UK News – Page 775
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NewsMomentum climbs Arclight's Red Hill
Arclight Films has sold UK rights to Momentum on Patrick Hughes’ Australian thriller Red Hill, one of the hottest marketing screenings here following its world premiere in Panorama.
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Screen International changes to reflect market needs
Screen International is changing the way it delivers information for its subscribers; ScreenDaily is now only available to subscribers.
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NewsWarner and Odeon strike digital deal
Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) has teamed up with Odeon cinemas to help speed up the conversion to digital cinema across all of Odeon’s sites in the UK.
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BBC, AL under starter’s orders on Coe/Ovett pic
Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, one of the great athletics rivalries of the 1980s, are coming to the big screen in time for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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NewsRedgrave In Ruins for Keiller
Vanessa Redgrave has signed on as Narrator for Robinson In Ruins, the long-awaited follow-up to Patrick Keiller’s celebrated 1990s films London and Robinson In Space.
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Mark Adams joins Screen
Screen International has appointed Mark Adams as the title’s chief film critic and reviews editor.
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NewsIrvine Welsh to direct The Magnificant Eleven
Trainspotting novelist Irvine Welsh will direct gritty UK comedy The Magnificent Eleven, a modern-day version of the classic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven in which the Cowboys are a local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a group of menacing thugs run ...
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NewsMetrodome joins industry spoof
On the opening day of the 2010 European Film Market, UK distributor Metrdome picked up film industry mockumentary Just For The Record
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NewsF&ME embarks on biggest project yet
Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME), the London-based feature film production outfit led by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor, is embarking on its biggest project yet.
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NewsContent Extracts UK deal with Paramont on Mike Judge comedy
London and LA-based ContentFilm has snagged a UK deal with Paramount for new Mike Judge comedy, Extract.
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NewsHigh Point takes on Cardiff doc
High Point Films, the theatrical sales arm for Carey Fitzgerald’s High Point Media Group has just snapped up world rights to feature documentary, Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff. It will be handled by the company’s recently launched feature doc arm, Horizons.
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NewsMemento lands high profile duo
Memento Films arrives in Berlin with The Woman In the Fifth and Hello Darkness
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NewsClose, Garcia bring Nobbs to the screen
Multi Oscar nominee Glenn Close is to reprise one of her most famous stage roles on screen.
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NewsPower To The Pixel launches Pixel Lab
Power to the Pixel has announced the dates for its scheme aimed at providing film businesses with training in delivering cross media projects
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NewsVanessa Redgrave to receive BAFTA fellowship
BAFTA to honour Vanessa Redgrave with the Academy Fellowship.
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NewsSeghatchian to head new UKFC production fund
UKFC names current development fund chief as head of new production fund created by restructure.
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NewsShowbox to handle retail sales for Kaleidoscope slate
Year-old Kaleidoscope signs deal with Showbox Media Group, it starts on March 1.
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NewsProtocol UK, Fintage House join forces on new service
Collection agencies Protocol UK and Fintage House join forces to launch “proactive service”.
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NewsBabelgum takes UK web and mobile rights to Little Ashes
The mobile and web platform picks up exclusive UK mobile and web rights to Paul Morrison’s Little Ashes.
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NewsThe Work Media Group restructures to cut overheads
London-based sales and production company restructures to “improve efficency”.