UK News – Page 96
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NewsFilm and TV Production Restart scheme boosted UK economy by £2.3bn
More than 100,000 jobs for cast and crew were supported and 48,500 full-time jobs were created by the scheme.
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News‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ scores £7.6m second weekend to dominate UK-Ireland box office
Easter holidays boost takings of ’Mummies’, ‘Puss In Boots’; ‘Rye Lane’ tops £1m.
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NewsAmazon’s Martin Backlund takes up role of managing director for Prime Video Nordics
Backlund previously held the post of head of content for Prime Video UK and Nordics.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: can Universal’s Dracula comedy ‘Renfield’ bite into the top five?
Also out this weekend: Sony has anime fantasy ’Suzume’ and Paramount action thriller ‘Assassin Club’.
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NewsUK films and filmmakers enjoy robust presence in 2023 Cannes Official Selection
Titles include Ken Loach’s ‘The Old Oak’ and Molly Manning Walker’s ‘How To Have Sex’.
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NewsReclaim The Frame, Home, Watershed among recipients of BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund
Seventeen projects are to receive awards, totalling £6.5m.
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NewsWriters’ Guild of Great Britain backs US writers’ guild strike and urges solidarity
The WGGB is advising its membership not to work on projects within the jurisdiction of the WGA during the strike.
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NewsUK’s Everyman sees admissions rise 70% in 2022, well ahead of national average
Admissions totalled 3.4m, compared to 2m in 2021.
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NewsFirst look at Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode in ‘Freud’s Last Session’
WestEnd Films and CAA Media Finance are selling the film.
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News‘Super Mario Bros: The Movie’ races to the top of UK-Ireland box office
Further new releases to make the top five include ‘Air’ and ’The Pope’s Exorcist’.
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NewsLucasfilm lines up trio of new ‘Star Wars’ films, trailblazing Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to direct Daisy Ridley
James Mangold, Dave Filoni also set to direct.
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NewsShudder, Altitude Film Sales strike multi-territory deal on Colombia-set survival thriller ‘Quicksand’
English-language film shot entirely in Bogota, Colombia.
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NewsNorman Reynolds, Oscar and Bafta winning UK production designer, dies aged 89
Reynolds won an Oscar and Bafta for his work on 1981’s ’Raiders Of The Lost Ark’ and an Oscar for 1977’s ’Star Wars: A New Hope’.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ smashes animation record
Busy week sees 19 releases, including Ben Affleck’s ‘Air’, and ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’.
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NewsThe Writers Lab to run first combined UK and European programme (exclusive)
Advisors and guests include ’Succession’ writer Susan Soon He Stanton and ’Call My Agent!’ star Camille Cottin.
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NewsNetflix and Creative UK’s debut filmmaking scheme Breakout unveils first projects (exclusive)
The six teams each received £30,000 of development funding.
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NewsDamian Jones, Emily Morgan among UK producers taking part in BFI, CNC co-production meetings
Further producers include Nikki Parrott and Tom Wood.
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NewsGareth Ellis-Unwin to step down from ScreenSkills; reflects on proudest moments, greatest challenges in the sector (exclusive)
Ellis-Unwin is to return to full-time producing having held the post of head of film and animation at ScreenSkills since 2017.
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News‘The Offing’ with Helena Bonham Carter scores joint Curzon, Cineart, Madman deal
Film is lined up for production later this year.
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News‘A Deal With The Universe’ producer Loran Dunn awarded £15,000 Simon Relph Bursary (exclusive)
Dunn was a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2017