All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 5
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News‘One Battle After Another’ Irish VFX specialists open Dublin studio Enbarr
Ed Bruce and Nicholas Murphy’s new company will also nurture rising digital artists.
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NewsCynthia Erivo to star in ‘The Road Home’ for Studiocanal, Palisades Park Pictures
Thabo Rametsi and Guy Pearce are also starring.
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NewsHow are the UK and Ireland indie film sectors represented at Cannes 2026?
‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’ and ‘Tin Castle’ head to the Croisette in a modest year for UK and Irish filmmakers.
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NewsCornerstone boards Bleecker Street horror ‘When Darkness Loves Us’ starring Emilia Clarke
Cornerstone is handling on behalf of Bleecker Street.
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NewsNaomi Watts to star in ballet romance ‘Margot & Rudi’ for Good Chaos, WestEnd Films
The romantic drama tells the true story of ballet legends Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.
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NewsNorthern Ireland Screen explores all-Ireland co-funding mechanism and cash-flowing tax credit in four-year strategy
Northern Ireland Screen-backed projects have generated £477m for the local economy across four years (2022-26).
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News‘Virginia Woolf’s Night And Day’ to open SXSW London 2026
Peter Glanz’s dark satire ‘Savage House’ will also world premiere.
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NewsBBC Small Indie Fund 2026 reveals film, TV and digital recipients
A total of 29 production companies are being supported by £1.1m of funding.
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Features11 UK documentary film companies with exciting projects in the works
Screen spotlights 11 companies developing slates of interesting projects with international potential.
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NewsBafta film awards racial controversy to come under spotlight at New Black Film Collective 2026 XPO
The XPO runs from April 17-19.
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NewsAndrew Haigh, Asif Kapadia, John Crowley, Jeanie Finlay demand US streamers pay residuals to UK directors
“You know the value we directors bring - now we need you to show it” stated an open letter from 145 filmmakers.
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NewsUK’s Dogwoof appoints new head of sales ahead of Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: Bench takes over from Cleo Veger.
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NewsBFI unveils recipients of latest Audience Projects Fund
EXCLUSIVE: The first funding round of 2026-2029 has backed 23 recipients with a combined total of £9.3m.
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NewsWorldwide box office share for UK indie films falls in 2025
‘The Roses’ and ‘Warfare’ were the best-performing UK independent films at the global box office.
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NewsMubi lost 200,000 subscribers in 2025 due to Sequoia controversy, according to Wall Street Journal
However, CEO Efe Cakarel said the company had reached a record 1.7million subs by the end of Q1 2026.
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NewsGower Street decreases 2026 global box office forecast to $34.7bn
Although China had a disappointing first quarter, there were local successes in South Korea, Taiwan, Spain and Italy.
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NewsBafta review into racial slur incident finds “structural weaknesses” but no “malicious intent”
“We apologise unreservedly to the Black community,” said Bafta’s board of trustees.
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NewsMaxine Peake, Andrea Arnold among speakers at Sheffield DocFest 2026
The UK festival runs from June 10-15.
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FeaturesIs giving away free tickets to indie films the answer to building cinema audiences?
BFI programme Escapes for disengaged or lapsed audiences is trying this in the UK. Is it working?
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FeaturesWhy Nigeria's Kunle Afolayan believes YouTube is key to the future of African filmmaking
Afolayan is a leading proponent of the New Nigerian Cinema movement, with credits including Netflix hit ’Aníkúlápó’.