UK News – Page 760
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NewsHarry Treadaway, Honor Blackman to star in Optimum's Cockneys Vs Zombies
Principal photography will begin in London next week.
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NewsPeccadillo Pictures and blinkbox launch LGBT genre page
LGBT-themed titles to be available on blinkbox’s website via a unique lesbian and gay genre page.
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NewsSundance, AEG Europe plan pre-Olympics London arts festival
The event, which will include a film component, will run at London’s O2 from April 26-29, 2012.
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NewsMinghella Film Festival awards four shorts
The inaugural awards took place as part of the Minghella Film Festival on the Isle of Wight, which was set up in 2009 in memory of the late British director Anthony Minghella.
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NewsTroubled Magma looks set to appoint a liquidator
A creditors’ meeting will be held in Galway later this week for troubled Irish-based production outfit Magma European Scripting House (MESH), which now looks set to appoint a liquidator.
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NewsPeplow to leave UK's Skillset to join Sydney-based AFTRS
UK producer Neil Peplow is to leave Skillset to relocate to Australia and become director of screen content at the Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS) from May 2.
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NewsSony launches UK TV channel geared toward female audience
Sony Entertainment Television will launch on April 7 with the UK premiere of US medical drama Hawthorne, starring and executive produced by Jada Pinkett Smith.
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NewsSkillset training academy launched in UK
It will focus on seven key areas where Skillset research has revealed a short fall of qualified talent.
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NewsHayley Atwell plays Charlotte Rampling's daughter in I, Anna
Barnaby Southcombe’s debut feature just wrapped shooting this weekend.
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NewsRed Riding writers hope 1977 will be made as stand-alone film
Novelist David Peace and screenwriter Tony Grisoni speak about the ‘1977’ script at Newcastle’s Story Engine conference.
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NewsShoot wraps for Solimeno's thriller The Glass Man
UK independent film The Glass Man starring Andy Nyman, Neve Campbell and James Cosmo has finsihed principal photography.
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New website launches for film industry recruitment
My First Job In Film aims to standardise recruitment by presenting the industry a cost-free, turnkey offering for job vacancies.
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NewsFrightFest moves into UK distribution and takes on Shadow
UK festivals organiser FrightFest is expanding into theatrical distribution, through a new venture formed with Wild Bunch.
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NewsNorthern Film + Media pilot funds secured 100 jobs
Olsberg SPI report reveals positive impact of pilot funds Network Television Investment Programme and Content Fund.
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NewsMyStreet documentary competition launched
The UK initiative is picking up on the current trend for user generated content.
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NewsCineworld leads 2010 exhibitor market share in UK; negotiating new funding
Cineworld claims a market-leading box office share of 26.2% (EDI Rentrak) in the UK in 2010; chain negotiating a $273m (£170m) facility with banks.
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NewsUKFC staffers confirmed to move to BFI include Seghatchian, Buckingham, Evans
Tanya Seghatchian, Pete Buckingham and Will Evans are amongst the members of UK Film Council staff who will be transferring across to the BFI as part of the transition between the two bodies.
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NewsUK's Audit Office criticises decision making process to abolish UK Film Council
National Audit Office says DCMS was “not informed by a financial analysis of the costs and benefits” with its plan to close the UKFC and other arts bodies.
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NewsBallet gets 3D update with More2Screen project
Giselle cinema launch coming later this month in territories including UK, Russia, Australia.
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NewsTony Blair Faith Foundation launches second short film competition
Open to young film-makers aged between 14 and 18 years old, the competition aims to bring together films and religion.