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Two films shooting for BBC Films

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Richard Eyre’s film adaptation of Zoe Heller’s praised novel Notes On a Scandal is one of two BBC Films co-productions currently shooting in the UK.
Notes On a Scandal reunites the creative team behind the other BBC Films co-production Iris: acclaimed UK stage director Richard Eyre with US producer Scott Rubin and Robert Fox, and actress Judi Dench. UK based DNA Films is producing for Fox Searchlight in the US.
Based on a script by Patrick Marber (Closer), the film tells of a married pottery teacher (Cate Blanchett) who embarks on an affair with one of her pupils. The story is told from the perspective of another teacher (Judi Dench).

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Starter For Ten is the feature film debut of UK director Tom Vaughan adapted for the big screen by David Nicholls based on his own best-selling novel. Starring Scottish actor James McAvoy (Wimbledon), Alice Eve (Stage Beauty) and Rebecca Hall, the film is about a working-class man who studies at a posh university and tries to find love through appearing on a TV quiz show. The film shooting until the end of October is a Playstone production in association with BBC Films and Neal Street Productions for HBO Films in the US.

BBC Films has no less than seven other feature films now in post-production. Those include Marc Evans’ Snow Cake starring Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver, Peter Cattaneo’s Opal Dream set in Australia, Nick Hytner’s The History Boys adapted for the big screen by Alan Bennett from his own screenplay, Francesca Joseph’s Four Last Songs starring Stanley Tucci, Rhys Ifans, Marisa Paredes and Emmanuelle Seigner, Kenneth Branagh’s fifth Shakespeare adaptation As You Like It starring Kevin Kline, Bryce Dallas Howard and Alfred Molina, and Woody Allen’s second film shot in the UK starring again Scarlett Johansson.

The other Woody Allen film Match Point co-produced by the BBC opens in the UK on January 6 through Icon, and other BBC supported films opening in the upcoming months include Stephen Frears’ Mrs Henderson Present (Pathe, November 25), Michael Winterbottom’s A Cock & Bull Story (Redbus, January 20), Michael Caton Jones’ Shooting Dogs (Metrodome), and Oliver Parker’s Image Me & You (UIP, February 17).

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