UK News – Page 9
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NewsFormer Channel 4 head backs idea for combined public service broadcaster streaming platform
Alex Mahon said combining distributor power is “the answer”.
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News“There’s been a huge gold rush”: video game IP hot property in Hollywood, say experts at Cannes UK Pavilion
Producers from the UK and New Zealand discussed finding the right IP for cross-media adaptations.
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News‘Nirvanna: The Band, The Show, The Movie’ acquired for UK-Ireland distribution
EXCLUSIVE: Film will release in cinemas on July 3.
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NewsWhich films are in the running for the 2026 Venice Film Festival?
The Adventures Of Cliff Booth, Wild Horse Nine, A Woman Unknown, Being Heumann tipped for Lido bows.
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News‘Michael’ reclaims UK-Ireland box office crown from ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’
‘The Christophers’ scores biggest opening ever for Picturehouse Entertainment.
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News‘Rise Of The Footsoldier: Retribution’ locks in key international deals
EXCLUSIVE: Carnaby International Sales and Distribution is selling the project at Cannes.
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NewsKoreeda’s Bunbuku teams with Johnny Depp’s IN.2 Film on Kohki Hasei’s ‘Kutheran’
EXCLUSIVE: The story follows a young woman on Okinawa who risks her dream to help a migrant worker.
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NewsMia Bays to launch Dogma UK programme
EXCLUSIVE: Bays will work with Sigma Films producer Gillian Berrie.
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NewsUK comedy ‘Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint’ unwraps UK-Ireland deal
EXCLUSIVE: A first look image has been unveiled.
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NewsSee-Saw Films and Entourage Ventures enter $50m slate financing partnership
Entourage Ventures will invest up to $50m in equity across a slate of future See-Saw feature films over the next three years.
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News‘A Town In Nova Scotia’ starring Bill Nighy sells to UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: Babak Jalali’s first film since ‘Fremont’ also stars Makram J Khoury.
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NewsIrish producer David Collins on Cannes Critics’ Week selection ‘Tin Castle’ and the secret to a long career
‘Tin Castle’ is directed by French-Irish filmmaker Alexander Murphy, and sold by Films Boutique.
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NewsDirectors’ Fortnight’s ‘Clarissa’ filmmakers on their next feature and the future of Nigerian cinema
Arie and Chuko Esiri have co-directed a modern-day adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s ’Mrs Dalloway’.
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News“Hunger for IP-driven material can seem overwhelming”: producers to discuss adaptations at Cannes UK Pavilion
Speakers include Element Pictures’ Chelsea Morgan Hoffman, Good Gate Media’s John Giwa-Amu and Fumes and Piki Films’ Carthew Neal.
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NewsUK Global Screen Fund head reveals details of £100,000 minimum guarantee funds for sales agents
”It will be a competitive application process,” said Denitsa Yordanova.
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NewsUK producer Tracy O’Riordan on ’I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’, rallying for arts funding and future projects
O’Riordan is attending Cannes with Clio Barnard’s Directors’ Fortnight title, ‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’.
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NewsMaxine Peake, Gemma Jones to star in Altitude’s ‘The Bright Side Running Club’
EXCLUSIVE: The drama is the first film to be supported by Norfolk Screen’s regional incentive.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: Universal horror ‘Obsession’ stalks 487 cinemas
Several studios have re-releases and Picturehouse launches ‘The Christophers’.
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News“UK sales companies have become more aggressive," say UK execs of securing buzzy local projects for Cannes
Buzzy UK projects include Cornerstone’s ’A Waiter In Paris’, Bankside’s ’Ceasefire’ and Altitude’s ‘Mars Express’.
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News‘Deployed: Colombia’ to be first adaptation in series of Andy McNab’s Liam Scott novels
EXCLUSIVE: MasonMediaMatrix producing, Circus Studios handling sales.