Geoffrey Macnab
Geoffrey Macnab covers the UK for Screen.
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NewsVue lays off several senior staff ahead of expected sale or flotation
Group director of content Eduardo Leal is among those who have left the company in recent months
NewsUK exhibitors welcome temporary cut in VAT rates on children’s cinema tickets
Questions remain about how the measure will work in practice, whether cinemas are obliged to pass on the VAT cut to customers.
FeaturesLukas Dhont talks First World War drama ‘Coward’: “This is a film that needs to speak to young people”
Dhont is back in Cannes Competition for a second time with his third feature.
NewsVicky Krieps in talks to star in comedy ‘Operation Annie’ for Luxembourg’s Samsa Film
EXCLUSIVE: The film is about the US forces who pumped out fake propaganda broadcasts to the Nazis in 1944.
NewsBenelux projects receive funding boost from first Co-Development Fund awards
Three projects have received €50,000 each.
NewsHungary’s new culture minister Zoltan Tarr makes pledge to filmmakers
Funds will be distributed on “merit, not political loyalty”, said Tarr.
FeaturesIra Sachs on his 1980s-set New York drama ‘The Man I Love’ and working with Rami Malek: “he has a magnetism”
”There was a galvanising energy in 1980s New York, merged with darkness and fear.”
NewsHas the Dutch cinema sector discovered the secret of arthouse box-office success?
A popular membership programme and investment in arthouse cinemas are driving a boom.
FeaturesSouth Africa confident new incentive will elevate country as a filming location
This is a transitional period for South Africa’s film industry.
FeaturesHow a Romanian and Norwegian crew joined forces to shoot Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’
The project was shot across a string of villages on the west coast of Norway.
FeaturesAndrey Zvyagintsev on returning to filmmaking with ‘Minotaur’ after spending 40 days in a coma
Zvyagintsev survived an extreme reaction to the Sputnik Covid vaccine.
NewsOpera doc ‘Primadonna Or Nothing’ sells to China
EXCLUSIVE: Primadonna Or Nothing is directed by German filmmaker and music journalist Juliane Sauter.
NewsProducer burnout cases are rising fast, says EAVE report
EXCLUSIVE: ”Producers carry the creative, financial, and emotional weight of projects,” said co-author Kristina Trapp.
FeaturesMorocco tempts global productions with spectacular locations, talented crews and improving cash rebate
‘De Gaulle: Tilting Iron’, ‘Lords Of War’ and ‘The Odyssey’ have filmed in Morocco.
News‘Heysel 85’ closes key deals in Europe and beyond
EXCLUSIVE: The film is inspired by events on the day of the Heysel football stadium disaster.
NewsJustin Hardy’s ‘Wrath Of The Gods’ launches in Cannes to mark conclusion of ‘Wicker Man’ trilogy
EXCLUSIVE: Laurence Gornall’s Unannounced Film Company is handling international sales.
News'Gus, The Guide Dog', ‘The Neverending Pillow Fort’ head Sola Media’s Cannes slate
EXCLUSIVE: ’The Neverending Pillow Fort’ is co-scripted by Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges.
FeaturesMarie Kreutzer on ‘Gentle Monster’: “I am not trying to attack men, but I am trying to attack the system”
Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer is in Competition with Gentle Monster, a film that puts a relationship under the microscope when the man is accused of child abuse.
FeaturesCannes market 2026: 15 buzz titles from Europe
Screen presents a selection of the buzziest projects from Europe available to international buyers at this year’s Cannes market.
NewsNetherlands Film Fund pumps €1.8m into Sacha Polak’s ‘The Discomfort Of Evening’
New CEO Iwana Chronis has unveiled the Fund’s first investments under her aegis.