UK News – Page 664
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NewsScreen to host EIS seminar on March 12
Dave Morrison from Nyman Libson Paul to discuss EIS changes.
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NewsMarton Csokas, Hayley Atwell to star in Sky Atlantic's Falcon
The two part production is based on Robert Wilson’s bestselling detective novels and will be Sky Atlantic’s second UK original drama commission following Hit + Miss.
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NewsPlush, V/H/S among Momentum’s Berlin and Sundance buying spree
EXCLUSIVE: Catherine Hardwicke’s Plush, Francois Ozon’s In the House, starry portmanteau The Players, romance Populaire with Romain Duris, Deborah Francois and Berenice Bejo, and Sundance buzzer V/H/S are among Momentum’s impressive recent shopping spree.
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NewsSteve Coogan signs with ICM
British actor and comedian Steve Coogan has signed with ICM for representation.
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NewsMichael Fassbender to star in Irish Myths
Fassbender has been developing the project based on Irish myth stories, with writer Ronan Bennett, who has been working on the project since last year.
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NewsSoda launches children's slate with A Cat In Paris
Other titles for the UK distributor include Tales of The Night and Petit Nicolas.
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NewsAnna Friel joins Steve Coogan in Winterbottom's King Of Soho
Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton and Imogen Poots have joined the cast of Michael Winterbottom’s next feature, which stars Steve Coogan as infamous porn baron Paul Raymond.
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NewsBIFAs set 2012 date for Dec 9
The Moët British Independent Film Awards has announced its 2012 date for Sunday, Dec 9.
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NewsKoch Media acquires a taste for WestEnd’s Love Bite
WestEnd Films has sold German rights for Andy de Emmony’s teen comedy horror Love Bite to Koch Media.
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NewsMarcus Evans Group acquires World Productions
The acquisition was part of Marcus Evans and Ken Mcreddie Associates’ plan to create its own production unit, following their merger in 2008.
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NewsGlasgow Film festival to sell fims via Facebook
The festival, which kicked off its 2012 edition today, is to create an online collection of short films from this year’s Glasgow Short Film Festival Scottish Competition, with selected films also made available to buy on the festival’s faceboook pages.
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NewsAV Pictures to handles sales on The 4th Reich
The second world war action horror movie is being produced by Mann Made Films.
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NewsHurricane Films, Götafilm board Terence Davies' Sunset Song
Terence Davies’ long awaited adaptation of classic Scottish novel Sunset Song looks set to finally get off the ground, with shooting due to take place in Winter 2012 in Scotland and Sweden.
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NewsRafi Pitts teams with Radulescu, Karathanos on Soy Negro
EXCLUSIVE: Rafi Pitts is co-writing his next film with Romanian writer Radvan Radulescu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 days, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu).
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NewsBrits at Berlinale Talent Campus tout new features
UK producer Emma Biggins, who is taking part in the Berlinale Talent Campus this year, is to produce sci fi thriller The Calling, for her company Multistory Films.
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NewsPeter Kosminsky joins BFI's Board of Governors
Award-winning writer/director voted new member representative and joins with immediate effect.
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NewsRoland Joffe lands Forest Whitaker as Desmond Tutu
EXCLUSIVE: Roland Joffe is plotting a prison movie set in South Africa that will deal with the Truth and Reconciliation hearings.
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NewsRooks Nest takes off
Julia Godzinskaya and Michael Sackler of new UK production outfit Rooks Nest Entertainment come to Berlin with Panorama entry My Brother the Devil, Sally El Hosaini’s well-received debut which premiered at Sundance.
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NewsLUFF readies 9th edition for June 25-28
More than 120 buyers expected to attend the London event.