All UK/Ireland articles – Page 840
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NewsMarcus Evans Group acquires World Productions
The acquisition was part of Marcus Evans and Ken Mcreddie Associates’ plan to create its own production unit, following their merger in 2008.
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NewsGlasgow Film festival to sell fims via Facebook
The festival, which kicked off its 2012 edition today, is to create an online collection of short films from this year’s Glasgow Short Film Festival Scottish Competition, with selected films also made available to buy on the festival’s faceboook pages.
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NewsAV Pictures to handles sales on The 4th Reich
The second world war action horror movie is being produced by Mann Made Films.
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NewsHurricane Films, Götafilm board Terence Davies' Sunset Song
Terence Davies’ long awaited adaptation of classic Scottish novel Sunset Song looks set to finally get off the ground, with shooting due to take place in Winter 2012 in Scotland and Sweden.
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NewsRafi Pitts teams with Radulescu, Karathanos on Soy Negro
EXCLUSIVE: Rafi Pitts is co-writing his next film with Romanian writer Radvan Radulescu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 days, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu).
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NewsBrits at Berlinale Talent Campus tout new features
UK producer Emma Biggins, who is taking part in the Berlinale Talent Campus this year, is to produce sci fi thriller The Calling, for her company Multistory Films.
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NewsPeter Kosminsky joins BFI's Board of Governors
Award-winning writer/director voted new member representative and joins with immediate effect.
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NewsRoland Joffe lands Forest Whitaker as Desmond Tutu
EXCLUSIVE: Roland Joffe is plotting a prison movie set in South Africa that will deal with the Truth and Reconciliation hearings.
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NewsRooks Nest takes off
Julia Godzinskaya and Michael Sackler of new UK production outfit Rooks Nest Entertainment come to Berlin with Panorama entry My Brother the Devil, Sally El Hosaini’s well-received debut which premiered at Sundance.
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NewsLUFF readies 9th edition for June 25-28
More than 120 buyers expected to attend the London event.
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NewsLondon seminar to promote Guernsey as film financing centre
The event is being hosted by Guernsey Finance and Guernsey Film.
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NewsKevin Macdonald travels to Black Sea and Eastern Europe
Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald is working with writer Dennis Kelly, writer of Matilda The Musical, on a project called Black Sea.
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NewsWestEnd sells Invisible Woman in UK, Australia
EXCLUSIVE: UK sales outfit WestEnd Films has closed “substantial” EFM deals on Ralph Fiennes’ in-demand sophomore drama to Lionsgate for UK and E1 for Australia. Fiennes stars as Charles Dickens alongside Felicity Jones and Kristin Scott Thomas.
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Bin Laden zombie-action marches for Highland
Highland Film Group has closed key territories on zombie-action Osombie. Deals include North America (eOne), UK (Signature) and Germany (Splendid).
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NewsPeccadillo adds four in Berlin, including Panorama opener Kuma
UK film distributor Peccadillo Pictures have secured UK and Ireland rights to Panorama opening film Kuma.Director Umut Dag’s film is sold by Films Boutique.Peccadillo has been especially busy in Berlin, also buying Sheldon Larry’s contemporary musical Leave It On The Floor from The Film Collaborative; Italian sci-fi film The Arrival ...
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NewsEdinburgh to reinstate awards at 2012 festival
The Edinburgh International Film Festival will re-introduce its major awards this year, after dropping them for the 2011 edition.
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NewsBFI restores silent Hitchcock films
Here in Berlin, the British Film Institute (BFI) has revealed further details of its major Alfred Hitchcock restoration project, which is being mounted for the London 2012 Festival (part of the Cultural Olympiad to tie in with the Olympic Games.)