UK News – Page 98
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NewsPeccadillo Pictures picks up ‘The Lost Boys’ and a raft of LGBQT+ titles for UK and Ireland (exclusive)
Further titles include ‘Eismayer’ and ’You Can Live Forever’.
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NewsFormer Amazon exec Georgia Brown to lead UK Production Skills Task Force for screen sector
Over 20 senior representatives from all the major broadcasters, studios and streamers will join the task force.
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NewsStreaming giants set for increased regulation in UK under new government Media Bill
Government legislation outlined by culture secretary Lucy Frazer will modernise the “outdated” 2003 Communications Act.
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NewsRichard Johns and E Elias Merhige team for Promethean Pictures and animal-focused survival story ‘Howl’
Johns and Merhige met working on ‘Shadow Of The Vampire’.
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NewsBlack cinema organisation We Are Parable to expand into UK, international distribution (exclusive)
“There are films out there we can position effectively to our base and achieve significant cut through.”
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NewsHead Gear, Monster Pictures launch New Zealand genre distributor (Yet) Another Monster Company (exclusive)
Production underway on YAMC’s first title ‘Grafted’ from Sasha Rainbow.
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NewsIndustry figures call for “transparency” in bidding process for Edinburgh Filmhouse takeover
Screenwriter Paul Laverty, filmmakers Mark Cousins and Kevin Macdonald and actor Tilda Swinton have weighed in.
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NewsMichael Blyth to step down as senior programmer for BFI London Film Festival, Flare
Programmer has been involved with the festivals for 17 years.
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NewsMichael Winterbottom readies drama series ‘Fall Of The God Of Cars’ about fugitive Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn
Director’s Revolution Films has partnered with Fremantle, Passenger and Anonymous Content on six-parter
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NewsHannes Hirsch’s Berlinale Panorama feature ‘Drifter’ sells to UK and US (exclusive)
Salzgeber has also sold ‘Bones And Names’ and ’Captain Faggatron Saves The Universe’ to various territories
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NewsVue to screen Eurovision Song Contest final live across UK
The contest is taking place in Liverpool.
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NewsCurzon confirms interest in buying rival UK chain Picturehouse Cinemas (exclusive)
Various suitors circling Picturehouse as Cineworld puts its assets up for sale.
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NewsUK-Ire box office preview: ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ hopes to make a killing for Lionsgate
Also opening is ’80 For Brady’, ’Louis Tomlinson: All Of Those Voices’ and ‘A Good Person’
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NewsUK cinemas urged to take action on sustainability
Sustainability was the exclusive topic at the ”Greening The Big Screen Experience” conference hosted by the UK Cinema Association (UKCA).
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NewsUK producers “cautiously optimistic” about aspects of BFI Filmmaking Fund but worried about fall in overall funding
“Ouch,” said one UK independent producer.
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NewsNetflix, BBC, HBO documentary decision-makers on programming around the true crime wave
“We’ve got a massive variety of a global audience – it wouldn’t make sense to cookie-cut.”
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NewsJoanna Hogg’s ‘The Eternal Daughter’ picked up for UK-Ireland
An autumn theatrical release is planned.
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News“You have to put a writer at the centre of it”: Producer Nicola Shindler on the key to her success
Shindler’s credits include ‘It’s A Sin’ and ‘Happy Valley’.
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News‘The Responder’, ‘This Is Going To Hurt’ lead 2023 Bafta TV nominations
Following closely behind, Bad Sisters, The Crown, The English and Slow Horses also received five nominations apiece.
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NewsHorror ‘Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey’ pulled from Hong Kong release
No reason given for last-minute withdrawal but is understood to have fallen foul of censors.