UK News – Page 24
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NewsStephen Graham, Studiocanal-backed Birdie Pictures launch competition for working-class UK TV writers (exclusive)
The initiative will award the winning writer £5,000, and help them obtain an agent.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: how will ‘The Marvels’ compare to recent MCU titles?
Palme d’Or winner ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ opens in 160 cinemas.
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NewsAwards season kicks into gear as SAG-AFTRA strike ends
Paul Mescal, Andrew Scott and Julianne Moore are among the stars hitting the trail soon
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NewsGrierson British Documentary Awards honour ‘All That Breathes’, ‘Moonage Daydream’
Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes took home the best cinema documentary prize
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NewsBlumhouse horror ‘Speak No Evil’ with James McAvoy resumes UK shoot (exclusive)
The horror film shut down production in July with five days left of filming.
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NewsBFI & Chanel Filmmaker Awards selects three recipients of £20,000 prizes
The three winners receive £20,000 each.
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NewsFirst UK industry reactions to SAG-AFTRA agreement: “This news is a huge relief”
Pact, Bectu, Equity, the BFC and the PGGB have all celebrated the tentative agreement between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP.
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NewsJeanie Finlay’s Tribeca title ‘Your Fat Friend’ secures international sales deal (exclusive)
The UK documentary charts the rise of Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger to best-selling author.
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NewsCurzon names Edward Fletcher as CEO, overseeing exhibition and distribution
Fletcher co-founded Soda Pictures in 2002.
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NewsProduction underway on UK adventure comedy ‘Land Of Legend’ starring Rupert Everett, Tamsin Greig (exclusive)
Bifa nominee Harry Gilby leads the cast.
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NewsUK’s Meerkat Movies cinema-going scheme extended for five more years
The two-for-one offer is now the longest-running UK cinema ticket promotion ever.
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NewsKeri Collins’ ‘Super Gran’ tops 2023 Brit List of unproduced screenplays
Henry Blake and Xiao Tang’s ’The Golden Radiance Of A Beetle’ also made the list
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NewsUK and Spain emerge as the leading European production hubs for global streamers
However, only 9% of fiction titles produced in Europe were commissioned by global streamers says European Audiovisual Observatory report.
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NewsPlans for 1.75m ft2 film and TV studio in UK’s Bedfordshire approved
Planning application was submitted last year.
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News'Trolls Band Together' retakes UK-Ireland box office lead; 'How To Have Sex' opens with £100,000
Mubi launched ‘How To Have Sex’ on 150 sites.
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NewsUK’s Raindance Film Festival unveils winners; new dates in June 2024
Kit Vincent’s debut ‘Red Herring’ also won best UK feature
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘How To Have Sex’, ‘Bottoms’, ‘The Royal Hotel’ lead new openers
Studiocanal has Samuel Beckett biopic ‘Dance First’.
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NewsZygi Kamasa launches UK theatrical distributor True Brit Entertainment exclusively for British films & TV
Kamasa pledges to co-finance over $150m of independent UK projects in three years.
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NewsScreen Ireland selects 12 writers for Stage to Screen talent development scheme
12 writers with 10 projects were selected from 120 applicants.
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NewsAltitude Film Sales boards high-concept thriller ‘Believer’
A first-look picture of the film now in post has also been released.