UK News – Page 117
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NewsNetflix UK viewing data to be available for first time through Barb monitoring
The US streamer has agreed to be monitored by the UK audience measurement firm.
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NewsAngela Lansbury, multiple Oscar nominee and star of ‘Murder, She Wrote’, dies aged 96
Star of stage and screen earned three Oscar nominations and multiple Tony Awards.
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NewsNetflix posts £1.4bn revenues from UK market in 2021
Streamer generated pre-tax profit of £22.7m in 2021, according to company accounts.
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NewsScottish government pre-warned of Edinburgh, Filmhouse financial woes; BFI’s Ben Roberts addresses collapse
Roberts and Creative Scotland address the collapse of EIFF and Filmhouse cinemas’ parent charity.
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NewsScreenwriters are being ‘edited out’ of filmmaking process, bullied and belittled, says Writers' Guild of Great Britain
WGGB poll finds that 70% of writers have not been properly credited for their work.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival marks solidarity with Iranian protestors
Members of the UK film community came together at the BFI Southbank.
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NewsSovereign, Scala start production on Africa-set film ‘Small Gods’
Feature film focuses on the landless Batwa people of Africaʼs Great Lakes Region.
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News‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ to be first Netflix film to play all major UK cinema chains
Film will receive an exclusive one-week theatrical release from November 23.
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NewsNorthern Ireland Screen launches four-year strategy titled Stories, Skills and Sustainability
Strategy aims to increase economy contribution by 40% to £430m.
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News‘Smile’ becomes first 18-rated film to top UK-Ireland box office in over three years
Paramount horror surges a sizeable 17% percent on last weekend.
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NewsBFI Film Fund applications from UK filmmakers to close from November
The new National Lottery funding strategy kicks in from April 2023.
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NewsKristin Irving, Anu Henriques join revamped BBC Film team
Claudia Yusef expands role to commissioning executive.
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NewsBFI ramps up international activities with plans for quarterly country-focused initiatives (exclusive)
First event will be staged in London next spring with Flemish initiative Connext.
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NewsNoah Media Group boards documentary ‘I Am Irvine Welsh’
Noah will showcase it at Mipcom later this month.
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NewsScotland’s Centre of the Moving Image employees seek compensation for shock redundancy
The employees worked at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and the FIlmhouses in Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘The Woman King’, ‘The Lost King’ make top pair
‘Amsterdam’ also opening wide for Disney.
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News“I’ve been in tears”: UK industry reacts to Edinburgh film festival, Filmhouse collapse
Filmmaker Mark Cousins, Glasgow Film Festival co-director Allison Gardner and Ken Loach’s Sixteen Films expressed their sadness.
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NewsProducer Sarah Harvey to lead UK division of Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories
‘Ticket to Paradise’ producer teams up with production company behind ‘Anatomy of a Scandal’.
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NewsRising Stars Ireland: Screen International, Screen Ireland unveil major new talent spotlight
10 up-and-coming actors, directors, producers and writers will be selected for inaugural programme in early 2023.
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News‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical’ opens BFI London Film Festival, puts spotlight on young talent
BFI CEO Ben Roberts reached out to young audience members: “We really want to make sure independent and classic film and TV are accessible as possible”