UK News – Page 696
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NewsBritish Film Commission to recruit for new EVP of US production
The British Film Commission will soon start recruiting for a successor to Andy Weltman, the former EVP of US production.
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Film London launches education programme for exhibition sector
Cultivate to offer film education programmes for those working in cinema and festival sector; April launch.
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NewsKen Loach begins production on Spirit Of 45
The BFI Film Fund, Film 4 and Channel 4 backed feature documentary will focus on the significance of the year 1945 in British history.
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NewsEIFF talent lab enters second year
The four day programme will run as part of the upcoming Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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NewsDisney signs deal with Google for UK YouTube, Google Play TVOD service
Disney extends YouTube deal to UK, range of portfolio titles available
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NewsEU committee calls for better recoupment and windows flexibility for online distribution
Flexibility of release windows, fair remuneration for rights holders for online distribution and net neutrality called for in European Parliament committee report.
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NewsMichael Murphy launches production services company Rockabill Media
Former Windmill Lane executive to work as co-producer and access Irish tax credit.
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NewsViasat appoints Jakob Mejlhede svp acquisitions and programming
Mejlhede responsible for all of Viasat’s centralised programming acquisition and content development for its free-TV and pay-TV channels.
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NewsWerner Herzog eyes volcano, Helmut Newton docs
EXCLUSIVE: Werner Herzog developing “stylised documentary” about volcanoes, Helmut Newton portrait and Gertrude Bell feature, all with regular producing partner Andre Singer.
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NewseOne takes UK rights to The 4th Reich from Mann Made and AV Pictures
Shaun Robert Smith to direct the WW2 action horror; producers include Scott Mann [pictured].
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NewsBBC Films joins RPC for Julien Temple's Kinks feature
EXCLUSIVE: BBC Films is partnering with Jeremy Thomas’s Recorded Picture Company on You Really Got Me, Julien Temple’s feature film about British band The Kinks.
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NewsRandom House production arm options Dog Loves Books
The production arm of publisher Random House has optioned a book by award-winning children’s author and illustrator Louise Yates.
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NewsGrace Carley appointed CTBF's head of fundraising
The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF), the charity which supports film and television industry employees and their families in times of hardship, has appointed Grace Carley as its new head of fundraising.
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NewsRichard Lester honoured with BFI fellowship
The director was presented with the award following a screening of his 1976 film Robin And Marian, starring Audrey Hepburn and Sean Connery, at the BFI Southbank.
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NewsThe Hunger Games reigns victorious at the UK box office
Lionsgate’s adaptation defeats good weather to record the year’s highest debut to date and the best ever UK debut for distributor Lionsgate.
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NewsVertigo eyeing StreetDance 3, another Horrid Henry film
If release of StreetDance 2 performs well, StreetDance 3 would follow after Giwa and Pasquini’s Walking On Sunshine.
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NewsUK distributor ad spend surges in 2011
FDA figures confirm record box office in 2011 and 171m admissions; older demographic boost admissions.
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NewsAlex Holdridge wraps shoot for Meet Me In Montenegro
EXCLUSIVE: In Search of A Midnight Kiss director’s new feature stars Rupert Friend, Jennifer Ulrich.
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NewsAs 3D novelty wears off, some experts call for more extreme uses
3D’s days as a novelty are up. That was the message at the second 3D Storytelling Conference at London’s Ravensbourne college.