UK News – Page 642
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NewsPaloma Faith to star in punk drama
EXCLUSIVE: Platinum-selling singer to star in feature from Wellington Films and Zentropa Sweden.
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NewsLUFF sets dates for 10th edition
Film London’s London UK Film Focus (LUFF) has set the dates of its 10th edition for June 24-27 and is expecting around 120 buyers and 50 titles at the event.
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NewsWhat Richard Did sweeps IFTAs
Teen drama What Richard Did scored five awards at the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards, which also handed best international film to Ben Affleck’s Argo.
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NewsUK deal for Johnny Cash doc
EXCLUSIVE: Wide House has closed a UK theatrical deal for Johnny Cash doc My Father And The Man In Black with Ballpark Film Distributors.
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NewsBankside boards Van Gogh feature
The feature length animation charts the untimely demise of legendary painter Vincent Van Gogh.
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NewsGREAT British Film Reception to honour UK nominees
British Consul-General Dame Barbara Hay will celebrate Academy Award nominees from the UK at the GREAT British Film Reception in Los Angeles on Feb 22.
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NewsResolution signs UK comedy Jadoo
Amit Gupta comedy to receive its world premiere in Berlin next week.
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NewsSPC finds Invisible Woman
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics snaps up US rights to Ralph Fiennes’ Charles Dickens drama from WestEnd.
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NewsKen Loach readies Ireland-set feature
EXCLUSIVE: Ken Loach is hoping to shoot his next film this autumn, the director has confirmed to Screen.
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NewsBackstreet’s Back with Pulse feature
EXCLUSIVE: Pulse Films arrives at the Berlinale with all-access doc about the world’s best-selling boyband [pictured].
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NewsAdelaide Clemens joins The Laureate
EXCLUSIVE: Adelaide Clemens [pictured] is newly attached to UK love story The Laureate alongside previously announced cast Sam Claflin and Imogen Poots.
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NewsSoda blasts off with art label
The company is to be run by curator/producer Elena Hill, who will work closely with Soda principals Eve Gabereau and Ed Fletcher.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Among the many updates and new projects already announced in Berlin are Belly Dancing For Beginners starring Sheridan Smith and Liv Ullmann’s Miss Julie.
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NewsFocus reunites with Mike Leigh on Turner biopic
EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features International (FFI) will handle worldwide sales on the film about the celebrated English landscape painter J M W Turner to star Timothy Spall and will co-finance with BFI and Film4.
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NewsMatch Factory strikes deal for Snow in Paradise
EXCLUSIVE: Control editor Andrew Hulme makes his directorial debut.
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NewsJack O’Connell to star in Yann Demange's 71
EXCLUSIVE: Skins and 300: Rise of an Empire star to play lead in Northern Ireland thriller.
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NewseOne picks up Reese Witherspoon refugee drama
eOne strikes multi-territory deal for The Good Lie.
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NewsFocus, Random House snap up films rights to Longbourn
Random House Studio and Focus Features have moved on film rights to Longbourn, a revisionist take on Pride And Prejudice that tells Jane Austen’s story from the point of view of the Bennet family estate servants.
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NewsJinga closes territories on genre slate
UK-based Jinga Films has reported strong business on seven titles on the slate, led by a three-film deal with 101 Films.
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NewsDavid Farrell dies, aged 93
Stills photographer worked in film and TV for over 30 years, with directors such as Ken Loach and Michael Winner.