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UPDATE: After today’s story that Creative England’s popular iFeatures scheme was looking at an uncertain future, Lady Macbeth producer Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly and director William Oldroyd got in touch to ask if they could send over a comment to voice their support for the program, which I’ve added to the end of this…

EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios, the production division responsible for series including Doctor Who, Good Omens and Luther, is developing a high-end drama based on the real-life story behind the murderous and Machiavellian Lady Macbeth. BBC Studios North, which is run by Prey and Queer As Folk producer Tom Sherry, and its…

This time two years ago, theatre director William Oldroyd was about to lock picture on his first feature film, the dark period drama Lady Macbeth. Based on an obscure opera from the early 20th century, and starring up-and-coming actress Florence Pugh as a resourceful young woman forced into an unwanted marriage…

In retrospect, it seems surprising, to put it mildly, that, for 25 years, the BAFTAs seemed to turn their back on the “B”—for British—that this Academy for Film and Television Arts had so keenly wanted to celebrate at its inception in 1947. Yet that's exactly what happened in 1967; after two decades, the Best British…

Unusually for the BAFTAs, the award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer is decided behind closed doors, after several private jury meetings to whittle down the selection. It might also throw its net wider than any of the other categories, since its remit is to discover, acknowledge and…

Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri scored seven nominations from the UK’s leading film critics today, nabbing mentions in the races for Best Film, Director, Screenwriter, Actress (Frances McDormand) and Supporting Actor (Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson). The movie, which was co-financed by…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: The British Independent Film Awards were handed out tonight in London with Francis Lee's feature debut and festival breakout, God's Own Country, scooping the Best British Independent Film and three other prizes. A Sundance world premiere and laureate, it stars Josh O'Connor and Alec Secareanu in a…

Armando Iannucci's political satire The Death of Stalin has taken an early lead at The British Independent Film Awards – picking up three awards as part of the event's newly introduced craft section. The Death of Stalin, which stars Andrea Riseborough, Rupert Friend, Paddy Considine, Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor…

William Oldroyd’s feature directorial debut Lady Macbeth has scored a leading 15 nominations for this year’s British Independent Film Awards. The drama adapted by Alice Birch from the 19th century novel Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk, stars Florence Pugh as a young bride sold into marriage and whose innocence is slowly…

Long in the making, Blind starring Alec Baldwin and Demi Moore makes its way to theaters Friday. The Vertical Entertainment release is the directorial debut of veteran producer Michael Mailer, and joins a fairly packed lineup of new Specialty releases this weekend, marking the midpoint of July. Roadside Attractions is…

William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth has had a barnstorming run since it premiered at Toronto last year. It hit San Sebastian, Zurich and London Film Festivals, as well as a handful of others, before making its US premiere at Sundance this week. Not bad for a film from a first-time feature filmmaker, starring a brilliant…

Here’s a new trailer to Roadside Attractions’ Lady Macbeth, the directorial feature debut from William Oldroyd. The pic was written by Alice Birch based on Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 Russian novella Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk. It stars Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie and Christopher Fairbank. Roadside…