UK News – Page 3
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NewsBrendan Canty’s ‘Christy’, ‘Hamnet’ key winners at Irish Film and Television Academy awards
The awards took place on February 20.
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NewsTime’s Up UK, Black Beauty Roster launch certification plan to tackle on-set hair and make-up discrimination
Lashana Lynch, Naomie Harris and Barbara Broccoli are among the industry names supporting the initiative.
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NewsBuilding a hit: how ‘The Housemaid’ cleaned up for Lionsgate UK
“The audience for female-skewing films is underserved,” says head of motion picture group Marie-Claire Benson.
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NewsBFI-backed Gatecrashers lab for working-class genre writers unveils cohort
EXCLUSIVE: ’What It Feels Like For A Girl’ star Hannah Frances Therese Jones, ’High Wire’ director Calif Chong both taking part.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Cold Storage’ and ‘The Moment’ lead new releases
Bafta nominees ‘Wasteman’ and ‘The Secret Agent’ are also out in cinemas.
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News‘Madfabulous’ among world premieres at BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2026
Russell T Davies will give this year’s BFI Flare Screen Talk.
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NewsThree-quarters of UK workers considering leaving the film and TV industry
The Film and TV Charity’s report has sounded alarm over worsening financial pressures facing worker.
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NewsNetflix moves seven productions from UK to New Jersey
”[I’ve been] working with the state of New Jersey to create an incentive that competes with that UK incentive and brings production home,” Ted Sarandos told a US Senate committee earlier this month.
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NewsUK’s Castle Cinema to operate former Catford Mews venue
An operator for a second cinema in the south London borough of Lewisham has also been found.
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News‘Wuthering Heights’ soars at UK-Ireland box office with £7.6m opening weekend
Emerald Fennell’s Emily Bronte adaptation tops openings of ‘Titanic’, ‘Downton Abbey’, ‘La La Land’.
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NewsTom Burke, Eve Hewson to star in untitled Lenny Abrahamson film
Set in the 1970s, filming is due to begin in March.
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NewsBFI documentary funding receives 20% boost
EXCLUSIVE: The BFI is investing £7.2m of National Lottery funding from 2026-29.
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News‘How To Have Sex’ actress Daisy Jelley stars in UK independent horror ‘Hoarder’
EXCLUSIVE: Cast also includes Paul Casar, Annabelle Lanyon & ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ actor David Sterne.
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NewsCanadian thriller ‘The Last Assassins’ locks in key deals
EXCLUSIVE: The thriller has sold to North America and UK-Ireland.
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NewsNascent UK production company Public Pictures on elevated genre slate and building an industry hub
The company has invested in a London creative hub to encourage collaboration with fellow UK producers.
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NewsBêtes Sauvages, Lunar Pictures producers among Matchmakers Global South lab cohort
EXCLUSIVE: Lab includes 10 features from UK producers looking for international partners in Global South.
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NewsUK-Nigeria financier Amplify Capital talks supporting African and diaspora filmmaking
Amplify Capital was founded by Ademola Elebute in 2023, and was a backer of Sundance and Berlin premiere ‘Lady’.
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NewsAlief closes deals on Toronto, Tallinn, Fantasia titles
Toronto title ’Kanaval’, Tallinn prize winner ’Mongrels’ and Fantasia winner ’Nesting’ have all sold.
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News“Chips” Hardy to write ‘The English Warrior’ for Swiss-UK outfit Jovera Pictures
EXCLUSIVE: “Chips” Hardy is the screenwriter father of Tom Hardy.
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NewsSteve Toussaint, Sanaa Lathan to lead C.J. Obasi’s psychological drama ‘A Blue Butterfly’
EXCLUSIVE: Film will start production next month in UK and Rwanda.