UK News – Page 642
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Scottish features Accelerated
Creative Scotland’s inaugural Accelerator feature development programme has selected seven Scottish features
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NewsArtificial Eye, Alta, Bim head for Mungiu’s Hills
EXCLUSIVE: Wild Bunch’s other hot sellers in Cannes include Holy Motors, Suspiria remake, Dark Touch.
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NewsWide House docs in demand
EXCLUSIVE: Wide’s doc arm Wide House has closed deals on documentary biopic Bergman and Magnani, Sam Peckinpah: A Portrait and Milos Forman, What Doesn’t Kill You…
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NewsBritish Council launches Short Support Scheme
It includes a Travel Grant Fund that will support short film-makers from the UK in showing their work at international film festivals.
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NewsCreative England launches Elevator programme
The programme, which was launched today in Cannes, is aimed at helping short film-makers to make the leap into features.
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NewsWatershed launches FilmWorks networking scheme
The pilot project aimed at fast tracking emerging filmmaking talent from the UK regions, is being developed with money from Creative England’s network fund.
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NewsThe Dictator seizes control of the UK box office
Paramount’s comedy prevents The Avengers from going four straight weeks at the top; Momentum’s The Raid opens in fifth.
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Reel's Mixed Kebab goes to TLA for US and UK
EXCLUSIVE: Reel Suspects has closed multiple deals on LGBT drama Mixed Kebab.
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NewsArtificial Eye snaps up Sally Potter drama
EXCLUSIVE: Artificial Eye has snapped up UK rights to Sally Potter’s new untitled drama from The Match Factory.
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NewseOne takes Rezo’s The Horde
EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One has picked up multi-territory, including North America and the U.K, on the Russian epic The Horde.
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NewsLUFF to host premieres from Whitecross, Temple
EXCLUSIVE: The London UK Film Focus (25 to 28 June), the annual screening event that brings the world’s top buyers to London, has announced a raft of high profile premieres for this year’s event.
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NewsContent takes on Complicit
Content has taken world rights to MI5/terrorism drama Complicit directed by Niall MacCormick (Albatross).
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NewsIron Sky director revives Hitler in 3D
EXCLUSIVE: Adolf Hitler is to be recreated in digital 3D in I Killed Adolf Hitler, the new live action sci-fi feature from the team behind hit Iron Sky.
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NewsRobert Jones to produce A Patch Of Fog
The film is the winning project to come out of Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Focus scheme for local writers.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival revamps programme sections
New competition sections to be added, and ‘clusters’ will be grouped by themes.
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NewsNetwork picks up Larrain’s No for UK
Network Releasing has inked a deal for all UK rights to Pablo Larrain’s No.
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NewsBBC Films announces new projects with Simon Curtis, David Heyman
Saoirse Ronan to star in adaptation of Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, Simon Curtis to direct drama based on struggle for Klimt paintings
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NewsRomeo team could work with Swarovski again
Screenwriter Julian Fellowes and producer Ileen Maisel plan to develop future projects with Swarovski Entertainment, which backed their new Romeo and Juliet.
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NewsCoppola at the Mercy of Highsmith
Bruno Coppola and Joseph Pierson have acquired the film rights to Patricia Highsmith’s A Suspension of Mercy.
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NewsMister Smith's 3,096 days in demand
EXCLUSIVE: David Garrett’s new sales outfit Mister Smith, a joint venture with Constantin, has seen strong demand for Natascha Kampusch drama 3,096 Days.