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NewsUK-Ireland box office for 2022 up 64% on 2021; down 28% on pre-pandemic
£979m total across full year, from 911 new releases.
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NewsNine talking points for the global film industry in 2023
The global box office decline, changing priorities for US streamers and the emergence of international mega-players.
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NewsKino Lorber hires former AMC Networks duo for digital push
Ed Carroll and Lisa Schwartz join after Kino Lorber’s acquisition of MHz Choice streamer.
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NewsPaul Mescal near deal to star in Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator’ sequel (reports)
Paramount is set to produce Scott’s follow-up to the 2001 Best Picture Oscar winner.
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NewsHanif Kureishi unable to walk or write after fall in Rome
The My Beautiful Laundrette screenwriter tweets about accident from his hospital bed.
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NewsCharades unveils busy Paris RDV slate; sells Laurent Tirard’s ‘Oh My Goodness!’ worldwide (exclusive)
Paris-based outfit releases first look image from Jérémy Clapin’s Meanwhile On Earth.
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News‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ hits $1.7bn at global box office; ‘M3GAN’ posts $40m weekend session
‘Avatar 2’ adds $178m in a strong fourth weekend and has become the highest-grossing film released in 2022.
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NewsCanal+ signs deal to buy Orange’s film and TV operations
French groups combine in effort to challenge US streaming giants.
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NewsCercamon boards Berlin-bound Iranian women’s rights documentary ‘Seven Winters In Tehran’ (exclusive)
Retraces the life of Reyhaneh Jabbari, who fatally stabbed a man who was trying to rape her.
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News‘Mrs Harris Goes To Paris’ producer Superbe Films nabs rights to books series, unveils slate (exclusive)
Producer Guillaume Benski explains how the hit film came to be made.
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NewsMPM Premium boards ‘Bright Women’, unveils new sales for ‘Until Tomorrow’, ‘Umami’ and ‘Ghosts’ (exclusive)
French sales house to market premiere ‘Bright Women’ at Rendez-Vous.
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News’Avatar: The Way Of Water’ ahead of original at UK-Ireland box office after four weekends; indies hold well
‘Aftersun’ sees huge 107% increase; ‘Corsage’ has best day yet.
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NewsNewen Connect promotes Leona Connell to chief commercial officer
Distributor says appointment signals its ambition to drive the value of its film rights.
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NewsBirds’ Eye View unveils 2023 Filmonomics cohort (exclusive)
Screen Star of Tomorrow 2021 Sorcha Bacon and ’Martyrs Lane’ director Ruth Platt are taking part.
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NewsChina box office fell 36% to $4.4bn in 2022 amid Covid-related cinema closures
Chinese film industry had begun recovery in 2021 but new waves stalled momentum.
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News‘Aftersun’, ‘RRR’, ‘Decision To Leave’, ‘TÁR’ among 301 features eligible for Oscars
Number compares to 276 last season.
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NewsLA judge postpones Harvey Weinstein sentencing to February
Former Hollywood mogul faces 18 years in prison; currently serving 23 years for New York rape conviction.
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NewsInternational admissions for French films reach 27 million in 2022, but were 32% below pre-pandemic levels
But admissions still struggling to reach pre-pandemic highs.
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NewsBlue Finch Films boards SXSW premiere ‘Raging Grace’
The horror is directed by Paris Zarcilla and produced by Screen Star of Tomorrow 2021, Chi Thai.
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Features‘Babylon’ team on designing Damien Chazelle’s ambitious Old Hollywood vision: “It was high octane”
Damien Chazelle’s 1920s tale of outsiders breaking into Hollywood combines rich and poor, opulent parties and desert locations — as Babylon production designer Florencia Martin and costume designer Mary Zophres explain to Screen.