UK News – Page 206
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News‘Tenet’ drives 354% boost to UK-Ireland box office
Overall takings were £6.32m, up from the previous weekend’s £1.39m.
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News‘Maudie’ director Aisling Walsh among 27 recipients of Screen Ireland’s Covid fund
‘The Voice’ will enable directors to create a proof-of-concept.
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NewsUK’s Number 9 Films to adapt punk icon Viv Albertine’s memoirs
Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley to develop TV drama alongside ‘Patrick Melrose’ producer Rachael Horovitz.
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NewsAltitude, XYZ board sales for TIFF entry ‘Violation’ (exclusive)
Feminist revenge tale screens at TIFF on September 14.
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News‘Tenet’ opens with impressive £5.3m at UK-Ireland box office
Warner Bros’ espionage thriller, which opened last Wednesday, took £3.27m across the three-day weekend.
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NewsThe films opening in key European territories this weekend: ‘Tenet’, ‘Delete History’, ‘Hope Gap’
With ‘Tenet’ opening in multiple territories, this is a key weekend for European cinemas.
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NewsRepublic sets UK and Ireland theatrical release date for ‘Love Child’ documentary (exclusive)
The film follows an Iranian couple who are forced to flee their country when their affair and child become public.
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NewsVinnie Jones joins ‘Rise Of The Footsoldier: Origins’ (exclusive)
Fifth instalment of the British crime franchise set for release in 2021.
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News‘Tenet’ to test international box office waters
Film not yet dated in severely Covid-hit Latin America.
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NewsFilmart Online sales title ‘Max Cloud’ lands US deal
UK, Australia, Japan, Germany, China remain open.
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NewsMalachi Smyth’s ‘The Score’ starring Johnny Flynn to restart UK shoot (exclusive)
Lydia Wilson joins Flynn, Naomi Ackie and Will Poulter in the cast.
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NewsNew UK distributor Sovereign acquires ‘Song Without A Name’
Award-winning Peruvian drama debuted at Cannes.
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NewsFilm Constellation boards Carlos López Estrada’s ‘Summertime’ ahead of TIFF (exclusive)
The musical from the director of ‘Blindspotting’ was first seen at Sundance.
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NewsFrancis Lee’s ‘Ammonite’ to close BFI London Film Festival
’Ammonite’ is one of 13 films from the LFF programme that will screen in previews across the UK.
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NewsDogwoof picks up international sales on TIFF selection ‘76 Days’ (exclusive)
CAA Media Finance handles North American rights.
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NewsUK film executive Colin Leventhal dies aged 73
Leventhal was a leading figure at the UK’s Channel 4 and a former partner at HAL Films.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office up 28% as more than half of all cinemas now reopen
Exhibitors are preparing for this week’s release of ‘Tenet’.
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NewsDavid Olusoga decries UK TV industry’s “lost generation of talent”
MacTaggart lecturer issues blueprint for keeping hold of BAME talent.
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NewsClio Barnard to direct See-Saw’s ‘The Essex Serpent’ starring Keira Knightley for Apple TV+
See-Saw Films producing for Apple TV+.
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News‘Unhinged’, first new wide release in US since March, grosses $4m in cinemas (update)
Distributor confident of reaching $8m by Thursday, $30m by end of run.