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NewsUK’s National Cinema Day attracts 1.5m admissions to generate £4.65m box office
Biggest titles were ‘Barbie’ and ‘The Equalizer 3’.
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NewsBarbenheimer drives UK and Ireland August box office to rise 67% on 2022
However, the year-to-date box office total is still down on pre-pandemic levels.
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NewsUK’s Screen Cornwall receives £400,000 in government funding
A recent report also found that the Cornish screen sector was worth £5m in 2022
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NewsBritish Urban Film Festival relocates to Leeds and Halifax for 2023 edition
The festival will take place in Leeds and Halifax.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: controversial trafficking drama ‘Sound Of Freedom’ uses pay-it-forward bookings
Further openers are Sony’s ’Equalizer 3’, Mub’s ’Passages’ and Lionsgate’s ‘Cobweb’ .
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NewsFrench animation ‘The Jungle Bunch World Tour’ swings to the UK and Ireland (exclusive)
A theatrical release is plotted for early 2024.
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NewsUK tax relief claims for high-end TV overtake amounts paid out for film tax relief for first time
HETV claimed £829m against £517m for film, for the tax year ending March 2022.
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NewsFremantle teams with Israel’s IBI Investment House for €150m scripted fund
One of first projects put forward for funding is a biopic of Maria Callas starring Angelina Jolie
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NewsBectu open letter slams UK freelancer working conditions at post facilities
The letter has been sent to over 60 of the UK’s leading post-production facilities.
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NewsDinard 2023 line-up includes ‘The Old Oak’, ‘The Zone Of Interest’, ‘Scrapper’
’Silent Roar’, ‘Shoshana’ and ’How To Have Sex’ will also play at the French seaside festival that spotlights UK and Irish cinema.
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NewsFirst trailer for Screen Star George Jaques’ ‘Black Dog’ ahead of LFF Sutherland Award premiere (exclusive)
Jaques directed the road movie, which he wrote alongside fellow Star Jamie Flatters, who also stars in the film.
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News‘Scrapper’ puts up a fight at UK-Ireland box office as ‘Barbie’, ‘Oppenheimer’ hold top spots
Charlotte Regan’s debut took more than £1,000 per cinema.
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NewsUK’s National Cinema Day to return on September 2 with over 630 venues attached
Day of cut-price tickets “comes hot on the heels of the phenomenal recent success” of Barbenheimer.
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NewsUpcoming Amanda Kernell and Renate Reinsve projects excite industry at Haugesund
The industry programme at the Norwegian festival included a focus on UK projects.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: can ‘Theater Camp’ or ‘The Blackening’ dent ‘Barbie’ dominance?
UK Sundance title ‘Scrapper’ starts out for Picturehouse Entertainment.
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NewsParamount, Disney, Studiocanal execs to participate in UK’s Distributor Slate Days
The two-day event will take place September 21-22 at The Ritzy in London’s Brixton
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NewsOdeon Cinemas Group appoints permanent new managing director for UK-Ireland
Suzie Welch takes on the role having been interim MD since March.
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NewsEdinburgh Film Festival attracts 10,000 attendees to six-day event
The compact programme saw 71% of screenings sell out.
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NewsNetflix commissions ‘Einstein and The Bomb’ feature documentary, John Boyega-narrated WWII series
BBC Studios is producing ‘Einstein and The Bomb’.
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News‘Barbie’ becomes most successful film of all time in Ireland with €8.9m box office
Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster has overtaken previous record-holder ‘Avatar’.