UK News – Page 394
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BFI New Release Strategy highlighted at Distributor Slate Day
Exhibition subsidy for foreign language films discussed during distribution/exhibition event in London.
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Met Film appoints Chris Maples as chief executive
Current CEO Jonny Persey will move into a director role.
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Protagonist scores key 'Lady Macbeth' sales
Altitude Film has taken UK on the TIFF premeire, KMBO has taken France rights.
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'Prevenge','The Levelling' directors shortlisted for BFI, IWC Filmmaker Bursary Award
A jury featuring John Hurt will decide which film-maker benefits from the $65,000 (£50,000) prize.
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Dinard festival sets Brexit panel, Claude Lelouch as jury president
Competition films include Alice Lowe’s Prevenge and John Carney’s Sing Street.
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'Bridget Jones's Baby' enjoys record-breaking UK debut
Universal’s threequel scores biggest ever September opening with $10.6m (£8.11m) opening from its 641 sites.
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Leonardo DiCaprio doc added to LFF line-up
Before The Flood, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, to get European premiere in London.
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John Hurt joins boxing drama 'My Name Is Lenny'
EXCLUSIVE: Shooting has wrapped in East London on the Salon Pictures features.
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Susanne Bier: "I've never been a careerist"
With The Night Manager up for 12 Emmy Awards, the Danish film-maker sat down with Screen in LA to discuss her successful transition to television and those James Bond directing rumours.
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'Blair Witch', 'Kubo' top UK social media buzz chart
Horror sequel Blair Witch edged out the fantasy animation.
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'Julieta' breathes life into foreign language box office after crossing £1m in UK
Pedro Almodovar’s latest has scored the best result for a non-Bollywood foreign language film since French comedy Untouchable.
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Industry leaders slam EC copyright proposals
Pact chief executive, MPA Europe boss among signatories of letter condemning “threatening” proposals.
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Amma Asante, industry pay tribute to Welsh producer Peter Edwards
Edwards, a producer on Asante’s debut feature A Way Of Life and the first chairman of Ffilm Cymru Wales, has died aged 68.
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George MacKay joins Amma Asante’s 'Where Hands Touch'
A United Kingdom director’s Second World War drama will also star Amandla Stenberg.
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Tessa Ross-Juliette Howell indie makes key hires
EXCLUSIVE: Trio join recently launched House Productions to work across film and TV slate.
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Agatha Christie thriller 'Crooked House' underway
Max Irons, Stefanie Martini, Glenn Close, Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson and Terence Stamp star in Julian Fellowes adaptation.
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Pinewood appoints global sales director
Eric Stevens takes up newly created role in bid to drive world sales.
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Kenneth Lonergan, Park Chan-wook, Maren Ade to deliver BAFTA screenwriter lectures
EXCLUSIVE: The LEGO Movie duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller complete lineup.
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Natalie Dormer thriller underway for 42, company launches new finance venture
Ed Skrein and Emily Ratajkowski co-star in In Darkness, written by Dormer and Anthony Byrne.
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Curzon Artificial Eye takes Ozon's 'Frantz' for UK
EXCLUSIVE: Sales company Films Distribution has also closed deals for Sweden, Norway and Finland, Denmark, and Japan.