UK News – Page 764
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NewsHilary Swank Dreams with Killer Films, Intandem, Laureate
UK sales outfit Intandem Films is to handle sales on Dreams of a Dying Heart, the film that reunites two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank (pictured) with her Boys Don’t Cry producers Killer Films.
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NewsSalt strikes first-look deal with $30m Brazilian Fund
Newly launched Brazilian film fund Virtù-Schurmann Cinema has signed a first-look deal with UK-based sales and financing company Salt. Salt, which has previously worked on Brazilian titles including City Of Men (Cidade de Homens) (pictured) and Cidade Baixa (Lower City), will help Virtù-Schurmann in identifying and developing Brazilian films with ...
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Freeway takes on UKFC’s NFTC
The UKFC is selling off the National Film Trustee Company in a bid to reduce overheads.
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NewsStealth Media comes on for 7 Lives, finds cast for Wild East Trilogy
7 Lives is being billed as an urban re-telling of It’s A Wonderful Life.
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NewsJon Amiel to direct Undying starring Kurt Russell
Media 8 is producing alongside LA-based Circle Of Confusion, and financing with Cynthia Stafford’s Queen Nefertari Productions, new partner Northern Lights Films, and London/LA-based E-Motion.
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NewsSwarovski moves into film with Shekhar Kapur's Paani
Swarovski Entertainment, the newly-launched film arm of the luxury crystal brand, and India’s Walkwater Media have boarded Shekhar Kapur’s (picture) passion project Paani (Water).
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NewsThe Works searches for Happiness with Patrick Dempsey
The Works International has taken on international sales for Katja von Garnier’s Hector and the Search for Happiness, starring Patrick Dempsey.
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NewsLUFF to host premieres including Cherry Tree Lane, Ways To Live Forever
The next edition of the British export event will feature a raft of high profile premieres including Paul Andrew Williams’ Cherry Tree Lane.
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NewsDeepa Mehta sees Webber’s Bombay Dreams
The Indian director will bring Broadway musical Bombay Dreams to the big screen with a score by AR Rahman.
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NewsFirst Run takes US rights to Mugabe and the White African
HanWay handles sales, and has previously sold to France’s Pretty Pictures.
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Film London extends micro budget scheme Microwave
The Film London/BBC Films microbudget production scheme will run for a further 3 years from 2011.
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Smith joins Field Fisher Waterhouse as media partner
He will advise on a range of issues including finance, production and distribution.
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Repremiere launches in Cannes to offer 3D conversion
London-based Repremiere 3D is launching as a finance house to fund the 3D conversion of library titles across a range of titles.
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NewsTennant, MacDonald, Eve walk down the aisle with Decoy Bride
Ecosse Films, CinemaNX, Scottish Screen and HanWay Films announced the project today in Cannes.
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NewsThe Works takes international rights to Carney's Zonad
Once’s John Carney co-write and co-directed the Tribeca hit with his brother Kieran.
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Mary J Blige sings as Ealing's Nina Simone
William Morris Endeavor’s Global Finance & Distribution Group brought the film to Ealing Studios to finance, produce and sell internationally.
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Warp Films picks up Trash Humpers
The film, directed by Harmony Korine, will be released in the UK in June.
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Northern Film & Media, NorthStar Equity launch $3.5m film fund
The first recipient of the fund is James Erskine’s football feature One Night In Turin.
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NewsWestEnd takes on sales for Lohan's Lovelace project, Inferno
London-based WestEnd Films has taken on worldwide sales on Inferno, the story of notorious porn actress and Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace.