All UK/Ireland articles – Page 150
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News‘Chernobyl’ director Johan Renck readies feature on the last days of Saddam Hussein
’The Prisoner in His Palace’ is based on accounts of the US soldiers who guarded Iraqi ruler before his execution.
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NewsMia Bays defends BFI’s commitment to being “an anti-racist organisation” at New Black Film Collective event
Bays was speaking alongside BFI exec Ama Ampadu, following allegations that the organisation has failed to address systemic racism.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves’ starts its quest
Animation ‘Mummies’, French hit ‘The Night Of The 12th’ also open.
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NewsBas Devos’ Berlin award-winner ‘Here’ picked up for UK and Ireland (exclusive)
The film follows a chance encounter between a Romanian construction worker and a Belgian-Chinese botanist
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NewsScreenSkills ups investment in high-end TV training as UK skills gap worsens
Training body to invest £10.5m in HETV Fund.
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NewsDaniel Dale, writer and Independent’s former head of acquisitions and development, dies aged 42
Dale worked at Independent Entertainment for 10 years
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NewsUK Black creatives call out “glass ceiling” at The New Black Film Collective XPO
Creative and executives from the UK screen industries came together for the second day of the London event.
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NewsManchester Film Festival winner ‘Love Without Walls’ scores UK-Ireland theatrical deal (exclusive)
Jane Gull’s music drama will release in cinemas on June 9.
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NewsWarner Bros launch second series of Black British filmmaker development programme
Black Britain Unspoken supports and finances the production of three short films from Black British filmmakers
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NewsBFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival sees audiences increase by 16% (exclusive)
The festival ran from March 15-26.
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NewsUK’s Media Production & Technology Show launches 2023 seminar programme
First programme reveal includes screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst, Argonon CEO James Burstall, Spun Gold TV MD Daniela Neumann, and more.
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NewsCineworld creditors could install new executive team - reports
The report suggests CEO Mooky Greidinger and deputy Israel Greidinger could be replaced after nine years heading the company.
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NewsPeccadillo Pictures picks up ‘The Lost Boys’ and a raft of LGBQT+ titles for UK and Ireland (exclusive)
Further titles include ‘Eismayer’ and ’You Can Live Forever’.
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NewsFormer Amazon exec Georgia Brown to lead UK Production Skills Task Force for screen sector
Over 20 senior representatives from all the major broadcasters, studios and streamers will join the task force.
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NewsStreaming giants set for increased regulation in UK under new government Media Bill
Government legislation outlined by culture secretary Lucy Frazer will modernise the “outdated” 2003 Communications Act.
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Features“Films are not made by one person”: The revolutionary production story of LFF winner ‘Blue Bag Life’
The BFI London Film Festival audience award winner will be released by Modern Films in the UK and Ireland.
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NewsRichard Johns and E Elias Merhige team for Promethean Pictures and animal-focused survival story ‘Howl’
Johns and Merhige met working on ‘Shadow Of The Vampire’.
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NewsBlack cinema organisation We Are Parable to expand into UK, international distribution (exclusive)
“There are films out there we can position effectively to our base and achieve significant cut through.”
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NewsHead Gear, Monster Pictures launch New Zealand genre distributor (Yet) Another Monster Company (exclusive)
Production underway on YAMC’s first title ‘Grafted’ from Sasha Rainbow.
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NewsIndustry figures call for “transparency” in bidding process for Edinburgh Filmhouse takeover
Screenwriter Paul Laverty, filmmakers Mark Cousins and Kevin Macdonald and actor Tilda Swinton have weighed in.