UK News – Page 799
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NewsIcon cheers buyers with Oranges and Sunshine
Icon Entertainment International has sold key territory sales for Jim Loach’s Oranges and Sunshine.
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NewsRogers & Cowans moves Nikki Parker to London
Entertainment PR and marketing agency Rogers & Cowan is reshuffling its film divisions in a move that will see executive vice-president Nikki Parker transfer from Los Angeles to London.
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NewsFilm London Microwave seeks fledgling film-makers
Film London has called for applications for its Microwave scheme, the micro-budget film-making initiative set up with BBC Films and Skillset.
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NewsLondon Film Focus reveals 2009 showcase
Ealing Studio’s Time To Time and Carnaby International’s Doghouse are among the films that will screen a this year’s London UK Film Focus (LUFF).
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NewsIndian Film Company strikes digital deal with Saavn
The Indian Film Company (TIFC) has struck a deal with New York-based digital distributor Saavn for 14 titles to be released across the company’s cable VoD network in the UK and North America.
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NewsBob Hoskins, Jaime Winstone sign for Cole's Sex
Principal photography on We Want Sex will start on June 29 for seven weeks on location in Britain and at 3 Mills Studios.
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NewsRalph Fiennes revs up thrilling Coriolanus with Icon
Ralph Fiennes spoke exclusively to ScreenDaily yesterday (May 16) about his directorial debut Coriolanus.
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NewsProtagonist launches Submarine; Soda finds Beds
Protagonist Pictures will be handling international sales on Warp Films’ new project Submarine; Soda buys Unmade Beds for UK/Ireland.
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NewsBlack Camel hunts sales agency for Legacy
Black Camel Productions are in Cannes scouting for a sales agent for their new project Legacy, which is currentlyshooting and stars Idris Elba (The Wire, Obsessed).
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NewsIntandem Films joins The Good War
Intandem Films will be tempting buyers with $18m (€13.3m) World War II action thriller, The Good War. The UK film finance and international sales company has worldwide sales rights.
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NewsBankside Films acquires The Galapagos Affair
Bankside Films has acquired the $6m (€4.4m) The Galapagos Affair, to be directed by Andy De Emmony.
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NewsHigh Fliers soars with City Of Life And Death
High Fliers Films has acquired City of Life and Death from Media Asia for the UK and Ireland.
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NewsPoots takes on Cordelia for Chris Coen's Unanimous
Imogen Poots is to play Cordelia in the untold story of King Lear’s favourite daughter.
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NewsTLA picks up rights to British gang thriller Shank
TLA Releasing has picked up North America, UK and Irish rights to Simon Pearce’s British gang culture thriller Shank.
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NewsEwan McGregor to star in Mackenzie's The Last Word
Scottish star Ewan McGregor, currently winning plaudits for his performance in Angels & Demons, will team up with director David Mackenzie on the forthcoming film, The Last Word.
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NewsMetrodome scores UK and Irish rights to Goal III
London distributor Metrodome has picked up UK and Irish rights to Goal III: Taking On The World.
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NewsRevolver brings Sin Nombre to the UK
Revolver Entertainment, the UK distributor, has snapped up Sin Nombre in the UK in its first deal with Focus Features.The thriller, directed by newcomer Cary Joji Fukunaga, follows a Honduran woman seeking the promise of America. Along the way she meets a Mexican gang member struggling to outrun his ...
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NewsE1 Entertainment takes UK and Irish rights to Nativity
Protagonist Pictures has sold the UK and Irish rights to festive British comedy Nativity to E1 Entertainment.
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NewsKaleidoscope buys rights to The Horseman
The UK’s Kaleidoscope Entertainment has boarded UK rights for Media 8’s film The Horseman.
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NewsWarner Bros UK joins The Firm
Warner Bros. Pictures UK will release Nick Love’s latest movie The Firm in a joint venture with Vertigo Films.Set for release in the UK and Ireland on September 25, The Firm which was written and directed by Love, is loosely adapted from Alan Clarke’s classic 1989 drama of the same ...