UK News – Page 168
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NewsLauren Dark leaves Film4 to partner with Vanessa Kirby’s production company at Netflix
Netflix has signed a first look deal with Vanessa Kirby’s production company, Aluna Entertainment.
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News‘Free Guy’ passes £11m atop UK-Ireland box office; ‘The Nest’ makes decent start
‘Candyman’ starts in second place for Universal.
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NewsPrano Bailey-Bond wins Screen FrightFest Genre Rising Star 2021
Bailey-Bond wins the award for feature debut ’Censor’.
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NewsUK’s Distributor Slate Days confirms 26 distributors for 2021 edition
The event will take place on September 14 and 15 at Picturehouse Central, London.
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NewsWestEnd Films boards ‘The Duchess Of Malfi’ with Morfydd Clark attached
Shooting begins in November in Italy.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: will ‘Candyman’ continue recent horror success?
Further new openers include ‘Our Ladies’, ‘The Nest’.
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NewsJustin Kurzel’s Cannes Competition title ‘Nitram’ secures UK-Ireland deal (exclusive)
Caleb Landry Jones won the best actor award on the Croisette.
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NewsUK’s Warp Films and Anton team for international development partnership
First project is a reinvention of Balzac’s novel ‘Lost Illusions’.
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NewsBFI Distribution partners with Bohemia Media for theatrical release of ‘Rebel Dykes’ doc (exclusive)
It will be in cinemas in UK and Ireland on November 26 2021.
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Newsdebbie tucker green’s ‘ear for eye’ to premiere at BFI London Film Festival and on BBC Two/iPlayer
It’s the first time the festival has had a joint television premiere on the same night.
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NewsBafta, BFI, Amazon back UK TV Freelance Charter
While not legally binding, the charter works on the principle of collective responsibility.
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NewsDocs Ireland to showcase Northern Ireland’s documentary filmmaking boom
Northern Ireland Screen has backed seven feature documentaries in the last year.
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NewsUK actors face widespread institutional racism at work, survey finds
A major new study polled 1300 actors about their experiences.
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NewsTV has utterly failed disabled people, says ‘The Virtues’ writer Jack Thorne
Thorne was delivering the 46th MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
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NewsDisney+ unveils UK original series ‘Nautilus’
Disney+ is ramping up scripted commissioning in the UK.
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News“I want to redefine what a British film looks and feels like,” says Netflix’s Fiona Lamptey
The director of UK features was talking at the Edinburgh Television Festival.
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News‘People Just Do Nothing’ leads openers at UK-Ireland box office; ‘Free Guy’ stays top
’Free Guy’ dropped only 7% on its opening session.
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NewsScotland’s CMI appoints new chair
Alastair Morrison will take over from interim chair Atholl Duncan on August 30.
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NewsJoel Coen’s ‘The Tragedy Of Macbeth’ to close BFI London Film Festival
Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand lead the film.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival adds Jane Campion’s ‘The Power Of The Dog’
The film will receive its UK premiere on October 11 at new LFF Gala venue the Royal Festival Hall.
