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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…

EXCLUSIVE: A new survey published today on the state of the UK's independent production sector has revealed the harsh challenges being faced by the country's indie producers. Among the eye-opening findings are that 75% of independent film producer respondees who have made 1-2 feature films earned less than $7,800…

EXCLUSIVE: A potential TV spin-off of British director Jonathan Glazer’s cult sci-fi feature Under The Skin has sparked a bidding war between the film’s original financier Silver Reel and studio A24. Based on a novel by Michel Faber, Under The Skin was director Glazer's first film in a decade when it landed in 2013…

Mark Jenkin, whose indie pic Bait was a breakout hit this year in the UK and is up for two BAFTAs, has set his next project, Enys Men (Cornish for “stone island”), with backing from Film4. The horror film is planning to shoot in Cornwall in May this year. Film4 is co-financing, with senior commissioning executive…

Secret Diary Of A Call Girl creator and Succession executive producer-writer Lucy Prebble has been awarded the 2019 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship, given in partnership with the BFI and Film4. Now in its seventh year, the UK fellowship awards a screenwriter £30,000 to explore the intersection between screenwriting…

EXCLUSIVE: Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies) has joined Tessa Thompson (Avengers: Endgame), Ruth Negga (Loving) and André Holland (Moonlight) in Rebecca Hall’s (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) directorial debut Passing. Shoot is underway in New York on the anticipated drama based on a screenplay Hall adapted from the…