UK News – Page 620
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NewsNada Cirjanic and David Bishop to lead sales team at Protagonist
Jennifer Fattell joins company as sales manager.
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NewsCreative England funds two new features
Wrapt Films’ Here & Now [pictured] and Vicarious Dreams’ Here Comes the Summer awarded funding through the Advantage Media Production Fund.
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NewsBFI to honour Burton and Bonham Carter; LFF jurors to include Trapero, Garai, Yates
Jury presidents are David Hare, Hannah McGill, Roger Graef, and David Heyman.
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NewsBeardsall and Minghella's Island Pictures goes on road trip with Kirk Jones
Island Pictures, the new London-based film and TV production company set up by Sarah Beardsall and Dominic Minghella, will partner with director Kirk Jones on Are We Nearly There Yet?.
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NewsFilm4 launches new iPad app
Information available on 500+ films from the company’s 30-year history.
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NewsDogwoof to spin Ballroom Dancer in UK
Dogwoof picks up Raindance and Tribeca winner by directors Andreas Koefoed and Christian Bonke.
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NewsHalflife by Al Smith wins inaugural Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize
Al Smith has won the first ever Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize for Halflife, a coming-of-age love story about two brain-damaged teenagers on a road trip.
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NewsProduction underway on The Sea
John Banville’s adaptation of his Man Booker Prize winner set to shoot for five weeks in County Wexford, Ireland; Independent are handling international sales and will distribute in UK and Ireland.
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NewsHarvey Weinstein to keynote as part of LFF’s industry programme
Ben Roberts, Roger Michell, David Kosse, Andrew MacDonald, Julia Wrigley, Paul Brett also among speakers.
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NewsBritish Film Commission welcomes new sponsors, BFI funding boost
The British Film Commission has announced three new commercial sponsors: Double Negative, MPC and Working Title Films.
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NewsTaken 2 hunts down Looper at the UK box office
Fox’s sequel dominates competition to record impressive $11.8m (£7.4m) debut, including previews, a result that means it has already taken more than the original film in its entire run.
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NewsShadow Dancer wins big at Dinard
James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer was the big winner at the 23rd edition of Brittany’s Dinard British Film Festival.
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NewsWasteland producers eye new projects
The producers behind Rowan Athale’s acclaimed heist thriller Wasteland (sold by Bankside in Toronto to Momentum for the UK and a host of other distributors) have revealed details of their future projects.
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NewsDavid Mackenzie, Jack O’Connell Starred Up with Sigma, Independent
EXCLUSIVE: Prison-based father-son drama from Sigma Films has development backing from Film4, Creative Scotland.
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NewsPedro Almodóvar to deliver Bafta lecture
Award-winning writer-director Pedro Almodóvar has been secured by Bafta to deliver its annual David Lean Lecture.
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NewsBirds Eye View to return in 2013
Organisation which celebrates international women filmmakers to hold Gala day in March before a week-long Celebration of Arab Women Filmmakers in April.
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NewsStillking Films board Haas Silver Levene Film Studios' $120m slate
London-based film group’s seven-film slate will shoot in Czech Republic over the next two years and are all set from the 1920s through to World War Two.
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NewsAssange drama and Japan in a Day added to LFF
A drama about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Japan’s version of Life in a Day have been added to the 56th BFI London Film Festival.
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NewsInterns and industry sign up for My First Job in Film
EXCLUSIVE: 3000 potential interns and 100 film companies sign up for website My First Job in Film aimed at placing interns and reducing exploitation.
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NewsLassie heads to Canada in new feature-length film
EXCLUSIVE: Charles Sturridge writing Lassie Leaves Home.