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RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Sep 13-15)Total gross to dateWeek  1. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice  (Warner Bros)  £2.5m £18.2m 3  2. Speak No Evil  (Universal) £813,979 £3m 2  3. Lee  (Studiocanal) £555,529 £1.8m 2  4. The Substance (Mubi) £519,668 £591,322 1  5. Despicable Me 4  (Universal) £369,840 £46.7m 11 GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.32 Warner Bros’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice continued its reign at the UK and Ireland box office this weekend as it crossed the £18m mark while Mubi body horror The Substance opened in fourth place. The Beetlejuice sequel dropped 42% in its third…

Worldwide box office September 13-15 RankFilm (distributor)3-day (world)Cume (world)3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l)Territories  1.  Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros)  $80.3m  $264.3m  $28.7m  $76.3m  77  2.  Speak No Evil (Universal)  $20.8m  $20.8m  $9.3m  $9.3m  74  3.   Veteran 2: I, The Executioner (CJE&M)  $15m  $15m  $15m  $15m  1  4.   Deadpool & Wolverine (Disney)  $10.9m  $1.3bn  $5.7m  $683.5m  53  5.   Stand By Me (various)  $9.8m  $9.9m  $9.8m  $9.9m  1  6.   It Ends With Us (Sony)  $9.3m  $325.4m  $7.3m  $180.6m  62  7.   Alien: Romulus (Disney)  $8.7m  $330.6m  $6.3m  $229.4m  85 …

The urgent need for further support for UK independent producers, a requirement to identify and grasp emergent funding streams and better understanding of what audiences actually want were among the urgent calls to action from Screen International’s ‘The Future of UK Film’ Summit 2024, held on September 24 at BFI Southbank. Top executives from throughout the sector came together for panel talks and Q&A sessions, sharing stories from the industry frontline to inspire and galvanise. Seven key themes emerged from the various conversations. Save our producers The summit began with fresh insights from the British Film Institute (BFI) and industry…

Pedro Almodóvar reflected on his long career and the political nature of his films at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (SIFF) where he is in town to receive the festival’s honorary Donostia Award.  Almodóvar attended a packed press conference today (September 26) with cast including Tilda Swinton from his first English-language feature: The Room Next Door, which earlier this month won the Golden Lion at Venice. Almodóvar arrived in San Sebastian yesterday (September 25), the day of his 75th birthday. “The last 24 hours have been an emotional whirlwind, even more so than I expected,” said the director. “I…

BFI deputy CEO Harriet Finney said she is very optimistic the Independent Film Tax Credit (IFTC), or enhanced audio-visual credit for lower-budget film, is on track to be ratified under the new UK government.  ”I assure you, there is a lot of work taking place behind the scenes,” said Finney, speaking at Screen’s ’The Future of UK Film’ Summit, held at the BFI Southbank yesterday (September 24). “The DCMS [Department for Culture, Media and Sport] is working very, very hard on everything that needs to happen in terms of getting that statutory instrument laid.” The IFTC, effectively an enhanced tax relief…

Italy has selected Maura Delpero’s Venice Silver Lion winner Vermiglio as its entry for the best international feature Oscar. Vermiglio won the Grand Jury Prize in Competition at Venice earlier this month. Set in 1944 in the Italian alpine village after which the film is named, it sees the arrival of a deserter soldier disrupt the life of the village teacher and his family, as the eldest daughter falls in love with him. Producers on the film are Francesca Andreoli, Santiago Fondevila, Leonardo Guerra Seragnoli and Delpero, for Italy’s Cinedora with Rai Cinema, in co-production with France’s Charades Productions and…

In mouth-watering casting news, MRC said on Monday that Margot Robbie will star as Catherine Earnshaw opposite fellow Australian Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights. The film will shoot in the UK. Robbie’s LuckyChap will produce the adaptation of Emily Brontë’s mid-19th century gothic tale of obsession and desire which has fascinated film and television producers for nearly a century. Fennell will write, direct and produce Wuthering Heights, which MRC said on Monday is in pre-production ahead of a UK shoot in 2025. MRC is financing the production. The upcoming feature is heavy on reunion. LuckyChap…

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Sep 13-15) Total gross to date Week  1. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice  (Warner Bros)  £4.3m £14.4m 2  2. Speak No Evil  (Universal) £1.2m £1.4m 1  3. Lee  (Studiocanal) £674,914 £705,643 1  4. Prima Facie  (NT Live) £554,794 £1.5m 1  5. Despicable Me 4  (Universal) £389,930 £46.3m 10  GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.32 Warner Bros’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice crossed £14m in a second weekend atop the UK-Ireland box office chart as Universal’s latest Blumhouse horror Speak No Evil opened in second place. Tim…

Mubi horror The Substance leads the new releases at this weekend’s UK and Ireland box office, opening in 521 locations. It is Mubi’s widest-ever release, beating out Priscilla which opened in 295 cinemas in January and the 150 locations How To Have Sex debuted in last year. The Substance stars Demi Moore as a fading star who takes a mysterious drug that enables her to live as a younger version of herself, played by Margaret Qualley. Coralie Fargeat wrote and directed the feature which also stars Dennis Quaid. The film had its world premiere at Cannes in competition, where it won…

Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters spoke on Friday about the company’s local language business, stating: “I think about this as unlocking the creative potential of the human race around the planet.” In a wide-ranging conversation at the Financial Times Business of Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles, Peters said the service is producing content “in 50 countries and 50 languages”. The executive, who just returned from a trip to South Korea and Japan and will visit five countries in Europe next week as the company celebrates ten years on that continent, said: “We’ve got teams around the world that are deeply embedded…