Mona Tabbara
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NewsBritish Screen Forum awarded £200,000 to address data gaps in UK film industry
EXCLUSIVE: The award is part of the BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund.
News2026 film and high-end TV productions shooting in the UK and Ireland: latest updates
Screen reveals a snapshot of the latest high-end TV and film productions shooting in the UK for the big studios and streamers.
NewsUK’s New Black Film Collective’s 2026 XPO unveils revised date and venue
EXCLUSIVE: The March event was postponed owing to a proposed London Underground strike.
NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Project Hail Mary’ takes off at 701 sites
Also new this weekend: Disney’s ’Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come’ and Kaleidoscope’s ’The Land Of Sometimes’.
NewsIreland’s Break Out Pictures bolsters slate with Dublin film festival premieres
‘The Three Urns’ and ‘Once Upon A Time In A Cinema’ will be released theatrically in the spring.
FeaturesHow is the Muslim workforce of the UK film and TV industry being supported during Ramadan?
“I didn’t say I was fasting because I didn’t want to make myself seem like a problem.”
Features“Berlin was solid and the market felt good”: Buyers and sellers on EFM 2026
However, some expressed concern big market titles were being kept for Cannes.
NewsFirst reactions to Warner Bros-Paramount deal: “Mega-mergers raise red flags”, “An antitrust disaster”
The UKCA, Film Export UK and Bectu are among the first industry bodies to weigh in on the deal.
NewsBen Sharrock’s ‘Alone Together’ starring Callum Turner, Adria Arjona and Amir El-Masry picked up for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: The film is sold be HanWay and will shoot in Oman and Jordan in the autumn.
FeaturesDublin film festival’s Grainne Humphreys on the young audiences packing out the 2026 event
The festival closes on March 1 with the world premiere of John Carney’s ‘Power Ballad’.
NewsUK’s Cantilever Media secures £500,000 investment from Creative Growth Finance
Cantilever will use the investment to expand its UK-Ireland distribution arm, Kazoo Films.
NewsUK culture secretary Lisa Nandy welcomes “full investigation” into BBC broadcast of Baftas
The BBC has agreed to a “fast-tracked” investigation.
NewsNetflix series ‘Wednesday’ starts shooting in Ireland
Winona Ryder, Chris Sarandon and Noah Taylor have joined the cast.
NewsBrendan Canty’s ‘Christy’, ‘Hamnet’ key winners at Irish Film and Television Academy awards
The awards took place on February 20.
NewsTime’s Up UK, Black Beauty Roster launch certification plan to tackle on-set hair and make-up discrimination
Lashana Lynch, Naomie Harris and Barbara Broccoli are among the industry names supporting the initiative.
NewsBFI-backed Gatecrashers lab for working-class genre writers unveils cohort
EXCLUSIVE: ’What It Feels Like For A Girl’ star Hannah Frances Therese Jones, ’High Wire’ director Calif Chong both taking part.
News‘Madfabulous’ among world premieres at BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2026
Russell T Davies will give this year’s BFI Flare Screen Talk.
FeaturesWe Are Parable on building consistent, UK-wide Black cinema programming
The We Are Here initiative aims to build a consistent level of Black cinema programming across the country.
NewsWarner Bros Discovery sets March date for Netflix deal vote
Paramount has until February 23 to make its “best and final offer”.
NewsUK’s Castle Cinema to operate former Catford Mews venue
An operator for a second cinema in the south London borough of Lewisham has also been found.