UK News – Page 626
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NewsKate Winslet signs on to The Dressmaker
EXCLUSIVE: Winslet to lead Jocelyn Moorhouse’s period romance set to shoot in autumn, Embankment to launch sales in Cannes.
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NewsGood Universe to sell Rocketman
The LA-based company has dropped a huge project into the market and will commence sales in Cannes on the Rocket Pictures biopic about Elton John.
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NewsStudioCanal hunting Wicker Man material
Worldwide appeal to retrieve original missing film material for horror classic The Wicker Man on 40th anniversary.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Isabelle Huppert will play the lead in Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs and British comedian Harry Hill will star in his own feature film.
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NewsGFM boards Toei's Space Pirate
London-based GFM is partnering with Japanese powerhouse Toei Animation on $30 million animated feature Harlock: Space Pirate, a 3D sci-fi motion capture animated film praised by James Cameron.
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NewsArnold, Meadows, Considine lead Film4 slate
Development slate includes Andrea Arnold’s US-set Mag Crew and a Film4.0 doc about Nick Cave.
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NewsPussy Riot film to open Doc/Fest
A film about feminist punk band Pussy Riot is set to open this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest as the event shifts to stage more live performances alongside screenings.
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NewsFilmDistrict hears The Signal
The distributor has preemptively acquired US rights to the Low Spark Films and Automatik production, which will star Laurence Fishburne and newcomer Brenton Thwaites. IM Global’s genre arm Octane handles international sales.
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NewsHarry Hill film to begin shoot
Steve Bendelack directing and Robert Jones producing The Harry Hill Movie.
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NewsTim Grohne launches sales firm Primal Screen
EXCLUSIVE: Former IM Global exec launches London-based, genre-oriented sales outfit ahead of Cannes.
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NewsMatador unveils six film slate
EXCLUSIVE: Slate includes two features from All Stars writer Paul Gerstenberger; company expects films to enter production from late 2013.
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NewsAltitude reveals five for Cannes
New features from Triangle director Christopher Smith, Storage 24 director Johannes Robert and theatre director Thomas Daley.
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NewsContent boards Pudsey project
Content Film will launch worldwide sales on the Croisette of Vertigo Films’ previously announced talking-dog live-action adaptation based on the winner of TV show Britain’s Got Talent in May 2012.
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NewsBIFAs sets 2013 date
The Moet British Independent Film Awards 2013 are to be held on December 8.
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NewsWheatley film to get simultaneous UK release
A Field in England first UK film to be released simultaneously in cinemas, on free TV, DVD and VoD.
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NewsAV Pics takes Let Us Prey
UK sales firm secures worldwide rights to Satanic horror ahead of Cannes.
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NewsAnthony Buckner joins Terra Mater
Former Icon executive joins Red Bull Media House’s Terra Mater Factual Studios.
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NewsJinga adds two to Cannes line-up
UK genre outfit Jinga has picked up Paul Hough’s sci-fi thriller The Human Race and Juanra Fernandez’s For Elisa to its Cannes lineup.
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NewsTom Vaughan to direct 'Tom Jones'
Tom Vaughan, whose credits include Starter For 10 and What Happens In Vegas, will direct the literary adaptation Tom Jones for the UK’s CrossDay Productions.