UK News – Page 56
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NewsBerlin title ‘My Favourite Cake’ secures UK-Ireland deal (exclusive)
Curzon Film has picked up the Iranian tragicomedy from Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeh.
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NewsLFF winner ‘Bye Bye Tiberias’ secures UK-Ireland deal (exclusive)
Lina Soulem’s ’Bye Bye Tiberias’ was also Palestine’s entry to the Oscars.
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NewsPrime Video’s ‘Blade Runner 2099’ series confirms June shoot in Prague
The series had been planning to shoot at Northern Ireland’s Belfast Harbour Studios before the US strikes postponed the shoot.
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NewsPressure mounts for UK indie tax relief as Film4, BBC Film bosses talk to film committee
Ollie Madden, Eva Yates, Rebecca O’Brien and James Hawes were taking part in Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee.
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NewsGender equity in UK film another 60 years away - but it could be sooner in Germany
The Gender Equity Policy (GEP) Analysis project looked at who holds key creative positions in the UK, German and Canadian industries.
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NewsSam Mendes to direct feature films about each of The Beatles for Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment will finance and distribute the films with full theatrical windows in 2027.
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News‘Peaky Blinders’, ‘Outlander’ stars launch UK production company Just John Films with first projects (exclusive)
Kate Phillips, Amber Anderson and Rosie Day all have extensive film and TV credits.
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News‘Bob Marley: One Love’ tops UK-Ire box office with £4.2m; ‘Madame Web’ opens third
’Madame Web’ debuted on £1.3m.
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NewsBafta taking YouTuber stage invasion during ‘Oppenheimer’ win “very seriously”
The social media prankster is believed to have previously infiltrated other awards ceremonies.
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NewsTrue Brit Entertainment snaps up UK rights to Morgan Matthews’s ‘500 Miles’ (exclusive)
Road movie starring Bill Nighy and Roman Griffin Davis is being sold by Beta Cinema
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NewsAsif Kapadia to serve up Roger Federer documentary for Prime Video
The untitled film will chronicle the final 12 days of Federer’s tennis career.
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NewsUK producer David P Kelly joins Sergei Paradjanov doc hybrid
Director Zara Jian shooting material at Berlinale for ’I Will Revenge This World With Love’.
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NewsUK sales and distribution venture Blue Eyes Film opens up
Titles on the company’s sales slate include ’Miss The Kiss’, starring John Hannah, Martin Kemp, Sadie Frost and Patsy Kensit, plus heist feature ’The Last Tandem In Paris’, with Laëtitia Eïdo, Will Young and Michelle Collins attached.
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NewsTVCO lights up UK sexual surrogacy drama ‘Embers’ (exclusive)
Feature filmmaking debut of UK actor Christian Cooke.
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NewsBaftas 2024 speeches: UK film investment, ongoing conflicts and “Oppenhomies”
Bafta fellowship recipient Samantha Morton said the government is “foolish” to not invest more in UK film
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NewsKaleidoscope takes on six titles for EFM sales including ‘Defoe’ (exclusive)
‘The Lie’, ‘One Night In Millstreet’ among other new pickups.
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News‘Love Lies Bleeding’ star Kristen Stewart updates on Susan Sontag project, praises new era for queer cinema
Stewart was talking at a press conference ahead of a Berlinale Special Gala screening of ’Love Lies Bleeding’.
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News‘The Walk’ from ‘Honeyland’ director acquired for world sales (exclusive)
Film is produced by ‘Virunga’, ‘The White Helmets’ producers Grain Media.
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NewsPsychological thriller ‘Wake’ lands for UK and US (exclusive)
Further deals have been closed in Canada, Latin America, CIS/Baltics and Portugal.
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NewsKazakh war epic trilogy draws in buyers for Jinga Films (exclusive)
UK sales outfit Jinga Films has sold its trilogy of Kazakh historical war epics in multiple territories.