UK News – Page 814
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NewsVue to join Alice In Wonderland
Vue Cinemas presses ahead with plans to screen Tim Burton’s 3D animation despite rival chain Odeon & UCI boycotting the film over DVD release windows.
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NewsUKFC reveals latest round of development funding
The UK Film Council reveals the latest round of projects to benefit from its Development Fund.
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NewsBigelow becomes first woman to win BAFTA director prize
Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman to win the best director prize at the Orange British Film Academy Awards, held in London over the weekend (February 21).
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NewsOdeon boycotts Burton's Alice over DVD release
Cinema chain decides against screening Tim Burton’s 3D adventure over shorter release windows.
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NewsNewton, Isaacs and Tennant join Retreat
Cast is announced for Magnet Films’ psychological thriller Retreat
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NewsBlueBolt appoints David Jeffers as non-executive chairman
BlueBolt, the independent visual effects (VFX) post-production facility, has appointed former Moving Picture Company (MPC) chief David Jeffers as non-executive chairman.
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Actor Lionel Jeffries dies ages 83
Character actor Lionel Jeffries has dies, aged 83 years old.
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NewsCrying With Laughter to have US premiere at SXSW
Scottish BAFTA winner Crying With Laughter will receive its US premiere at the SXSW festival (March 12-21) in the festival favourites section.
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NewsFilm4 gets Frank with Goats’ writers
Film4 is developing a new project with The Men Who Stare At Goats writers Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan.
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NewsFish Tank takes four at London critics’ awards
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank picked up four awards at the 30th Annual London Film Critics’ Circle Awards, including best British film, whilst Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet was named film of the year.
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NewsMomentum climbs Arclight's Red Hill
Arclight Films has sold UK rights to Momentum on Patrick Hughes’ Australian thriller Red Hill, one of the hottest marketing screenings here following its world premiere in Panorama.
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Screen International changes to reflect market needs
Screen International is changing the way it delivers information for its subscribers; ScreenDaily is now only available to subscribers.
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NewsWarner and Odeon strike digital deal
Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) has teamed up with Odeon cinemas to help speed up the conversion to digital cinema across all of Odeon’s sites in the UK.
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BBC, AL under starter’s orders on Coe/Ovett pic
Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, one of the great athletics rivalries of the 1980s, are coming to the big screen in time for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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NewsRedgrave In Ruins for Keiller
Vanessa Redgrave has signed on as Narrator for Robinson In Ruins, the long-awaited follow-up to Patrick Keiller’s celebrated 1990s films London and Robinson In Space.
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Mark Adams joins Screen
Screen International has appointed Mark Adams as the title’s chief film critic and reviews editor.
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NewsIrvine Welsh to direct The Magnificant Eleven
Trainspotting novelist Irvine Welsh will direct gritty UK comedy The Magnificent Eleven, a modern-day version of the classic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven in which the Cowboys are a local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a group of menacing thugs run ...
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NewsMetrodome joins industry spoof
On the opening day of the 2010 European Film Market, UK distributor Metrdome picked up film industry mockumentary Just For The Record
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NewsF&ME embarks on biggest project yet
Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME), the London-based feature film production outfit led by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor, is embarking on its biggest project yet.