UK News – Page 663
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NewsStewart Mackinnon's Headline grows with busy slate, new Edelman partnership
Stewart Mackinnon’s London and Newcastle-based film and TV production outfit Headline Pictures (the outfit behind Quartet and The Invisible Woman) has confirmed details of a groundbreaking new strategic partnership
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NewsWar Witch wins audience award at Cambridge Film Festival
32nd edition of the UK’s third-longest running film festival ran Sept 13-23.
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NewsStevan Riley talks about James Bond doc Everything or Nothing
Director talks how he found out Bill Clinton was a Bond fan, and how Skyfall director Sam Mendes questioned Daniel Craig as 007.
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NewsUK, Brazil ink co-production treaty
UK signs film and TV co-production treaty with rising power Brazil.
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NewsMinds Eye, Red Sky, Moving Pictures board Avalon
Canada’s Minds Eye Entertainment, Red Sky Entertainment and Moving Pictures Media will produce the live-action fantasy book adaptation Avalon: Web Of Magic [pictured].
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NewsWilliam Hurt to star in Challenger disaster drama for BBC2
William Hurt is to star as pioneering American scientist Richard Feynman in an ambitious BBC2 co-pro drama about the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster.
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NewsSean Stewart to deliver PttP's Cross-Media Forum keynote presentation
Co-founder and head writer at Fourth Wall Studios to speak in the UK for the first time at Power to the Pixel’s annual Forum.
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NewsPremature, Oh Willy... among winners at 18th Encounters
Six-day festival wrapped on Sunday having welcomed a total of 658 delegates from 30 countries.
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NewsYasmin Paige, Chris New board B Good drama Chicken
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Stephenson directorial debut set to star former Screen Star of Tomorrow and Submarine actress Paige and Weekend star New.
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NewsArrow finds Cherchez Hortense
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor Arrow Films picks up Pascal Bonitzer’s comedy starring Kristin Scott Thomas.
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NewsStep Into The Dark with the Barbican
Barbican Centre announce opening programme for its new cinemas.
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NewsEmma Sullivan, Steven Shiel among writers up for Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize
Winner to be announced at an awards event at Wellcome Collection on Oct 8.
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NewsFilm Agency for Wales launches mentoring programme
Programme will allow 12 producers or company managers to be mentored by distribution executives to develop content for UK and international markets.
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NewsBAFTA appoint Harvey Elliott as new Chairman of Games Committee
Elliott [pictured] replaces Ray Maguire whose term ended in July.
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NewsEFA honours Dame Helen Mirren
Mirren to be an honorary guest at 25th European Film Awards Ceremony, to be held in Malta on Dec 1.
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NewsParaNorman creeps into top spot at the UK box office
Universal’s animation holds impressively to topple The Sweeney; Entertainment’s Killing Them Softly opens strongly in second.
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NewsThe Hobbit journeys to 65th Royal Film Performance
First instalment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy to have its Royal UK premiere on Dec 12.
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NewsMomentum strikes UK deal for Toronto hit Wasteland with Bankside
EXCLUSIVE: Bankside also sells Rowan Athale’s debut feature to France, Japan and airlines; Ben Drew’s urban drama iLL Manors sells to six new buyers.
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NewsIntandem takes on sales and UK distribution for Jadoo
Intandem Films has taken on worldwide sales rights for UK comedy Jadoo. The company’s new distribution outfit, Intandem Film Distributors (IFD), has also boarded UK distribution rights.For full details visitJadooJadoo, which is Hindi for ‘magic,’ is the story of two estranged brothers in Leicester, England. Raja and Jagi are both ...
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News3 Mills Studios appoints Mel Nortcliffe as Bookings Manager
Nortcliffe was first AD on the likes of TV shows Strike Back and Waking the Dead.