UK News – Page 668
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NewsLena Headey to play lead in Gary Sinyor thriller The Unseen
David Frost and Michael Rosenberg are executive producers on thriller which will shoot in the Balearics.
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NewsVision 3 wins 3D Lumiere Award for The Foundling
It was part of the 3D Society’s Lumiere Awards which took place at the Beverly Hills Hotel, LA.
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NewsNorthern Film & Media, Channel 4 launch The Artists' Cut
The new lottery backed initiative is aimed at giving artists the chance to make the switch into narrative pieces, inspired by the recent success of artists turned film-makers such as Steve McQueen, Gillian Wearing and Sam Taylor Wood.
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NewsGoodwin joins UK production company Western Edge; busy slate includes golf, Dumas projects
EXCLUSIVE: Third Star production company lines up adaptation of Dumas novella The Corsican Brothers.
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NewsKevin named best film at Evening Standard Awards
Olivia Colman continued her awards run picking up the best actress award, making her lack of BAFTA nomination even more glaring.
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NewsInside Pictures launches 2012 programme
For the second year the programme is open to applicants from across the whole of the European Union.
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NewsSoda's New British Cinema Quarterly gets BFI investment, launches 2012 slate
BFI’s P&A fund backs the programme with £50,000.
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NewsK5 boards Groundswell’s Very Good Girls starring Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen
EXCLUSIVE: K5 boards Naomi Foner directorial debut starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen [pictured].
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NewsDana Harrison joins Paradise FX Europe as sales director
Harrison will be running the company’s London and Berlin offices.
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NewsHanWay takes on sales for Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Polish director talks openly in the film made by friend Andrew Braunsberg.
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NewsChronicle flies into top spot at UK box office
Fox’s sci-fi takes the reins from War Horse, which drops to 4th, over a snow-affected weekend in the UK; StudioCanal has DVD hit with Tinker Tailor.
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NewsPeccadillo to release North Sea Texas in UK
Peccadillo Pictures is to handle UK and Ireland distribution of Bavo Defurne’s directorial debut North Sea Texas, about two teenage boys who fall in love.
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NewsW2 Media moves into The Killing House
Jonathan English (pictured) will direct from his own screenplay.
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NewsSkillset to help small creative businesses take on first apprentice
The UK government is offering small creative businesses the chance to benefit from £1500 incentive payments in exchange for taking on an apprentice.
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NewsShine Pictures appoints Marina Brackenbury as head of development
She will be tasked with overseeing and expanding Shine’s development slate.
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NewsJinga adds horror Rites of Spring to EFM slate
US horror already sold to IFC for US and Mongrel for Canada.
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NewsWestEnd picks up thriller Bethlehem ahead of EFM
EXCLUSIVE: WestEnd picks up debut about a complex relationship between an Israeli secret services agent and a Palestinian teenager.
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NewsScreen Yorkshire unveils £15m production fund
The former screen agency has secured £7.5m of European Regional Development Funding which will be match funded by private investors for films based and/or shooting in the region.
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NewsAspect strikes three-picture genre deal with Blanc/Biehn
Michael Beihn to star in all three films.
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NewsSubmarine, Dogwoof Global partner for foreign sales on Marina Abramovic doc
US-based sales company Submarine Entertainment has partnered with the new Dogwoof Gobal for foreign sales of acclaimed documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present.