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UK in ‘golden age’ of cinema and cannot afford complacency, Lucy Frazer to say

The UK is in the “golden age of the silver screen” and the creative industries “cannot afford to be complacent”, the Culture Secretary is set to say. Lucy Frazer is expected to share her ambition for a £50 billion boost to the creative industries, ...

17 May 2023 at 22:30

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Sean Connery Foundation grants £1m to support young people in screen industries

A philanthropic foundation set up in memory of Sir Sean Connery has announced £1 million funding for four projects supporting young people in the film and TV industry. The Sean Connery Foundation said the four recipients are Glasgow Media Arts ...

28 Apr 2023 at 12:39

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Taxidermist who helped create Hedwig in Harry Potter and made roller-skating alpaca says ‘I’ll work until I’m stuffed’

A taxidermist known as “The Stuffa”, who went from stuffing dead pigeons in his mother’s garden shed to helping create Hedwig in the Harry Potter films and making a roller-skating alpaca, has said he will carry on working with animals until ...

15 Sept 2023 at 10:11

Christopher Nolan among filmmakers hailing tax relief for independent UK movies

British filmmakers Christopher Nolan, Richard Curtis and Emerald Fennell have welcomed a tax relief for UK independent movies which has been hailed as “game changing” for new talent. During the final Budget before the general election, ...

06 Mar 2024 at 19:25

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Rory Kinnear says safety on set should have changed since father’s death

Rory Kinnear has said “things simply haven’t changed” since the death of his father Roy Kinnear after an accident on set more than 30 years ago. Roy Kinnear fell from a horse during the filming of The Return Of The Musketeers in 1988 ...

21 Nov 2023 at 10:39

Some productions ‘prepping again’ but actors’ strike ‘exposes UK reliance on US’

Some high-end TV productions have started “prepping again” following the actors’ strike coming to an end in America, a UK union has said. A “tentative agreement” between the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and ...

09 Nov 2023 at 15:23

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Participant, studio behind Spotlight and An Inconvenient Truth, shutting down

Participant, the activist film and television studio that has financed Oscar winners such as Spotlight and socially conscious documentaries including Food, Inc and Waiting For Superman, is closing its doors after 20 years. ...

16 Apr 2024 at 21:31

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Lights, camera, action - calling Donegal's aspiring filmmakers

You don’t have to travel to a galaxy far, far away to discover a landscape that is truly out of this world. Just ask the makers of Star Wars. As we've seen over the past number of years, Donegal has become a ...

15 Nov 2022 at 13:33

Local News

Lights, camera, action - calling Donegal's aspiring filmmakers

15 Nov 2022 at 12:33

Movies

Musical blockbuster Wicked lands biggest opening weekend of 2024 at Vue

Musical blockbuster Wicked has surpassed Gladiator II and Paddington In Peru to secure the biggest opening weekend of 2024 at Vue International. The cinema chain said the film, which stars Oscar-nominated ...

24 Nov 2024 at 19:19

World

The Brutalist and Adrien Brody among New York Film Critics Circle Awards winners

Brady Corbet’s three-and-a-half hour post-war epic The Brutalist has won best film from the New York Film Critics Circle, while its lead Adrien Brody won best actor. The win notches an early awards ...

03 Dec 2024 at 19:12

World

Sean Penn accuses Academy Awards of cowardice

Sean Penn has accused the organisers of the Oscars of being cowards who, in effect, limit the kinds of films that can be funded and made. The 64-year-old actor said at the Marrakech Film Festival ...

03 Dec 2024 at 18:07

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