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The acrimonious dispute between Cineworld-owned Picturehouse Cinemas and the landlord at its flagship Trocadero site in central London looks set to continue. Last Friday (May 23), Picturehouse won a judgment against the landlord London Trocadero LLP over the overcharging of commission on insurance rent at Picturehouse Central, with the landlord now required to repay the cinema operator an amount reportedly above £700,000. However, contacted by Screen, London Trocadero LLP, part of the Criterion Group of companies, confirmed it would be appealing against the judgment. “Whilst we respect the decision of the Learned Judge, we disagree with it. Indeed, no doubt many…

193 has secured extensive sales on four titles from its Cannes slate, including Lynne Ramsay’s Competition entry Die, My Love. Patrick Wachsberger’s sales and production firm, a stand-alone joint venture with US firm Legendary, has sold Die, My Love to Baltics (GPI), CIS (Provzglyad-Vesta), Hong Kong (Golden Scene), Indonesia (Falcon Films), Israel (Forum Film), Japan (The Klockworx), Middle East (Italia Films), Mongolia (FilmBridge), Philippines (Pioneer Films), Poland (Vision Film), Portugal (NOS Audiovisuais), and Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro (KCS). Mubi previously picked up the film during the festival for North America, UK-Ireland, Latin America, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Turkey,…

Rank Film (origin)DistributorMay 2-4 gross TotalWeek UK-Ireland top five, May 16-18, 2025 1  Final Destination: Bloodlines (US)  Warner Bros  £2.8m  £4m  1 2  Thunderbolts* (US)  Disney  £1.2m  £13.9m  3 3  Sinners (US)  Warner Bros  £717,642  £14.4m  5 4  A Minecraft Movie (US)  Warner Bros  £470,437  £55.5m   7 5  Hurry Up Tomorrow (US)  Lionsgate  £164,638  £164,638  1 GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.34 Warner Bros’ horror Final Destination: Bloodlines knocked Disney’s Thundebolts* off the top spot at the UK and Ireland box office this weekend with the second strongest opening of the franchise.…

HBO has unveiled the casting of the key roles of Harry, Hermione and Ron for its upcoming series adaptation of Harry Potter. HBO has cast screen newcomers Dominic McLaughlin in the role of Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley.  Harry Potter showrunner and executive producer Francesca Gardiner and director and executive producer Mark Mylod said: “After an extraordinary search led by casting directors Lucy Bevan and Emily Brockmann, we are delighted to announce we have found our Harry, Hermione, and Ron. The talent of these three unique actors is wonderful to behold, and…

Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch and Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning kicked off summer blockbuster season with a record-breaking four-day Memorial Day weekend, securing the top two slots on an estimated $183m and $77.5m, respectively. Over three days, the dynamic duo earned $145m and $64m. Comscore said the three-day Friday-through-Sunday weekend generated $262m in total, pushing North American box office for the year to date to just over $3bn. All releases combined for $322m, ahead of the previous $314m benchmark set in 2013, when Fast & Furious 6, The Hangover Part III, and Star Trek: Into Darkness fuelled film-going. Through Sunday, sales were…

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning comfortably led the weekend box office in South Korea, earning $5.46m from 759,358 admissions and recording the highest opening day of the year to date. The Hollywood action sequel, starring Tom Cruise, drew 423,945 admissions on Saturday (May 17), according to the Korean Film Council. This surpassed the year’s previous opening-day high of 248,047 set by Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17, and was also comfortably ahead of Exhuma, the biggest hit of 2024, which began with 330,118. The eighth instalment in the blockbuster franchise also managed to top the opening day of previous film Mission:…

The Match Factory has secured 20 additional sales on Cannes Jury Prize winner Sirât, including major territories UK-Ireland, Germany and Latin America. Oliver Laxe’s film has sold to UK-Ireland (Altitude), Latin America (Cine Video y TV), Benelux (Cineart), Germany and Austria (Pandora Film), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Japan (Transformer), South Korea (Challan), Taiwan (Andrews Film), Australia-New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), Poland (New Horizons), Sweden (TriArt Film), Norway (Fidalgo), Finland (Cinema Mondo), Greece (Feelgood Entertainment), Portugal (Nitrato Filmes), former Yugoslavia (MCF MegaCom), Romania (Transilvania Film), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Aerofilms), Hungary (Cirko Film), and the Baltics (A-One Films). Neon acquired the film for North…

Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning are set to drive the North American box office to a huge Memorial Day holiday weekend, with the aggregate gross for all films over the four-day period expected to be as high as $300m.  The total will certainly beat last year’s Memorial Day weekend tally of $132m and could approach the record for the late May holiday span of $314m, set in 2013 when Fast & Furious 6 and The Hangover Part III were the weekend’s new releases.  Disney’s Lilo & Stitch is looking like a powerful draw after grossing…

UPDATE: Sinners held off the re-release of Revenge Of The Sith to stay atop North American box office as a confirmed $45.7m haul in the second weekend boosted the running total to $123.2m and ensure a Warner Bros film ruled the charts for the fourth consecutive weekend. A strong late-April session elevated box office and earned $146.5m, pushing the year to date to $2.28bn and approximately 11% ahead of 2024 by the same stage. Playing in 3,347 locations, Ryan Coogler’s period vampire tale starring Michael B. Jordan dropped an impressive 6% from last weekend. That was the lowest second-weekend drop for an…

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s comedy-drama A Useful Ghost has won the Grand Prix in the independent Critics’ Week sidebar in Cannes. The film was chosen by a jury led by president Rodrigo Sorogoyen, and fellow jurors Jihane Bougrine, Josée Deshaies, Yulina Evina Bhara and Daniel Kaluuya. Scroll down for the full list of prizes Set in Thailand, Boonbunchachoke’s debut feature centres on a man grieving the loss of his wife to dust pollution. He discovers that she has been reincarnated in a vacuum cleaner, which leads to their bond rekindling. Written by Boonbunchachoke, the film is produced by Cattleya Paosrijeroen and Soros…