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All UK/Ireland articles – Page 209
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News‘Peter Rabbit 2’ tops first post-lockdown UK box office with strong £3.8m
Takings were significantly up on the reopening in July 2020.
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Reviews‘In The Heights’: Review
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony award-winning musical lights up the big screen at last
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NewsAmazon takes UK-Ireland on English-language ‘Call My Agent!’ remake
Kelly Macdonald, Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams join cast.
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NewsUK producers recommend wellbeing practitioners, childcare budgets for film & TV shoots
Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, Helen Simmons and Rienkje Attoh were taking part in the Restart conference.
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News“We take chances”: UK public film funds issue rallying cry to filmmakers
Film4’s Daniel Battsek, BBC Film’s Rose Garnett and BFI’s Lizzie Francke on Restart Conference panel.
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NewsVue, Picturehouse heads vow to support distribution partners, talk new flexible window policies
Tim Richards and Clare Binns discussed changes to the UK theatrical market at the Restart conference.
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NewsUniversal moves ‘Fast & Furious 9’ UK release two weeks earlier
The franchise title will now come out on June 24.
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NewsUK producers decry “horrendous” cost of Covid protocols, talk working with the streamers
Tim Bevan, Alison Owen and Iain Canning were speaking at the Restart conference hosted by Screen International.
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NewsUK’s NFTS appoints former BBC exec as Wales head
Former independent production executive was previously head of factual and music at BBC Wales.
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News‘Peter Rabbit 2’ tops UK box office on first day as over 400 cinemas reopen
Warner Bros released six of the top 15 titles.
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NewsHow the Global Screen Fund will work for UK companies
Neil Peplow, director of industry and international at the BFI, outlined how the fund will work at Screen’s Restart conference.
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NewsShane Meadows to make first BBC series with period drama ‘The Gallows Pole’ (exclusive)
The series will be produced by Element Pictures.
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NewsNew projects from Michaela Coel, Working Title, ‘Rocks’ writer Theresa Ikoko on BBC drama slate
The projects join a new Shane Meadows series, announced earlier.
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NewsUK’s Duck Soup Films hires former Film4, Big Talk execs
Celine Coulson, Kathryn O’Connor will join the Leeds-based indie.
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NewsUK’s Film and TV Charity unveils £1m anti-racism scheme
Scheme ringfences further 30% of future grants for minority groups.
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NewsJohn Boyega, Joe Cornish to return for ‘Attack The Block’ sequel
Writer/director Joe Cornish will also return, 10 years after the original.
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NewsBFI appoints new deputy CEO, bolsters senior team
Appointments relate to BFI’s strategic plans and work with government.
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NewsUK financier Head Gear Films appoints new COO
Tom Harberd to step down after more than seven years at film financier.
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News‘Sex Education’ writer fronts Netflix, Sky fellowship
£100,000-plus scheme will support scribes from under-represented communities.
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NewsModern Films lands UK-Ireland rights to Tribeca, Doc/Fest premieres (exclusive)
Titles include ‘Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story’ and Mark Cousins’ ‘The Story of Looking’.