UK News – Page 805
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NewsJeremy Hunt named UK culture minister
UK’s new coalition government names Conservative MP has minister for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.
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Curzon Artificial Eye confirms new funding
Dedicated company Curzon Film Rights raised the funding in the form of Film Rights Structured Notes (Lipworth Capital served as advisor).
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Hathaway, Sturgess sign to Scherfig's One Day for Focus
Film of bestselling novel by David Nicholls is being produced by Nina Jacobson.
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Goldcrest unveils sales slate including Emily Blunt’s The Girl
Goldcrest Films has announced the slate of six films its ramped up sales business is taking to Cannes Market.
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NewsStudioCanal has Awakening with Hall, West, Staunton
Supernatural thriller will mark feature directorial debut of UK TV director Nick Murphy.
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The Works takes international sales on Nuummioq
The film is directed by Otto Rosing and Torben Bech and stars Lars Rosing and Angunnguaq Larsen.
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Jinga Films scares up A Serbian Film
Other films in Jinga’s Cannes line-up include Federico Zampaglione’s Shadow and Darren Ward’s A Day Of Violence.
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Revolver loves Zombie Women
The film follows a group of misfits trapped in stocking-clad zombie cult.
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NewsHanWay promotes Westerhoff
UK sales company HanWay has promoted Fabien Westerhoff to lead its multi-media division. Mark Lane has also been promoted to Sales Manager and Kate Hide brought in as Business & Content Manager.
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Film London investing $367,000 in film heritage
The injection of funding will go towards an 18-month project aimed at supporting London’s moving image archives/collections, with a view to creating an online showcase of the material.
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E1 strikes UK deals for Fair Game, The Runaways
E1 Entertainment has taken UK and Irish rights to Doug Liman’s Cannes Competition title Fair Game, and for The Runaways.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest and Britdoc announce new workshops
Peter Broderick and Sandi DuBowski will lead the workshops on online opportunities.
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PictureBox VOD service strikes deal with Icon in UK
Movies-on-demand subscriber service PictureBox has struck a deal with Icon Film Distribution for the rights to more than 30 Icon films.
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Roger Moore joins board of Red Carpet Film Fund
The first project to come out of the fund will be Causeway Picture’s Connemara Days, to be directed by Kevin Connor, which is due to commence principle photography in Ireland in late August.
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BFI strikes 3D deal with Samsung
The British Film Institute (BFI) has announced a 3D partnership with electronics giant Samsung whereby Samsung will have access to hold screenings at the BFI IMAX and the BFI Southbank in London.
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NewsIron Man 2 holds off all newcomers in the UK, Four Lions debuts in top ten
Paramount Pictures International’s comic book adaptation holds off five new entries to retain the UK number one spot.
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UKFC's Lenny Crooks to set up New York-based consultancy
Lenny Crooks, former head of the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund, is moving to New York to start a new consultancy service for filmmakers on both sides of the pond.
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Hopscotch takes on Australian rights to new Paul Andrew Williams Film
E1 Entertainment has sold the Australian rights to Paul Andrew Williams’ Song for Marion to Hopscotch.
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NewsScreen starts new UK Marketing and Distribution Awards
The event, slated for Oct. 5, will honour outsanding achievement in UK film marketing and distribution in 15 categories which will be judged by an illustrious panel of judges chaired by Lord Puttnam.
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NewsLoach's Route Irish added to Cannes Competition
There are now 19 films in competition at the festival.