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Switzerland’s Visions du Reel documentary film festival has selected the winners for its 57th edition, with Xisi Sofia Ye Chen’s From Dawn To Dawn taking the top prize. Chen’s debut feature, a Spain-France co-production, won the 20,000 CHF ($25,486) Grand Jury Prize in the International Feature Film Competition. It depicts Chen’s brother A Wen, now a family man in Barcelona, who was involved in the Chinese criminal community in Spain in his youth. Scroll down for the full list of festival, industry winners The jury for the International Feature Film Competition consisted of Marrakech Film Festival artistic director Remi Bonhomme,…

Ignasi Camós, who served as director general of Spain’s film body ICAA since June 2023, has died. He was 56. Spain’s culture ministry confirmed the news on Thursday (April 23) and paid tribute to Camós’s “commitment and public service”. Camós, who died of cancer, was appointed to his role following the departure of Beatriz Navas and remained in the post under successive culture ministers, including Miquel Iceta and current minister Ernest Urtasun. A doctor in law, Camós combined an academic career with long experience in public administration. He was a tenured professor of labour and social security law at the…

The Drama starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson has crossed $100m at the worldwide box office, becoming A24’s fifth film to do so after Everything Everywhere All At Once, Civil War, Materialists, and Marty Supreme. The romantic two-hander directed by Kristoffer Borgli reached the milestone on Tuesday (April 21) and as of the morning of April 22 stood at $101.3m worldwide, $60.2m internationally, and $41.1m in North America, The film, budgeted at approximately $25m, has grossed $11.1m in the UK through Entertainment, $5.6m in France through Metropolitan, $5.4m in Italy through I Wonder and CIS through Volga, $4.2m in Mexico through…

EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Ackie, Alison Oliver, Éanna Hardwicke and Armande Boulanger are leading the cast of To Make Ends Meat, the second feature from Hoard filmmaker Luna Carmoon, which wrapped a six-week shoot in and around London last month. To Make Ends Meat follows three women, all in debt to despicable men, their pasts, and each other. The women find themselves bargaining to survive in the only language these men seem to understand: consumption and violence. Goodfellas is handling international sales and will launch the film at Cannes, with True Brit holding UK-Ireland distribution rights. The film reunites Carmoon with Hoard…

UK-Ireland top five, April 17-19 Rank  Film (origin) Distributor Apr 17-19 Total Week 1  The Super Mario Galaxy Movie  (US)  Universal  £2.6m  £32.9m  3 2   Project Hail Mary  (US)  Sony  £1.7m   £30.3m  5 3   The Drama  (US)  EFD  £1.2m  £8.1m  3  4   Lee Cronin’s The Mummy  (US)  Warner Bros  £970,220  £970,220  1  5   Akira  (Japan)  Anime  £881,306  £883,200  1  GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.35 The Super Mario Galaxy Movie neared £33m on its third weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, as new releases Lee Cronin’s The Mummy and Akira entered…

Warner Bros’ horror Lee Cronin’s The Mummy opens in UK and Ireland cinemas this weekend as event titles dominate new releases.  The Mummy is launching in 550 locations. A reimagining of the horror franchise from the 1930s and 40s, the film follows a father whose daughter returns eight years after disappearing in the desert. Cronin previously directed 2023’s Evil Dead Rise which opened on £1.5m from 587 cinemas. Jack Reynor and Laia Costa star in The Mummy which is also produced by horror juggernaut James Wan, whose credits include The Conjuring, Saw and M3GAN franchises. National Theatre Live’s All My Sons…

Nathalie Baye, one of France’s most renowned actresses, has died at the age of 77.  Baye starred in more than 80 films during a career that spanned five decades, working with acclaimed filmmakers including François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol.  She was also a familiar face outside of France with roles in Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can, Downton Abbey: A New Era and Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways.  She won the best actress award at the 1999 Venice Film Festival for An Affair Of Love and had a long history at Cannes Film Festival, serving on the jury in 1996 and appearing in multiple…

It is a very quiet year for UK-Ireland directors and producers in the official selection and parallel sidebars of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.  Clio Barnard is representing UK filmmakers with the BFI and BBC Film-backed I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, which has been selected for Directors’ Fortnight, produced by Tracy O’Riordan at Moonspun Pictures. Additionally, Amsterdam-based UK-Yemeni filmmaker Sara Ishaq’s The Station has been selected for Critics’ Week. For Ireland, Alexander Murphy’s feature documentary about Irish travellers, Tin Castle, is also screening in Critics’ Week. The film is produced by Eamon Hughes of Dublin-based Samson Films, with Cosme Bongrain of France’s Goodspeed Productions.  There are no films by…

Paramount CEO David Ellison moved to allay concerns over the studio’s proposed merger with Warner Bros Discovery when he told CinemaCon attendees on Thursday morning that he was fully committed to the theatrical model. “I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and say that once we combine with Warner Bros we’re going to make a minimum of 30 films across both studios,” the CEO said. “At Paramount we’ve already demonstrated since launching the new company eight months ago our ability to increase output, with 15 films for for 2026, up from eight in 2025. ”Every…

Warner Bros pulled out the stops in a sensory assault of a CinemaCon presentation on Tuesday afternoon that saw on-stage appearances from Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman – separately – as well as Zendaya, Sandra Bullock, Timothée Chalamet, Jason Momoa and two of the greatest living directors. It culminated with the opening seven minutes from Dune: Part Three. When motion picture group co-heads Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy assembled their key executives and brought up the house lights to applaud exhibitors after two-and-a-half hours at Dolby Colosseum, they were acknowledging a Goliath year at the box office and awards…