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Ben Dalton

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  • 2 days ago | screendaily.com | Ben Dalton

    EXCLUSIVE: The British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) has confirmed its ceremony dates for the next three years, while adding new board members and appointing a chair and deputy chair. The ceremony will remain at the Camden Roundhouse venue through to and including the 2027 ceremony, having taken place there last year for the first time since 2007. The awards will take place on Sunday, November 30, 2025; on Sunday, December 6, 2026; and on Sunday, December 5, 2027.

  • 3 days ago | screendaily.com | Ben Dalton

    Source: Ilkka Saastamoinen EXCLUSIVE: Production is underway in Finland on historical drama Tell Everyone, the new feature from Girl Picture director Alli Haapasalo. Shooting on location in the Seili mental asylum on the Finnish archipelago, Tell Everyone is adapted by Katja Kallio from her 2017 novel Amanda Of The Night. The film follows Amanda, a woman condemned to an isolated mental asylum island; who refuses to submit to the grim fate society has reserved for outcast women.

  • 3 days ago | screendaily.com | Ben Dalton

    Moving the focus to conversation away from competition is the guiding force of Slano Film Days which starts today in Croatia. Mirsad Purivatra, the event’s creator and the former director of the Sarajevo Film Festival, says he is aiming to create a new format of film industry initiative. “People are coming here not to have any kind of red carpet, no pitching, no projects,” says Purivatra, who started Slano last year.

  • 4 days ago | screendaily.com | Ben Dalton

    Mubi has responded to online criticism of its investment from Sequoia Capital, the investment firm with connections to Israeli defence technology firm Kela, saying“the beliefs of individual investors do not reflect the views of Mubi”. Sequoia led a $100m investment in Mubi in May this year, in what marks a rare foray into film and media for the US-based venture capital firm.

  • 4 days ago | screendaily.com | Ben Dalton

    UK-Ireland top five, June 13-15 Rank Title (origin) DistributorJune 13-15 Total Week 1 How To Train Your Dragon (US) Universal £5.7m £8.1m 1 2 Lilo & Stitch (US) Disney £1.5m £33.2m 4 3 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (US) Paramount £1.2m £22.6m 4 4 The Salt Path (UK) Black Bear £590,102 £6m 3 5 Ballerina (US) Lionsgate £580,303 £2.6m 2 GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.36 Universal’s How To Train Your Dragon topped the UK-Ireland box office this weekend with £5.7m – the biggest opening...

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Ben Dalton @daltontowers
17 Mar 25

RT @wembleystadium: A win that generations of Geordies have been waiting for. To celebrate, we are giving you the chance to win a signed…

Ben Dalton
Ben Dalton @daltontowers
17 Mar 25

Springing into the week with an exclusive: British sporting legend @TomDaley1994 is getting the documentary treatment in '1.6 Seconds', a new feature film from @warnerbros, the @Olympics Channel & Western Edge Pictures: https://t.co/omLMaqjbYl

Ben Dalton
Ben Dalton @daltontowers
24 Feb 25

My exclusive: The next James Bond will be selected by a new casting director, for the first time in over 40 years. The legendary Debbie McWilliams is retiring from casting, having cast 13 of the 25 @007 films: https://t.co/GxSVILcXp0