UK News – Page 84
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NewsSignature, CMG close UK deal on Annecy entry 'The Canterville Ghost’ (exclusive)
Producers target autumn release ahead of Halloween.
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NewsKevin Spacey 'drugged man and performed sex act on him', UK court hears
An aspiring actor is the fourth and final complainant to take to the stand.
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NewsFocus acquires international rights to ‘Eileen’ starring Anne Hathaway, Thomasin McKenzie (exclusive)
Drama is second feature from ‘Lady Macbeth’ director William Oldroyd.
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News’Elemental’ debuts with £2.9m at UK-Ireland box office; ‘Indiana Jones 5’ top for second week
Also opening this weekend was ‘Insidious: The Red Door’ which made £2.3m for Sony.
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NewsCeline Song’s ‘Past Lives’ wins Sundance London 2023 audience award
Song accepted the award at London’s Picturehouse Central cinema.
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NewsIn pictures: Sundance Film Festival: London 2023 opening night party
Event was held at Radisson Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Street Hotel in London on July 6.
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NewsUK’s Elstree Studios seeking over £150m for urgent repairs after asbestos found
The local council’s report has stated it could not “afford to continually invest”.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: Disney’s ‘Elemental’ leads openers as Empire closures reduce numbers
Sony starting latest ‘Insidious’ film, Picturehouse has ‘Smoking Causes Coughing’ for independents.
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NewsUK’s Empire Cinemas goes into administration, six sites to close
Sites at Bishop’s Stortford, Catterick Garrison, Sunderland, Swindon, Walthamstow and Wigan ceased trading today.
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News‘Club Zero’, ‘How To Have Sex’, ‘The Old Oak’ among UK Global Screen Fund recipients
13 titles have received funding in the latest round from the £7m per year UK Global Screen Fund.
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NewsIn pictures: Screen UK & Ireland Stars Of Tomorrow 2023 party
The event was held at Home House, London on July 5
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NewsUK’s ScreenSkills CEO Seetha Kumar to step down
Kumar to remain at the training body until the end of 2023.
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NewsEdinburgh film festival one-off edition includes world premiere of ’Chuck Chuck Baby’
A total of 24 feature films, including five world premieres, make up this year’s programme.
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NewsKevin Spacey trial latest: second accuser hoped coming forward would “help” others
The complainant detailed meeting Spacey while drinking in a countryside pub and returning to a property the actor was staying in, where the alleged incident took place.
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NewsAdjani Salmon wins inaugural Menelik Shabazz award at Windrush Caribbean Film Festival
Salmon is a Screen Star of Tomorrow 2022 and the creator of BBC, A24 and Big Deal Films series ‘Dreaming Whilst Black’.
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NewsUK’s Bad Wolf snares New Pictures exec for production post
Emily Russell joins as director of production.
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NewsKevin Spacey trial: first alleged victim says Spacey’s behaviour was “well-known”
Source: WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch / Jolanda Flubacher (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Kevin Spacey The first alleged victim of Kevin Spacey described the US actor as a “slippery, snaky, difficult person” as Spacey’s trial gets underway at London’s Southwark Crown Court, following last week’s opening arguments. Spacey ...
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NewsLuke W Moody named head of UK’s BFI Doc Society Fund (exclusive)
Moody’s previous roles include director of film programming at Sheffield Doc Fest.
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News‘Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny’ tops UK-Ireland box office with mid-range £5.4m start
The Harrison Ford blockbuster dethroned ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’.
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NewsKarlovy Vary competition title ‘Opponent’ scores UK-Ireland distribution deal (exclusive)
‘Opponent’ debuted in Panorama at Berlinale.