All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 34
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NewsBafta reveals membership data, chair calls on industry to step up
Krishnendu Majumdar described a ”shared mission for a more equitable industry”.
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NewsScreen Ireland names director of industry and corporate affairs
It is a newly-created role for the national agency.
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NewsProtagonist Pictures alights UFO comedy ‘Jules’ starring Ben Kingsley (exclusive)
Marc Turtletaub directs, cast also includes Harriet Sansom Harris, Succession’s Zoe Winters and Jane Curtin.
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NewsSundance Film Festival: London sets 2023 line-up, Gregg Araki retrospective
Nicole Holofcener’s ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ will close this year’s festival.
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NewsSignature Entertainment acquires Second World War spy thriller ‘The Partisan’ (exclusive)
Cast includes ‘A Clockwork Orange’ star Malcolm McDowell and Morgane Polański.
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News‘Harold Fry’ leads new releases at UK-Ireland box office; ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ stays top
Franchise titles continue to dominate, with ‘Big George Foreman’ the second best performing new release.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Harold Fry’, ‘Polite Society’ vie for bank holiday audiences
Further new releases include ’Big George Foreman’ and ‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’.
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NewsMubi acquires Cannes Un Certain Regard title ‘How To Have Sex’
Film is the debut from Screen Star of Tomorrow Molly Manning Walker, sold by mk2 Films.
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NewsNetflix reveals £4.8bn investment in UK economy, teases upcoming slate
New projects include UK series ‘Black Doves’, ‘Department Q’ and ‘Bank Of Dave: The Sequel’
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NewsAnthony Bregman, UK execs, producers to take part in Sundance Film Festival: London industry programme (exclusive)
Speakers include BFI London Film Festival director Kristy Matheson, Film4’s Farhana Bhula and The British Blacklist’s Akua Gyamfi.
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NewsUK’s Windrush Caribbean Film Festival unveils line-up, launches Menelik Shabazz award
The festival will run across the UK from June 6-21.
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NewsUK’s Independent Entertainment and Lowkey Films team for three-feature deal (exclusive)
Slate includes horror ‘Tender Omens’ and sci-fi thriller ‘Beyond The Deep’.
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NewsCurzon Mayfair landlord lays out plans for future of the London cinema
The landlord wants to keep the 38 Curzon Street building as a cinema, but operated independently.
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NewsTilda Swinton, Steven Spielberg back growing campaign to save London cinema Curzon Mayfair
The future of the Curzon Mayfair looks uncertain with the landlord refusing to renew the Curzon’s lease, which ends in 2024.
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NewsMister Smith Entertainment boards Weston Razooli’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title ‘Riddle Of Fire’ (exclusive)
The action comedy is the debut feature of US filmmaker Razooli.
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NewsEdinburgh Filmhouse building sold for £2.65m to commercial bidder
The identity of the buyer has not been confirmed, but the 88 Lothian Road building has not been sold to a “culturally motivated” bidder.
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NewsBFI names Skills Clusters partners, reveals head of National Lottery Skills programmes
Screen Yorkshire, Film London, Screen Scotland and Northern Ireland Screen are among the six partner organisations to receive National Lottery funding.
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NewsWriters’ Guild of Great Britain “ready to stand shoulder to shoulder” with US writers’ guild as strike looms
“Many of their issues are our issues. Their fight is our fight,” said WGGB chair Lisa Holdsworth.
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NewsFilm and TV Production Restart scheme boosted UK economy by £2.3bn
More than 100,000 jobs for cast and crew were supported and 48,500 full-time jobs were created by the scheme.
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NewsAmazon’s Martin Backlund takes up role of managing director for Prime Video Nordics
Backlund previously held the post of head of content for Prime Video UK and Nordics.