UK News – Page 794
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NewsBritish films bank $4.2 billion worldwide last year
The UK film industry banked $4.2bn in ticket sales worldwide last year, according to the UK Film Council’s Statistical Yearbook.
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NewsTilda Swinton takes Scottish film festival on tour
Actress Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins, the former director of the Edinburgh Film Festival, are hitting the Highland trail with the first travelling film festival ever staged in the UK.
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NewsBBC Films and Origin Pictures to make Ordinary Thunderstorms
David Thompson’s production company Origin Pictures and BBC Films have secured film rights to William Boyd’s new novel Ordinary Thunderstorms, ahead of its publication in September.
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NewsGlasgow lifts 29 year ban on Life Of Brian
Monty Python’s Life Of Brian can be shown in Glasgow for the first time after councillors lifted a ruling that effectively banned the film from the city’s cinemas for 29 years.
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NewsLondon UK Film Focus retains its pull with international buyers
The London UK Film Focus, the annual showcase for new British Films, launched Monday (June 29) attracting more than 100 international buyers to the capital.
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NewsHandMade Plc shares suspended as it fails to produce accounts
Shares in HandMade Plc, the UK-based film company, were suspended yesterday (June 30) as it emerged the company has yet to publish audited accounts for the year to December 31, 2008.
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NewsTim Bevan gives evidence to Communications Committee
Tim Bevan, co-founder of Working Title Films and incoming chairman of the UK Film Council, will appear before the House of Lords Communications Committee today (July 1).
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NewsUniversal's PictureBox VOD service to launch on Virgin Media
Universal Pictures and Virgin Media have announced that on-demand film service PictureBox will launch on Virgin’s TV platform in July.
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NewsVertigo School Project announces winners
London-based Vertigo Films and The National Film and Television School have named the three winning filmmakers for their Vertigo School Project (VSP).
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NewsPinewood takes on management of Toronto’s Filmport
The British film studio behind the Bond films now controls the fate of Toronto’s struggling, state-of-the-art studio operation. Pinewood Shepperton has taken charge of sales and marketing of Filmport Studios.
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NuImage's Elizabeth Wolfe moves to Freud's LA office
Veteran publicist Elizabeth Wolfe will Freud Communications as Senior Vice President beginning July 1.
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NewsTessa Ross honoured by London Film School
Tessa Ross, Controller of Film and Drama at Channel 4, has been named an Honorary Associate of The London Film School. She was given the title last night at a Q&A event which followed a screening of Slumdog Millionaire.
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NewsUK film censor takes softer view on drugs
The British Board of Film Classification has revised its guidelines to allow references to drugs in ‘U’ rated films, if they are ‘infrequent and innocuous’. In the past such reference would have earned a film a ‘PG’ classification.
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NewsStephen Fry to star in Dardentor
Three aspiring teenage film-makers have scored a coup after British writer and actor Stephen Fry signed on to act in their debut project.
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NewsUKFC and Nesta call on industry to exploit digital world
The UK Film Council and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is calling on the film industry to expand digital distribution, seek new sources of funding and work with online audiences as publishers not just viewers, as part of series of findings from their digital innovation ...
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NewsProtagonist boards Warp X’s All Tomorrow’s Parties
London-based Protagonist Pictures will be handling international sales on Warp X’s All Tomorrow’s Parties.
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NewsMedia 8 picks up My Last Five Girlfriends
Los Angeles-based Media 8 Entertainment has acquired all worldwide rights to the British comedy My Last Five Girlfriends.
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NewsHigh Point signs deal with India’s Pritish Nandy
London-based distributor and sales agency High Point Media Group has formed an alliance with Indian production outfit Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC).
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NewsTransformers sequel stomps into Japan, UK ahead of US launch
Expected global blockbuster Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen lands in two major international markets this weekend, almost a week ahead of its North American debut.
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NewsPeter Carlton to lead Warp’s European expansion
Film4 senior commissioning executive Peter Carlton is leaving to set up the European division of Warp Films.Carlton, who leaves Film4 after six years, will also act as executive producer across selected projects from its UK-based slate, and will work closely with Warp Films’ joint managing directors’ Mark Herbert and Robin ...