UK News – Page 675
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NewsPeccadillo Pictures gets Hit So Hard
P. David Ebersole’s music documentary set for October theatrical release in the UK.
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NewsThe Works Distribution feels Good Vibrations in UK
EXCLUSIVE: The Works UK Distribution will release Terry Hooley biopic Good Vibrations, which opened the Karlovy Vary and Belfast film festivals.
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NewsCast including Jennifer Morrison starts shoot for Event 15 in Los Angeles
Matthew Thompson is directing for Ipso Facto Films.
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NewsMockert to produce Anthony Minghella's brother's directorial debut
Veteran German producer Rainer Mockert is returning to feature production with Dominic Minghella’s directorial debut Doria and Austrian Walter Bannert’s drama Kolyma set in the postwar Soviet Union.
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NewsBVA report: video still "the single biggest revenue source" for UK film and TV production
BVA report indicates that UK consumers spent £2.3bn on video last year, more than that spent on cinema and music combined; online spend growing but still only a fraction of total spend, which is declining.
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NewsBritish film-maker Nataasha van Kampen dies, aged 28
The step daughter of actor Mark Rylance had attended the London Film School.
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Gow Gibson joins Park Circus
Former Odeon and Disney employee joins Park Circus as head of distribution.
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NewsCreative Skillset lines up sixth Animation and VFX Showcase
The annual event will see up and coming talent in the world of animation and visual effects displaying their work to future employers.
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NewsUK cinemas to show Wimbledon final in 3D
For once UK exhibitors won’t be hoping for rain as Odeon and Showcase will screen men’s final in 3D.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
New films on Screenbase include Amour Et Turbulences starring Ludivine Sagnier as well as Francois Ozon’s latest production Jeune Et Jolie.
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NewsSPT poised to snap up £40m Left Bank
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) is on the brink of acquiring Wallander producer Left Bank Pictures in a deal thought to be worth in excess of £40m.
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NewsOrganic Marketing makes new appointments
Chris Warrington has been appointed head of UK marketing and Caragh Cook as head of UK publicity at London based company Organic Marketing.
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NewsJoe Cornish to head Film4's Scene Stealers competition jury
Attack the Block writer/director Joe Cornish will head the jury of Film4’s Scene Stealers jury.
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NewsHitchcock's The Lodger to screen via Cross Artform Venue Network
The BFI’s newly restored version of Hitchcock’s The Lodger: A Tale Of The London Fog will world premiere at the Barbican in London and simultaneously in cinemas across the UK.
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NewsYouView service set for launch this month in UK
YouView set-top boxes are to go on sale by the end of July for £299 as the broadcasters’ delayed £70m connected TV service was officially unveiled today.
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NewsPrincess Diana biopic Caught In Flight renamed Diana
Shooting has begun on Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Princess Diana biopic, starring Naomi Watts.
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NewsKevin McKidd, Ashley Jensen attached to star in Ward's Indian Summer
Michael Hamlyn’s Specific Films (the outfit behind Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert) is planning to begin production early next year on its new $4 million feature Indian Summer.
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NewsGeorge Entwistle named BBC DG
George Entwistle has been appointed the new director general of the BBC, ending months of speculation about who would get the top job in TV.
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NewsNovember Films takes UK rights to The Punk Syndrome
November Films has taken all UK rights to Finnish documentary The Punk Syndrome.
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NewsBrian Robertson resigns as CEO of CTBF
Brian Robertson has resigned as CEO of the UK’s Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF), effective as of June 30.