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NewsKey UK film industry Covid-19 crisis funds go live
The BFI FAN Covid-19 Resilience Fund for exhibitors and Film and TV Charity’s repayable grants scheme applications open.
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NewsCurzon scores record premium VoD opening with Safy Nebbou’s ‘Who You Think I Am’
‘Bait’ and ‘Knives Out’ lead BFI Player charts.
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NewsLiverpool mayor establishes £400,000 creative businesses fund
Fund has two sections - film and TV development, and music.
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NewsSheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket line-up includes Extinction Rebellion, Saudi women’s football team projects
Forty eight projects have been chosen for the online edition,
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NewsSee-Saw Films hires UK producer Joanna Laurie
Laurie previously spent more than a decade at Number 9 Films.
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NewsScreen Talks: The challenges and opportunities for film festivals during Covid-19
Panellists were BFI Festivals’ Tricia Tuttle, CPH:DOX’s Tine Fischer and Miami Film Festival’s Jaie Laplante.
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NewsDavid Bowie film ‘Stardust’ to get digital release for industry
Fabien Westerhoff in talks with distributors and programers over potential public audience festival premieres.
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NewsScreen Scotland unveils £1m development pot for indie film and TV producers
The £500,000 Film: Single Project Development Funding Route will support the development of single feature film projects across live-action, animation and documentary.
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News‘Misbehaviour’ producer talks having film pulled due to virus crisis: “It’s devastating”
Suzanne Mackie spent a decade getting the Miss World comedy-drama onto the big screen, where it was pulled after just four days.
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NewsBFI reveals £4.6m support package for UK film industry
The re-purposed National Lottery funding will target specific areas of the sector including exhibitors, freelancers and producers.
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NewsBFI partners with UK cinemas to serve regional audiences during lockdown
Streaming platform BFI Player to offer curated selections from six venues.
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News‘Frozen II’ passes 500,000 UK home entertainment sales, tops chart for third week
‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ debuted at number two.
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NewsNetflix helps kickstart French Covid-19 film and TV workers emergency relief fund
Streaming giant has made similar donations in UK and Italy.
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News‘The Truth’ holds Curzon Home Cinema lead; BFI Player, MUBI reveal latest viewing data
Curzon has reshuffled its releases to strengthen its streaming schedule.
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NewsUK’s Covid-19 Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund launches as 93% of freelancers now out of work
BFI to contribute £500,000 of National Lottery funding; Netflix previously donated £1m.
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NewsEdinburgh TV festival switches to online-only for 2020 edition
Freelancers will be offered free access to the digital event.
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NewsCineworld executives to defer salary and bonuses during Covid crisis
The board of the world’s second biggest cinema chain also decided to suspend the payment of dividends in Q4 2019 and all of 2020.
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NewsHonor Blackman, James Bond girl and star of TV’s ‘The Avengers’, dies aged 94
Actor died surrounded by family at home in Lewes, Sussex.
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NewsPathe to break theatrical window with ‘Misbehaviour’ UK digital release
Miss World comedy-drama being made available to watch at home three months ahead of schedule.
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NewsAll income wiped out for 42% of firms says UK’s Creative Industries Federation
The organisation warns many businesses are ‘on the brink of collapse’.