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NewsTotal UK film production spend rises 56% in 2024; film and high-end TV combined reaches £5.6bn
Film and high-end television production spend is up 31% on the previous Hollywood strike-addled year.
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NewsLocal box office market share for UK indie films nearly doubles in 2024
The 2024 box office for films on release in the UK totalled £979m.
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NewsIain Forsyth, Jane Pollard’s ‘The Extraordinary Miss Flower’ acquired for UK-Ireland (exclusive)
Film will play at Dublin and Glasgow film festivals before cinema release.
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News‘Rocks’ and ‘Bring Them Down’ producers among recipients of BFI Doc Society funding
Twelve non-fiction feature projects in early development have been supported over the last year through the £61,000 RAD fund.
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NewsBFI heads confirm UK in talks with government to rejoin Creative Europe Media
Ben Roberts and Jay Hunt today gave wide-ranging testimony to the UK’s cross-party CMS committee.
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NewsBFI Flare to open with ‘The Wedding Banquet’ starring Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone
The film is a comedy-drama about a deal between a gay man and his lesbian friend.
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NewsDea Kulumbegashvili’s Venice title ‘April’ acquired for UK-Ireland (exclusive)
The film is about a doctor who provides unsanctioned abortions in Georgia.
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NewsUK Global Screen Fund to receive £7m funding, as government brings forward apprenticeship reform
The announcements form part of the government’s additional £60m investment in the creative sectors.
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NewsDisabled UK-based filmmakers to attend Rotterdam as part of BFI initiative
‘Is There Anybody Out There?’ filmmaker Ella Glendining is among the filmmakers attending.
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FeaturesThe BFI’s 10 biggest distribution awards of 2024
Titles include ‘Io Capitano’, ‘Copa 71’ and ‘Kneecap’.
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Features‘The Thing With Feathers’, ‘Pillion’ among key 2024 BFI production awards
Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut and ‘Retreat’, a thriller with a predominantly deaf cast, are also on the list.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival award winner ‘Four Mothers’ picked up for UK-Ireland
The feature is set for release in April next year.
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NewsBFI opens innovation fund for equity, diversity and inclusion data monitoring in film production
The £200,000 fund is part of the £1.8m BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund.
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NewsUK Next Wave Genre Lab selects projects, contributors for second phase (exclusive)
‘Love Lies Bleeding’ producer Andrea Cornwell is among contributors to the scheme.
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NewsBFI says it remains “committed” to African Odysseys strand amid concerns over its future (exclusive)
It is understood that David Somerset, who runs the programme, is facing redundancy.
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NewsLFF Best Film winner ‘Memoir Of A Snail’ acquired for UK-Ireland (exclusive)
The film previously won the Cristal for Best Film at Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
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NewsBFI London Film festival unveils 2024 award winners
Winners hail from Australia, UK, and Palestine.
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NewsLaura Carreira’s ‘On Falling’ sells to key territories including UK-Ireland (exclusive)
Carreira won Best Director for the film at San Sebastian.
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NewsBFI chair Jay Hunt talks AppleTV+ UK investment and why she only mentors women
Hunt was speaking at the BFI London Film Festival, in her first public address in post.
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NewsWorking Title’s Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner to “make more under-$15m movies”
Speaking at the London Film Festival, the duo also told the audience that “films need to cost less money”.