UK News – Page 28
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NewsMaggie Smith dies aged 89
Oscar winner’s credits included ’The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ through to ’Harry Potter’ and ’Downton Abbey’
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ makes anticipated bow
Animation ‘Dragonkeeper’ and Lionsgate horror ‘Never Let Go’ also open.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival sets 2024 Competition juries
Filmmaker Alexandre O. Philipe to head Official Competition jury.
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NewsSailing doc ‘Wind, Tide & Oar’ secures UK & Ireland distribution (exclusive)
Feature doc, directed by Huw Wahl, premiered at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich earlier this year.
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NewsHamish Moseley leaves Netflix director of distribution EMEA role (exclusive)
Moseley departed the streamer earlier this month.
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News‘Boiling Point’ duo to adapt Annie Mac novel ‘The Mess We’re In’
It’s All Made Up Productions secured the rights to the coming-of-age novel set in London.
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NewsCallum Turner, Riley Keough to lead Karim Aїnouz’s ‘Rosebush Pruning’
They replace Josh O’Connor and Kristen Stewart who were previously attached to the project.
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NewsAI Creative Summit programme includes ‘The Last Screenwriter’ filmmaker
Peter Luisi received some backlash for using AI to write his screenplay.
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NewsGlasgow Film Festival selects participants for two talent development programmes
Participants include Ross MacKay with sci-fi comedy ‘The Last Resort’.
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NewsBFI’s Harriet Finney and industry update on progress for the UK indie tax credit
“They’re engaging very quickly,” said Finney at yesterday’s ’Screen Summit 2024: The Future of UK Film’.
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News“You realise how many opportunities are out there,” say producers of impact of UK Global Screen Fund
”The UKGSF is about our outward-looking perspective on the business – this is not about the UK.”
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NewsJoy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s ‘Dreamers’ selected for BFI London Film Festival works-in-progress showcase
The showcase takes place on October 12.
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NewsUK selects ‘Santosh’ as international feature Oscar entry
The UK is the current award holder, with Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’.
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NewsMatthias Schoenaerts cast as villain in Warner Bros/DC Studios’ ‘Supergirl’
Craig Gillespie directing for DC Studios.
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News‘Cleaner’ starring Daisy Ridley picked up for UK-Ireland by Sky (exclusive)
It will be released on Sky Cinema in early 2025.
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NewsBerlinale doc ‘Architecton’ finds UK-Ireland home (exclusive)
Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky directs this meditation on concrete and stone.
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NewsFilm Seekers boards Bolivia-shot ‘Cielo’ for sales (exclusive)
The shoot took place across the high-altitude Altiplano and Yungas regions, near the capital of La Paz.
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NewsCineworld creditors approve aggressive restructuring plan as key landlords object
The judge will rule on whether the plan should be accepted at this week’s ‘Sanction Hearing’
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NewsMargot Robbie, Jacob Elordi to star in Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ for MRC, LuckyChap
Project in pre-production ahead of UK shoot in 2025.
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NewsFinal call for Screen’s ‘The Future of UK Film’ Summit
The one-day conference takes place tomorrow (Sept. 24) at BFI Southbank.