UK News – Page 746
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Metrodome to launch sales agency
UK distributor Metrodome Group has announced its intention to launch an international all-rights film sales agency in 2011.
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Screen South calls for applications for Trade and Talent scheme
The regional screen agency is seeking film-makers with projects that have a particular relevance the US market
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NewsDoc director Alan Ereira to make feature debut
Ereira will extend his 1990 BBC documentary about the Kogi tribe into a feature
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NewsVision+Media launches training scheme for screenwriters
The North West screen agency has selected 26 writers to take part in the eight-month initiative
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NewsRiz Ahmed, Matt Greenhalgh host cult film screenings
Riz Ahmed (pictured), Stephen Graham and Matt Greenhalgh will host screenings in the new season of the Jameson Cult Film Club, which returns this autumn.
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Pathe names Ivernel chairman of exhibition circuit EuroPalaces
Further to the announcement earlier this week of changes to Pathe’s directorship in France as well as additions to its board, Pathe UK on Wednesday [15] announced the appointment of the company’s executive vice-president Francois Ivernel to the post of chairman of exhibition circuit EuroPalaces.
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NewsJames D'Arcy, Noel Clarke to star in Screwed
The film, directed by Reg Traviss, is based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson.
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Metrodome’s Brown joins Neon Park as partner
James Brown has joined UK production and finance outfit Neon Park as a partner alongside CEO Lex Lutzus, and has also taken up the role of managing director.
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DogWoof launches DIY distribution scheme with Restrepo
Dogwoof has launched a DIY distribution scheme, backed by the UK Film Council, which allows individuals to screen the UK distributor’s newest films.
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Artificial Eye connects with Archipelago
Artificial Eye has acquired all UK rights to Joanna Hogg’s drama Archipelago from Wild Horses Film Company.
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NewsVaizey confirms BFC, regional screen agencies will stay
UK Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has stated that the government will retain the regional screen agencies and the activities of the British Film Commission, and that wider film support plans will be in place by November.
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NewsCause, Picture Palace to co-produce Spottiswoode’s First Class Man
Cause Entertainment, an Indian fund established to invest in socially conscious movies, has announced that its first project will be Roger Spottiswoode’s A First Class Man, a biopic about Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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33Story tours DIY cinema to UK universities
Independent production outfit 33Story will tour its debut feature film, Big Font, Large Spacing, on a self-built cinema screen across a number of UK university campuses at the end of September.
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Screen Producer’s Ireland and SIPTU create industrial agreement
In a bid to stimulate inward investment and modernise the local industry, Screen Producer’s Ireland (SPI), the representative body for producers and production companies in Ireland, and trade union SIPTU, which represents film crews, have signed a new industrial contract.
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NewsMetrodome bites on UK rights to Stake Land
Metrodome has acquired all UK rights to vampire thriller Stake Land. Jim Mickle directs the MPI Media Group project.
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MPI strikes North American deal for Hammer's Wake Wood
Chicago-based MPI Media Group has acquired all North American rights to Hammer Films thriller Wake Wood.
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NewsResident Evil alive and kicking at UK box office
Resident Evil: Afterlife doubled the opening weekend totals of previous instalments in the action-horror franchise on its way to securing a number-one debut at the UK box office.
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NewsShooting underway on Weekender
Irish director Karl Golden’s latest film stars Jack O’Connell and Henry Lloyd Thomas as two friends experiences of the rave scene in the 1990s.
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Odeon to add four IMAX venues in UK by December
Odeon and IMAX have struck a deal to install four IMAX theatres in the UK.
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Jinga strikes multiple deals for sci-fi-romance Timer
UK sales outfit Jinga Films has closed a raft of deals for Jac Schaeffer’s futuristic romantic-comedy Timer.