All UK/Ireland articles – Page 826
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NewsBBC ties with Ridley Scott on crowdsourced doc
The BBC is working with director Ridley Scott to capture a snapshot of a day in Britain using footage submitted by people from across the country.
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NewsUK has strong presence at Haifa Film Festival
The Debt director John Madden [pictured] will be the guest of honour.
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NewsBreakthrough comes on board for Grant's Coffee Sex You
Toronto-based Breakthrough Entertainment has come on board to handle sales of Dancing Brave Pictures’ latest film Coffee Sex You.
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NewsPearson, Hemlock launch new charity film fund
Arturi Films producers, David Pearson and Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock (Mugabe and The White African), are launching a new charity film fund to support documentaries and films that promote awareness about injustices around the world.
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NewsMIPCOM keynotes: Lang, Reilly, Sarandos stress risk and innovation as keys to success
Miramax CEO Mike Lang, Fox Broadcasting Company’s president of entertainment Kevin Reilly and Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos have been talking innovation amid fragmentation at this year’s MIPCOM.
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NewsMaglabs launches digital content distribution platform
The new service, publicitymedia.com, is aimed at enabling the entertainment industry to manage and distribute their digital content more effectively.
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NewsSally Hawkins, Ewen Bremner join cast of Great Expectations
Shooting will begin on Mike Newell’s Great Expectations on Oct 10 in the UK.
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NewsStealth Indie backs psychological horror Rearview
Misfits star Antonia Thomas will head up the cast of the UK set feature.
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European court rules in favour of UK woman who used Greek TV decoder card
There could be implications for the TV and film industries from today’s European Court of Justice’s ruling that said a UK pub landlord didn’t breach UK copyright laws because she used a set top box decoder card to access TV content from Greece.
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NewsUK's Film Policy Review panel gets 300 responses to survey
Top priorities to emerge from the responses include building a stronger British film industry and establishing ways to develop and retain UK talent.
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NewsAnja Kirschner, David Panos win Film London Jarman Award
They receive £10,000 in prize money and a Channel 4 short film commission for new strand Random Acts.
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NewsTinker Tailor makes it a hat-trick atop UK box office on $1.7m (£1.1m)
StudioCanal thriller holds off Abduction, as well as The Phantom Of The Opera, The Debt and Shark Night 3D.
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NewsBFI to give Fellowship Awards to David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes
Jurors across LFF prizes include John Madden, Sam Taylor Wood, Andrew Eaton, Andy Harries, and Anne-Marie Duff.
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NewsStephen Evans moves ahead with Princess Diana biopic
Renaissance also developing Seve Ballesteros biopic.
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NewsUK Jewish Film Festival to open with This Must Be The Place
The festival, which runs in London (November 1-20) will feature works from Joseph Cedar, Percy and Felix Adlon.
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NewsMIP deals: BBC4 takes 'the next Killing'
BBC4 has locked up two new Scandinavian crime dramas, one from the creator of Wallander
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NewsCreative England now open for business
The new regional body has officially launched today with the appointment of some board members and three senior managers; funding will be available from October 17.
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NewsBen Wheatley starts shoot for Sightseers
StudioCanal is financing and distributing in UK; Protagonist handles international sales.
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NewsCreative England's new CEO among panelists for financing panel in Newcastle
Caroline Norbury, the new CEO of Creative England, will be on hand to discuss the new agency’s role at an upcoming financing panel at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle.