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NewsUK’s Embankment Films hires from Salon Pictures, CB Films to lead new unscripted team
Nick Taussig, Malcolm Neaum, Sophie Harmer and Henry Farrington set to join Embankment Films.
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News“No one owns the challenge, no one owns the solution”: ScreenSkills, BFI address changes to public funding for skills
Skills clusters are being created around the UK.
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NewsUK-Ireland cinemas need more saturation releases in 2023 to reach “full potential”, says report
Box office is currently 3% behind the same period in 2022.
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NewsLightdox picks up world rights to Belarus conscript doc ‘Motherland’ (exclusive)
Film focuses on violent bullying and torture of Belarusian military conscripts.
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NewsBFI director Mia Bays digs into detail on revised Filmmaking Fund: “Whatever you apply with, it’s an even playing field”
Four new funds have been created covering development and production support.
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NewsCPH:DOX Next:Wave title ‘Megaheartz’ scores world sales deal (exclusive)
Second feature from Stockholm-based filmmaker Emily Norling.
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NewsRevamped BFI Filmmaking Fund unveils details of four new production and development funds
The BFI is investing £36.6m of National Lottery funding in fiction feature support over three years.
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NewsDan Grabiner takes on expanded role for Amazon Prime Video
Grabiner’s new title is head of originals, UK & Northern Europe.
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News‘Flamin’ Hot’ among SXSW audience winners, will get unprecedented streaming bow
Mustache, Geoff McFetridge: Drawing A Life, Ek Jagah Apni also honoured.
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NewsLizzie Francke, Fiona Morham, Natascha Wharton to leave BFI Film Fund
Senior execs will step down later this year.
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NewsEuropean Film Academy director Matthijs Wouter Knol steps down from anti-racism taskforce Artef (exclusive)
Wouter Knol said he was keen to eliminate any perceived conflict of interest charges.
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NewsFilm4 promotes Farhana Bhula to head of creative (exclusive)
Bhula fills the role vacated by Ollie Madden, who became director of Film4.
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News‘Shazam! Fury Of The Gods’ tops UK-Ireland box office with £2.4m; ‘Allelujah’ opens in top five
The ‘Shazam!’ sequel is down 40% on its predecessor.
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NewsLevelK closes multiple deals for Berlin Generation title ‘Sea Sparkle’ (exclusive)
The family drama has sold to France, Greece, Poland, Switzerland and Denmark.
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News‘The Teacher’s Lounge’ director Ilker Çatak preps ‘Yellow Letters’ with Haut et Court, Alamode (exclusive)
Project is set to film in Germany in autumn 2023.
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NewsBen Browning to rejoin FilmNation as production head
Executive most recently served at Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell companies.
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NewsSuper-sized Malaga’s industry zone Mafiz increases industry attendance by 54%
Buzz titles include animation ’Dragonkeeper’ and ‘Co-Husbands’.
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NewsBerlin Encounters title ‘Samsara’ picked up for UK and Ireland (exclusive)
The Spanish film follows a Buddhist monk who helps an elderly woman transition from death to her next life
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News‘Shazam! Fury Of The Gods’ stumbles with $65m global box office debut; ‘Scream VI’, ‘Creed III’ scrap for second place
‘Shazam!’ sequel’s global debut is well down on the original, which opened with $155.5m.