All UK/Ireland articles – Page 756
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NewsDistrify strikes Facebook partnership
The online distributor will be able to target facebook users with relevant films via Butterly Media’s 300 million strong network.
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NewsFast & Furious 6 tops UK box office
Sixth instalment in the racing action franchise scores Universal’s biggest-ever three-day opening weekend at $13.2m (£8.7m).
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NewsExclusive Media, Moores, Rutland sign pact
Exclusive Media has signed a rolling four-film equity deal with UK-based entrepreneur and technology guru Toby Moores and film industry veteran Wendy Rutland.
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NewsFirst image: Catch Me Daddy
Exclusive first image of Sameena Jabeen Ahmed in Daniel Wolfe’s UK thriller Catch Me Daddy, which Altitude is selling.
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NewsVaines teams with Chapman Bros
EXCLUSIVE: Coriolanus producer teams with UK artists on Metamorphosis.
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NewsPooh creator biopic hits Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: The Iron Lady producer Damian Jones is teaming with Pinewood Films’ Steve Christian to produce a biopic of Winnie the Pooh creator AA Milne.
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NewsProtagonist bites Lanthimos' Lobster
EXCLUSIVE: UK outfit boards Yorgos Lanthimos’ English-language debut.
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NewsPicturehouse takes Blue Ruin UK rights
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor nabs hot Cannes thriller from Memento.
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NewsUPI gets Posh as cast gathers
Universal Pictures International (UPI) has boarded UK and Irish rights to Lone Scherfig’s drama Posh, which now has The Hunger Games’ Sam Claflin, Great Expectations’ Douglas Booth and The Host’s Max Irons confirmed to star.
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NewsLast Days team open to sequel
EXCLUSIVE: Andrea Cornwell, one of the producers of Directors’ Fortnight title The Last Days on Mars, says that a sequel could be on the cards.
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NewsTWC takes Suite Francaise US rights
Entertainment One and TF1 have confirmed they are partnering with The Weinstein Company (TWC) on World War Two drama Suite Francaise.
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NewsKapadia, IM Global team on love story
Senna director Asif Kapadia has signed on to direct love story Ali and Nino, which IM Global will begin sales on in Cannes.
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NewsMoviehouse launches production arm
EXCLUSIVE: London-based sales outfit launches production slate.
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NewsPinewood backs thriller Take Down
EXCLUSIVE: Pinewood’s first US production commitment is on Radiant’s Jim Gillespie thriller from Ransom writer Alexander Ignon.
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NewsClio Barnard in talks for Tusk
EXCLUSIVE: British director Clio Barnard is in talks to direct Tusk for Origin Pictures.
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NewsCineplus to handle post on EPIC
EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Cineplus Filmproduktion has come on board as co-producers of EPIC, an international co-production between the UK, Germany, Russian and Georgia.
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NewsMetrodome takes Siberian Education, Citadel
EXCLUSIVE: Metrodome nabs Gabriele Salvatores’ Siberian Education in Cannes and Ciaran Foy’s Citadel.
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NewsJames Marsh starts the Clock
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning writer-director James Marsh and producer Chris Coen of Unaninous Entertainment are reteaming for the big-screen adaptation of forthcoming novel The Girl With A Clock For a Heart.
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NewsPatel to star as genius Ramanujan
Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel is set to star in The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of The Genius Ramanujan, which is being produced by Edward R Pressman of the Edward R Pressman Film Corporation and Prashita Chaudhary’s Cinemorphic Entertainment Company.