UK News – Page 144
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Sadiq Khan, Film London’s Adrian Wootton, UFEG head Donna Langley in diversity pledge
NBCUniversal’s Below-the-Line Traineeship.
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Brilliant Pictures acquires survival thriller ‘Jericho Ridge’ as production wraps (exclusive)
Nikki Amuka-Bird, Michael Socha star.
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Sci-fi feature ‘Rubikon’ sells to UK, Japan, France and South Korea (exclusive)
Austrian disaster movie, sold by The Playmaker Europe, has market premiere next week at Cannes’ Marché du Film
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Film Soho to launch virtual production studio in central London (exclusive)
The UK-based film and TV company will present a preview of the technology at Cannes.
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Mister Smith boards US romantic comedy ‘Which Brings Me To You’, starring Lucy Hale
It will be directed by ‘The Hating Game’’s Peter Hutchings.
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Kirk Jones set to direct ‘You’ve Been Trumped’ drama series for Vertigo Films
The four-part series will dramatise the events around a Scottish community’s fight against Donald Trump’s golf course.
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The Bureau acquires French doc company Folamour (exclusive)
The Bureau has acquired 100% of Folamour’s shares.
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Amazon, MGM, Disney+ execs on Inside Pictures programme headed by Andrew Macdonald (exclusive)
The prestigious exec training programme is delivered by the NFTS and supported by the BFI.
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Venice drama ‘Pilgrims’ sold to North America, Central and Eastern Europe (exclusive)
Reason8 handles sales on the title.
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The Writers Lab UK & Ireland for women over 40 years old returns for 2022 (exclusive)
Lab is supported by Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films.
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ScreenSkills film and animation funds receive record levels of contribution from industry
‘Wonka’, ’Downton Abbey: A New Era’ and ’Dungeons & Dragons’ are among the contributors.
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M-Appeal secures raft of sales for buzzy Australian drama ‘Lonesome’ (exclusive)
Craig Boreham’s film premiered in Seattle and will play at the Sydney International Film Festival next month.
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Single print feature ‘The Afterlight’ sets self-distributed UK-Ireland cinema tour (exclusive)
Charlie Shackleton’s film exists as a single 35mm print.
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BFI appoints two new female board members to represent Wales and Scotland
Romana Ramzan and Anwen Griffiths will join the board of governors
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Cannes Un Certain Regard title ‘Harka’ picked up for France, first look revealed (exclusive)
Film Constellation represents worldwide sales, co-repping North America with CAA.
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Embankment unveils first look at Lone Scherfig’s ‘The Movie Teller’ (exclusive)
The Spanish-language film is in production in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
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Film4 promotes Daniel Battsek to chairman, Ollie Madden to director
Battsek’s role takes on a widened brief within Channel 4.
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Free Range Films, Embankment join forces for new company
The UK companies will both operate under umbrella company, Free Range Entertainment.
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Sophie Nélisse, Dougray Scott to star in Quiver’s wartime drama ‘Irena’s Vow’, as WestEnd launches sales (exclusive)
Producers anticipate 2023 release.
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‘Doctor Strange 2’ conjures up £14.9m for highest UK-Ireland opening since December
Beats ‘The Batman’; fourth-highest MCU opening weekend ever.