creative agency Margaret hs expanded its team by adding Sarah Bemand as Film PR Account Director.
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NewsSundance London to return to O2 in 2013 and 2014
The festival will present new work from American film-makers and musicians from 25-28 April, 2013.
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NewsSerkis and Cavendish's Imaginarium takes on The Bone Season, Animal Farm
The Imaginarium, the new London-based performance capture studio founded by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish, has secured film rights to the book series The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon as well as the rights to George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm; Serkis will direct and star in the latter.
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NewsUPDATED: LFF boasts highest attendance, winners include Rust And Bone, My Brother The Devil, Beasts, Mea Maxima Culpa
UPDATED: BFI boasts a 12% increase in festival attendance with the highest ever audience turn-out with 149,000 across London venues.
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NewsBFI chair Greg Dyke says education shouldn't be too traditional, should use moving image
Greg Dyke, chairman of the BFI, spoke at the BFI London Film Festival awards tonight and reiterated the organisation’s call for film education to be essential in schools.
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NewsCreative England's final Film Culture Lottery Fund opens for applications
A total of £700,000 is available for cinema projects in the English regions; responsibility for this strand of funding to transfer to the BFI as part of their Film Forever plan from next year.
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NewsDavie hired as BBCW CEO
Tim Davie [pictured], the BBC’s director of Audio & Music, is to replace John Smith as the chief executive of BBC Worldwide.
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NewsTwickenham Film Studios to install $1.6m of equipment by spring
Studio on course to be the most “up-to-date, highly equipped studio in the country”, according to COO Maria Walker [pictured].
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NewsDogwoof boards UK rights and international sales for Sarah Gavron documentary
Village At The End of the World has its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival today.
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NewsMaria Hannah joins The Hive
Scottish post-production facility also appoints Emma Henderson as a runner.
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NewsWilder Films team up with Distrify for Up There
Fans will get their chance to pick where Zam Salim’s comedy premieres and where it screens in the UK.
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NewsCascade Media Development launches new screenwriting initiative
Up to 24 projects selected to pitch each month.
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NewsBFI's Ben Roberts promises 'open access' to funding during PFM keynote
Ben Roberts, Director of the BFI Film Fund, today promised far greater transparency in the way public funding decisions are made.