All UK/Ireland articles – Page 788
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NewsEU committee calls for better recoupment and windows flexibility for online distribution
Flexibility of release windows, fair remuneration for rights holders for online distribution and net neutrality called for in European Parliament committee report.
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NewsMichael Murphy launches production services company Rockabill Media
Former Windmill Lane executive to work as co-producer and access Irish tax credit.
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NewsViasat appoints Jakob Mejlhede svp acquisitions and programming
Mejlhede responsible for all of Viasat’s centralised programming acquisition and content development for its free-TV and pay-TV channels.
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NewsWerner Herzog eyes volcano, Helmut Newton docs
EXCLUSIVE: Werner Herzog developing “stylised documentary” about volcanoes, Helmut Newton portrait and Gertrude Bell feature, all with regular producing partner Andre Singer.
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FeaturesFabien Riggall, Future Cinema
A film made in 1949 inspires more than $1.1m in ticket sales in a six-week London run — no wonder the industry is paying more attention to Secret Cinema. Wendy Mitchell talks to Future Cinema founder Fabien Riggall.
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FeaturesAnna Higgs, Film4.0
Film4’s new digital arm will tell stories in ‘parallel places’ with film-makers including Ken Loach.
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NewseOne takes UK rights to The 4th Reich from Mann Made and AV Pictures
Shaun Robert Smith to direct the WW2 action horror; producers include Scott Mann [pictured].
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NewsBBC Films joins RPC for Julien Temple's Kinks feature
EXCLUSIVE: BBC Films is partnering with Jeremy Thomas’s Recorded Picture Company on You Really Got Me, Julien Temple’s feature film about British band The Kinks.
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NewsRandom House production arm options Dog Loves Books
The production arm of publisher Random House has optioned a book by award-winning children’s author and illustrator Louise Yates.
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NewsGrace Carley appointed CTBF's head of fundraising
The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF), the charity which supports film and television industry employees and their families in times of hardship, has appointed Grace Carley as its new head of fundraising.
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FeaturesRegent Street Cinema launch event
Industry attendees at the launch event for the Regent Street Cinema, London (Thursday 22 March).
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NewsRichard Lester honoured with BFI fellowship
The director was presented with the award following a screening of his 1976 film Robin And Marian, starring Audrey Hepburn and Sean Connery, at the BFI Southbank.
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NewsThe Hunger Games reigns victorious at the UK box office
Lionsgate’s adaptation defeats good weather to record the year’s highest debut to date and the best ever UK debut for distributor Lionsgate.
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NewsVertigo eyeing StreetDance 3, another Horrid Henry film
If release of StreetDance 2 performs well, StreetDance 3 would follow after Giwa and Pasquini’s Walking On Sunshine.
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NewsUK distributor ad spend surges in 2011
FDA figures confirm record box office in 2011 and 171m admissions; older demographic boost admissions.
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NewsAlex Holdridge wraps shoot for Meet Me In Montenegro
EXCLUSIVE: In Search of A Midnight Kiss director’s new feature stars Rupert Friend, Jennifer Ulrich.
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NewsAs 3D novelty wears off, some experts call for more extreme uses
3D’s days as a novelty are up. That was the message at the second 3D Storytelling Conference at London’s Ravensbourne college.
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NewsHarry Potter named Best Film at Jameson Empire Awards
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy won three awards at the ceremony, which took place in London last night.
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NewsThe Associates PR company to close
Six months after the death of its founder Richard Larcombe last August, London-based film PR company The Associates is to close its doors.