UK News – Page 2
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NewsBFI London Film Festival award winner ‘Four Mothers’ picked up for UK-Ireland
The feature is set for release in April next year.
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News‘Kneecap’, ‘Civil War’ lead Bifa 2024 craft winners
Further winners include ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ and ‘Firebrand’.
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News‘Wicked’ shines with biggest opening weekend of 2024 at UK-Ireland box office
The musical has also broken the box office record for best-peforming debut for a stage-to-screen adaptation in the territory.
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NewsFirst-look images for Wales-shot ‘Madfabulous’ starring Callum Scott Howells unveiled (exclusive)
Rupert Everett also stars.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Wicked’ aims to cast its spell in 698 sites
Also out this weekend: Sundance drag queen romance ‘Layla’ and a raft of documentaries, including ‘Bread & Roses’ and ‘Silent Men’.
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NewsShifting business models leads discussion at British Screen Forum
Speakers include David Puttnam, Kathleen Kennedy, Jane Featherstone, Jane Millichip and Caroline Dinenage.
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NewsLuna Carmoon, Sean Wang, Nava Mau among Bafta Breakthrough 2024 line-up
43 creatives include 21 from UK, 13 from US and nine from India.
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News‘The Penguin Lessons’, ‘Kneecap’ receive UK Global Screen Fund support; fund lands key hire
Jordan Allwood joins the UKGSF team from sales outfit Independent Entertainment.
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NewsSister’s Jane Featherstone on ‘Kaos’ cancellation and her mission to “make mainstream fashionable again”
Featherstone anticipates a return to less risky, long-form TV comissioning, with pure TV talent attached: ”Movie stars don’t want to do a TV schedule.”
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NewsVue Cinemas launches UK-Ireland distribution company Vue Lumière (exclusive)
AI tool identified a gap in the market for smaller and international films, said CEO Tim Richards.
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NewsTamer Hassan, Leo Gregory join cast Of ‘Rise Of The Footsoldier: Ibiza’, first pictures revealed (exclusive)
There are plans for three more films and a TV series in the cult crime franchise.
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News‘The Rubber Faced Men’ tops 2024 Brit List of unproduced screenplays
Also on list: coming-of-age Oxbridge comedy, psychological horror in 19th century India, Elizabethan romance.
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NewsRichard E. Grant, Felicity Jones and Amir El-Masry join '100 Nights Of Hero’
Principal photography has now wrapped on the UK shoot.
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NewsProtagonist Pictures refreshes team, lands key hires
Joseph Hewitt has been brought in from HanWay Films.
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NewsStone Age thriller ‘Out Of Darkness’ wins big at Bafta Scotland awards
Former Edinburgh director Lynda Myles and casting director Des Hamilton received outstanding contribution awards.
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NewsFulwell 73 and LeBron James-founded SpringHill Company to merge
The merger is expected to close by the end of 2024, with the companies operating under a new yet-to-be disclosed name.
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News‘Gladiator II’ muscles up £8.8m at UK-Ireland box office for Ridley Scott record opening
‘Paddington In Peru’ posts decent hold to enter year top 10.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Gladiator II’ is unleashed at 722 sites
Also out this weekend: ‘Joy’ for Netflix and ’Kiss Me Kate: The Musical’ for Trafalgar Releasing.
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News‘Peaky Blinders’ creator urges industry to defend jobs from AI
Steven Knight speaks at Web Summit 2024 in Lisbon alongside Banijay Entertainment chief Marco Bassetti.
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NewsBFI opens innovation fund for equity, diversity and inclusion data monitoring in film production
The £200,000 fund is part of the £1.8m BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund.