UK News – Page 6
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NewsBifa breakthrough performance longlist includes ‘Lollipop’, ‘Brides’ actors
EXCLUSIVE: List also features performers from ‘The Son And The Sea’, ‘LifeHack’.
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NewsDaniel Day-Lewis says critical response to films “matters hugely to us”
Day-Lewis gave a Screen Talk as part of the BFI London Film Festival.
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NewsUK selects ‘My Father’s Shadow’ as international feature Oscar entry
Film was developed by BBC Film and backed by BBC Film and BFI.
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NewsUK-Asia production company Java Road hires former Film4 executive
Java Road is a partnership between Lawrence Osborne, Nicholas Simon and Mike Goodridge.
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NewsPlan B producers discuss Europe expansion, Trump’s film tariff threat and ‘H Is For Hawk’
“It felt like the right moment,” Jeremy Kleiner said of opening London office.
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News‘Tron: Ares’ tops UK-Ireland box office with £1.8m; UK drama ‘I Swear’ grosses £1.1m
‘One Battle After Another’ up to £8.3m.
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News‘The Choral’ director Nicholas Hytner says there is a “limit” to what UK industry can do to support working-class talent
Additionally producer Kevin Loader advocated for cashflowing the IFTC and Ralph Fiennes discussed prep.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘I Swear’ and ‘Tron: Ares’ lead new releases
Further new titles include horror ‘Good Boy’ and drama ‘Plainclothes’.
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NewsSuper 8 documentary ‘Super Nature’ acquired for UK-Ireland release before LFF premiere
EXCLUSIVE: Film has world premiere at BFI London Film Festival on Sunday October 12.
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News‘Conclave’ producer Tessa Ross backs call for UK government to cashflow indie tax credit
Ross also spoke passionately about the need for indie producers to have space to work communally.
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NewsRian Johnson, Daniel Craig talk making ‘Knives Out 3’ in the UK, future instalments
“The crews here are fantastic,” said the director.
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NewsThe road ahead for UK producers, Trump tariffs and Bafta rule changes explained - The Screen Podcast
The team also discussed another Screen Summit talking point – where have all the UK horror films gone?
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NewsBFI London Film Festival 2025 opens on track to be “most popular edition of the festival yet”
Ben Roberts, Kristy Matheson and the cast and filmmakers of ’Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ took to the Royal Festival Hall stage.
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NewsFremantle names head of AI label Imaginae Studios
James Duffen joins as CEO with brief to leverage AI tools to drive production innovation.
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NewsTaron Egerton to star in UK comedy thriller ‘Everybody Wants To F*ck Me’ for Film4, Studiocanal, Lucky Chap
Studiocanal to launch sales at AFM in Los Angeles next month.
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NewsAltitude’s Will Clarke calls for more feel-good UK comedies, says there is money in the market
“We can make British content, but with scale and ambition,” said Clarke at the PFM.
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NewsLFF closing title ‘100 Nights Of Hero’ acquired for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: Emma Corrin, Felicity Jones, Charli XCX, Maika Monroe among starry cast.
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NewsThree major Bollywood features set to shoot in UK for Yash Raj Films
The BFI and Pact have both signed memorandum of understandings with Indian screen bodies.
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News‘Good Boy’ starring Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough sells to UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: A theatrical release is planned for early next year.