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All UK/Ireland articles – Page 105
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NewsUK’s 1185 post house moves into film financing (exclusive)
1185 will provide gap funding, secured against minimum guarantees, equity investment and tax break/expenditure credit cashflow.
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NewsActor Ray Stevenson dies aged 58
Stevenson reportedly died in Italy on Sunday (May 21), though no other details of his death have been revealed.
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Reviews‘Club Zero’: Cannes Review
Mia Wasikowska stars in Jessica Hausner’s restrained Competition drama
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Reviews‘The Settlers’: Cannes Review
Felipe Galvez’s ambitious feature debut confronts a brutal period in Chilean colonial history
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News‘Fast X‘ tops UK-Ireland box office with £5.9m, behind recent franchise entries
Film scores £9,001 average from 644 sites.
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NewsJude Law on the perfume he wore to ensure he “smelt awful” as Henry VIII in ‘Firebrand’
Specially-made scent was constructed of ”puss, blood, faecal matter and sweat” said the actor.
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NewsUK Global Screen Fund partners on European Solidarity Fund for Ukrainian filmmakers
The emergency funding programme has an overall budget of €1.2m.
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FeaturesHow the film industry is making progress in environmental and social sustainability
A British Film Commission and Screen International round table explored the topic.
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NewsBFI’s Mia Bays, Ama Ampadu and Louise Ortega to explore restructured Filmmaking Fund at Cannes’ UK Pavilion
Taking part will be Mia Bays, director of the BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Fund and Ama Ampadu and Louise Ortega, the fund’s senior production and production executives.
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NewsUK producers call for more support to be able to work with local talent
“We’re the ones making work for actors and everybody,’” said Anna Griffin at a BFI / Screen panel in Cannes.
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NewsFilm Constellation locks key territories for Man Ray Cannes Classics title ‘Return To Reason’ (exclusive)
It is the first 4K restoration of Man Ray’s four surrealist short films, paired with an original soundtrack by Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan’s New York band Sqürl.
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NewsSovereign to release ‘Lost In The Night’ in the UK and Ireland (exclusive)
Amat Escalante’s title debuted in the Cannes Premiere section.
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NewsHirokazu Kore-eda’s Cannes title ‘Monster’ scores UK-Ireland deal (exclusive)
Japan’s Gaga Corporation is handling sales in Asia, while Paris-based Goodfellas has the rest of the world.
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NewsCannes’ UK Pavilion to tackle green crisis in production; plus ‘How To Have Sex’ talent talk
A talent talk with Cannes Un Certain Regard title ‘How To Have Sex’ director Molly Manning Walker is also on today’s line-up.
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NewsMedia Luna takes on psychological thriller ‘Sparrow Call’ (exclusive)
The film stars David Bark-Jones, Billie Vee, Anita Albrecht and Amber Lily-Butterworth.
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NewsMartin Amis, author of ‘The Zone Of Interest’, dies aged 73
An adaptation of the novel has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
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NewsMetFilm secures key deals including UK, Italy, Spain on ‘Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer’ (exclusive)
Documentary includes interviews with Christian Bale, Chloe Zhao, Robert Pattinson, Nicole Kidman.
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NewsFrances de la Tour, Calvin Demba to star in UK feature ‘To The Girl I Once Knew’ (exclusive)
Ninety percent of HODs on the film are women, including casting director, production designer.
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NewsArrow and Shudder swoop for cult classic ‘Mute Witness’ (exclusive)
Deals have been done for the USA, Canada, UK and Ireland.
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NewsSignature Entertainment expands family slate with trio of animations (exclusive)
’200% Wolf’, ’Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back’ and ’Richard The Stork 2’ have all been picked up for the UK and Ireland.