All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 2
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FeaturesNine talking points for the UK film industry in 2026
Consolidation, comedy and creative renewal in the top jobs are all in focus.
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News‘Everybody To Kenmure Street’ to open Glasgow Film Festival 2026
James McAvoy’s directorial debut ‘California Schemin’’ will close the festival.
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NewsLionsgate readies ‘The Housemaid’s Secret’ to shoot this year
Director Paul Feig and stars Sydney Sweeney and Michele Morrone are expected to return for the sequel to ‘The Housemaid’.
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NewsHungarian director Béla Tarr dies aged 70
Tarr directed ’Satantango’, ’Werckmeister Harmonies’ and Berlinale award winner ’The Turin Horse’.
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FeaturesThe biggest UK Global Screen Fund awards of 2025
The UK Global Screen Fund (UKGSF) announced £5.8m of awards across 2025.
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FeaturesThe BFI’s 10 biggest distribution awards of 2025
‘Night Of The Zoopocalypse’, ‘Sister Midnight’ and ‘Memoir Of A Snail’ were major recipients.
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FeaturesClio Barnard, Shane Meadows films among major 2025 BFI production awards
‘Stuffed’ starring Jodie Comer and Harry Melling and Shane Meadows next film ‘Chork’ are also among recipients.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘The Housemaid’, ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants’ lead festive releases
‘Sentimental Value’ ,‘Marty Supreme’ and ‘Anaconda’ are also coming to cinemas.
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FeaturesWord of Mouth: We Are Parable’s Anthony Andrews on his love of French New Wave and reality TV
The co-founder of UK exhibition and distribution specialist We Are Parable turns to BFI Player and The British Blacklist founder Akua Gyamfi for viewing tips.
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News‘Lollipop’ filmmaker to campaign for social care and maternal imprisonment reform in UK parliament
EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Daisy-May Hudson will be joined by Labour MP Jess Asato to try and motivate policy change on issues raised in the film.
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NewsTallinn, Glasgow premiere 'Spilt Milk' acquired for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: It is the first UK-Ireland acquisition for nascent Ireland-based distributor Beach Pictures.
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NewsWhat could a Netflix-Warner Bros deal mean for the UK?
Production, distribution, exhibition and studio facilities will all face a shake-up.
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NewsCynthia Erivo to be honoured at 2026 London Critics’ Circle Film Awards
The ‘Wicked: For Good’ star is the third recipient of the Derek Malcolm award for innovation.
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NewsLarry Ellison provides personal $40.4bn guarantee in revised Warner Bros Discovery offer
WBD acknowledges receipt, says it will review offer.
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News‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ heats up UK-Ireland box office with £9m opening
’Zootropolis 2’, ‘Wicked: For Good’ and ’Dhurandhar’ lead among holdovers.
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News‘Extra Geography’, Leonardo DiCaprio-produced ‘Monolith’ among UK Global Screen Fund recipients
Plans for the expanded £18m per year fund are to be revealed early next year.
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FeaturesBafta flashback: ‘Kneecap’ director Rich Peppiatt on getting his award through Heathrow security
“I had a meeting with Eric Fellner from Working Title [the next day]. I was so hungover I fell asleep on his sofa midway through the meeting.”
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Features‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’ filmmakers on its long journey to becoming a “well-timed” word-of-mouth hit
Director James Griffiths and writers/stars Tom Basden and Tim Key recount how trying to turn their 2008 Bafta-nominated short into a feature nearly became “one of life’s regrets”
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News99% of UK film and TV performers prepared to take industrial action over AI, reveals Equity vote
Performers voted yes to refuse to be digitally scanned on set to secure AI protections.
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NewsGlobal box office predicted to reach $35bn in 2026, highest point since 2019
Gower Street Analytics has unveiled its estimates for the year ahead.