All UK/Ireland articles – Page 809
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NewsKevin named best film at Evening Standard Awards
Olivia Colman continued her awards run picking up the best actress award, making her lack of BAFTA nomination even more glaring.
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NewsInside Pictures launches 2012 programme
For the second year the programme is open to applicants from across the whole of the European Union.
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NewsSoda's New British Cinema Quarterly gets BFI investment, launches 2012 slate
BFI’s P&A fund backs the programme with £50,000.
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NewsK5 boards Groundswell’s Very Good Girls starring Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen
EXCLUSIVE: K5 boards Naomi Foner directorial debut starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen [pictured].
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NewsDana Harrison joins Paradise FX Europe as sales director
Harrison will be running the company’s London and Berlin offices.
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NewsHanWay takes on sales for Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Polish director talks openly in the film made by friend Andrew Braunsberg.
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NewsChronicle flies into top spot at UK box office
Fox’s sci-fi takes the reins from War Horse, which drops to 4th, over a snow-affected weekend in the UK; StudioCanal has DVD hit with Tinker Tailor.
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NewsPeccadillo to release North Sea Texas in UK
Peccadillo Pictures is to handle UK and Ireland distribution of Bavo Defurne’s directorial debut North Sea Texas, about two teenage boys who fall in love.
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NewsW2 Media moves into The Killing House
Jonathan English (pictured) will direct from his own screenplay.
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NewsSkillset to help small creative businesses take on first apprentice
The UK government is offering small creative businesses the chance to benefit from £1500 incentive payments in exchange for taking on an apprentice.
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NewsShine Pictures appoints Marina Brackenbury as head of development
She will be tasked with overseeing and expanding Shine’s development slate.
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NewsJinga adds horror Rites of Spring to EFM slate
US horror already sold to IFC for US and Mongrel for Canada.
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NewsWestEnd picks up thriller Bethlehem ahead of EFM
EXCLUSIVE: WestEnd picks up debut about a complex relationship between an Israeli secret services agent and a Palestinian teenager.
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NewsScreen Yorkshire unveils £15m production fund
The former screen agency has secured £7.5m of European Regional Development Funding which will be match funded by private investors for films based and/or shooting in the region.
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NewsAspect strikes three-picture genre deal with Blanc/Biehn
Michael Beihn to star in all three films.
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NewsSubmarine, Dogwoof Global partner for foreign sales on Marina Abramovic doc
US-based sales company Submarine Entertainment has partnered with the new Dogwoof Gobal for foreign sales of acclaimed documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present.
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NewsAspect Film acquires Danielle Harris’ debut Among Friends
Aspect will be shopping scream queen Harris’ debut at the EFM.
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NewsSky 1 named Broadcast channel of the year
Sky 1 picked up the coveted channel of the year prize at last night’s Broadcast Awards in the UK– as ITV drama including Downton Abbey [pictured] stole the show.
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NewsAlan Parker to speak at Oxford Literary Festival
The festival, which runs March 24 - April 1, is launching an annual “Life In Film” interview with a leading film director
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NewsWorking Title confirms Hugh Grant still in Bridget Jones's Baby cast
Following media reports of trouble on the set of the third Bridget Jones film, producers have clarified that “the film is going ahead as planned.”