All UK/Ireland articles – Page 302
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UK drama ‘Bait’ scoops top prizes at New Horizons Film Festival
Mark Jenkin’s debut won the Grand Prix and audience award at the event in Wrocław, Poland.
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‘The Lion King’ holds off ‘Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw’ at UK weekend box office
’Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw’ posts middling opening for the franchise.
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Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ to close 2019 BFI London Film Festival
Netflix mob drama starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci will have international premiere on October 13.
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Funa Maduka, director of international original films, to leave Netflix (exclusive)
Executive has been at US streamer for six years.
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UK box office preview: ‘Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw’, ‘Angry Birds 2’ take aim at ‘The Lion King’
Other openers include ‘Animals’ and ‘Holiday’.
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HBO Max secures exclusive US streaming rights to ‘Doctor Who’
Platform also licenses 700 episodes of BBC series including UK version of The Office, Top Gear, Luther, The Honorable Woman.
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Welsh horror ‘Gwledd’ becomes sixth Ffilm Cymru Cinematic project to wrap (exclusive)
Lee Haven Jones’ feature debut stars Annes Elwy.
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UK outfit Brightstar signs first-look TV deal with Amazon
Brightstar is presently executive producing Netflix’s Kaos from The End Of The F***ing World creator Charlie Covell.
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Screen Scotland partners with Edinburgh Fringe on talent and IP scouting scheme
Fringe shows to have been developed for the screen include Fleabag and Beats.
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Curzon names new-look distribution team as Steve Lewis departs (exclusive)
Lewis is leaving Curzon after 20 years.
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UK’s Arrow Films acquires FrightFest title ‘A Serial Killer’s Guide To Life’ (exclusive)
Director Staten Cousins Roe is nominated for the Screen International Genre Rising Star Award.
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Emmys 2019: What made TV snob Hugh Grant return to the small screen for ‘A Very English Scandal’?
Grant, nominated for a Primetime Emmy, says he relished the chance to play a darker character.
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‘The Lion King’ posts second £10m+ weekend at UK box office
’Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans’ opened with £584,049.
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Emmys 2019: How Jesse Armstrong, UK creator of HBO’s ‘Succession’, became a transatlantic TV superstar
He says he was ready to step up to the role of showrunner for the first time.
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Altitude boards Irish comedy ‘Beards’ with Fionn O’Shea, Sharon Horgan (exclusive)
Lola Petticrew also stars in director David Freyne’s second feature.
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'The Walking Dead' star Andrew Lincoln joins Naomi Watts on 'Penguin Bloom'
Story based on true family tragedy… and a magpie chick.
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UK film industry urges new culture secretary to avoid a no-deal Brexit
Nicky Morgan takes over from Jeremy Wright.
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Louis Theroux leaving BBC to form production company; Netflix and Amazon circling (exclusive)
Theroux is setting up the new outfit with BBC Studios executive Arron Fellows.
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How ‘Yesterday’ became a summer counter-programming hit in the US
Why Arizona is hot for the Danny Boyle/Richard Curtis film but Texas can let it be.
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UK box office preview: ‘Horrible Histories’, ‘The Current War’ look to tap into audiences
Horrible Histories distributor Altitude looks to tap into lucrative family market.