UK News – Page 206
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NewsJames Schamus: financial models of SVoD giants cannot be sustained
Schamus was speaking today (Oct 12) during a virtual keynote Q&A at the Film London Production Finance Market.
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NewsCharades unveils sales on Zoom-set horror ‘Host’ (exclusive)
Picture which launched on genre platform Shudder in July heads to Sitges this week.
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NewsDogwoof partners with Participant on doc library titles (exclusive)
Dogwoof has closed a deal to handle international TV and digital sales rights to Participant’s feature doc catalogue.
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NewsVue to shut a quarter of UK sites three days a week
From next week, 21 of its 87 sites will be shut Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
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NewsBFI CEO Ben Roberts: film industry needs “whistleblower space” to fight bullying and harassment
“People like the bullying and harassment principles, but they don’t quite know how to call it out.”
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News“We will be flexible with windows” says Vue Cinemas’ Tim Richards
Smaller distributors could be the biggest beneficiaries of exhibitors’ newfound flexibility.
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NewsBIFA receives £250,000 in latest round of BFI Audience Fund grants
Audience Fund awards made from May-September total over £700,000.
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News‘Saint Maud’, ‘Yalda’, ‘Honeyland’ opening in key European territories this week
Read about all the leading titles coming to cinemas.
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NewsFocus Features takes world rights on ‘Wolf’ as shooting wraps in Ireland (exclusive)
George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp lead the cast.
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NewsUniversal international marketing head Simon Hewlett to depart next year
Executive expected to stay with the studio until summer 2021, assist in transition.
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NewsNetflix makes further £600,000 donation to Film & TV Charity Covid-19 relief efforts
The streamer previously donated £1m to the charity’s Emergency Relief Fund.
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NewsVertigo Releasing acquires Venice Critics’ Week title ‘Shorta’ for UK & Ireland (exclusive)
The Danish action film deals with police brutality and racial tension.
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NewsPaul Gascoigne documentary ‘Gazza’ wraps in the UK (exclusive)
Screen Star of Tomorrow 2020 Tom Wood produces with Vaughan Sivell, Will Kane.
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NewsUK production on ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ paused after Covid-19 cases
Production in Pinewood suspended for two weeks.
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NewsBafta expands Newcomers initiative to New York
Record 78% of first-year participants are women.
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NewsVideo: Screen’s Stars Of Tomorrow 2020 live in conversation
The 2020 Stars took part in a live webinar with Screen’s Matt Mueller and Fionnuala Halligan.
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NewsBritBox CEO Soumya Sriraman stepping down
New leadership for the service will be announced in the coming weeks.
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NewsUK and Ireland release of ‘Herself’ postponed “until further notice”
Postponement was “due to the new Covid-19 measures in Ireland and the ongoing challenges surrounding the current UK cinema landscape.”
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NewsJames McAvoy, Claire Foy to star in STX remake of 'My Son'
Production set for early November in Scotland.
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NewsComment: Has Cineworld really got no option but to close all its UK and Ireland cinemas?
If the company displayed more “pandemic pragmatism” it could look very different.