All UK/Ireland articles – Page 894
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NewsCause, Picture Palace to co-produce Spottiswoode’s First Class Man
Cause Entertainment, an Indian fund established to invest in socially conscious movies, has announced that its first project will be Roger Spottiswoode’s A First Class Man, a biopic about Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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33Story tours DIY cinema to UK universities
Independent production outfit 33Story will tour its debut feature film, Big Font, Large Spacing, on a self-built cinema screen across a number of UK university campuses at the end of September.
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Screen Producer’s Ireland and SIPTU create industrial agreement
In a bid to stimulate inward investment and modernise the local industry, Screen Producer’s Ireland (SPI), the representative body for producers and production companies in Ireland, and trade union SIPTU, which represents film crews, have signed a new industrial contract.
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NewsMetrodome bites on UK rights to Stake Land
Metrodome has acquired all UK rights to vampire thriller Stake Land. Jim Mickle directs the MPI Media Group project.
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MPI strikes North American deal for Hammer's Wake Wood
Chicago-based MPI Media Group has acquired all North American rights to Hammer Films thriller Wake Wood.
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NewsResident Evil alive and kicking at UK box office
Resident Evil: Afterlife doubled the opening weekend totals of previous instalments in the action-horror franchise on its way to securing a number-one debut at the UK box office.
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NewsShooting underway on Weekender
Irish director Karl Golden’s latest film stars Jack O’Connell and Henry Lloyd Thomas as two friends experiences of the rave scene in the 1990s.
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Odeon to add four IMAX venues in UK by December
Odeon and IMAX have struck a deal to install four IMAX theatres in the UK.
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Jinga strikes multiple deals for sci-fi-romance Timer
UK sales outfit Jinga Films has closed a raft of deals for Jac Schaeffer’s futuristic romantic-comedy Timer.
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Power to the Pixel announces new cross media market
The key note speakers at the fourth edition of the Cross Media Forum will include Michel Reilhac and Mike Monello.
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UK box office up 8% on 2009
The UK box office total for the period Jan - Aug 2010 was 8% ahead of the corresponding period for 2009, according to figures released today by the Film Distributors’ Association (FDA).
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NewsJohn Woodward resigns as CEO of UKFC
The announcement comes following the news in July that the UKFC would be abolished by the government.
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NewsPoisson Rouge developing feature adaptation of Abjabe's Gone Too Far
The UK production company is currently casting for a UKFC funded pilot of the feature adaptation of Bola Agbaje’s Olivier award winning play.
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Ciaran Foy to make first feature with Blinder, Sigma
Blinder Films (which is behind TIFF title Sensation) is at work on its next feature film, Citadel, which will shoot on location in Glasgow in November.
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Toronto's Handling says it's a 'fine year' for British cinema
“It has been a very fine year for British cinema,” according to TIFF CEO Piers Handling, underlining the irony that just six weeks ago it was announced that the UKFC will close its doors, likely in 2012.
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NewsUniversal picks up UK and Spain for Barney’s Version
Universal Pictures International (UPI) has acquired distribution rights for Barney’s Version for the UK and Spain, producer Robert Lantos told Screen.
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NewsRevolver strikes UK deal for Chatroom
Revolver Entertainment has taken UK rights to Hideo Nakata’s Un Certain Regard selection Chatroom.
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NewsKing's Speech duo set to travel with The Lady Who Went Too Far
Gareth Unwin, one of the producers of Telluride and Toronto hit The King’s Speech, is now at work developing another period drama, about Lady Hester Stanhope, for his UK-based Bedlam Productions.
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NewsProject Canvas a potential ‘game changer’ for filmmakers says John Woodward
John Woodward, CEO of the UK Film Council, said Friday that controversial internet-connected television platform Project Canvas could be a ‘game changer’ for UK filmmakers and independent distributors.
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Channel 4 Britdoc and Puma launch documentary initiatives
The partnership includes an annual 50,000 euros award for the documentary that has made the most significant social interest.