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NewsRange Studios International launches UK, Euro horror development fund (exclusive)
UK-based outfit plans to commission five-10 English-language feature scripts in first year and move quickly into production.
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News‘Project Hail Mary’ starring Ryan Gosling, Sandra Huller starts UK shoot
Amazon MGM Studios is producing the live-action film.
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NewsEmerald Fennell, Carey Mulligan join call for industry bodies to fund UK standards authority CIISA
The Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority’s 2024 launch date is contingent on securing this final funding.
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NewsUK film and high-end TV inquiry faces indefinite pause as committee dissolved
The committee will be revived with new members after the UK general election on July 4 who will decide whether to continue the inquiry.
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NewsEndor Productions to close amid "persistently difficult" scripted TV market
UK TV and film production company’s credits include Vienna Blood, State of Play and Restless.
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News‘Peaky Blinders’ film lands at Netflix with Tom Harper to direct
Production is set to begin later this year.
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NewsUK film production spend down 45% in Q1 2024, but high-end TV rises
Film production spend was £211m, down from £381m, according to figures from the BFI.
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NewsLionsgate picks up ‘The Critic’ from True Brit for UK-Ireland
It will be released in theatres on September 13.
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NewsAndrea Arnold’s Cannes title ‘Bird’ flies around the world for Cornerstone
The title has been picked up across Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.
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NewsDisney EMEA boss reveals £3.5bn UK production spend
Koeppen affirmed the company’s “belief in the importance of theatrical distribution”.
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NewsOban Phoenix closes leaving Scottish community with no cinema
An appeal to save the cinema has been launched.
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NewsUK’s Documentary Film Council elects first board of representatives
DFC was set up last summer to lobby for the sector
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News‘The Death Of Robin Hood’ starring Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer seized for UK-Ireland
A24 will release the thriller in the US.
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NewsKornel Mundruczo to direct Stalin drama ‘The Revolution According to Kamo’ produced by Good Chaos
Filming is set to begin in Georgia in 2025.
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NewsTull Stories to release miners’ strike doc ‘Strike: An Uncivil War’ in UK-Ireland (exclusive)
It is produced through Embankment Films’ unscripted division, alongside VeryMuchSo, with BFI Doc Society funding.
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News‘IF’ rises to top spot at UK-Ireland box office; ‘Furiosa’ drops to fourth
Holdovers dominate the box office, while new releases such as ’Sting’ fall outside the top five.
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NewsUK VFX sector sounds alarm on exclusion of generative AI from additional tax relief (exclusive)
“It doesn’t look a coherent policy decision to exclude AI,” said UK Screen Alliance CEO Neil Hatton.
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NewsUK’s Marlow Film Studios refused planning permission by council
Concerns were raised over the impact on the local road network and the use of greenbelt land for development.
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NewsDogwoof acquires Cannes award-winner ‘Ernest Cole: Lost And Found’ (exclusive)
Raoul Peck’s documentary about the South African photographer scored the L’OEil d’Or prize.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: spider horror ‘Sting’ crawls into 484 sites
Also out this weekend is ‘Young Woman And The Sea’ starring Daisy Ridley and ‘The Beast’ with Lea Seydoux.