UK News – Page 38
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NewsWhat does the UK film & TV industry want from the new Labour government?
Working relationship with Europe, longer-term investment and exhibition support are all issues.
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NewsCineworld reportedly looking to close up to 25 UK cinemas
Other operators such as Vue could step in.
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NewsUK’s Metis Films acquires Berlin title ’Memories Of A Burning Body’ (exclusive)
Ben Metcalf’s firm is looking for films from script stage through to completed titles.
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NewsEdinburgh film festival to close with girl bands documentary ‘Since Yesterday’ (exclusive)
The film is co-directed by Carla J. Easton and Blair Young
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NewsFox’s free streaming service Tubi expands to the UK with 20,000 films and TV series
Platform’s 20,000-strong content library to join Pluto TV and Amazon Freevee in ad-supported space.
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NewsDaniel Bruhl to direct Felix Kammerer in tennis film ‘Break’ for The Ink Factory
‘All Quiet…’ producers Amusement Park, Edward Berger will produce the film.
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NewsAlternative options emerge for Picturehouse cinemas amid Cineworld restructuring
Indvidual sites are being run on behalf of local councils to serve local communities.
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NewsSteve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’, starring Saoirse Ronan and Harris Dickinson, to open BFI London Film Festival
The Apple Original feature stars Saoirse Ronan and Harris Dickinson and is set during the Second World War.
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News‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ makes strong start at UK-Ireland box office; ‘Kalki 2898 AD’ opens well
‘Kalki’ took over £1,000-per-cinema, opening with more than ‘RRR’.
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NewsUK producers launch BFI-supported programme for diverse action and thriller writers
The Residency is run by Story Compound and Greenacre Films.
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NewsMia Hansen-Løve to direct biopic of pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft
If Love Should Die will shoot next year in the UK, France, Scandinavia and Portugal.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ makes a noise in 660 cinemas
‘Kalki 2898 AD’ receives widest-ever release for an Indian film.
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NewsUK filming cranks up as ‘The Thursday Murder Club’, ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ start shooting
Also in production is ’Knives Out 3’, ‘Jurassic World 4’ and ‘The Roses’ starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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NewsMark Cousins’ ‘A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things’ scores UK-Ireland deal (exclusive)
Film plays in the Crystal Globe competition in Karlovy Vary.
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NewsHBO boards ‘Baby Reindeer’ creator Richard Gadd’s next series ‘Lions’
HBO will co-produce the six-episode drama series with BBC.
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NewsScreen UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow 2024: digital edition
Screen’s latest edition celebrates the 2024 UK and Ireland Stars of Tomorrow, and features interviews with each Star, one-to-ones with established industry talent, and a round-up of the hot projects from previous Stars of Tomorrow.
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NewsRaindance film festival winners include Korean debut ‘Sleep’, ‘The Strangers’ Case’
‘Dog War’, a documentary about dog meat farms, wins Spirit of Raindance award.
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NewsAltitude sells blur documentary and concert film around the world (exclusive)
Altitude will release the doc in July and the concert film in September, in UK-Ireland.
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NewsUK’s Film and TV Charity launch fourth Looking Glass survey about mental health and wellbeing
The survey is aimed at all freelance workers and permanent employees.
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NewsNational Film and Television School raises £525,000 at fundraising gala
NFTS says the total is a record amount, which will support scholarships and bursaries.