UK News – Page 20
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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.
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NewsLGBTQ+ sports documentary ‘Gay Games’ picked up for world sales (exclusive)
Film is currently in production, from Bafta-winning director Cherish Oteka.
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NewsAlain Guiraudie’s ‘Misericordia’ acquired for UK-Ireland distribution (exclusive)
Film will be released theatrically in spring 2025.
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NewsUK trans+ writers lab The DarkRoom unveils inaugural participants (exclusive)
The five-month programme helps develop genre feature projects.
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NewsAmazon Prime Video appoints Europe lead
Andrew Bennett is to relocate to London from the US in an expanded role.
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NewsBBFC report shows most complained-about films of 2023; cinema submissions at 10-year high
Content submitted for cinema classification at a 10-year high.
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NewsUS independent film financier TPC opens London office to work with indie tax credit
Financier cites launch of the Independent Film Tax Credit (IFTC) as one of reasons for opening office.
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NewsBafta actors five times more likely to have attended fee-paying school than UK population, finds report
While 35% of Bafta- nominated actors went to a private school, only 7% of the population attend fee-paying schools.
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NewsBafta introduces forfeiture process for awards in wake of Huw Edwards scandal
The framework will be in place from 2025 onwards.
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NewsNickie Sault launches film and TV production company ‘Class 5’
Class 5 will produce ‘The Gallows Pole’ writer Ben Myers’ debut feature ‘Rare Singles’.
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NewsBenedict Cumberbatch, Rosamund Pike, Anthony Hopkins join Guy Ritchie’s ‘Wife & Dog’ for Black Bear
Production scheduled to begin in the UK in February 2025.
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NewsFirst trailer for ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’
Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson all reprise their roles.
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NewsReally Local Group calls on more support for UK’s indie cinemas amid Catford Mews closure
The cinema’s landlord, Lewisham Council, closed the cinema citing non-payment of rent by the Really Local Group.