All UK/Ireland articles – Page 26
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NewsCreative UK looks to New York City as it outlines vision of UK “freelance champion” role
The role will be appointed as part of the UK government’s creative industries sector plan, although it has yet to be determined if the role is paid or voluntary.
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News‘Past Life’ starring Jeremy Piven, Pixie Lott to open UK’s Grimmfest
The horror festival runs October 9-12 in Manchester.
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FeaturesThe UK team behind Edinburgh title ‘Misper’ talk true crime, scary basements and blending Haneke horror with Brit humour
Director Harry Sherriff and writer Laurence Tratalos are partners with Simon Orange in Fresh Orange Productions.
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News“I’d love to make a musical”: Kevin and Andrew Macdonald on career ambitions and the projects that got away
The brothers were talking at an in-conversation event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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News‘Weapons’ maintains UK-Ireland box office lead; ‘Materialists’ starts in third
EFD horror ‘Together’ takes just over £500,000; strong performance from ‘Princess Mononoke’.
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Reviews‘Low Rider’ review: LGBTQ+ drama follows a young British woman on a South African roadtrip
Director Campbell X follows-up ’Stud Life’ with this overstuffed feature
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NewsTerence Stamp, ‘Superman’ villain & star of 1960s British cinema, dies aged 87
Stamp’s long career included ‘Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert’.
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Reviews‘On The Sea’ review: Helen Walsh follows ‘The Violators’ with sensitive Welsh LGBTQ+ drama
The novelist/filmmaker’s second feature stars Barry Ward and Lorne MacFadyen
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Materialists’ matches up with 687 cinemas
Universal has ‘Nobody’ sequel; EFD opens body horror ‘Together’.
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NewsNational Cinema Day paused for 2025
Cinema First, organisers of the one-day annual initiative, hope to see it return next year.
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NewsPaul Andrew Williams’ Tribeca winner ‘Dragonfly’ acquired for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: Film will play at Edinburgh this weekend.
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NewsBaby Cow chief executive Sarah Monteith departs company
Development head Rupert Majendie has a reconfigured leadership role.
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NewsBafta tweaks eligibility, voting rules in key film categories for 2026
Key changes to outstanding British film and best documentary categories.
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News2026 Bafta Film Awards dates provide extended windows for voting and viewing
For the first time since 2001, the Bafta Film Award nominations will be announced after the Oscar nominations.
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NewsCineworld pulls in 300,000 UK cinemagoers with family-film ticket scheme
The £1-per-ticket initiative is on track to pass 500,000 admissions by the end of the summer
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Features“I am railing against the mediocrity of contemporary cinema,” says Simon Rumley of his Edinburgh premiere ‘Crushed’
Source: Subject’s own Simon Rumley UK filmmaker Simon Rumley’s Thailand-set kidnapping thriller Crushed underlines his commitment to create films in what he has dubbed the “extreme drama” genre. A renowned writer-director on the genre circuit for more than two decades, Rumley has a reputation for uncompromising, uncomfortable ...
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NewsBFI, Film4’s high-budget shorts programme Future Takes greenlit for second iteration
EXCLUSIVE: Six films will be award between £60,000 and £90,000.
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FeaturesBen Wheatley on why he chose to make EIFF Midnight Madness title ‘Bulk’ in secret
The film premieres in Edinburgh on August 14.
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NewsUK scholar and filmmaker Laura Mulvey awarded BFI Fellowship
Mulvey wrote the seminal feminist essay ‘Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema’.