UK News – Page 754
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Tender Son, Le Quattro Volte continue deals for Coproduction Office
Post-Cannes deals include French acquisition of Le Quattro Volte and Czech deal for Tender Son — The Frankenstein Project.
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Artificial Eye plans September UK launch for Peepli Live
The India-set farce is produced by Oscar nominee Aamir Khan.
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Grant Thornton promotes Bolton to lead corporate finance
Dominic Bolton will lead the firm’s corporate finance and entertainment division.
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NewsScreen's UK Marketing & Distribution Awards unveils prestigious jury
Jurors joining Lord Puttnam include Roland Emmerich, Amanda Berry, Nik Powell, and Sally Caplan.
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BFI's nitrate screenings continue with Anchors Aweigh, Volga-Volga
In August the BFI Southbank, Britain’s only venue with a licence to show nitrate film, will continue its showing of nitrate prints that haven’t been screened in the UK for over a decade.
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Sives, Stott, Spall and Whittaker join cast of Scherfig's One Day
Film shooting now adapted from David Nicholls’ bestselling novel.
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NewsIcon UK strikes Canadian output deal with D Films
The deal reunites Icon chief executive Stewart Till with D Films chairman Darryl Iwai.
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Tony Dillon named as director of business affairs at Pact
UK producers association Pact has appointed Tony Dillon as its new director of business affairs.
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David Whitney's Kandahar Break sells to UK, US
UK distributor Revolver and US outfit Peace Arch Entertainment have picked up British director David Whitney’s debut film, Kandahar Break.
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Fersnadillo starts shooting thriller Intruders in London
Carice Van Houten, Pilar López de Ayala, Ella Purnell, Izan Corchero and Kerry Fox have joined the cast of Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s supernatural thriller Intruders, alongside Clive Owen and Daniel Bruhl.
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BBC Worldwide sells majority stake of BBC Audiobooks
Michael Kuhn’s AudioGo Limited acquires 85% shareholding.
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BFI Mediatheque coming to Newcastle's Discovery Museum
The BFI’s digital archive Mediatheque will launch at Newcastle’s Discovery Museum this month.
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NewsHuda, Clarke team for London-set thriller Despatched
Kidulthood director Menhaj Huda and writer Noel Clarke are teaming up again to make London based thriller Despatched, which is currently at the script stage.
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NewsIrish Film Board to seek new head as Simon Perry's tenure ends
The Irish FIlm Board has announced that it will be searching for a new Chief Executive to run the organisation from January 2011.
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NewsUK box office: Eclipse has biggest UK opening of 2010
E1 Films’ release of the third instalment in the Twilght Saga eclipsed all rivals at the UK box office in its debut weekend.
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BFI to start building new Archive storage facility in autumn
Work is finally set to begin in the autumn on the building of the British Film Institute’s new £12 million National Film Archive “sub-zero storage facility.” The aim is to have the new facility, housed at Gaydon in Warwickshire, by early 2012.
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NewsPeccadillo takes Loose Cannons for UK
Peccadillo Pictures has acquired the UK and Irish rights to Ferzan Ozpetek’s Loose Cannons (Mine Vaganti).
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Babelgum strikes deal with Cox, Sundberg for Bengali Detective
Online and mobile platform Babelgum and UK production outfit Native Voice Films have struck a deal for online, mobile, broadcast and feature platform release of a new fly-on-the-wall documentary series set in India, The Bengali Detective.
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Tech institute works with Sheffield for shorts competition
The Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) has teamed up with Sheffield Doc/Fest to launch a short film competition which aims to explore the effects of information technology in the UK.
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NewsFilm4 to kick off Somerset House series with Knight and Day
Film4’s programme of open-air screenings at London’s Somerset House will kick off with summer blockbuster Knight and Day.