All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 10
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Wicked’ aims to cast its spell in 698 sites
Also out this weekend: Sundance drag queen romance ‘Layla’ and a raft of documentaries, including ‘Bread & Roses’ and ‘Silent Men’.
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NewsShifting business models leads discussion at British Screen Forum
Speakers include David Puttnam, Kathleen Kennedy, Jane Featherstone, Jane Millichip and Caroline Dinenage.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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NewsRichard E. Grant, Felicity Jones and Amir El-Masry join '100 Nights Of Hero’
Principal photography has now wrapped on the UK shoot.
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NewsProtagonist Pictures refreshes team, lands key hires
Joseph Hewitt has been brought in from HanWay Films.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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NewsBafta actors five times more likely to have attended fee-paying school than UK population, finds report
While 35% of Bafta- nominated actors went to a private school, only 7% of the population attend fee-paying schools.
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NewsBafta introduces forfeiture process for awards in wake of Huw Edwards scandal
The framework will be in place from 2025 onwards.
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NewsAFM attendees give their verdict on Vegas
While the change of location has been a hard adjustment for AFM regulars, there have been positive green shoots in the market.
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FeaturesWhy the UK and Ireland’s next generation of auteurs are looking to French sales agents
What impact is this having on the homegrown UK indie sector?
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News‘Everyone Is Going To Die’ starring Jaime Winstone sells to North America, Spain (exclusive)
The North American release is set for February 2025.
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News‘Putin’ director on guerrilla filming in Russia and his AI ambitions
Polish filmmaker Patryk Vega’s Putin is being sold by Germany’s Kinostar at the AFM.
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NewsMubi cancels Turkey film festival over local censorship of ‘Queer’
The company has said it is taking a stand for “protecting freedom of expression”.
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NewsLionsgate picks up ‘H Is For Hawk’ with Claire Foy, Brendan Gleeson for UK-Ireland (exclusive)
Protagonist Pictures has landed a slew of deals on the drama from Bafta-winning UK director Philippa Lowthorpe.