All UK/Ireland articles – Page 91
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FeaturesHow lockdown isolation helped UK director Moin Hussain rediscover his Venice sci-fi ‘Sky Peals’
“I had a lovely year where things were going quickly and then. lockdown, ” says the UK director.
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NewsUK’s National Cinema Day attracts 1.5m admissions to generate £4.65m box office
Biggest titles were ‘Barbie’ and ‘The Equalizer 3’.
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FeaturesUK producers Helen Simmons, Loran Dunn talk harnessing Joseph Quinn’s fanbase for Venice title ‘Hoard’
They have produced Luna Carmoon’s debut feature ‘Hoard’, debuting in Critics’ Week at Venice.
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Reviews‘Hoard’: Venice Review
Debut British filmmaker Luna Carmoon draws from her own life for this unconventional mother-daughter drama
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Reviews‘High & Low: John Galliano’: Telluride Review
Kevin Macdonald paints a clear-eyed portrait of fashion’s enfant terrible John Galliano
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Reviews‘Baltimore’: Telluride Review
Imogen Poots is commanding as heiress-turned IRA moll Rose Dugdale in Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s measured portrait
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Reviews‘Poor Things’: Venice Review
Emma Stone is a freshly minted woman of the world in Yorgos Lanthimos’s rich slice of period futurism
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NewsBarbenheimer drives UK and Ireland August box office to rise 67% on 2022
However, the year-to-date box office total is still down on pre-pandemic levels.
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Reviews‘Frank Capra: Mr America’: Venice Review
Pacy exploration of the life and legacy of celebrated ’It’s A Wonderful Life’ filmmaker Frank Capra
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NewsUK’s Screen Cornwall receives £400,000 in government funding
A recent report also found that the Cornish screen sector was worth £5m in 2022
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NewsBritish Urban Film Festival relocates to Leeds and Halifax for 2023 edition
The festival will take place in Leeds and Halifax.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: controversial trafficking drama ‘Sound Of Freedom’ uses pay-it-forward bookings
Further openers are Sony’s ’Equalizer 3’, Mub’s ’Passages’ and Lionsgate’s ‘Cobweb’ .
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NewsFrench animation ‘The Jungle Bunch World Tour’ swings to the UK and Ireland (exclusive)
A theatrical release is plotted for early 2024.
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NewsUK tax relief claims for high-end TV overtake amounts paid out for film tax relief for first time
HETV claimed £829m against £517m for film, for the tax year ending March 2022.
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Reviews‘All Of Us Strangers’: Telluride Review
Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal anchor Andrew Haigh’s heartbreakingly pure 1980s drama
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Reviews‘Saltburn’: Telluride Review
Emerald Fennell follows up ‘Promising Young Woman’ with this spiky portrait of the British upper classes
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NewsFremantle teams with Israel’s IBI Investment House for €150m scripted fund
One of first projects put forward for funding is a biopic of Maria Callas starring Angelina Jolie
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NewsBectu open letter slams UK freelancer working conditions at post facilities
The letter has been sent to over 60 of the UK’s leading post-production facilities.
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NewsDinard 2023 line-up includes ‘The Old Oak’, ‘The Zone Of Interest’, ‘Scrapper’
’Silent Roar’, ‘Shoshana’ and ’How To Have Sex’ will also play at the French seaside festival that spotlights UK and Irish cinema.
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NewsFirst trailer for Screen Star George Jaques’ ‘Black Dog’ ahead of LFF Sutherland Award premiere (exclusive)
Jaques directed the road movie, which he wrote alongside fellow Star Jamie Flatters, who also stars in the film.