All UK/Ireland articles – Page 222
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Features‘Bait’ director Mark Jenkin on his unconventional folk horror ‘Enys Men’
Jenkin was offered more conventional, bigger-budget projects after Bait, but turned them down in favour of returning to his roots,
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NewsWhy Head Gear’s Phil Hunt believes he is the luckiest person in the industry
Co-founder recalls early lessons and its emergence as a major financier of indie filmmaking.
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NewsSignature Entertainment boards Greenpeace thriller ‘The Climb’ with Cara Delevingne (exclusive)
Feature is based on the 2013 protest on London skyscraper The Shard.
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NewsPicturehouse Entertainment swoops for UK-Ireland on two Cannes Competition titles (exclusive)
Both features will receive their world premieres at the Cannes Film Festival.
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NewsStudio Soho sets ‘Twiggy’, ‘Classic’ features (exclusive)
Sadie Frost attached to direct a documentary about iconic British model Twiggy.
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NewsBleecker Street acquires US rights to upcoming thriller ‘The Tutor’ to star Richard E. Grant, Julie Delpy, Daryl McCormack
Film Constellation represents worldwide rights.
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NewsAmazon reveals £1bn UK spend and upcoming projects at Showcase event
Streamer discusses UK strategy and spend and presents new films and shows
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Reviews‘God’s Creatures’: Cannes Review
Emily Watson puts in a commanding performance in this trad rural Irish mother-son drama
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NewsMia Bays to talk on the role of national film funds at Cannes’ UK Pavilion today
The panel will take place on Friday (May 20).
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NewsStephen Frears to direct Christopher Hampton adaptation of ‘Mr. Wilder & Me’
Film is based on Jonathan Coe’s 2020 novel of the same name.
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NewsElysian Films’ Danny Perkins vows to attract teens to cinemas with comedy slate
Beyond ‘Greatest Days’, Perkins has nine projects in development as part of Mews Films label
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NewsDave Bishop talks Protagonist Pictures’ return to Cannes and growth plans (exclusive)
UK-based company is aiming to ”move faster and come onto projects even earlier”.
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NewsUK’s Film Seekers close theatrical deals for sci-fi ‘Blank’ (exclusive)
Thriller is the debut feature of UK director Natalie Kennedy.
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NewsMubi, Wscripted unveil second female-focused Cannes Screenplay List (exclusive)
List features screenplays by US-Egyptian filmmaker Dina Amer, Nigerian screenwriter Onyinye Egenti and Chinese-US director Eris Qian.
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NewsM-Line Distribution scores deals on ‘The Killer’ (exclusive)
Jang Hyuk plays a retired hitman charged with looking after a teenage girl who is kidnapped.
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News‘The King’s Speech’ exec sets Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier drama (exclusive)
’Viv…’ will centre on the divorce of the celebrity couple.
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NewsJinga Films sells ‘The Ghosts Of Monday’ to US, UK (exclusive)
North America, Canada, UK and Ireland and Germany and Austria have acquired the film.
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NewsStudiocanal, Film4 in talks to board Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Stone Mattress’ with Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh
The project is based on a short story by Margaret Atwood and is produced by John Lesher and JoAnne Sellar.
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NewsSphere sells drama ‘It Is In Us All’ to US, UK, ANZ (exclusive)
Additional deals closed on Luc Picard’s action crime drama ’Confessions Of A Hitman’.
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NewsSci-fi drama ‘Vesper’ sells around the world for Anton (exclusive)
UK, Germany, Italy and Japan among distributors to have taken dystopian drama.