UK News – Page 748
-
News
LFF host Vue launches festival twitter competition
Three competition winners will have the chance to review some of the London Film Festival’s (Oct 13-28) highlights on behalf of Vue including opening night film Never Let Me Go and Darren Aronofsky’s thriller Black Swan.
-
NewsShooting underway on Ben Drew (Plan B)'s feature debut Ill Manors
The microbudget feature will shoot in East London and is the sixth to come out of Film London’s Microwave scheme.
-
News
Kevin McKidd, Ashley Jensen sign up for Scottish romantic drama
Kevin McKidd anad Ashley Jensen are attached to star in Indian Summer, a romantic drama set in the Scottish Highlands in 1967, which will be the directorial debut of screenwriter Brian Ward.
-
NewsDigital Cinema Media signs screen advertising contract with Vue
Screen advertising outfit Digital Cinema Media (DCM) has signed a four year contract with Vue for the exclusive rights to sell the exhibitor’s on screen advertising.
-
NewsOnline platform MUBI picks up UK thriller Exhibit A
Online VOD service MUBI (formerly The Auteurs) has picked up Dom Rotheroe’s Raindance-winning indie thriller Exhibit A for pay-per-view streaming.
-
NewsRaindance bookended with Jackboots on Whitehall, Son of Babylon
Jurors will include Charles Saatchi, Alison Owen, Mark Herbert and Lemmy.
-
News
Mem Ferda and White Lantern launch development fund for new UK screenplays
UK production company White Lantern Film has teamed up with actor Mem Ferda to launched a £100K development fund aimed at finding new screenplays in the UK.
-
News
Deluxe group strikes ITFC deal
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group has acquired the business and assets of post production and content management provider ITFC.
-
News
Screen South picks producers for new development scheme
Regional screen agency Screen South has announced the nine producers who will take part in its producer development programme - Develop, Connect, Produce – which launches on Sept 13.
-
NewsOptimum exorcises box-office demons in UK
Optimum’s horror The Last Exorcism debuted top in the UK over the Sept 3-5 weekend, giving the distributor its biggest ever three-day opening.
-
News
UK hosts new Film Directing 4 Women Film Festival
The inaugural Film Directing 4 Women Film Festival will kick off with a selection of award-winning shorts including Anya Camilleri’s award-winning Perfect, starring Stephen Moyer.
-
News
Kristian Segerstrale and Roland Steindorf join LoveFilm board
Kristian Segerstrale, CEO of social network games developer Playfish, and Roland Steindorf, Head of the Supervisory Board of German telecommunications provider Versatel AG, have joined LoveFilm as non-executive directors.
-
NewsGaming writer Rhianna Pratchett moves onto first feature film
Rhianna Pratchett is set to write the screenplay for her first feature film, a London-based drama about a group of female vigilantes, to be produced by Simple Productions.
-
NewsSoda takes on brilliantlove for New British Cinema Quarterly series
Soda Pictures has acquired the UK and Irish rights to Ashley Horner’s brilliantlove and will release the film as part of its New British Cinema Quarterly series.
-
News
Vicky Jewson plans gritty action thriller as second feature
UK director Vicky Jewson is due to go into pre-production in October on her second feature, a gritty action thriller called Born Of War.
-
News
Berwick festival to host UK premieres of Karaoke, The Wish Tree
The Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival kicks off its sixth year on Sept 15 with The Keystone Cut Ups, a specially commissioned live performance and video work by artists People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz.
-
NewsFriel, Hoskins, Ifans to star in Sky Movies HD's Neverland
Anna Friel, Bob Hoskins and Rhys Ifans are to star in Neverland, a two-part, feature-length prequel to the Peter Pan story, which has been commissioned by the UK’s Sky Movies HD.
-
News
Vue strikes deal for Sony 4K projectors
UK cinema chain Vue Entertainment has signed an “agreement in principle” with Sony Europe to install 4K digital cinema projection systems across its circuit.
-
NewsCurious strikes Australian deal for Zonad with The Works
The Works International has sold Irish comedy Zonad to Curious Film for distribution in Australia and New Zealand.
-
NewsDisputes intensify over Michael Radford's Spanish project La Mula
Radford seeks injunction; Spanish production company Gheko Films approaches UK and Irish authorities over financing troubles.