All UK/Ireland articles – Page 727
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NewsScreen Awards shortlist led by Fox, Universal, Lionsgate
UPDATED: 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures and Lionsgate UK lead the distributors with 12 shortlist mentions each; Star Trek Into Darkness leads individual film nominees with six nods.
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NewsIrish comedy The Stag sells to UK
EXCLUSIVE: Metro International Entertainment is to handle world sales for Treasure Entertainment’s comedy The Stag, which makes its world premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival.
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NewsUK-China producers launch Wonder Pictures
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese film producers Chun-Yi Yueh and Changyu Li and UK writer-producers Robert and Ashley Sidaway together with the UK’s Iain Brown and Brown Films have launched the $5m funded SZ Wonder Pictures.
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NewsSpiegel to exec produce Purgatory
Hostel 3 director to executive produce afterlife fantasy film.
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FeaturesClio Barnard, The Selfish Giant
The Selfish Giant director discusses influences, finding her young leads and Thatcherite ideology.
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NewsCineworld may have to sell cinemas
Cineworld Group may have to sell cinemas after the Competition Commission said that its acquisition of Picturehouse would lead to higher prices for customers in three areas.
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CommentCineworld pop up at V Festival
Cineworld has become the first major UK chain to bring the cinema experience to a music festival. Michael Rosser decamped to V Festival to check it out.
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NewsKick-Ass 2 tops UK box office
Universal’s sequel scores $3.9m (£2.48m) debut, including previews, to land the top spot; Disney’s Planes leads the Fri-Sun weekend with $2.7m (£1.7m).
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NewsGravity sets UK release date
Alfonso Cuaron’s astronaut thriller, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, to be released in 3D, 2D and Imax.
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NewsSoda acquires Jarmusch’s Lovers
EXCLUSIVE: Soda Pictures nabs UK rights to Cannes competition entry.
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NewsBFI issues first TV tax break guarantees
CBeebies’ Sarah and Duck and BBC1 dramas Death Comes To Pemberley and Remember Me are among the first projects to be guaranteed a tax break by the BFI.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Alex Garland has started shooting Ex Machina and principal photography is also underway on the first UK-Albania co-production.
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NewsMakhmalbaf to shoot first English-language feature
EXCLUSIVE: F&ME to produce The President, set to shoot in Georgia in early 2014.
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NewsFocus soaks in Sunshine
EXCLUSIVE: Focus International nabs Toronto-bound Proclaimers musical with Jane Horrocks, Peter Mullan.
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David Bowie is… live cinema
London’s V&A museum teamed with Picturehouse Entertainment to screen a live cinema event marking the end of its hit David Bowie exhibition. Michael Rosser was in attendance.
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NewsABCs of Death 2 directors named
Mighty Boosh comedian Julian Barratt and Juan of the Dead director Alejandro Brugués lined up for omnibus sequel.
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NewsCineworld to play at V Festival
Cineworld is to become the first major UK cinema chain to bring the cinema experience to a music festival.
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