UK News – Page 266
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BBC Films, Film4 chiefs reveal their approach to commissioning
Rose Garnett and Daniel Battsek explained how they balance being discerning but accessible.
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NewsScreen Ireland selects four projects for women’s low budget feature scheme POV (exclusive)
Titles include Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ ’It Is In Us All’.
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NewsJosie Rourke to direct Catherine Tate in Nan character origins story with Warner Bros (exclusive)
Mary Queen Of Scots director plots feature with Damian Jones producing.
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NewsHard Brexit could see six million cinema admissions fall
mustNew research from Europa Cinemas was unveiled at Cannes.
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NewsParkland takes UK & Ireland rights to ecosystem doc 'The Biggest Little Farm' (exclusive)
Deal negotiated with sales agent The Exchange.
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NewsThe Screen Podcast: the 2019 Cannes Film Festival
Screen editor Matt Mueller is joined by critics Wendy Ide and Jonathan Romney, producer Rebecca O’Brien, HanWay’s Gabrielle Stewart, Premier PR’s Liz Miller and DDA’s Lawrence Atkinson.
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NewsCharles Dance boards sci-fi 'A Patriot' with Eva Green, Helen Hunt (exclusive)
Project headed for an August shoot.
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NewsIreland, Luxembourg film agencies team for €120k development fund for female filmmakers (exclusive)
The fund ‘aims to reduce gender disparity in the film industry’.
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NewsJohnny Flynn to star in UK heist musical 'The Score' with Connor Swindells, Naomi Ackie (exclusive)
’Yesterday’ producer Matthew James Wilkinson producing; Malachi Smyth directing.
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NewsBRON Creative, Platinum Films partner on Bear Grylls animation (exclusive)
First in four adventures expected to be delivered one year from now.
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NewsVanessa Redgrave, Timothy Spall drama 'Mrs. Lowry & Son' sells to Vertigo for UK (exclusive)
The Exchange seals UK deal on film which will close this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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NewsUK box office hit 'Fisherman’s Friends' sells around the world (exclusive)
The Fisherman’s Friends band were in Cannes on Friday (May 17) to perform a gig on the beach.
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NewsKen Loach blasts film industry working practices
Ken Loach was in typically fiery form when he appeared at UK Film Centre event in Cannes.
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NewsVietnam War drama 'Last Full Measure' sells to UK and Ireland (exclusive)
Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson among film’s cast.
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NewsUK box office preview: 'Beats', 'John Wick 3' to open this weekend
Other openers include ’Birds Of Passage’ and Fox’s Breakthrough.
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News'Atlantics' rises to surface of Screen's Cannes jury grid
Brazilian film ’Bacurau’ moves into second place.
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NewsUK animation 'Strike' sells to North America (exclusive)
Trevor Hardy directed the animation about a young mole who dreams of being a footballer.
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NewsJonathan Coe's 'Expo 58' to be adapted by Scope Invest (exclusive)
The ‘bible’ for the series is being written by fellow novelist Douglas Kennedy.
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NewsDevilworks does North America deal for creature horror 'Blood Bags' (exclusive)
Further sales include to Taiwan, India, Spain and Italy.