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Disney U.K. and Ireland has inked a deal with video-on-demand company Blinkbox that will see a selection of the distrib's titles become available on the service. Pics such as 'War [...]

LONDON The other shoe has fallen in the U.K. for James Murdoch. BSkyB confirmed Tuesday that the embattled exec has steppped down from his post as chairman of the satcaster. [...]

Following the worldwide box office success of 'The Woman in Black,' Hammer Films is reteaming with author Susan Hill for a follow-up dubbed 'The Woman in Black: Angels of Death.' [...]

Miramax has inked a pic licensing agreement with Blighty's multichannel broadcaster UKTV for its basic pay and DTT channels. UKTV, an independent joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks [...]

Brit Ken Loach is set to direct a feature documentary based on changes that occurred in the U.K.'s social and political landscape immediately after the end of WWII in 1945. [...]

Films are about to get a boost in Britain--and perhaps Hollywood as well--as the U.K. considers changes in the tax structure that would double the amount individual backers can write [...]

Blighty's film biz looks set to get a piece of the London 2012 Olympics action. A raft of special films, screenings and shorts from renowned helmers will feature in the [...]

As many Middle Eastern industryites had anticipated, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival will become part of government-backed media hub TwoFour54 as the emirate consolidates media initiatives. Fest's sixth edition will [...]

Blighty's television sector will benefit from a tax break to encourage home-grown programs to lense in the country and attract overseas productions. Chancellor George Osborne, the pol charged with care [...]

Blighty's television sector could soon reap the benefits of a tax break similar to the one the U.K. film biz already enjoys in an effort to prevent productions from lensing [...]

Blighty's Curzon Artificial Eye has announced a raft of management changes, which include promoting Debbie Rowland from group marketing director to director of sales, marketing and distribution. Several other execs [...]

Blighty's Competition Commission, which is investigating the U.K. pay TV market, is widening its scope to include the impact of VOD providers such as Netflix and Lovefilm. The industry watchdog [...]

Ry Russo-Young's 'Nobody Walks,' Julie Delpy's '2 Days in New York,' Josh Radnor's 'Liberal Arts' and Eugene Jarecki's docu 'The House I Live In' are among pics that will screen [...]

Brit industry stalwarts Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar have joined forces to launch Embankment Films, an international sales and financing company. Embankment, which has already locked more than 40 presales [...]

Pathe U.K. has inked a first-look deal with Brit producer Damian Jones' DJ Films following their collaboration on Meryl Streep starrer 'The Iron Lady.' Jones' credits include upcoming period drama [...]

Brit thesps Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton and Imogen Poots are set to star alongside Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom's 'King of Soho.' Pic, penned by Matt Greenhalgh, is about the [...]

While news may have broken during Berlin that industry stalwart David Garrett was resigning from Summit Intl., that didn't put the brakes on its sales activity at the European Film [...]

The European Film Market at Berlin is moving towards its Friday wrap with an increasing focus on emerging territories and some welcome customers--the major studios. But keeping budgets tightly controlled [...]

Glen Basner's FilmNation Entertainment has virtually sold out the world on Steven Soderbergh's newest pic 'Bitter Pill' at the European Film Market. Pic sold to eOne for U.K. and Canada, [...]

The frosty temperatures in Berlin haven't put a freeze on foreign buyers' appetites as strong markets in parts of Western Europe, notably Germany and Blighty, have helped keep business solid [...]

London-based eOne's new international film sales division is quietly promoting a new Atom Egoyan pic, 'Captive,' which it plans to unveil at Cannes in May. Pic is a thriller about [...]

Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington starrer '2 Guns' is selling quickly in Berlin for Mark Damon's Foresight Unlimited. Foresight has seen its busiest market to date in Berlin, already clocking [...]

Indomina has snapped up North American rights for dramatic thriller 'Luv,' which preemed in competition at Sundance earlier this year. Pic, which is helmed by Sheldon Candis and written by [...]

Alliance Films has been busy in Berlin, snapping up fights to Scarlett Johansson starrer 'Can a Song Save Your Life,' Anton Corbijn's 'A Most Wanted Man' and Kate Hudson starter [...]

Evan Rachel Wood and Danish thesp Mads Mikkelsen have joined the cast of 'The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman,' in which they'll co-star alongside Shia LaBeouf. Wood will play a [...]

Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd and Sally Hawkins are set to star in 'Junebug' helmer Phil Morrison's 'Lucky Dog.' HanWay Films is handling international sales on 'Dog,' which begins lensing next [...]

