UK News – Page 229
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NewsScreen Talks: BFI CEO Ben Roberts to speak on UK industry support in live Q&A
Ben Roberts will be in conversation with editor Matt Mueller in this episode of Screen Talks on Tuesday April 28 at 16.30 BST.
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NewsTV sales professionals talk lessons learned from virtual markets
“It’s not enough to simply put the shows online.”
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NewsMubi, Music Box partner on US preview of Pablo Larraín’s ‘Ema’ (exclusive)
Film will not receive UK theatrical release due to pandemic.
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NewsSundance horror ‘Scare Me’ lands at MPI Media Group for international sales (exclusive)
Cabin-in-the-woods story Josh Ruben, Aya Cash, Chris Redd.
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NewsUrgent appeal after the UK’s Covid-19 relief fund falls £2m short
Nearly 3,000 people from the film and television industries have applied for financial aid.
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NewsWest Midlands creative sector secures £2m investment
The industry body has been awarded £1million in National Lottery money through the BFI’s National Cluster Growth Fund.
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NewsUK anthology film ‘The Uncertain Kingdom’ switches to online release (exclusive)
The project will play as two feature-length volumes.
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NewsEdinburgh International Film Festival development programme moves online with six projects (exclusive)
Story editor Kate Leys will head up the programme.
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News£250m UK film and TV studio development in Kent given greenlight
The site is set to launch early 2022, with Amazon and Netflix showing an interest in the studios.
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NewsWaZabi Films takes sales rights to “anti” rom-com 'Spinster' (exclusive)
Vertical Entertainment to release in US and UK, Game Theory in Canada.
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NewsBFI Vision Awards: ‘Lady Macbeth’, ‘God’s Own Country’ producers among recipients
20 producers/producer teams will receive £2m across two years.
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NewsNetflix picks up 'Enola Holmes' starring Millie Bobby Brown from 'Stranger Things'
Sam Claflin, Fiona Shaw, Susan Wokoma, Henry Cavill, Helena Bonham Carter among cast.
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NewsSubmissions open for Screen Stars of Tomorrow 2020
Nominations will close in one month’s time on May 21.
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NewsSafy Nebbou’s ‘Who You Think I Am’ retains Curzon streaming lead
‘Portrait Of A Lady On Fire’ leads MUBI chart.
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NewsCharades seals fresh deals on ‘Swallow’ as title gets VoD boost in the US (exclusive)
Indie title topped the US box office chart in April thanks to drive-in cinema screening.
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NewsScreen Scotland hires duo to key development roles
Sambrooke Scott was previously manager of Film Hub Scotland.
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NewsParkland Entertainment reshuffles UK theatrical releases, acquires three new films (exclusive)
It is also putting three planned theatrical releases on hold until later in 2020.
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NewsUK ‘Resident Evil’ stuntwoman left with life-changing injuries wins legal challenge
Olivia Jackson was injured while shooting ‘Resident Evil: The Final Chapter’ in 2015.
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NewsAlarm bells ring for UK freelancers after last-minute update
HMRC fund will not support anyone on fixed-term contracts ended before their ‘natural conclusion’.
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NewsFormer BBC Drama Studios producer Maggie Boden joins The Ink Factory
Boden appointed director of development at the outfit behind ‘Fighting With My Family’ and ‘The Little Drummer Girl’.