UK News – Page 796
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Metrodome appoints new sales chief
The indepedent distributor has promoted its theatrical sales manager to the top job.
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NewsIngenious' Kip Meek joins South West Screen
Meek joins the regional agency as it launches a $4.8m digital innovation programme.
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NewsBBC2 to become official home for BBC Films projects
UK TV channel BBC2 is to become the new home for films coming out of the BBC’s movie arm BBC Films.
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BFI to tour silent film programme
Several silent films from the BFI National Archive will screen at the Phoenix Square in Leicester, Watershed in Bristol and the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge.
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BBC, Evergreen to produce 3D dinosaur feature
It will bring together the teams behind Planet Earth and When Dinosaurs Roamed America.
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London's Tibet festival to open with Road to Peace
The third edition of the Tibet Film Festival, based in London, kicks off July 1 with the international premiere of Road to Peace, including a Q&A with director Leon Stuparich and the Dalai Lama’s UK representative, Thubten Samdup.
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Dave Harries joins Icon UK Group as CFO
Dave Harries has joined the Icon UK Group as Chief Financial Officer reporting to CEO Stewart Till.
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NewsBFI strikes multi-year partnership deal with American Express
American Express and the British Film Institute have signed a landmark, multi-year partnership.
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NewsBobcat Goldthwait to direct UK-set film based on Kinks album
Bobcat Goldthwait will direct a new film based on the Kinks album Schoolboys in Disgrace.
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NewsHigh Point scores US distribution deal on Freestyle
Independent distribution company Phase 4 Films will release the low budget British basketball inspired drama in the US.
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NewsHarryhausen pledges life work to Bradford Media Museum
Gesture coincides with the visual effects creator’s 90th birthday.
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City Screen strikes programme deals with Glyndebourne, Traverse
City Screen, which runs Picturehouse Cinemas, has announced plans for two satellite live broadcast initiatives for opera and theatre.
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Kidulthood director begins shooting Everywhere & Nowhere
The London based coming of age drama will be the first in a number of collaborations between director Menhaj Huda and Arena Productions.
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Cineworld takes over London’s O2 centre cinema
The 11-screen multiplex was previously operated by Vue Entertainment.
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NewsPawlikowski descends on film adaptation
The My Summer Of Love director is developing a film version of James Meek’s novel We Are Now Beginning Our Descent.
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NewsSalt shakes for George Lucas documentary
UK-based sales company Salt has taken on world rights outside the UK and Canada to feature documentary The People Vs. George Lucas by Alexandre O. Philippe.
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Toby Kebbell takes lead role in Hope's The Veteran
Toby Kebbell (Dead Man’s Shoes, Control, Prince Of Persia) has taken the lead role in The Veteran, which will also star Brian Cox, Ashley Thomas (aka Bashy), Adi Bielski and Tom Brooke.
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Adam Severs joins De Lane Lea
He will be part of the audio post production company’s new sound and vision department.
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NewsVertigo to co-produce 3D feature version of Horrid Henry
It will be the first British children’s film to be shot in 3D.