All UK/Ireland articles – Page 34
-
NewsLuna Carmoon, Sean Wang, Nava Mau among Bafta Breakthrough 2024 line-up
43 creatives include 21 from UK, 13 from US and nine from India.
-
News‘The Penguin Lessons’, ‘Kneecap’ receive UK Global Screen Fund support; fund lands key hire
Jordan Allwood joins the UKGSF team from sales outfit Independent Entertainment.
-
NewsSister’s Jane Featherstone on ‘Kaos’ cancellation and her mission to “make mainstream fashionable again”
Featherstone anticipates a return to less risky, long-form TV comissioning, with pure TV talent attached: ”Movie stars don’t want to do a TV schedule.”
-
NewsVue Cinemas launches UK-Ireland distribution company Vue Lumière (exclusive)
AI tool identified a gap in the market for smaller and international films, said CEO Tim Richards.
-
NewsTamer Hassan, Leo Gregory join cast Of ‘Rise Of The Footsoldier: Ibiza’, first pictures revealed (exclusive)
There are plans for three more films and a TV series in the cult crime franchise.
-
News‘The Rubber Faced Men’ tops 2024 Brit List of unproduced screenplays
Also on list: coming-of-age Oxbridge comedy, psychological horror in 19th century India, Elizabethan romance.
-
NewsRichard E. Grant, Felicity Jones and Amir El-Masry join '100 Nights Of Hero’
Principal photography has now wrapped on the UK shoot.
-
NewsProtagonist Pictures refreshes team, lands key hires
Joseph Hewitt has been brought in from HanWay Films.
-
NewsStone Age thriller ‘Out Of Darkness’ wins big at Bafta Scotland awards
Former Edinburgh director Lynda Myles and casting director Des Hamilton received outstanding contribution awards.
-
NewsFulwell 73 and LeBron James-founded SpringHill Company to merge
The merger is expected to close by the end of 2024, with the companies operating under a new yet-to-be disclosed name.
-
News‘Gladiator II’ muscles up £8.8m at UK-Ireland box office for Ridley Scott record opening
‘Paddington In Peru’ posts decent hold to enter year top 10.
-
Reviews‘The Shadow Scholars’: IDFA Review
Steve McQueen-produced doc shines a light on Kenya’s academic ghostwriter-for-hire industry
-
NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Gladiator II’ is unleashed at 722 sites
Also out this weekend: ‘Joy’ for Netflix and ’Kiss Me Kate: The Musical’ for Trafalgar Releasing.
-
News‘Peaky Blinders’ creator urges industry to defend jobs from AI
Steven Knight speaks at Web Summit 2024 in Lisbon alongside Banijay Entertainment chief Marco Bassetti.
-
NewsBFI opens innovation fund for equity, diversity and inclusion data monitoring in film production
The £200,000 fund is part of the £1.8m BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund.
-
NewsLGBTQ+ sports documentary ‘Gay Games’ picked up for world sales (exclusive)
Film is currently in production, from Bafta-winning director Cherish Oteka.
-
FeaturesWhat the drastic cull of UK soaps means for the film industry
Leading figures in the UK film and TV industry are sounding the alarm about the loss of UK soap ‘Doctors’ as an egalitarian training ground.
-
NewsAlain Guiraudie’s ‘Misericordia’ acquired for UK-Ireland distribution (exclusive)
Film will be released theatrically in spring 2025.
-
NewsUK trans+ writers lab The DarkRoom unveils inaugural participants (exclusive)
The five-month programme helps develop genre feature projects.
-
NewsAmazon Prime Video appoints Europe lead
Andrew Bennett is to relocate to London from the US in an expanded role.