UK News – Page 116
-
News‘Piggy’ the big winner at Grimmfest 2022 (exclusive)
The Sundance premiere won in the best director, best film and best actress categories.
-
NewsBFI unveils details for £15m National Lottery Audience Projects Fund
The BFI has pledged £15m over three years for the fund to support audience-facing activity.
-
NewsAneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds, Nick Frost join Alice Lowe’s ‘Timestalker’
Production has commenced in Wales.
-
NewsUK selects Hassan Nazer’s ‘Winners’ as international Oscar entry
The film premiered at EIFF where it picked up the audience award.
-
NewsFremantle sets out stall as major international arthouse film player
CEO Jennifer Mullin and group COO Andrea Scrosati address scripted push in Mipcom keynote.
-
NewsOscar hopeful ‘The Quiet Girl’ scores slew of worldwide deals for Bankside (exclusive)
The Irish feature has been picked up for France, the Middle East, Benelux, China and more.
-
News‘Halloween Ends’ enjoys strong start at top of UK-Ireland box office
Sony’s ‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile’ and Warner Bros’ ‘Emily’ also debuted at the box office.
-
NewsRian Johnson and ‘Glass Onion’ cast talk theatrical release, relevance and Angela Lansbury
”I’m really grateful Netflix has stepped up [with a theatrical release]”, said Johnson.
-
NewsJinga boards FrightFest titles ‘They Wait In The Dark’, ‘The Ghost Writer’ ahead of AFM (exclusive)
Both films had their UK premiere at the horror festival FrightFest
-
NewsRaindance Film Festival appoints new artistic directors as part of leadership restructure (exclusive)
Martyna Szmytkowska, Malaika Bova promoted to artistic director roles.
-
NewsUla Pontikos wins NFTS Sue Gibson cinematography award (exclusive)
Pontikos won for her work on Netflix’s ‘Russian Doll’.
-
News‘Corsage’ starring Vicky Krieps leads BFI London Film Festival winners
Manuela Martelli’s ‘1976’ wins Sutherland Award.
-
-
News“It can be brutal”: ‘She Said’s’ Rebecca Lenkiewicz reflects on the tough business of screenwriting
Rebecca Lenkiewicz was talking with fellow writer Alex Cary at the BFI London Film Festival.
-
NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile’ shows teeth, ‘Halloween Ends’ starts
Warner Bros starting Frances O’Connor’s ‘Emily’.
-
NewsMinka Kelly, Maggie Grace, Dermot Mulroney to star in B.A. Paris adaptation ‘Blackwater Lane’
US filmmaker Jeff Celentano directs, with shooting underway in Suffolk.
-
Newsmk2’s Fionnuala Jamison on how sales agents secure desirable festival slots
The Ireland-born French exec also talked about navigating international prejudices.
-
NewsThe Big Screen Awards unveil 2022 nominations
Philip Barantini’s Boiling Point leads the way with six nominations.
-
News“Markets prefer adaptations”: UK filmmakers lament the struggle to fire-up original films
Good Chaos’ Mike Goodridge, The Bureau’s Tristan Goligher and ’Pretty Red Dress’ writer-director Dionne Edwards took part.
-
NewsElement Pictures hires new creative director
Exec joins ‘Normal People’ producer from Two Brothers Pictures.