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NewsAMPTP, SAG-AFTRA trade statements disputing other side’s position
Actors strike started on July 14.
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NewsUK’s Warp Films execs call for more working class stories in film and TV
Mark Herbert and Emily Feller on how industry can up its game.
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NewsBlumhouse’s ‘Speak No Evil’ with James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, shuts down UK shoot due to actors’ strike (exclusive)
The horror film was shooting in Gloucester, UK.
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News‘Mortal Kombat 2’, ‘Apples Never Fall’ on hold in Australia due to SAG-AFTRA strike
Local execs expect a knock-on effect on the Australian industry, both positive and negative.
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NewsEdinburgh, Thessaloniki among festivals joining The Future of Film Festivals Forum in Poland (exclusive)
The forum will lay the groundwork for the International Film Festival Network.
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NewsSeveral indie shoots underway as SAG-AFTRA prepares waivers
Guild expected to start providing interim agreements for truly independent productions within days.
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NewsTom Cruise asked SAG-AFTRA to allow publicity work during strike
Star also discussed A.I., stunt workers.
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NewsJapan’s Ryohei Suzuki voices support for SAG-AFTRA strikers and teases Netflix film ‘City Hunter’
The Japanese actor collected the Screen International Rising Star award at the New York Asian Film Festival.
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NewsBuffalo 8 acquires political documentary ‘The Ecuadorian Candidate’ (exclusive)
Jacobin Magazine documentary follows leftist economist Andres Arauz at 2021 polls.
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NewsElton John gives evidence as defence witness at Kevin Spacey sexual assault trial
The Rocket Man singer appeared via video link alongside his husband, David Furnish.
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NewsItalian family drama ‘Children Of The Monkey’ wins top prize at Jerusalem Industry Days
$120,000 of prizes were handed out at the ceremony at the new Sam Spiegel building.
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NewsGalway Film Fleadh winner ‘Apocalypse Clown’ rounds up global deals (exclusive)
It has sold across Europe, the US and Canada, Russia and CIS and India.
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News‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ drives to UK-Ireland box office summit with franchise record £6.3m
The film’s opening including previews is also a record, at £10.4m.
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NewsKarlovy Vary Proxima opener ‘The Lost Children’ scores world sales representation (exclusive)
The fantasy title follows a group of siblings stuck in an isolated house in a forest.
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NewsVictor Erice’s Cannes Premiere title ‘Close Your Eyes’ scores UK-Ireland distribution deal (exclusive)
Erice did not attend the Cannes launch in protest at a lack of “dialogue and consultation” over its Competition omission.
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News‘Apocalypse Clown’, ‘Verdigris’ scoop prizes at Galway Film Fleadh, as marketplace packs a punch
Further winners include ’Past Lives’ in the world cinema competition and Agnes O’Casey for the Bingham Ray New Talent Award.
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News‘Mission: Impossible 7’ blasts off with $235m global box office debut; ‘Elemental’ holds while ‘Indiana Jones 5’ slides
Excluding China, ’Dead Reckoning Part One’ has delivered the biggest international opening for the ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise.
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NewsDerek Malcolm, UK film critic and former London Film Festival director, dies
The well-respected film reviewer also contributed to Screen International, the Evening Standard, and HuffPost.
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News‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One’ sets franchise record $80m five-day US bow, ‘Sound Of Freedom’ nears $100m
Searchlight’s Sundance acquisition Theater Camp opens on $45,000 per-site average.
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NewsActress and singer Jane Birkin dies age 76
Birkin’s death has shocked her adopted France over the long Bastille Day weekend.