All UK/Ireland articles – Page 80
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Blue Finch Films locks in North America for ‘Hostile Dimensions’ (exclusive)
The UK sci-fi horror has played at Beyond Fest and FrightFest.
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Kaleidoscope adds modern-day ‘Hamlet’ starring Ian McKellen to AFM slate (exclusive)
The film was produced by the late Bill Kenwright, who died last week.
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Royal Marines Commandos action feature ‘Sunray’ lined up for sales (exclusive)
It is created by and stars former Royal Marines Commandos.
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Australian romantic comedy ‘He Loves Me Not’ starts shooting for SC Films (exclusive)
It is set and is being shot entirely on K’gari Fraser Island and Hervey Bay in Queensland.
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Features
AFM 2023: The buzz titles from the UK
Includes Samuel Beckett biopic ‘Dance First’ and ’Freud’s Last Session’ with Anthony Hopkins
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Cornerstone closes North America, UK-Ireland deals for ‘Starve Acre’ starring Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark
Film debuted in competition at BFI London Film Festival this month.
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Alief boosts Tallinn slate with competition, First Feature pickups (exclusive)
The hip-hop inspired surreal fantasy is directed by ‘Max’ filmmaker and ‘The Harder They Fall’ co-writer Boaz Yakin.
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BFI London Film Festival records highest attendance in five years, as ‘Gassed Up’ takes top audience award
Almost 200,000 in-person attendees tops the 2019 figure.
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‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’ opens with £3.2m to top UK-Ireland box office; Taylor Swift sets concert film record
Universal scores a one-two with ‘Freddy’s’ and ‘Trolls Band Together’.
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Reviews
‘Freud’s Last Session’: AFI Fest Review
Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode star in this imagined wartime meeting of minds between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis
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Mister Smith Entertainment hires director, international sales and acquisitions
Sales executive Antone Saliba has left to pursue a new venture.
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“It will be business as usual in a slightly odd world”: UK sellers discuss navigating AFM in strike times
Execs from Bankside, Cornerstone, Altitude, HanWay Films, Mister Smith Entertainment and Metro International Entertainment talk to Screen.
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UK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’ heads pre-Halloween weekend
Studiocanal launches short story adaptation ‘Cat Person’.
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An oral history of Film4: senior executives talk four decades of transforming British film
Screen International will present Film4 with the outstanding contribution to UK film special recognition award at this year’s Big Screen Awards.
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Idris Elba to co-direct survival thriller ‘Above The Below’; Lionsgate to launch AFM sales (exclusive)
Elba’s second feature as director after 2018’s ‘Yardie’.
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“Most people thought I was insane”: UK filmmaker Stuart Gatt on shooting ‘Catching Dust’ on 35mm
Gatt’s debut feature screens at Raindance after premiering at Tribeca
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Mister Smith, CAA board ‘Young Werther’ starring Alison Pill, Douglas Booth (exclusive)
The contemporary romantic comedy also stars Patrick J. Adams and Iris Apatow.
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UK film fund The Uncertain Kingdom fires up fresh funding opportunities
The fund, launched in response to Brexit, is celebrating its fifth anniversary.
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UK’s Film and TV charity launches second financial resilience survey of the year
The last survey was run in May 2023, prior to the Hollywood strikes
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Features
The UK debut directors aiming to make their mark at this year’s Raindance
They include actor-director Christian Cooke and documentarians Caroline Sharp and Charly Wai Feldman.