UK News – Page 94
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NewsIDFA award-winner ‘Shabu’ signs UK theatrical distribution deal (exclusive)
The film follows a 14-year-old aspiring musician in a working class Rotterdam community.
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NewsNaqqash Khalid’s ‘In Camera’ scores world sales deal, releases first look (exclusive)
Screen Stars Nabhaan Rizwan, Amir El-Masry star alongside Rory Fleck Byrne.
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NewsBuyers swoop for Indie Sales’ Berlinale titles ‘The Lost Boys’ and ‘Opponent’ (exclusive)
EFM project ‘Maria Montessori’ has also sold robustly.
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NewsBafta reveals membership data, chair calls on industry to step up
Krishnendu Majumdar described a ”shared mission for a more equitable industry”.
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NewsDiane Keaton, Patricia Hodge, Lulu, David Harewood, Boy George to star in Arclight Cannes sales title ‘Arthur’s Whisky’
Principal photography recently wrapped in Walton, England.
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NewsProtagonist Pictures alights UFO comedy ‘Jules’ starring Ben Kingsley (exclusive)
Marc Turtletaub directs, cast also includes Harriet Sansom Harris, Succession’s Zoe Winters and Jane Curtin.
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NewsSundance Film Festival: London sets 2023 line-up, Gregg Araki retrospective
Nicole Holofcener’s ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ will close this year’s festival.
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NewsSignature Entertainment acquires Second World War spy thriller ‘The Partisan’ (exclusive)
Cast includes ‘A Clockwork Orange’ star Malcolm McDowell and Morgane Polański.
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NewsWriters Guild of Great Britain warns UK writers not to work on American shows during strike
Guild warns that WGA will ban writers who strikebreak.
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News‘Harold Fry’ leads new releases at UK-Ireland box office; ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ stays top
Franchise titles continue to dominate, with ‘Big George Foreman’ the second best performing new release.
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NewsBlue Finch Films acquires UK sci-fi horror ’Hostile Dimensions’ (exclusive)
The film was been selected for the Frontières Buyers Showcase in Cannes.
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News‘McQueen’ producer Misfits hires Passion Pictures’ Lizzie Gillett
Gillett has been appointed to the newly-created role of head of documentary at Misfits.
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NewsRocket Science to launch Cannes sales on ‘Cliffhanger’ reboot starring Sylvester Stallone
Ric Roman Waugh to direct, Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film among producers.
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NewsEva Green wins “painful and damaging” UK court battle over collapse of sci-fi film ‘A Patriot’
In a statement Green said she was proud to stand up against “bully-boy tactics”.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Harold Fry’, ‘Polite Society’ vie for bank holiday audiences
Further new releases include ’Big George Foreman’ and ‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’.
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NewsRichard Sharp resigns as BBC chair
Independent report concludes Sharp breached public appointment governance rules.
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NewsChristine Healy steps down as chair of UK’s ScreenSkills HETV council
Healy oversaw £28m of investment into HETV Skills fund in her tenure.
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NewsSean Connery Foundation reveals first £1m grant recipients
This grant aims to fund organisations supporting Scottish filmmakers and producers.
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NewsMubi acquires Cannes Un Certain Regard title ‘How To Have Sex’
Film is the debut from Screen Star of Tomorrow Molly Manning Walker, sold by mk2 Films.
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NewsSony Pictures Television hires Big Talk’s Matthew Justice to head UK and European production operations
Exec will report into SPT’s president of international productions Wayne Garvie.