UK News – Page 765
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Bankside slate adds Peter Greenaway, Famke Janssen, Antonia Bird films
UK sales and film financing outfit Bankside Films has struck a first-look deal with Dutch producer Kees Kasander and will be handling worldwide sales on Peter Greenaway’s new feature.
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NewsProtagonist scares up slew of deals on Edwards' Monsters
Deals have been concluded with Square One Entertainment for Germany, SND for France, Front Row for the Middle East. In CIS, director Timur Bekmambetov and Sergei Yershov’s Film Depot jointly acquired the film.
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NewsLionsgate UK goes Fishing with BBC and Kudos
Creative team includes Lasse Hallstrom, Simon Beaufoy and Paul Webster. Cast led by Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt and Kristin Scott Thomas.
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Exclusive, Alliance team for Hammer's Woman In Black 3D
Exclusive Film Distribution, now headed by Alex Walton, is handling world sales of the film here at Cannes.
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A Lonely Place gears up for Scottish shoot
Julian Gilbey’s film was previously known as The Grave At Angel’s Peak.
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NewsJeremy Hunt named UK culture minister
UK’s new coalition government names Conservative MP has minister for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.
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Curzon Artificial Eye confirms new funding
Dedicated company Curzon Film Rights raised the funding in the form of Film Rights Structured Notes (Lipworth Capital served as advisor).
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Hathaway, Sturgess sign to Scherfig's One Day for Focus
Film of bestselling novel by David Nicholls is being produced by Nina Jacobson.
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Goldcrest unveils sales slate including Emily Blunt’s The Girl
Goldcrest Films has announced the slate of six films its ramped up sales business is taking to Cannes Market.
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NewsStudioCanal has Awakening with Hall, West, Staunton
Supernatural thriller will mark feature directorial debut of UK TV director Nick Murphy.
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The Works takes international sales on Nuummioq
The film is directed by Otto Rosing and Torben Bech and stars Lars Rosing and Angunnguaq Larsen.
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Jinga Films scares up A Serbian Film
Other films in Jinga’s Cannes line-up include Federico Zampaglione’s Shadow and Darren Ward’s A Day Of Violence.
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Revolver loves Zombie Women
The film follows a group of misfits trapped in stocking-clad zombie cult.
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NewsHanWay promotes Westerhoff
UK sales company HanWay has promoted Fabien Westerhoff to lead its multi-media division. Mark Lane has also been promoted to Sales Manager and Kate Hide brought in as Business & Content Manager.
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Film London investing $367,000 in film heritage
The injection of funding will go towards an 18-month project aimed at supporting London’s moving image archives/collections, with a view to creating an online showcase of the material.
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E1 strikes UK deals for Fair Game, The Runaways
E1 Entertainment has taken UK and Irish rights to Doug Liman’s Cannes Competition title Fair Game, and for The Runaways.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest and Britdoc announce new workshops
Peter Broderick and Sandi DuBowski will lead the workshops on online opportunities.
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PictureBox VOD service strikes deal with Icon in UK
Movies-on-demand subscriber service PictureBox has struck a deal with Icon Film Distribution for the rights to more than 30 Icon films.
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Roger Moore joins board of Red Carpet Film Fund
The first project to come out of the fund will be Causeway Picture’s Connemara Days, to be directed by Kevin Connor, which is due to commence principle photography in Ireland in late August.