All UK/Ireland articles – Page 776

  • Director Martin Radich and producer Finlay Pretsell
    News

    Martin Radich's Norfolk greenlit

    2013-02-18T15:15:00Z

    Thriller to be the first film to be taken into production from the iFeatures2 development slate.

  • A Good Day To Die Hard
    News

    Die Hard tops UK box office on debut

    2013-02-18T13:25:00Z

    Fox’s latest instalment in the action franchise unseats Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph with a $7m (£4.6m) debut, including previews.

  • News

    Ireland boosts tax incentives

    2013-02-18T12:58:00Z

    Ireland is to extend its Section 481 tax credit to 32% of qualifying expenditure from 2015.

  • LFW Oz
    Comment

    Stilettos fit for a witch?

    2013-02-18T12:38:00Z

    Designs from Oz the Great and Powerful

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    News

    Park Circus expands into France

    2013-02-18T11:13:00Z

    New Paris offshoot to be run by Van Papadopoulos (pictured), who formerly headed Cannes Classics.

  • Kevin Macdonald
    News

    Macdonald, Longinotto join Between The Lines

    2013-02-18T06:52:00Z

    March event planned at London’s Rich Mix Cinema.

  • News

    Second British Film Festival coming to Kurdistan

    2013-02-16T13:43:00Z

    The second British Film Festival will be held in Iraq’s Kurdistan region this month. A programme of films, screening in Erbil, will celebrate British cinema as well as the growing relationship between Kurdistan and the UK.New this year, the festival will also show some shorts and medium-length films by Kurdish ...

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    News

    UPI promotes Antonini, Wormley

    2013-02-14T14:19:00Z

    Pair promoted to senior vice presidents of creative advertising.

  • An Episode In The Life of An Iron Picker
    News

    New Wave secures two Berlin Competition titles

    2013-02-14T08:36:00Z

    Also acquires Irish film Silence.

  • Smiley
    News

    Signature inks three during EFM

    2013-02-13T13:56:00Z

    UK distribution outfit Signature has picked up three titles for home entertainment release during the EFM.

  • Blackfish
    News

    Dogwoof reels in Blackfish rights

    2013-02-13T13:24:00Z

    Dogwoof secures UK and international rights to Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s doc Blackfish

  • Isabel Davis
    News

    BFI earmarks $1.6m for co-pros

    2013-02-13T13:15:00Z

    Isabel Davis, the British Film Institute’s head of international, is in Berlin spreading the word about the BFI Film Fund’s increased commitment to funding co-productions.

  • Five Dances
    News

    TLA takes Five Dances

    2013-02-13T13:12:00Z

    TLA Releasing has acquired the US, UK and French-speaking Europe to Alan Brown’s contemporary drama.

  • Jadoo
    News

    Jadoo duo reunites on UK comedy

    2013-02-13T13:04:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Jadoo producer Richard Holmes is to executive-produce a new comedy produced by Farhana Bhula.

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    News

    Jadoo producer readies Keeping Rosy

    2013-02-13T09:45:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Richard Holmes, producer of Culinary Cinema selection Jadoo, is planning a March 4 start date for his next production, Keeping Rosy.

  • Clare Stewart, Lucy Walker, Joe Oppenheimer, Alexei Boltho and Lizzie Franke
    Features

    UK brunch in Berlin

    2013-02-13T09:39:00Z

    The new We Are UK film umbrella held a brunch in Berlin on Tuesday. The group includes the BFI, British Council, British Film Commission, FIlm Agency For Wales, Creative England, Film London, Northern Ireland Screen, UK Trade & Investment, Creative Scotland and Film Export UK.

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    News

    Nun on the run to UK

    2013-02-13T09:36:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Le Pacte’s in-demand Berlinale Competition entry The Nun has sold to Metrodome for the UK.

  • Marc Samuelson
    News

    Marc Samuelson joins Pact

    2013-02-12T17:03:00Z

    The UK’s trade body for independent film and TV producers has bolstered film production expertise with the appointment of Marc Samuelson to its board.

  • News

    Angus Finney goes back to school

    2013-02-11T18:08:00Z

    Angus Finney, former director of Renaissance Films and project manager for the Film London Production Finance Market, has been appointed as lead tutor on the London Film School’s new Masters programme in Independent Film Business.

  • Bugsy Malone
    News

    Film editor Gerry Hambling dies

    2013-02-11T17:34:00Z

    Award-winning British film editor Gerry Hambling, who cut 14 films with Sir Alan Parker, has died aged 86.