All articles by Ellie Calnan – Page 5
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NewsBFI London Film Festival 2025 records highest ever attendance as audience awards revealed
Audience figures reached 235,853 for the 69th edition.
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FeaturesThe Brit 50: Maven Screen Media
Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler founded their female-focused production company in 2011
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FeaturesThe Brit 50: Sleeper Films
The UK and Ireland-based company’s first feature was Berlinale 2025 award winner Christy
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FeaturesThe Brit 50: Quiddity
Emily Morgan’s company has always had an international focus and she’s now looking to build more bridges with Latin America
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘Bugonia’ opens in 572 cinemas
Further releases include ‘Shelby Oaks’, ’Relay’ and ‘Palestine 36’.
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NewsTallinn Baltic Competitions reveal lineups, including three world premieres
The programme opens with Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’.
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NewsRobert Eggers’s ‘Werwulf’ starts filming in UK for Focus Features
The gothic horror is shooting on location in Dartmoor, Devon.
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NewsTallinn Black Nights to open with ‘They Will Be Dust’ as part of Catalan focus
The Estonian festival runs November 7-23.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie’, ‘Black Phone 2’ lead busy weekend
Further releases include ‘Good Fortune,’ ‘After The Hunt’ and ’Roofman’.
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NewsFestivals should be “mindful” of the slowdown in deals done on titles, says Berlinale programmer at panel
The panel also discussed date overlaps, moving online and advocating for freedom of speech.
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NewsPlan B producers discuss Europe expansion, Trump’s film tariff threat and ‘H Is For Hawk’
“It felt like the right moment,” Jeremy Kleiner said of opening London office.
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News‘The Choral’ director Nicholas Hytner says there is a “limit” to what UK industry can do to support working-class talent
Additionally producer Kevin Loader advocated for cashflowing the IFTC and Ralph Fiennes discussed prep.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘I Swear’ and ‘Tron: Ares’ lead new releases
Further new titles include horror ‘Good Boy’ and drama ‘Plainclothes’.
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NewsRian Johnson, Daniel Craig talk making ‘Knives Out 3’ in the UK, future instalments
“The crews here are fantastic,” said the director.
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NewsUK comedy ‘Lady’ among Tallinn Black Nights first feature competition
13 films are competing for the best debut film award.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party Of A Showgirl’ opens in cinemas
Further releases include ‘Urchin’, ‘Him’ and ‘The Smashing Machine’.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘One Battle After Another’ hits 650 cinemas
Further titles include ‘Billy Elliot’ and ‘Hamilton’ re-releases as well as ‘The Strangers: Chapter 2’.
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FeaturesStars of Tomorrow 2025: Warda Mohamed (writer/director)
Mohamed is reteaming with BBC Film for ’Moon’ about a British Somali teen who decides to run away.
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FeaturesStars of Tomorrow 2025: Matty Crawford (writer/director)
“The first thing I said to BBC Film when I pitched it was, ‘I want to make something that makes you throw up and cry’”.
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FeaturesStars of Tomorrow 2025: Ted Evans (writer/director)
Evans’ debut feature ’Retreat’ is a thriller told entirely in British sign language.