UK News – Page 6
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NewsTributes paid to “transgressive rebel” Brian Robinson, BFI Flare stalwart, who has died aged 67
Ben Roberts, Tricia Tuttle and Briony Hanson among those who paid tribute.
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NewsAlex Gibney’s Jigsaw partners with Hillary Clinton’s HiddenLight
EXCLUSIVE: Co-production agreement will see Jigsaw provide physical production for HiddenLight projects.
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NewsGavin Leatherwood joins ‘It Happened One Summer’ with filming underway in New York
The film is adapted from Tessa Bailey’s BookTok hit.
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NewsUK filmmaker Justin Hardy dies aged 61
His death comes just weeks before the premiere of his latest film ‘Wrath Of The Gods’.
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News‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ dominates UK-Ireland box office with £23.5m opening weekend
‘Brand New Day’ is fourth-biggest weekend opening ever; ‘The Odyssey’ crosses £50m.
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NewsHow a Spanish-US producing team is betting on a bilingual production model
Festival winner Face Love is being sold as separate English- and Spanish-language versions.
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NewsFremantle names Katie O’Connell Marsh as CEO of global scripted division
O’Connell Marsh was previously CEO of Platform One Media and Gaumont Television.
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NewsFfilm Cymru Wales launches ScreenSkills-backed Future Producers programme
The programme will run alongside the Eave Producers Workshop, which comes to Cardiff in October.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ swings into 716 cinemas for Sony
Can the superhero film topple Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’?
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NewsJulie Delpy, Takehiro Hira, Emma D’Arcy to star in Sonoya Mizuno’s ‘Stages’ for A24, Focus
Production is underway in the UK; Kathryn Hunter and Kate Dickie are also in the cast.
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NewsTributes paid to British producer Timothy Burrill who has died aged 95
Burrill was a former Bafta chair and worked on films including ‘Superman’, ‘Chariots Of Fire’ and ‘The Pianist’
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NewsFocus acquires ‘Elsinore’ starring Andrew Scott, Olivia Colman
True-life story follows actor Ian Charleson’s triumphant final stage performance.
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NewsUK producers offer verdict on Isabel Davis’s BFI Filmmaking Funds director appointment
Screen Scotland executive director Davis takes over the role in October.
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NewsManchester Animation Festival launches BFI-backed animation development lab
EXCLUSIVE: Seven-month lab will turn animation concepts into fully developed packages.
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News‘The Odyssey’ scores impressive £11.9m second weekend at UK-Ireland box office
Christopher Nolan’s epic passes £35m after just 10 days in cinemas.
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NewsRay Winstone, Danny Dyer team up for crime thriller ‘Going Under’
EXCLUSIVE: Producers include ‘Obsession’s James Harris; Vertigo Releasing to release in UK-Ireland next year.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: Andy Serkis’s ‘Animal Farm’ launches for Vue Lumiere
Animated titles dominate new releases as big studios steer clear of ‘The Odyssey’.
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NewsScreen Summit 2026 unveils further top-level speakers
The third annual Screen Summit is taking place at the BFI Southbank on September 29.