UK News – Page 236
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NewsHow Paramount UK worked with Rapman and exhibitors to ensure ‘Blue Story’ reached a wide audience
The London-set drama has taken more than $6m at the box office.
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NewsUK’s East End Film Festival to close due to lack of funding (exclusive)
“The push to provide a more mainstream commercial offering is not for us.”
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NewsIreland’s Fantastic Films moves into TV with ‘Zom-B’ (exclusive)
Fantastic Films’ credits include Cannes titles Last Days On Mars and Vivarium.
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NewsIsle of Skye writers residency programme launches new cash prize
£5,000 cash prize will be awarded for the best film or TV script submitted by alumni of the residency scheme.
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NewsWilliam Boyd to write TV series dramatising events around Notre Dame fire
Vendôme, Moonriver TV and Pathé are co-developing the project in collaboration with The New York Times.
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NewsBond movie 'No Time To Die' postponed due to coronavirus concerns
Film moved from April to November 2020.
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NewsCan the “arthouse film boom” continue? asks Glasgow panel
It is not just down to the success of ‘Parasite’.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival to expand VR, TV and industry programmes for 2020 edition
Around 30 new non-film projects will be showcased at a new Gala event.
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NewsNew figures show “period of considerable success” for UK exhibition sector
Phil Clapp and Lucy Jones were speaking at the UK Cinema Association’s annual conference.
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NewsSony closes European offices due to coronavirus fears
No cases detected but European sites keep doors shut this week as a precaution.
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NewsPicturehouse Entertainment picks up Berlin Panorama thriller ‘Wildland’ for UK (exclusive)
Jeanette Nordahl’s feature debut is a female-driven crime drama.
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NewsEdgar Wright calls for more industry professionals to see films with a paying audience
Wright also called on advertisers to shorten the commercials shown in advance of movies in British cinemas.
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NewsFemale distribution specialists discuss creating diverse teams, making smart deals at Glasgow panel
Nine of Birds Eye View’s Future Leaders in Distribution cohort took part in the conversation.
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NewsUK industry mourns former Disney marketing supremo Robert Mitchell who has died aged 56
Mitchell also worked at Palace Pictures, Warner Bros and Intandem Films.
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NewsDisney+ teams up with Sky for the UK and Ireland
It will be available to Sky Q customers at the same time as the UK launch of Disney+ on 24 March.
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NewsWarner Bros hires senior EMEA distribution executive
Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, Wonder Woman 1984 coming up for studio in 2020.
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NewsUK investors launch £500m UK studio fund, acquire Twickenham Studios
TV and advertising executives Piers Read and Jeremy Rainbird are heading up the fund.
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News‘The Invisible Man’ startles UK box office with £2.2m opening for top spot
‘Parasite’ still taking over £1m-per-weekend after four weekends.
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NewsEliza Hittman’s ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ finishes top of Screen’s Berlin 2020 jury grid
‘Days’, ‘Undine’ come second and third; Abel Ferrara’s ‘Siberia’ last.