UK News – Page 710
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NewsFilm London’s PFM sets dates for Oct 19-20
Production finance event aims to set up over 800 meetings
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NewsRoeg's Independent lines up films with Michael Mann, Saul Dibb
UK production/finance/sales company Independent - riding high in Cannes with We Need To Talk About Kevin - has confirmed that Michael Mann will direct its adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s Agincourt.
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NewsSwinton, Fassbender and Wasikowska line up for Jarmusch's vampire story
EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Thomas and Reinhard Brundig producing; HanWay to handle sales.
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NewsRavensbourne, Skillset, WFTV to host Cannes panel on 3D storytelling
London-based Ravensbourne, Skillset and the UK’s Women in Film and TV are hosting a 3D panel here in Cannes today (at 10:30 at the UK Film Centre).
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NewsBankside's Kelliher elected as chair of Film Export UK
EXCLUSIVE: New directors are Clare Crean and Andrew Orr.
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NewsCillian Murphy is a 'Broken' man as part of busy BBC Films slate
BBC Films, which is in Cannes as one of the backers of Lynne Ramsay’s Competition title We Need To Talk About Kevin, has a full slate of new projects including several debut features, family films and some with marquee names.
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NewsNumber 9's slate includes new Neil Jordan vampire film
Number 9 Films, the production company run by Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen, is set to have three films in production by the end of the year including a Dickens adaptation, a new Neil Jordan vampire picture, and a British gangster movie.
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Neil La Bute checks into UK's Crooked House
Neil La Bute (In The Company of Men) is to direct an adaptation of a novel by British crime writer, Agatha Christie.
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NewsEaling Metro takes on five music docs from Julien Temple
Slate includes Rio and London films shooting this year.
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NewsICO-ICA join forces in UK
EXCLUSIVE: The UK’s Independent Cinema Office (ICO) and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) have struck a three-year partnership that will start in July.
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Kumar’s Monsoon set to hit India
EXCLUSIVE: Amit Kumar, director of award-winning short The Bypass, is gearing up to shoot his debut feature, The Monsoon Shootout, as a co-production between the UK, India, Netherlands and France.
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Dogwoof acquires UK rights to Leaving Baghdad
EXCLUSIVE: Dogwoof Films has picked up UK rights to Koutaiba Al Janabi’s controversial drama Leaving Baghdad, which had its world premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival.
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NewsKaleidoscope sees future with A Lonely Place To Die
Brit thriller stars Melissa George, Ed Speelers and Sean Harris
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NewsVertigo ramps up StreetDance, Monsters sequels
Falk Hentschel and Sofia Boutella [pictured] to star in StreetDance 2 3D; Monsters 2 signs Brent Bonacorso and Jesse Atlas to direct.
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NewsCharles Dance lines up Fanny Ardant for Starfield’s Now And Then
EXCLUSIVE: Starfield also working on projects with Bahman Ghobadi and Ben Hopkins
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NewsHorrid Henry leads premieres at 2011 LUFF
EXCLUSIVE: Horrid Henry: The Movie 3D headlines the premieres at this year’s London UK Film Focus (LUFF)
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NewsProducers show Optimism for new UK/Australian venture
The new production company, Optimism, is being officially launched in Cannes.
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NewsB Good plans Suddenly remake
EXCLUSIVE: UK production outfit B Good Picture Company is developing a remake of the 1954 Frank Sinatra classic Suddenly.
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NewsMaura Ford launches producer-friendly Seven & Seven
Seven & Seven will offer support to independent producers enabling them to retain control during the sales process.
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Northern Ireland Screen plans Cannes preview for George's Whole Lotta Sole
Northern Ireland Screen will present a two minute promo teaser from Terry George’s siege comedy Whole Lotta Sole starring Brendan Fraser at its networking chairman’s lunch today in Cannes.