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• Netflix rejects “absurd” Paramount claim of “scorched-earth” campaign over WBD merger

  09-06-2026 23:06 via screendaily.com
  
  Netflix has issued a firm rebuttal and labelled “absurd” a claim by Paramount’s chief legal officer that the streamer has been trying to derail its proposed $111bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD).
  
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• Bleecker Street, LD Entertainment acquire Anton Corbijn’s ‘A Talent For Murder’ with Helen Mirren

  09-06-2026 21:54 via screendaily.com
  
  Oscar winner portrays celebrated novelist Patricia Highsmith in new thriller.
  
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• UK cohort to participate in Sundance Institute summer labs

  09-06-2026 21:01 via screendaily.com
  
  Himesh Patel and novelist Nikesh Shukla among participants.
  
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• ‘Disclosure Day’ review: Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor face an astronomical truth in Steven Spielberg’s stirring sci-fi

  09-06-2026 18:00 via screendaily.com
  
  Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo and Colin Firth also star in the director’s 37th feature
  
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• New York Asian Film Festival 2026 reveals first wave of titles, Joan Chen to receive honour

  09-06-2026 17:00 via screendaily.com
  
  Hong Kong’s Angela Yeun and Japan’s Sara Minami to receive Screen International Rising Star awards.
  
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• French industry rallies around Israel’s Nadav Lapid following forced withdrawal from FID Marseille

  09-06-2026 17:00 via screendaily.com
  
  “Cinema institutions aren’t courageous enough,” Nadiv told Screen.
  
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• French industry rallies around Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid following forced withdrawal from FID Marseille

  09-06-2026 17:00 via screendaily.com
  
  “Cinema institutions aren’t courageous enough,” Nadav Lapid told Screen.
  
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• Left Bank Pictures CEO, Renny Harlin among industry speakers at Malta’s Mediterrane Film Festival

  09-06-2026 16:59 via screendaily.com
  
  Malta’s Land Sea Superstage will be discussed in an industry panel.
  
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• UK competition regulator begins inquiry into Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger

  09-06-2026 16:26 via screendaily.com
  
  A deadline of August 7 has been set for the first phase of inquiry.
  
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• Edna Fainaru, Israeli journalist and film festival specialist, dies aged 85

  09-06-2026 15:16 via screendaily.com
  
  Fainaru was a longtime correspondent for Screen International.
  
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• Social media satire ‘Babystar’ sells to key territories including UK-Ireland

  09-06-2026 13:45 via screendaily.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Film will release in UK-Ireland cinemas in autumn 2026.
  
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• UK’s Elysian Film Group Distribution enters insolvency

  09-06-2026 13:22 via screendaily.com
  
  Danny Perkins’ Elysian Film Group production arm remains in operation.
  
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• ‘Black Money For White Nights’: first trailer for Karlovy Vary competition title

  09-06-2026 13:08 via screendaily.com
  
  The film is directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, who won KVIFF’s top prize in 2019 for ’The Father’.
  
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• Spain’s ECAM Forum unveils 30 projects to sales execs, festival programmers and top producers

  09-06-2026 12:40 via screendaily.com
  
  The event is taking place in Madrid from June 9-11.
  
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• Shivani Pandya Malhotra’s Ta Films expands production slate, readies ‘Drowning’

  09-06-2026 11:47 via screendaily.com
  
  The Dubai-based production company also has a film in development with MBC.
  
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• Cannes Competition drama ‘The Beloved’ starring Javier Bardem picked up for UK-Ireland

  09-06-2026 11:37 via screendaily.com
  
  Exclusive: Bardem plays an acclaimed film director known for his films and for his past of violence and excess.
  
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