UK News – Page 623
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NewsFilm Agency for Wales launches mentoring programme
Programme will allow 12 producers or company managers to be mentored by distribution executives to develop content for UK and international markets.
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NewsBAFTA appoint Harvey Elliott as new Chairman of Games Committee
Elliott [pictured] replaces Ray Maguire whose term ended in July.
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NewsEFA honours Dame Helen Mirren
Mirren to be an honorary guest at 25th European Film Awards Ceremony, to be held in Malta on Dec 1.
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NewsParaNorman creeps into top spot at the UK box office
Universal’s animation holds impressively to topple The Sweeney; Entertainment’s Killing Them Softly opens strongly in second.
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NewsThe Hobbit journeys to 65th Royal Film Performance
First instalment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy to have its Royal UK premiere on Dec 12.
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NewsMomentum strikes UK deal for Toronto hit Wasteland with Bankside
EXCLUSIVE: Bankside also sells Rowan Athale’s debut feature to France, Japan and airlines; Ben Drew’s urban drama iLL Manors sells to six new buyers.
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NewsIntandem takes on sales and UK distribution for Jadoo
Intandem Films has taken on worldwide sales rights for UK comedy Jadoo. The company’s new distribution outfit, Intandem Film Distributors (IFD), has also boarded UK distribution rights.For full details visitJadooJadoo, which is Hindi for ‘magic,’ is the story of two estranged brothers in Leicester, England. Raja and Jagi are both ...
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News3 Mills Studios appoints Mel Nortcliffe as Bookings Manager
Nortcliffe was first AD on the likes of TV shows Strike Back and Waking the Dead.
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NewsSky ‘fit and proper’ to hold TV licence
Ofcom has ruled that Sky is a “fit and proper” company to hold a broadcasting licence but criticised former chairman James Murdoch’s conduct in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.
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NewsSenna, The King's Speech, Lee Walpole among winners at Conch Awards
Ceremony took place in London last night with around 250 people in attendance.
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NewsMetrodome takes UK rights to Come Out And Play
EXCLUSIVE: Toronto Midnight Madness horror film is sold by Celsius’ genre label Fahrenheit Pictures.
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NewsPower to the Pixel unveils selections for The Pixel Market 2012
Two-day co-production market to take place in London on Oct 17-18, during the annual Cross-Media Forum held in assocation with the 56th BFI London Film Festival.
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NewsBreaking Glass Pictures to launch UK distributor
The new operation under the stewardship of CEO Richard Wolff and co-president Richard Ross plans to debut several titles a month including theatrical releases.
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NewsFilmscape launches new film finance initiative
Digital production equipment supplier also joins forces with LipSync for joint investment offering.
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NewsThe Imposter crosses £1m at the UK box office
Revolver/Picturehouse’s documentary becomes eighth biggest non-music doc in the UK of the last ten years, and first to cross £1m since Senna last year.
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NewsBAFTA and Deutsche Bank announce new partnership
Partnership is for BAFTA’s latest series of ‘A Life In Pictures’ interviews.
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News400 Boys set for October shoot
Alastair Paton’s action film, budgeted at $26m, set for eight-week shoot on location in Hong Kong, Macau and at Guangzhou’s ACE Studios in China.
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NewsBFI to present two month retrospective project celebrating Ealing Studios
Ealing: Light and Dark will take place from Oct 22-Dec 30.
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News16 shorts get BFI/Lighthouse backing in £800,000 initiative
Adrian McDowall, Jamie Stone, Mustapha Kseibati, Michael Pearce, Jonathan Romney among successful applicants to scheme for shorts with budgets up to £50,000 each, fully funded by BFI.