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• Hasbro launches subsidiary AI studio Sixth Wall to exploit IP

  03-06-2026 22:29 via screendaily.com
  
  Company strikes partnership with leading AI audio company ElevenLabs.
  
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• Production begins on UK, Malta shoot ‘Jason Statham Stole My Bike’

  04-06-2026 21:55 via screendaily.com
  
  Meta action comedy arrives in summer 2027.
  
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• Fantasia second wave includes Jane Schoenbrun, Adams Family, ‘Cape Fear’

  04-06-2026 19:19 via screendaily.com
  
  Montreal festival runs July 16-August 2. Full line-up coming in July.
  
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• 2026 Frontières Market brings first Thai project, growing female presence, record submissions

  04-06-2026 17:03 via screendaily.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Fifteenth annual event runs in Montreal from July 22-25.
  
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• ‘Obsession’, ‘Camp Miasma’ to compete at 30th Bucheon fantasy festival

  04-06-2026 16:55 via screendaily.com
  
  The 11 titles in competition also include ‘Hokum’ and ‘Nightborn’.
  
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• Netflix EMEA head says UK earnings boost local ecosystem and do not “disappear into a black box in California”

  04-06-2026 16:39 via screendaily.com
  
  Larry Tanz, EMEA content chief, said UK revenues are “recycled into more British investment, more stories, more jobs and more infrastructure”.
  
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• Banijay and Pact lobby for household levy to replace UK licence fee

  04-06-2026 16:31 via screendaily.com
  
  Banijay UK and Pact support the introduction of a household levy to replace the BBC’s licence fee funding.
  
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• Films by Kuosmanen, Akin and Seidl among seven projects backed by German minority co-production fund

  04-06-2026 15:42 via screendaily.com
  
  Kuosmanen’s ’Dream Come True’  is inspired by the true story surrounding the salvaging of the cargo of the world’s most expensive champagne in the 1990s.
  
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• ‘Iluminada’: first trailer for Nicolas Rincon Gille’s film ahead of Shanghai launch

  04-06-2026 15:30 via screendaily.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Belgian film follows a young woman who sees visions which she tries to decipher.
  
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• ‘Scary Movie’ review: The Wayans brothers return for dull, dated sixth instalment of horror parody franchise

  04-06-2026 15:00 via screendaily.com
  
  Stars Anna Faris and Regina Hall are also back in the first ’Scary Movie’ feature since 2013
  
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• Neon boards Asif Kapadia’s ‘70Up’ as Tom Quinn says: “While everyone is snoozing on docs, I’m a firm believer”

  04-06-2026 13:52 via screendaily.com
  
  Quinn is also on the lookout for international action thrillers and TV projects.
  
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• Neon boards Asif Kapadia’s ‘70 Up’ as Tom Quinn says: “While everyone is snoozing on docs, I’m a firm believer”

  04-06-2026 13:52 via screendaily.com
  
  Quinn is also on the lookout for international action thrillers and TV projects.
  
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• Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard join Croatia’s Slano Film Days lineup

  04-06-2026 12:00 via screendaily.com
  
  Pawel Pawlikowski will present his Cannes prizewinner ‘Fatherland’ at the event.
  
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• French truck driver romance ‘Flesh And Fuel’ drives to deals for North America and UK-Ireland

  04-06-2026 11:42 via screendaily.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The French film won a prize at Cannes Critics’ Week.
  
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• Our critics’ hidden gems from the 2026 Cannes Film Festival - The Screen Podcast

  04-06-2026 11:38 via screendaily.com
  
  Screen’s senior critics Wendy Ide and Tim Grierson share the films they think deserve more attention.
  
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• Marjane Satrapi, Iranian French director of ‘Persepolis’, dies aged 56

  04-06-2026 11:06 via screendaily.com
  
  The artist and filmmaker is also known for directing ‘Radioactive’.
  
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• American Cinema Editors sets awards season timetable

  04-06-2026 00:48 via screendaily.com
  
  Ceremony to take place in Los Angeles on February 6.
  
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• Bangkok International Content Market launches to boost Thailand as Asia content hub

  03-06-2026 18:42 via screendaily.com
  
  The market will be dedicated to film, series and animation.
  
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• Simon Rumley’s Thailand-set thriller ‘Crushed’ lands key deals including UK-Ireland, North America

  03-06-2026 16:18 via screendaily.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The film has played at Edinburgh, Fantastic Fest and Sitges.
  
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• Universal, UK government confirm £7.3bn investment in Bedford theme park

  03-06-2026 15:29 via screendaily.com
  
  Name unveiled for new resort, which is scheduled to open in 2031.
  
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• Surprise hit ‘Dear You’ now China’s second biggest film of 2026

  03-06-2026 14:03 via screendaily.com
  
  Lan Hongchun’s nostalgic family drama has earned more than $213m to date.
  
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• Netflix US comms head Emily Feingold to depart

  03-06-2026 12:10 via screendaily.com
  
  Feingold is an experienced comms executive who has worked at Ralph Lauren and the Doha Film Institute.
  
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• UK-Ireland box office up in first quarter of 2026, boosted by book-to-screen adaptations

  03-06-2026 11:19 via screendaily.com
  
  ‘Project Hail Mary’, ‘Wuthering Heights’, ‘Hamnet’ and ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ have all been released.
  
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• Bendita Film Sales boards Karlovy Vary title Jan-Eric Mack’s ‘A Happy Family’

  03-06-2026 10:59 via screendaily.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The film explores themes of poverty and social inequality in Switzerland.
  
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• ‘Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day’ review: A spirited Haley Bennett helps lift weighty adaptation

  02-06-2026 16:37 via screendaily.com
  
  Tina Gharavi’s take on Woolf’s 1919 novel opens SXSW London before a theatrical release
  
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• Un Certain Regard prize-winner ‘Congo Boy’ scores key deals for The Party

  02-06-2026 16:27 via screendaily.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Rafiki Fariala’s fiction debut heading to Germany and Austria, Brazil, Norway and Denmark.
  
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• French box office jumps 33% to 15 million admissions in May powered by ‘Michael,’ ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’

  02-06-2026 16:23 via screendaily.com
  
  The highest-grossing local film in May was 1980s-set family comedy Just An Illusion. 
  
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• Yukiko Sode’s ‘All The Lovers In The Night’ lands multiple deals after Cannes bow

  02-06-2026 15:46 via screendaily.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The film received its world premiere in Un Certain Regard.
  
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• Cyrielle Raingou, Mikel Gurrea films among six-strong line up for Munich’s first work-in-progress showcase

  02-06-2026 15:17 via screendaily.com
  
  Inaugural First Cut+ Munich event will present projects by filmmakers from Brazil, Cameroon, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Spain and Germany.
  
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• “We got it wrong,” says UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy of government misstep on AI and copyright strategy

  02-06-2026 15:04 via screendaily.com
  
  Nandy took part in an on-stage conversation with screenwriter Steven Knight at SXSW London.
  
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