UK News – Page 5
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NewsMolly Manning Walker to direct women’s football series ‘Major Players’ for A24, Channel 4
The UK filmmaker follows up her acclaimed debut ‘How To Have Sex’.
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News‘Karate Kid: Legends’ opens third at UK-Ireland box office; ‘The Salt Path’ scores £1.4m debut
‘Lilo & Stitch’ and ‘Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’ held on the top spots.
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NewsUK’s Picturehouse Cinemas wins legal ruling against Trocadero site landlord
The acrimonious dispute between Picturehouse Cinemas and the landlord at its flagship Trocadero site in central London looks set to continue.
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NewsEdinburgh film festival to close with Irvine Welsh doc ‘Reality Is Not Enough’
Director Paul Sng is known for BIFA award-winner ’Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché’ and ‘Tish’.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ and ‘The Salt Path’ head up new titles
Also out in cinemas: Al Pacino horror ‘The Ritual’ and Sundance’s ‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’.
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NewsRussell Brand pleads not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges
The UK actor and comedian’s trial is scheduled to begin in June, 2026.
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NewsSimon Mein, UK stills photographer including for Mike Leigh films, dies aged 68
Mein worked on every Leigh film since ‘Life Is Sweet’.
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NewsHorror comedy reboot ‘The Toxic Avenger’ starring Peter Dinklage picked up for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: 193 represents sales on the Fantastic Fest premiere.
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NewsAndy Serkis’s Imaginarium developing spy thriller with Korea’s Artist Studio
‘Squid Game’ star Lee Jung-jae leads Artist Studio.
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NewsIreland’s 8% tax incentive uplift for feature films under €20m comes into force
A €1m fund that supports Irish production companies develop a slate of Irish-language projects has also opened.
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NewsBifa selects 30 filmmakers for latest Springboard programme
EXCLUSIVE: Selected filmmakers include Dionne Edwards, Moin Hussain, Christopher Andrews, Adura Onashile.
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NewsArt director and production designer Les Dilley dies aged 84
Dilley won Oscars for ‘Star Wars’ and ’Raiders Of The Lost Ark.’
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NewsHBO finds new Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley for series adaptation
HBO has cast screen newcomers in the roles.
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News‘Lilo & Stitch’ leads UK-Ireland box office with £8m; ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ takes £6.2m
‘Lilo & Stitch’ gives Disney its biggest opening of 2025.
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NewsCannes Jury Prize winner ‘Sirât’ sells widely including to UK-Ireland
Twenty additional territory sales unveiled after prize win.
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NewsUK sales executives report good Cannes business on well-packaged projects
Buyers from Germany and Eastern Europe were active but France, the US and ….Russia, less so.
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NewsHistoric UK cinema Curzon Mayfair to open under landlord’s operation in 2027
Curzon will remain on the premises until January 2026.
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NewsUK post-production house and film equity investor LipSync enters administration
Lipsync confirmed the administration to Screen on Friday.
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NewsVicky Krieps, Christian Friedel join Dostoyevsky story ‘The Idiots’
The Match Factory handles international sales.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Lilo & Stitch’, ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ square off
Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’, Icelandic drama ‘When The Light Breaks’ start out.