UK News – Page 683
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NewsLUFF to host premieres from Whitecross, Temple
EXCLUSIVE: The London UK Film Focus (25 to 28 June), the annual screening event that brings the world’s top buyers to London, has announced a raft of high profile premieres for this year’s event.
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NewsContent takes on Complicit
Content has taken world rights to MI5/terrorism drama Complicit directed by Niall MacCormick (Albatross).
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NewsIron Sky director revives Hitler in 3D
EXCLUSIVE: Adolf Hitler is to be recreated in digital 3D in I Killed Adolf Hitler, the new live action sci-fi feature from the team behind hit Iron Sky.
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NewsRobert Jones to produce A Patch Of Fog
The film is the winning project to come out of Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Focus scheme for local writers.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival revamps programme sections
New competition sections to be added, and ‘clusters’ will be grouped by themes.
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NewsNetwork picks up Larrain’s No for UK
Network Releasing has inked a deal for all UK rights to Pablo Larrain’s No.
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NewsBBC Films announces new projects with Simon Curtis, David Heyman
Saoirse Ronan to star in adaptation of Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, Simon Curtis to direct drama based on struggle for Klimt paintings
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NewsRomeo team could work with Swarovski again
Screenwriter Julian Fellowes and producer Ileen Maisel plan to develop future projects with Swarovski Entertainment, which backed their new Romeo and Juliet.
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NewsCoppola at the Mercy of Highsmith
Bruno Coppola and Joseph Pierson have acquired the film rights to Patricia Highsmith’s A Suspension of Mercy.
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NewsMister Smith's 3,096 days in demand
EXCLUSIVE: David Garrett’s new sales outfit Mister Smith, a joint venture with Constantin, has seen strong demand for Natascha Kampusch drama 3,096 Days.
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NewsuCarmen team plans La Boheme film
EXCLUSIVE: The South Africa theatre project is one of 16 projects on packed slate from UK’s F&ME.
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NewsBuyers run on eOne's Bank
eOne Films International has seen strong demand for its new slate and has secured a number of deals on upcoming thriller Cut Bank starring Armie Hammer.
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NewsMUBI reformats, partners with Weerasethakul, Sony Google TV, Nordisk Fund
VOD service MUBI is in Cannes with 2010 Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul to launch 20-minute short Ashes.
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NewsBB King doc lands UK deal; Brewer readies Nat King Cole, Slash films
EXCLUSIVE: GFM Films has sold UK rights to G2 Pictures for BB King: The Life of Riley.
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Facebook VOD app Cinecliq searches for friends in Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: VOD platform Cinecliq is in Cannes to lock up content deals after launching at Berlin.
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Dogwoof's Jason Becker doc goes to Canada
Dogwoof Global Sales has sold documentary Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet to KinoSmith for Canada.
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NewsDistrify teams with Creative Scotland for new Scottish film service
Film promotion and distribution service Distrify is teaming with Creative Scotland on a website dedicated to Scottish films.
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BFC gets new backing from BFI
The UK’s promotional agency for film The British Film Commission is to get an additional £100,000 from the BFI.
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NewsMetrodome picks up thriller St George's Day
Metrodome picks up UK rights to crime-thriller starring Frank Harper, Craig Fairbrass, Vincent Regan and Charles Dance.
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NewsTony Grisoni's Kingsland amongst new Microwave projects
Three new features have been greenlit through Film London’s microbudget Microwave scheme, which is run in partnership with BBC Films and Skillset.