All UK/Ireland articles – Page 880
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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.
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NewsDavies, Hare, Nyman, Kureishi to attend Rome's UK focus Punks and Patriots
Terence Davies, David Hare, Michael Nyman and Hanif Kureishi to attend Rome Film Festival event produced in collaboration with the BFI London Film Festival.
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NewsAlizart becomes interim chief executive of Film Agency for Wales
She will cover Pauline Burt’s maternity leave.
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NewsBedlam Productions pick up rights to rugby story The Grudge
The King’s Speech producers option rights to acclaimed account of the England-Scotland rugby rivalry.
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NewsFrightFest Halloween event to host world premiere of Bad Meat
Acclaimed UK genre festival Film4 FrightFest is launching a new Halloween event (on Oct 29) at London’s Vue West End, with screenings from 6 pm until dawn.The films will include the world premiere of Lulu Jarmen’s splatter film Bad Meat, about a camp for troubled teens where fascists used spoiled ...
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NewsLondon's Creativity Media to offer completion guarantees
London based post-production and finance company Creativity Media is to start providing completion guarantees for films under £1.5m, which it is already doing the post production work on.
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Crossover Labs, Sheffield plan Skillset-backed training scheme
Crossover Labs and Sheffield Doc/Fest have received funding from the Skillset Film Skills Fund to launch Devise to Deliver, a si-month, UK-wide training scheme.
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NewsHot-selling thriller Last Passenger starts UK shoot today at Shepperton
BFI-Pinewood backed thriller starring Dougray Scott, described as “a micro-budget Tony Scott film”, gets underway today.