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• Screen Malta special: digital edition

  22-06-2026 13:29 via screendaily.com
  
  Projects such as ’Jurassic World: Dominion’ and ’The Magic Faraway Tree’ have shot on the Mediterranean island.
  
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• Women account for two-thirds of 2026 BAFTA Student Awards finalists

  23-06-2026 00:43 via screendaily.com
  
  Finalists span seven countries; winner announced on July 17 after Experience Week in Los Angeles.
  
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• Google strikes AI partnership with A24, invests in ‘Backrooms’ studio

  22-06-2026 19:59 via screendaily.com
  
  No comment on reported $75m investment.
  
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• Google strikes AI partnership with A24, invests in 'Backrooms' studio

  22-06-2026 19:59 via screendaily.com
  
  Studio did not comment on reported $75m investment.
  
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• Disney’s ‘Toy Story 5’ sets franchise record at UK-Ireland box office

  22-06-2026 17:01 via screendaily.com
  
  Pixar’s animation opened strongly with £14.4m in the territory.
  
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• ‘Lucy Lost’ review: Charming, playful animated adaptation of Michael Morpurgo novel ‘Listen To The Moon’

  22-06-2026 16:46 via screendaily.com
  
  Olivier Clért’s feature debut plays Annecy competition following its Cannes premiere
  
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• Europa Distribution’s new co-presidents to focus on AgoraEU negotiations

  22-06-2026 16:44 via screendaily.com
  
  A Contracorriente’s Eduardo Escudero and Polyfilm’s Sabine Hofmann have been elected co-presidents.
  
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• ‘Leviticus’ review: Striking performances and a balanced tone elevate unnerving Australian LGBTQ+ horror

  22-06-2026 16:22 via screendaily.com
  
  Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen impress in Adrian Chiarella’s feature debut
  
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• Timothee Chalamet, Selena Gomez to voice animation ‘Not Alone’ for Universal

  22-06-2026 15:10 via screendaily.com
  
  Voice cast includes Rob Brydon, Diane Morgan, Jamie Demetriou, Brett Goldstein.
  
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• Transilvania industry prizes go to projects from Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine

  22-06-2026 15:09 via screendaily.com
  
  Bulgarian filmmaker Martin Iliev’s Fathers won the Transilvania Pitch Stop lead prize.
  
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• YouTube animator Vivienne Medrano to direct musical ‘Prehistoria’ for Warner Bros

  22-06-2026 13:30 via screendaily.com
  
  Warner Bros Animation adds cast including James Acaster to ‘Bad Fairies’.
  
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• ‘Our Father’ review: Transilvania’s Special Jury Award winner is brooding, unsettling Serbian addiction drama

  22-06-2026 13:02 via screendaily.com
  
  Goran Stankovic’s feature debut is based on the story of Serbian Orthodox priest Branislav Peranovic, who was jailed for murder
  
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• Edinburgh’s Midnight Madness to open with Chee Keong Cheung’s ‘Bad Day At The Office’

  22-06-2026 13:00 via screendaily.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Thriller was shot using GoPro cameras from a first-person perspective.
  
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• Annecy opens with ‘Minions & Monsters’ in sweltering heat

  22-06-2026 12:00 via screendaily.com
  
  Temperatures hit 36 degrees Celsius in the French lakeside town.
  
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• Kaouther Ben Hania, Daniel Blumberg join Venice Competition jury

  22-06-2026 11:33 via screendaily.com
  
  They join jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal.
  
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• Production to begin this month on ‘Ballerina 2’, sequel to French animation hit

  22-06-2026 11:30 via screendaily.com
  
  Paris-based production firm Good Hero is also expanding the IP to a series.
  
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• Spain’s ‘Lionel’ wins top award at Transilvania film festival

  22-06-2026 11:17 via screendaily.com
  
  Other winners included Konstantina Kotzamani’s ‘Titanic Ocean’ and Goran Stanković’s ‘Our Father’.
  
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• UK cinema chain Everyman on path to quit London Stock Exchange ahead of possible takeover bid

  22-06-2026 10:02 via screendaily.com
  
  Admissions and revenue were both up year-on-year in the first 21 weeks of 2026.
  
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• ‘Toy Story 5’ launches with record $312m at global box office; ‘Disclosure Day’ leads holdover pack with $36.1m second weekend

  22-06-2026 01:57 via screendaily.com
  
  ’Toy Story 5’ tops global box office
  
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• ‘Toy Story 5’ launches with record $312m at global box office; ‘Disclosure Day’ leads holdover pack with $35.7m second weekend

  22-06-2026 01:57 via screendaily.com
  
  ’Toy Story 5’ tops global box office
  
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• ‘Toy Story 5’ scores biggest North American box office bow of 2026 on $160m

  21-06-2026 21:24 via screendaily.com
  
  Overall year-to-date box office of $4.5bn tracks 14% ahead of 2025 by same stage.
  
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• ‘Atlantic Rhapsody’ wins top Golden Goblet award at Shanghai film festival

  21-06-2026 15:07 via screendaily.com
  
  Further winners included ‘Her First Taste’, which scooped the best film in the Asian New Talent section
  
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• Amazon MGM Studios offloading Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Artificial’ about OpenAI head Sam Altman

  19-06-2026 21:07 via screendaily.com
  
  ”We believe that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio.”
  
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• ‘Obsession’ director Curry Barker sets third feature at Blumhouse Atomic Monster, Universal Film Group

  19-06-2026 19:49 via screendaily.com
  
  ’Obsession’ crossing $300m at worldwide box office this weekend.
  
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• 'Obsession' director Curry Barker sets third feature at Blumhouse Atomic Monster, Universal Film Group

  19-06-2026 19:49 via screendaily.com
  
  ’Obsession’ crossing $300m at worldwide box office this weekend.
  
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• Ruben Ostlund reveals further plot details of ‘The Entertainment System Is Down’

  19-06-2026 17:48 via screendaily.com
  
  Cricket, Australian masculinity, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Adam Sandler all play their part.
  
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• Olivier Clert’s Annecy competition title ‘Lucy Lost’ sells around the world

  19-06-2026 16:14 via screendaily.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Clert, producer Marc du Pontavice discuss switching from series to feature.
  
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• UK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Toy Story 5’ plays in 699 cinemas

  19-06-2026 16:12 via screendaily.com
  
  ’Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day’, Welsh-language ’Effi O Blaenau’ also open.
  
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• Gaga boards ‘The Potentials’ from Koreeda protégé Shoichi Morimoto

  19-06-2026 15:51 via screendaily.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The drama is co-directed by Takuma Sato of ‘Any Crybabies Around?’
  
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• ‘Iron Boy’ review: Belgian animator Louis Clichy’s first feature is striking, personal study of a challenging childhood

  19-06-2026 15:00 via screendaily.com
  
  Clichy’s debut bowed in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard before moving on to Annecy competition
  
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