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3709 articles available in total starting from 23/05/2002. Last article published on 11/07/2025.

Universal launches new DTO service

Universal Pictures UK has teamed up with LOVEFILM, Europe’s largest online DVD rental and Video On Demand (VOD), operator to launch the UK’s first-ever major movie download to own (DTO) service...  

13/04/2006 | New technologies | UK

£700,000 P&A support to 19 films

The UK Film Council has invested a total of £700,000 (€1m) of lottery money so far this year in P&A (print and advertising) support to 19 arthouse feature and documentary films to help them expand...  

13/04/2006 | Distribution | UK

Local cinemas praised in a new UK FC report

In the new report “"The Impact of Local Cinema", published by the UK Film Council, the British Film Institute and regional screen agencies EM Media and Film London, local cinemas are praised for...  

11/04/2006 | Exhibitors | UK

Colin Firth, an ambiguous gentleman

"Show business is an addiction, it’s like a drug. It’s a world that teaches you to be self-centered: audiences strokes your ego, which asks for increasingly more stimuli and then it leads you to...  

10/04/2006 | Films | UK

UK Film Council invests £185,000 in shorts

The UK Film Council announced yesterday a series of awards worth £185,000 (€263,935) to four different short film schemes as part of its overall strategy to encourage national and regional...  

06/04/2006 | Production | UK

BBC Films prepares Boy Soldier

David Thompson, head of BBC Films has just announced that the feature filmmaking arm of the BBC has secured the film rights to Andy McNab and Robert Rigby's best-selling thriller Boy Soldier and...  

03/04/2006 | Production | UK

Michael Caton-Jones day

The 47 year-old Scottish filmmaker made famous with his 1989 feature debut Scandal is in the full glare of the media spotlight with the release of his two latest films in the UK and Ireland today:...  

31/03/2006 | Releases | UK

Mackenzie directs Hallam Foe

Production has begun this week on David Mackenzie’s Hallam Foe, starring Jamie Bell, Sophia Miles, Claire Forlani and Ciarán Hinds. The fourth feature film by Mackenzie, following Asylum, Young...  

30/03/2006 | Production | UK

Pinewood-Shepperton: 67% drop in operating profits

Pinewood-Shepperton, the biggest film studios in the UK, registered a severe drop of 67.5% in operating profits in 2005, from £11.4m in 2004 to £3.7m in 2005, a fall that reflected the overall...  

30/03/2006 | Studios | UK

£1.67m from the UK FC to three new films

The UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund (NCF), created to encourage unique ideas, innovative approaches and new voices, has just invested a total of £1.67m (€2.4m) in three new feature films...  

28/03/2006 | Production | UK

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