UK News – Page 20
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News‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ scores strong £5.4m start to top UK-Ireland box office
‘The Marvels’ drops significantly on second weekend; ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ holds well.
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News‘All Of Us Strangers’ leads Bifa 2023 craft winners
‘Femme’, ‘The Kitchen’ take two prizes each.
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NewsBFI Filmmaking Fund taps Studiocanal exec for senior production executive post (exclusive)
Ama Ampadu, Louise Ortega, Aoife Hayes, Phoebe Sutherland and Charley Fox all have expanded their remits within the fund.
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News‘Aftersun’, ‘Winners’ take prizes at 2023 Bafta Scotland awards
‘Blue Jean’, ‘My Old School also among awarded films.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ’Hunger Games’ prequel set for widest release of the series
Emerald Fennell’s ‘Saltburn’, Sony horror ‘Thanksgiving’ and Todd Haynes’ ‘May December’ also out this week.
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NewsFrench box office hit ‘The Goldman Case’ secures UK-Ireland theatrical deal (exclusive)
Courtroom drama had UK premiere at BFI London Film Festival.
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NewsUK’s Skills Task Force calls for ScreenSkills transformation, apprenticeship reform and revised funding model
The task force, chaired by former Amazon exec Georgia Brown, has found that more than £100m was committed in 2022 to skills by Task Force member organisations alone.
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NewsUK film and TV organisations urge an end to complacency around responses to sexual harassment allegations
Senior figures from Bectu, the Film and TV Charity and CIISA spoke to academic Anna Bull who has conducted the study into harassment.
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NewsNFTS partners with Sean Connery Foundation, BBC Film on emerging Scottish filmmaker programme
Course fees will be subsidsed by 70% to make the programme as accessible as possible.
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NewsCinema set to open in Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool
Cinema will show the latest movies for free to children and young people being treated at Alder Hey
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NewsIndie tax relief, streamer levies and IP support all urgently needed, say submissions to UK film committee
The film and TV committee has published its first proposals.
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NewsPathe UK to close film distribution arm to focus on TV; Cameron McCracken to retire (exclusive)
McCracken will still be involved with his long-gestating Alexander McQueen project.
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NewsPaul Ridd named director of Edinburgh International Film Festival
Ridd, presently head of acquisitions at Picturehouse Entertainment, will take up the role in December.
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News‘Ted Lasso’ star Ellie Taylor to host The Big Screen Awards 2023
The ceremony will be held on November 23 at The Brewery in London
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NewsPeter Greenaway talks ‘Lucca Mortis’ starring Dustin Hoffman, living in the Netherlands and his eccentric concerns
Greenaway is being honoured at this week’s IDFA festival in Amsterdam.
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NewsAltitude swoops on Matteo Garrone’s Venice winner ‘Io Capitano’ for UK-Ireland (exclusive)
The drama is Italy’s submission for the international film award at the Oscars.
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NewsGrierson Trust investigating anti-Jewish racism incident at British Documentary Awards
Documentary organisation received several reports of anti-Jewish racism by an individual at its awards
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NewsTallinn premiere ‘Five And A Half Love Stories’ swept up for sales (exclusive)
‘Saltburn’ actor Alison Oliver stars in the Lithuania-Ireland-Latvia co-production.
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NewsLionsgate to release A24 sports drama ‘The Iron Claw’, starring Zac Efron, in the UK and Ireland
‘The Bear’ star Jeremy Allen White and ‘Scrapper’ and ‘The Triangle Of Sadness’ breakout Harris Dickinson also star.
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News‘The Marvels’ opens with £3.5m at UK-Ireland box office; ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ starts strongly
‘The Marvels’ figure is lowest opening for a MCU title since 2011’s ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’.