UK News – Page 67
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NewsStephen Graham to receive Richard Harris award at 2023 Bifas
Award recognises outstanding contribution by an actor to British film.
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NewsWarner Bros, ‘Barbie’, ‘Aftersun’ lead winners at The Big Screen Awards 2023
Awards took place at The Brewery in London, with Ellie Taylor presenting.
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News“Next year is going to be tough,” says Vue CEO Tim Richards, but 2025 could be “bumper”
“We need more small and medium-sized films,” Richards told the British Screen Forum.
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NewsUK’s Film and TV Charity hardship fund sees post-SAG-AFTRA strike dip in applications
The amount of money being handed out by the fund is still up on this time last year.
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NewsOrganic appoints ITV Studios exec Nick Rylance to senior team (exclusive)
Nick Rylance joins Organic from ITV Studios where he was head of film.
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NewsUK planning VFX film & TV tax credit boost; increases BFC, BFI certification funding
Chancellor to launch “call for evidence” for how to increase the tax credit.
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NewsWhat are the key themes to emerge from the submissions to the UK government film and TV committee?
Hot topics included more support for the public funders, an enhanced tax break for lower-budget productions and streamer interventions.
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NewsThree-quarters of UK film and TV crew consider workplace as unsafe, says survey
The survey was conducted by Bectu in partnership with The Mark Milsome Foundation, on the sixth anniversary of the tragic death of the camera operator.
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NewsMartin Freeman, Germany’s ‘The Empress’ among winners at International Emmys
Martin Freeman won best actor for BBC drama ‘The Responder’
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News‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ scores strong £5.4m start to top UK-Ireland box office
‘The Marvels’ drops significantly on second weekend; ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ holds well.
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News‘All Of Us Strangers’ leads Bifa 2023 craft winners
‘Femme’, ‘The Kitchen’ take two prizes each.
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NewsBFI Filmmaking Fund taps Studiocanal exec for senior production executive post (exclusive)
Ama Ampadu, Louise Ortega, Aoife Hayes, Phoebe Sutherland and Charley Fox all have expanded their remits within the fund.
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News‘Aftersun’, ‘Winners’ take prizes at 2023 Bafta Scotland awards
‘Blue Jean’, ‘My Old School also among awarded films.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ’Hunger Games’ prequel set for widest release of the series
Emerald Fennell’s ‘Saltburn’, Sony horror ‘Thanksgiving’ and Todd Haynes’ ‘May December’ also out this week.
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NewsFrench box office hit ‘The Goldman Case’ secures UK-Ireland theatrical deal (exclusive)
Courtroom drama had UK premiere at BFI London Film Festival.
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NewsUK’s Skills Task Force calls for ScreenSkills transformation, apprenticeship reform and revised funding model
The task force, chaired by former Amazon exec Georgia Brown, has found that more than £100m was committed in 2022 to skills by Task Force member organisations alone.
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NewsUK film and TV organisations urge an end to complacency around responses to sexual harassment allegations
Senior figures from Bectu, the Film and TV Charity and CIISA spoke to academic Anna Bull who has conducted the study into harassment.
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NewsNFTS partners with Sean Connery Foundation, BBC Film on emerging Scottish filmmaker programme
Course fees will be subsidsed by 70% to make the programme as accessible as possible.
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NewsCinema set to open in Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool
Cinema will show the latest movies for free to children and young people being treated at Alder Hey
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NewsIndie tax relief, streamer levies and IP support all urgently needed, say submissions to UK film committee
The film and TV committee has published its first proposals.