UK News – Page 636
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NewsFear spreads for StudioCanal
EXCLUSIVE: StudioCanal has sold Sundance Film Festival title In Fear to Umbrella for Australia and New Zealand at Filmart.
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NewsSPC acquires Turner biopic
The distributor has made a pre-emptive swoop on North American, Latin American and Eastern European rights. Focus Features International handles the rest of the world and introduced the Mike Leigh project at the EFM last month.
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NewsJim Gillespie to direct Take Down
Radiant Films International has signed on to represent the teen thriller Take Down, to be directed in the UK later in the year by I Know What You Did Last Summer director Jim Gillespie, from a script by Ransom writer Alexander Ignon.
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NewsThe Bureau launches third 'Save Our Scripts'
Seven month programme will see writers develop a feature length screenplay and producers fast track their development experience.
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NewsAng Lee joins 3D Creative Summit
Ang Lee, who scooped this year’s Best Director Oscar for Life of Pi, is to speak at the inaugural 3D Creative Summit alongside the film’s VFX consultant, David Conley.
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NewsMcCorkell named Organic Publicity MD
Organic is to operate its publicity business as a standalone division and has promoted Emma McCorkell to run it.
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NewsHalo expanding after Oscar success
The post-production company’s current slate includes Richard Curtis’ About Time, Shane Meadows’ Stone Roses feature documentary and Justin Chadwick’s Long Walk to Freedom.
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NewsStephen Graham drama Orthodox set to shoot
EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director David Leon’s feature debut, the first backed by Ingenious’ SEIS fund, is set to shoot in and around Newcastle.
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NewsOz holds firm at UK box office
Disney’s 3D prequel records second consecutive week as number one and climbs to $11.6m (£7.7m) to date.
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NewsUK producers eye Netflix collaboration
Producers will be jostling for Netflix’s attention at MipTV as the UK prepares to introduce new TV tax credits.
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NewsLipSync invests in Leigh’s Turner
Mike Leigh’s untitled period drama about British painter JMW Turner is to benefit from equity investment and post-production from LipSync.
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NewsHe Who Dares wraps shoot
Runaway Features has wrapped principal photography on SAS hostage thriller He Who Dares.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
George Clooney commences principal photography on The Monuments Men, while sci-fi Dreck completes its shoot.
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NewsAlan Partridge film gets release date
A first look at the upcoming Alan Partridge film has been unveiled along with an official title and a release date.
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NewsEdinburgh festival names first film
Feature documentary I Am Breathing is to receive its UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) and will also be screened around the world to mark Global Motor Neurone Disease Day.
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NewsGreyhawk completes shooting
Principal photography on micro-budget feature Greyhawk has wrapped.
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NewsReleases, P&A spend rocket in UK
FDA figures reveal increasingly congested and competitive marketplace.
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NewsHanWay takes Dirty Wars rights
The deal with sales agent Submarine bulks up HanWay’s Cannes war chest and follows the previously announced North American acquisition by Sundance Selects.
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NewsFresh Meat film in the works
EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 sitcom Fresh Meat is set to be adapted for the big screen, according to co-creator Sam Bain.