UK News – Page 641
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NewsPeccadillo takes UK rights to four including Our Children
Four new acquisitions announced from Cannes market.
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NewsArtificial Eye picks up Holy Motors, Therese Desqueyroux
UK distributor Artificial Eye has completed a further four acquisitions in Cannes.
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NewsScreen Academy Scotland launches filmmaker talent search
The low budget initiative will be run at Edinburgh Napier University.
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NewsVicky McClure to star in Convenience
EXCLUSIVE: The British independent comedy is being produced by Ray Panthaki for his company Urban Way.
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NewsArrow strikes UK deal for Bier's Love Is All You Need
TrustNordisk now sold out of Bier’s upcoming romantic comedy.
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Creative England re-launches West Midlands production fund
The £450,000 fund will go towards feature film production from producers or co-producers based in the West Midlands.
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NewsLondon's Leicester Square re-opens after 18 month renovation
The square re-opens just in time to host the premiere of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus on May 31.
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Metrodome takes five in Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: Metrodome adds to The Guillotines acquisition with five more pick-ups in Cannes.
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Screen South unveils new partnerships in Cannes
The former regional screen agency is still going strong as a separate entity outside Creative England.
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Competition Commission reverses ruling over Sky Movies dominance
The Competition Commission has reversed its stance that Sky Movies holds an unfair advantage in the pay TV movie space, as a result of the emergence of online players Lovefilm and Netflix
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NewsPinewood Shepperton announces 15 month results
The studio group reported revenues of £63m over the last 15 months.
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NewsIFC wins bidding war for Wheatley’s Sightseers
In a deal concluded late last night Cannes time IFC took US rights to Ben Wheatley’s dark comedy Sightseers from Protagonist Pictures.
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NewsProtagonist books The Sweeney into eOne for US
EXCLUSIVE: eOne continues to ramp its US distribution slate with the acquisition of Protagonist’s The Sweeney, which the distributor had previously picked up for UK and Canada; deals flow for Nick Love’s crime-drama and Vertigo’s Viking epic Hammer of the Gods.
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NewsFilm4 goes monster mad with Ben Wheatley
EXCLUSIVE: Film4 is in discussions with potential co-financiers here on Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley’s planned cops-and-monsters film Freakshift.
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Scottish companies CinéFile and Distrify partner up
Edinburgh based boutique distributor CinéFile has teamed up with Scottish film promotion and distribution service Distrify, to allow its content to become more accessible on the internet.
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NewsNorthern Film & Media confirms new funding, strikes collaboration with BALTIC
Northern Film & Media has struck up a partnership with the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, to develop film, TV and digital propositions, as well as securing new funding for its production services.
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NewsStealth's Marble City goes to Japan
Parco and Klockworx pick up Ryuhei Kitamura’s noir action thriller.
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NewsFILMCLUB to screen 60 great British films to schoolchildren
The initiative has been launched to coincide with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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NewsFilm Collaborative launches LGBT initiative for distribution
EXCLUSIVE: The Film Collaborative has launched a new distribution initiative for LGBT films, FestSelects.