UK News – Page 659
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NewsSarah Bemand joins Margaret as account director
London-based creative agency Margaret hs expanded its team by adding Sarah Bemand as Film PR Account Director.
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NewsSundance London to return to O2 in 2013 and 2014
The festival will present new work from American film-makers and musicians from 25-28 April, 2013.
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NewsSerkis and Cavendish's Imaginarium takes on The Bone Season, Animal Farm
The Imaginarium, the new London-based performance capture studio founded by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish, has secured film rights to the book series The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon as well as the rights to George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm; Serkis will direct and star in the latter.
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NewsUPDATED: LFF boasts highest attendance, winners include Rust And Bone, My Brother The Devil, Beasts, Mea Maxima Culpa
UPDATED: BFI boasts a 12% increase in festival attendance with the highest ever audience turn-out with 149,000 across London venues.
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NewsBFI chair Greg Dyke says education shouldn't be too traditional, should use moving image
Greg Dyke, chairman of the BFI, spoke at the BFI London Film Festival awards tonight and reiterated the organisation’s call for film education to be essential in schools.
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NewsCreative England's final Film Culture Lottery Fund opens for applications
A total of £700,000 is available for cinema projects in the English regions; responsibility for this strand of funding to transfer to the BFI as part of their Film Forever plan from next year.
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NewsDavie hired as BBCW CEO
Tim Davie [pictured], the BBC’s director of Audio & Music, is to replace John Smith as the chief executive of BBC Worldwide.
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NewsTwickenham Film Studios to install $1.6m of equipment by spring
Studio on course to be the most “up-to-date, highly equipped studio in the country”, according to COO Maria Walker [pictured].
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NewsDogwoof boards UK rights and international sales for Sarah Gavron documentary
Village At The End of the World has its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival today.
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NewsMaria Hannah joins The Hive
Scottish post-production facility also appoints Emma Henderson as a runner.
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NewsWilder Films team up with Distrify for Up There
Fans will get their chance to pick where Zam Salim’s comedy premieres and where it screens in the UK.
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NewsCascade Media Development launches new screenwriting initiative
Up to 24 projects selected to pitch each month.
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NewsBFI's Ben Roberts promises 'open access' to funding during PFM keynote
Ben Roberts, Director of the BFI Film Fund, today promised far greater transparency in the way public funding decisions are made.
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NewsShorts from Milner, Guerrier brothers, Zamatov to screen at Aesthetica
Second edition of short film festival, which runs Nov 8-11, to feature shorts from over 25 countries.
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NewsBBFC appoints Patrick Swaffer president, wants wider classification of film downloads
Swaffer succeeds Sir Quentin Thomas who stepped down after ten years.
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NewsWhat Richard Did sells to UK, France, Australia, Scandinavia
EXCLUSIVE: Protagonist has done good business on Lenny Abrahamson’s Toronto and London drama, which has opened strongly in Ireland.
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NewsPower to the Pixel: Crowd-sourced Bards and 'now-thinking'
Yesterday’s Power To The Pixel Forum at the BFI Southbank featured addresses by leaders in the field of digital media, presenting think pieces and case studies about the art, technology and business of storytelling in the digital age.
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NewsDustin Hoffman breaks down at Bafta talk
Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman broke down twice during an on-stage interview at Bafta as he discussed highlights of his career in cinema.
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NewsSky picks up Harry Potter films
All eight Harry Potter films have been added to Sky’s portfolio for three months over the crucial Christmas period.
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NewsTaken 2 retains top spot at the UK box office
UPDATE: Fox’s sequel records second straight week at number one; Sony’s Hotel Transylvania charts second with $2.8m (£1.7m), while eOne’s Looper adds $1.9m (£1.2m) for $12.2m (£7.6m) to date.