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Top Gun: Maverick was the highest-selling home entertainment title in the UK in 2022, according to figures released today by the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) and the Official Charts Company (OCC). Tom Cruise's high-flying sequel netted over 1.2 million sales across DVD, Blu-ray…

The UK government has launched a consultation period asking industry leaders for comments on plans to reform and merge film, animation, high-end TV, and children's TV tax relief measures into a single tax credit. The consultation period is set to run until February 9, 2023, with the reforms to be…

The UK has officially fallen into a recession, which will push more than 500,000 people into unemployment, according to a new forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The (OBR), the government’s forecaster, said there will be the biggest fall in living standards in the UK since…

Staff members working at the Light House cinema in Wolverhampton, England, today announced on social media that the arthouse and media center is set to cease trading and close its doors for the final time Thursday due to acute financial struggles. On Thursday morning Darryl Griffiths, Marketing…

British-Iranian filmmaker Hassan Nazer’s latest film Winners has been selected as the UK's entry to the Best International Film category. Written and directed by Nazer, the film is set in a poor Iranian village where the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and…

The rising cost of living in the UK has led almost 1m British households to cancel their subscriptions to streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+, a new report by market research firm Kantar Worldpanel has found. Between January and September, the number of UK homes that…

UK newspaper The Mirror has apologised for its "terrible error" after mistakenly including a picture of the wrong person in a story about the new Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng.  After the newspaper published a story about the politician's mini-budget last week, it took Kwarteng himself…

UPDATE 2.05pm BST/6.05am PST: The BBC has now suspended flagship network BBC One’s schedule until 6pm local time as coverage of the Queen’s medical condition continues. BBC Two is now playing BBC One’s planned schedule and the other main UK terrestrial channels — ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 — have all run special…

Queen Elizabeth II is unwell in her Balmoral home and is under medical supervision. Buckingham Palace said in a statement: “Following further evaluation this morning, The Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision. “The Queen remains comfortable and…

Venice Critics' Week Unveils 2022 Selection The 37th edition of Venice Critics' Week has unveiled its 2022 line-up. Films in competition comprise Theo Montoya's Anhell69 (Colombia), Philippe Petit's Beating Sun (France), Isabella Carbonell's Dogborn (Sweden) and David Wagner's Eismayer (Austria), Dušan Zorić and…

EXCLUSIVE: British genre festival Grimmfest has unveiled a first wave of films that will be showcased at its 2022 edition running October 6-9 in Manchester. They include U.S. titles Moon Garden by Ryan Stevens Harris, about a young girl struggling to awake from a coma who travels through a strange industrial landscape…

Brian May, lead guitarist for Queen, revealed he has tested positive for Covid. An Instagram post by the musician pictured what he called the “dreaded double red line” on a test device, indicating a positive result. (See the post below.) “Yep,” he wrote. “The shocking day finally came for me. The dreaded double red…