All UK/Ireland articles – Page 772
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NewsPinewood Shepperton announces 15 month results
The studio group reported revenues of £63m over the last 15 months.
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NewsIFC wins bidding war for Wheatley’s Sightseers
In a deal concluded late last night Cannes time IFC took US rights to Ben Wheatley’s dark comedy Sightseers from Protagonist Pictures.
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NewsProtagonist books The Sweeney into eOne for US
EXCLUSIVE: eOne continues to ramp its US distribution slate with the acquisition of Protagonist’s The Sweeney, which the distributor had previously picked up for UK and Canada; deals flow for Nick Love’s crime-drama and Vertigo’s Viking epic Hammer of the Gods.
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NewsFilm4 goes monster mad with Ben Wheatley
EXCLUSIVE: Film4 is in discussions with potential co-financiers here on Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley’s planned cops-and-monsters film Freakshift.
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Scottish companies CinéFile and Distrify partner up
Edinburgh based boutique distributor CinéFile has teamed up with Scottish film promotion and distribution service Distrify, to allow its content to become more accessible on the internet.
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NewsNorthern Film & Media confirms new funding, strikes collaboration with BALTIC
Northern Film & Media has struck up a partnership with the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, to develop film, TV and digital propositions, as well as securing new funding for its production services.
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NewsStealth's Marble City goes to Japan
Parco and Klockworx pick up Ryuhei Kitamura’s noir action thriller.
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NewsFILMCLUB to screen 60 great British films to schoolchildren
The initiative has been launched to coincide with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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NewsFilm Collaborative launches LGBT initiative for distribution
EXCLUSIVE: The Film Collaborative has launched a new distribution initiative for LGBT films, FestSelects.
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Scottish features Accelerated
Creative Scotland’s inaugural Accelerator feature development programme has selected seven Scottish features
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NewsArtificial Eye, Alta, Bim head for Mungiu’s Hills
EXCLUSIVE: Wild Bunch’s other hot sellers in Cannes include Holy Motors, Suspiria remake, Dark Touch.
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NewsWide House docs in demand
EXCLUSIVE: Wide’s doc arm Wide House has closed deals on documentary biopic Bergman and Magnani, Sam Peckinpah: A Portrait and Milos Forman, What Doesn’t Kill You…
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NewsBritish Council launches Short Support Scheme
It includes a Travel Grant Fund that will support short film-makers from the UK in showing their work at international film festivals.
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NewsCreative England launches Elevator programme
The programme, which was launched today in Cannes, is aimed at helping short film-makers to make the leap into features.
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NewsWatershed launches FilmWorks networking scheme
The pilot project aimed at fast tracking emerging filmmaking talent from the UK regions, is being developed with money from Creative England’s network fund.
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NewsThe Dictator seizes control of the UK box office
Paramount’s comedy prevents The Avengers from going four straight weeks at the top; Momentum’s The Raid opens in fifth.