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David Fincher To Receive Honorary Cesar AwardDavid Fincher is to receive an Honorary Award at this year's Cesar Awards. The primary French awards show will fete the Gone Girl filmmaker at its 2023 ceremony on February 24 at the Olympia in Paris. The awards body described Fincher as an "outstanding…

EXCLUSIVE: The Worst Person In The World and Portrait Of A Lady On Fire outfit MK2 has joined UK feature How To Have Sex, which is currently shooting in Greece. Directed by emerging UK filmmaker Molly Manning Walker (pictured above right), How to Have Sex follows a group of teenage girls as they…

Neon, Double Agent and Film4 are partnering to co-finance and exec produce 2073, a new documentary from Academy Award and BAFTA-winning director Asif Kapadia (Amy). 2073 is billed as a genre-bending thriller set in a dystopian future, which will tackle some of the biggest challenges imperiling our future. The project…

Film4 has promoted Director Daniel Battsek to Chairman and his place will be taken by Ollie Madden. Channel 4 said the changes “reflect the current success of Film4 both in the UK and internationally, and will ensure that Film4 continues to make a significant contribution to the film industry as well as strengthening…

On the heels of her first Oscar nomination for Spencer, Kristen Stewart has signed on to star in the A24 film Love Lies Bleeding from director Rose Glass (Saint Maud), Deadline has confirmed. The romantic thriller examines a romance fueled by ego, desire and the American Dream. Glass is directing from the script she…

Netflix has inked a multi-year first-look deal with actress and producer Vanessa Kirby (The Crown) and her production company Aluna Entertainment. Kirby has partnered with former Film4 Senior Executive Lauren Dark to develop and produce a slate of features with a focus on female-centric stories. Just last week during…

EXCLUSIVE: Film4 is partnering with film distributor Park Circus on a campaign to entice Brits back to the cinema. Under the deal, the duo will offer UK cinemas a season of six classic features from the Film4 library, including Danny Boyle's Trainspotting and Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast. The films will initially…

This year's Cannes Film Festival lineup may yet again be thin on British movies but UK public financiers the BFI, Film4 and BBC Film have joined with the British Council to launch the fourth edition of their 'Great 8' program, which will showcase emerging Brit filmmakers to international distributors and fest…

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the New Regency-Film4-Warp Films feature adaption of the West End hit musical, will now debut exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on Sept. 17 in over 240 countries and territories. The pic, which came to Disney via the Fox merger due to New Regency’s attachment, was originally set for a…

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe winning actor Ramy Youssef is in negotiations to board Poor Things, Searchlight and Film4’s reteam with The Favourite filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone.  Youssef’s role is under wraps. Poor Things is a Victorian tale of love, discovery and scientific daring, and tells the…

EXCLUSIVE: Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer have been cast in Invasion, a sci-fi thriller pic from BAFTA-winning UK filmmaker Michael Pearce (Beast). I can also reveal that Amazon Studios has taken worldwide rights to the project and will produce alongside American Animals outfit Raw and UK funder Film4, which backed…

Sue Bruce-Smith, Film4's Deputy Director and a much-loved figure in the UK biz, has died at the age of 62 following a battle with cancer. She was diagnosed two years ago and had been receiving treatment at home in Dublin with the support of her family – she passed away on Saturday morning. Bruce-Smith started her…