UK News – Page 78
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NewsFrench animation ‘The Jungle Bunch World Tour’ swings to the UK and Ireland (exclusive)
A theatrical release is plotted for early 2024.
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NewsUK tax relief claims for high-end TV overtake amounts paid out for film tax relief for first time
HETV claimed £829m against £517m for film, for the tax year ending March 2022.
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NewsFremantle teams with Israel’s IBI Investment House for €150m scripted fund
One of first projects put forward for funding is a biopic of Maria Callas starring Angelina Jolie
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NewsBectu open letter slams UK freelancer working conditions at post facilities
The letter has been sent to over 60 of the UK’s leading post-production facilities.
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NewsDinard 2023 line-up includes ‘The Old Oak’, ‘The Zone Of Interest’, ‘Scrapper’
’Silent Roar’, ‘Shoshana’ and ’How To Have Sex’ will also play at the French seaside festival that spotlights UK and Irish cinema.
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NewsFirst trailer for Screen Star George Jaques’ ‘Black Dog’ ahead of LFF Sutherland Award premiere (exclusive)
Jaques directed the road movie, which he wrote alongside fellow Star Jamie Flatters, who also stars in the film.
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News‘Scrapper’ puts up a fight at UK-Ireland box office as ‘Barbie’, ‘Oppenheimer’ hold top spots
Charlotte Regan’s debut took more than £1,000 per cinema.
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NewsUK’s National Cinema Day to return on September 2 with over 630 venues attached
Day of cut-price tickets “comes hot on the heels of the phenomenal recent success” of Barbenheimer.
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NewsUpcoming Amanda Kernell and Renate Reinsve projects excite industry at Haugesund
The industry programme at the Norwegian festival included a focus on UK projects.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: can ‘Theater Camp’ or ‘The Blackening’ dent ‘Barbie’ dominance?
UK Sundance title ‘Scrapper’ starts out for Picturehouse Entertainment.
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NewsParamount, Disney, Studiocanal execs to participate in UK’s Distributor Slate Days
The two-day event will take place September 21-22 at The Ritzy in London’s Brixton
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NewsOdeon Cinemas Group appoints permanent new managing director for UK-Ireland
Suzie Welch takes on the role having been interim MD since March.
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NewsEdinburgh Film Festival attracts 10,000 attendees to six-day event
The compact programme saw 71% of screenings sell out.
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NewsNetflix commissions ‘Einstein and The Bomb’ feature documentary, John Boyega-narrated WWII series
BBC Studios is producing ‘Einstein and The Bomb’.
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News‘Barbie’ becomes most successful film of all time in Ireland with €8.9m box office
Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster has overtaken previous record-holder ‘Avatar’.
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NewsProduction underway on ‘Cycling For Love’ from ‘Virunga’ filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel (exclusive)
UK’s Grain Media, Sweden’s Kalabati Pictures are producing the film.
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NewsMark Rylance, Hayley Atwell, David Harewood among actors to back Equity’s ‘Green Rider’ plan
The contracts would include requesting productions put sustainable practices in place
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NewsUK film and TV disruption from US strikes is “necessary” to our own fight, says Equity
Joining webinar, SAG-AFTRA’s chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland acknowledges hardships faced by UK crews.
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NewsWendy Ide to become chief film critic at UK’s The Observer
Ide will continue to write reviews for Screen International.
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News‘Blue Beetle’ debuts with £1.2m at UK-Ire box office; ‘Barbie’ enters all-time top 10; ‘Oppenheimer’ tops £50m
Universal family comedy ‘Strays’ opened with £509,015.