All UK/Ireland articles – Page 954
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Edinburgh Film Festival launches new producers programme
Inaugural participants are Wendy Griffin, Carolynne Sinclair Kidd, Micky MacPherson, Suzanne Reid, Andy Green and Ciara Barry.
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Cineart takes on A Screaming Man, All Good Children
Benelus buyer also takes on Salles’ On The Road and Sorrentino’s This Must Be The Place.
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NewsPrescience strikes alliance with Atlantic Film Group's Australian arm
Atlantic Film Group and UK financier Prescience have created a strategic alliance to give Atlantic Film Group’s Antipodean financing subsidiary, Atlantic South, access to a facility worth an anticipated $20m per year.
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Anchor Bay strikes multi-film deal with Corsan
The deal will include Paul Breuls’ (pictured) romantic comedy Meant To Be and drama The Box Collector.
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NewsBankside takes on genre thriller This Little Piggy
Hunger producer Laura Hastings-Smith (pictured) plans an autumn shoot.
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NewsWestEnd soars with Little Birds starring Juno Temple
Up and coming actresses Juno Temple (pictured) and Jay Panabaker are attached to star in the lead roles.
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NewsTrustNordisk trades in Cash
Daniel Espinosa’s Swedish Hit Easy Money continues to sell; Trust begins pre-sales on the sequel.
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NewsLondon’s PFM to concentrate on single films, not slates
The event is expanding its offer for financiers; increasing its focus on producers with a single project.
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NewsLionsgate UK takes on Coriolanus, Dangerous Method
The UK-based company has added Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut and David Cronenberg’s next film to its 2011 slate.
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Spall, McCrory sign on to Tillotson's debut
Timothy Spall and Helen McCrory have signed on to star in Rachel Tillotson’s debut feature, Badstock.
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NewsEaling’s slate led by Dustin Hoffman’s Nightwork
The London studio reveals a raft of forthcoming projects including Hoffman’s Nightwork and the third instalment of St Trinian’s.
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NewsMichael Fassbender gears up for summer shoot of A Single Shot
CinemaNX, Hanway Films and Unanimous Pictures has announced a summer shoot for the poacher story.
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NewsCrossDay funding boost to help with development slate including Tom Jones, Esme Lennox
UK-based CrossDay Productions, run by Pippa Cross and Janette Day, will benefit from a new “substantial investment” from a sale of 25% of their equity to a non-film-industry high-net-worth individual.
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NewsSalt strikes first-look deal with $30m Brazilian Fund
Newly launched Brazilian film fund Virtù-Schurmann Cinema has signed a first-look deal with UK-based sales and financing company Salt. Salt, which has previously worked on Brazilian titles including City Of Men (Cidade de Homens) (pictured) and Cidade Baixa (Lower City), will help Virtù-Schurmann in identifying and developing Brazilian films with ...
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NewsStealth Media comes on for 7 Lives, finds cast for Wild East Trilogy
7 Lives is being billed as an urban re-telling of It’s A Wonderful Life.
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NewsHilary Swank Dreams with Killer Films, Intandem, Laureate
UK sales outfit Intandem Films is to handle sales on Dreams of a Dying Heart, the film that reunites two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank (pictured) with her Boys Don’t Cry producers Killer Films.
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Freeway takes on UKFC’s NFTC
The UKFC is selling off the National Film Trustee Company in a bid to reduce overheads.
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NewsRevolver shoots for two new Gunslinger productions
Revolver’s production arm plans hoodie spoof Anuvarhood and girl gang thriller Sket.
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NewsJon Amiel to direct Undying starring Kurt Russell
Media 8 is producing alongside LA-based Circle Of Confusion, and financing with Cynthia Stafford’s Queen Nefertari Productions, new partner Northern Lights Films, and London/LA-based E-Motion.
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NewsDeepa Mehta sees Webber’s Bombay Dreams
The Indian director will bring Broadway musical Bombay Dreams to the big screen with a score by AR Rahman.