Following a bright union with Working Title on 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,' Studiocanal is teaming up again with the Brit powerhouse shingle for upcoming romantic comedy 'I Give It a [...]

Lionsgate has picked up U.S. rights to Robert Redford starrer 'All Is Lost,' directed by 'Margin Call' writer-helmer J.C. Chandor. The man-versus-nature drama stars Redford as a man lost at [...]

Exclusive Media Group will fully finance supernatural thriller 'The Quiet Ones' for its Hammer Films banner and has attached helmer John Pogue ('Quarantine 2'). Pogue also penned the script, which [...]

Sam Neill, Michael Sheen, Lena Headey and Ioan Gruffud are in negotiations to topline 'Mariah Mundi & the Midas Box.' Jonathan Newman ('Swinging With the Finkels') will direct from a [...]

German helmer Daniel Stamm ('The Last Exorcism') is set to helm psychological thriller 'The Darkness,' which HanWay Films will unveil to buyers at the Berlinale this week. Project will topline [...]

Jason Statham will topline a remake of 1986 Butt Reynolds starrer 'Heat,' which will be helmed by Brian De Palma. Nick Meyer's Sierra/Affinity is selling to foreign buyers at EFM [...]

Philip Seymour Hoffman is in final negotiations to star in Anton Corbijn's modern-day thriller 'A Most Wanted Man,' which Glen Basner's FilmNation Entertainment will be shopping to buyers in Berlin [...]

Blighty's Screen Yorkshire has announced a 15 million [pounds sterling] ($23.7 million) content fund for TV, film, games and digital sectors within the Yorkshire and Humber area. The fund, dubbed [...]

Katherine Heigl is in final negotiations to star in the Jim Henson Co.'s 'The Happytime Murders,' which Stuart Ford's IM Global will launch to buyers at the European Film Market. [...]

Juno Temple has joined Alexandra Roach in the cast of 'Girls' Night Out,' which HanWay Films is shopping to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin next week. The [...]

Mark Ruffalo has joined Scarlett Johansson in the pic 'Can a Song Save Your Life?,' which Exclusive Media is shopping in Berlin. Pic, which is helmed and penned by John [...]

Despite a clutch of executive shuffles and a corporate buyout, Universal Pictures Intl. says it remains as committed as ever to local production around the world. Last year saw Comcast [...]

Blighty's Vertigo Films is making a third installment of its 'Streetdance' franchise, dubbed 'Streetdance Jnrs.,' which it will unveil to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin next week. [...]

Mia Wasikowska has joined Jesse Eisenberg to star in Richard Ayoade's second feature, 'The Double.' Pic, inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's book, is co-penned by Ayoade and Avi Korine, and follows [...]

Kate Hudson is,set to star in Joe Lynch s actioner 'Everly,' the new project from Adam Ripp and Rob Paris' Crime Scene Pictures. Hudson will star as a dow-non-her-luck woman, [...]

Independent British films grabbed a record 14% market share at the U.K. box office last year thanks to 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 'The Inbetweeners' and 'The King's Speech,' according to [...]

John Hurt will receive the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award at this year's BAFTA awards ceremony. Nod, to be dished out to Hurt on Feb. 12, will recognize Hurt [...]

Picturehouse Entertainment and Revolver Entertainment have joined forces to acquire U.K. rights for two Sundance world preems, 'Liberal Arts' and 'The Imposter.'Multihyphenate Josh Radnor's second pic, 'Liberal Arts,' was snapped [...]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is under house arrest in the U.K., is set to host his own talkshow on Russia's state-funded English-language satcaster, RT. The Kremlin-bankrolled RT, hailing Assange's [...]

UNITED KINGDOMSpecialty distrib Dogwoof is the latest company to partner with Netflix in Blighty.The deal will see a raft of docus, such as 'Gasland' and 'The Age of Stupid,' become [...]

Germany's K5 Media Group is continuing its international expansion, opening an office in Los Angeles headed by PalmStar Media Capital's Kevin Frakes, who will also serve as CEO of the [...]

Stephen Dorff has been tapped for the lead in U.K.-Israeli co-production 'Zaytoun,' directed by Eran Riklis ('Lemon Tree'). Dorff will play an Israeli fighter pilot shot down over Beirut in [...]

While it mulls over last week's Film Policy Review with the U.K. government, the British Film Institute has announced its latest raft of recipients of National Lottery funding, which include [...]

Just nine days after U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron visited Blighty's Pinewood Shepperton Studios, the government has rejected the studio's Project Pinewood expansion plan.The 200 million [pounds sterling] ($309 million) [...]