UK News – Page 135
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NewsBen Stephenson leaves Bad Robot to launch transatlantic drama label with ITV Studios
Former BBC drama boss leaves JJ Abram’s Bad Robot after seven years.
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News‘Stranger Things’ star Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk to direct horror comedy for 30West
’Hell Of A Summer’ based on original screenplay by Wolfhard and Bryk.
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NewsUK’s Shinfield Studios secures £261m for sound stage construction plans near Reading
The new complex is situated at the Thames Valley Science Park near Reading.
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NewsScreen Stars Of Tomorrow 2022 photo shoot: behind-the-scenes video
The stars were filmed at London’s BFI Southbank in June.
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News‘Squid Game’, ‘The Suicide Squad’ top BBFC’s 2021 complaints list
The BBFC has revealed its most complained about titles in its annual report.
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NewsBBC breaks £1bn savings target as TV spend rebounds
Total content spend rose 17% year-on-year to £2.95bn.
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NewsJames Franco signs to star in Bille August’s drama ‘Me, You’
Principal photography is set to take place on the Italian island of Ischia from September.
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NewsJames Bond theme composer Monty Norman dies aged 94
His other film score credits include the Hammer film The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll and Bob Hope’s Call Me Bwana.
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News‘Thor: Love And Thunder’ opens with £9.1m at UK-Ireland box office after scorching weekend
Marvel sequel knocked ‘Minions: The Rise Of Gru’ off the number one spot.
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NewsUK performing arts union Equity publishes guidance to combat “bullying and over-reaching” NDAs
Harvey Weinstein used NDAs against women he had attacked.
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NewsIn pictures: Screen UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow 2022 party
It was held at The Groucho Club in London.
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NewsBlue Finch Films closes deals on ‘Deadstream’, ‘The Beta Test’ and ‘Barbarians’ (exclusive)
The deals have been finalised off the back of Cannes.
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NewsElspeth Tavares, The Business of Film founder and former Screen exec, dies after short illness
Trailblazing publishing executive was a former managing director of Screen International
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: can ‘Thor: Love And Thunder’ defeat ‘Minions: The Rise Of Gru’?
New releases this weekend include ‘Brian And Charles’ and Julian Assange documentary ‘Ithaka’.
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NewsUS Academy launches programme for Black UK film composers
The initiative is intended to foster broader representation in film composition
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NewsUK culture minister Julia Lopez resigns as culture secretary, Nadine Dorries stays in post
Lopez been a key figure in the Channel 4 privatisation process.
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NewsScreen Star of Tomorrow Yasmin Monet Prince and Tara Fitzgerald to star in ‘Portraits Of Dangerous Women’
The shoot is underway in Sussex and Surrey.
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NewsEthnic, economic and geographical inequality rife in UK cinema exhibition workforce, says ICO report (exclusive)
The Independent Cinema Office and The Bridge Group today (July 6) published the report, titled ’The UK Film Exhibition Sector Workforce Survey’.
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NewsBankside Films scores slew of deals on Cannes slate (exclusive)
The deals include on titles ‘Talk To Me’, ‘Swimming Home’ and ‘Raised Eyebrows’
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NewsBritish Independent Film Awards removes gender in acting categories
Further changes include introducing joint lead and ensemble performance categories.