All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 71
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NewsUK’s Everyman sees admissions rise 70% in 2022, well ahead of national average
Admissions totalled 3.4m, compared to 2m in 2021.
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News‘Super Mario Bros: The Movie’ races to the top of UK-Ireland box office
Further new releases to make the top five include ‘Air’ and ’The Pope’s Exorcist’.
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NewsNorman Reynolds, Oscar and Bafta winning UK production designer, dies aged 89
Reynolds won an Oscar and Bafta for his work on 1981’s ’Raiders Of The Lost Ark’ and an Oscar for 1977’s ’Star Wars: A New Hope’.
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NewsThe Writers Lab to run first combined UK and European programme (exclusive)
Advisors and guests include ’Succession’ writer Susan Soon He Stanton and ’Call My Agent!’ star Camille Cottin.
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NewsNetflix and Creative UK’s debut filmmaking scheme Breakout unveils first projects (exclusive)
The six teams each received £30,000 of development funding.
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NewsDamian Jones, Emily Morgan among UK producers taking part in BFI, CNC co-production meetings
Further producers include Nikki Parrott and Tom Wood.
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NewsGareth Ellis-Unwin to step down from ScreenSkills; reflects on proudest moments, greatest challenges in the sector (exclusive)
Ellis-Unwin is to return to full-time producing having held the post of head of film and animation at ScreenSkills since 2017.
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NewsIreland’s Blinder Films re-brands, unveils key hires and fires up slate of projects (exclusive)
Projects include ‘Orange World’, the latest from ’Sunlight’ filmmaker Claire Dix.
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NewsMia Bays defends BFI’s commitment to being “an anti-racist organisation” at New Black Film Collective event
Bays was speaking alongside BFI exec Ama Ampadu, following allegations that the organisation has failed to address systemic racism.
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NewsUK Black creatives call out “glass ceiling” at The New Black Film Collective XPO
Creative and executives from the UK screen industries came together for the second day of the London event.
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NewsBFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival sees audiences increase by 16% (exclusive)
The festival ran from March 15-26.
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NewsPeccadillo Pictures picks up ‘The Lost Boys’ and a raft of LGBQT+ titles for UK and Ireland (exclusive)
Further titles include ‘Eismayer’ and ’You Can Live Forever’.
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NewsFormer Amazon exec Georgia Brown to lead UK Production Skills Task Force for screen sector
Over 20 senior representatives from all the major broadcasters, studios and streamers will join the task force.
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Features“Films are not made by one person”: The revolutionary production story of LFF winner ‘Blue Bag Life’
The BFI London Film Festival audience award winner will be released by Modern Films in the UK and Ireland.
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News‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’ triumphs at Japan’s inaugural Niigata International Animation Film Festival
Mamoru Oshii was jury president of the new prestigious animation event.
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NewsIndustry figures call for “transparency” in bidding process for Edinburgh Filmhouse takeover
Screenwriter Paul Laverty, filmmakers Mark Cousins and Kevin Macdonald and actor Tilda Swinton have weighed in.
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NewsVue to screen Eurovision Song Contest final live across UK
The contest is taking place in Liverpool.
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NewsUK producers “cautiously optimistic” about aspects of BFI Filmmaking Fund but worried about fall in overall funding
“Ouch,” said one UK independent producer.
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NewsJoanna Hogg’s ‘The Eternal Daughter’ picked up for UK-Ireland
An autumn theatrical release is planned.
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News“No one owns the challenge, no one owns the solution”: ScreenSkills, BFI address changes to public funding for skills
Skills clusters are being created around the UK.