UK News – Page 200
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News“We will be flexible with windows” says Vue Cinemas’ Tim Richards
Smaller distributors could be the biggest beneficiaries of exhibitors’ newfound flexibility.
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NewsBIFA receives £250,000 in latest round of BFI Audience Fund grants
Audience Fund awards made from May-September total over £700,000.
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News‘Saint Maud’, ‘Yalda’, ‘Honeyland’ opening in key European territories this week
Read about all the leading titles coming to cinemas.
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NewsFocus Features takes world rights on ‘Wolf’ as shooting wraps in Ireland (exclusive)
George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp lead the cast.
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NewsUniversal international marketing head Simon Hewlett to depart next year
Executive expected to stay with the studio until summer 2021, assist in transition.
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NewsNetflix makes further £600,000 donation to Film & TV Charity Covid-19 relief efforts
The streamer previously donated £1m to the charity’s Emergency Relief Fund.
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NewsVertigo Releasing acquires Venice Critics’ Week title ‘Shorta’ for UK & Ireland (exclusive)
The Danish action film deals with police brutality and racial tension.
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NewsPaul Gascoigne documentary ‘Gazza’ wraps in the UK (exclusive)
Screen Star of Tomorrow 2020 Tom Wood produces with Vaughan Sivell, Will Kane.
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NewsUK production on ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ paused after Covid-19 cases
Production in Pinewood suspended for two weeks.
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NewsBafta expands Newcomers initiative to New York
Record 78% of first-year participants are women.
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NewsVideo: Screen’s Stars Of Tomorrow 2020 live in conversation
The 2020 Stars took part in a live webinar with Screen’s Matt Mueller and Fionnuala Halligan.
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NewsBritBox CEO Soumya Sriraman stepping down
New leadership for the service will be announced in the coming weeks.
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NewsUK and Ireland release of ‘Herself’ postponed “until further notice”
Postponement was “due to the new Covid-19 measures in Ireland and the ongoing challenges surrounding the current UK cinema landscape.”
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NewsJames McAvoy, Claire Foy to star in STX remake of 'My Son'
Production set for early November in Scotland.
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NewsComment: Has Cineworld really got no option but to close all its UK and Ireland cinemas?
If the company displayed more “pandemic pragmatism” it could look very different.
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NewsOdeon to open a quarter of UK cinemas at weekend only
The move follows Cineworld’s decision to shutter US and UK venues.
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NewsCineworld confirms “temporary” closure of all UK, US sites from Thursday
127 sites in UK, 536 in the US to close.
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NewsReggie Yates wraps London shoot of ‘Pirates’ after Covid-19 interruption
The pandemic caused shooting to stop three weeks in.
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News‘Eternal Beauty’, ‘Enfant Terrible’, ‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’ opening in key European territories this week
This was the original release weekend for ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ before its Covid-induced delay.
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NewsEngland’s independent cinemas receive £650,000 in pandemic state support
More than 40 cinemas receive first tranche of awards to support venues during virus crisis.