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The government have announced plans to fund the UK’s arts, culture and heritage industries with £1.57billion to help them “weather the impact of coronavirus”.
The support package, which was announced today (July 5), will provide music venues, independent cinemas, museums, galleries, theatres and heritage sites with emergency grants and loans.
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Thor: Ragnarok star Tessa Thompson has said Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will “push the bounds” of representation.
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The actor plays Marvel’s first openly LGBTQ+ character, Valkyrie. So far, she has appeared in Ragnarok and Avengers: Endgame, and is due to star in 2022’s Thor: Love And Thunder.
Speaking with Ramy Youssef for Variety’s Actors On Actors series, Thompson discussed t

"Your machine is censoring my work!" Blue Finch Films in the UK has debuted an official UK trailer for an indie sci-fi horror fantasy film titled Peripheral, from SFX artist & filmmaker Paul Hyett. This guy knows what he's doing! He has worked on make-up & SFX for Attack the Block, The Woman in Black, Centurion, The Eagle, and many other films. Peripheral is about a young author struggling with her difficult second novel. While dealing with a crazed stalker and a junkie ex-boyfriend, Bo

"After we die… what then?" Film Movement has released an official US trailer for the indie fantasy drama film titled Carmilla, which is "inspired by" Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic Gothic vampire novella of the same name. Described as "a moody, atmospheric, coming-of-age love story steeped in eerie mystery and inspired by the vampire story." This originally premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival last year, and we featured the original UK trailer earlier this year. Starring Hannah Rae

Some film and TV productions will be exempt from coronavirus quarantine rules, the UK government announced today (July 5).
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Currently, people travelling into the UK must quarantine for two weeks on arrival. However, the government’s new plan will allow those who are essential to a production will not be required to quarantine.
Instead, they will have to live and work in a controlled “bubble” environment for 14 da

Chiwetel Ejiofor has said that the movie industry needs to embrace diversity in order “to survive.”
In a new interview with Digital Spy promoting the release of Netflix‘s The Old Guard, the Marvel actor spoke about diversity across both the cast and story itself.
“That was already in the script, but [director Gina Prince-Bythewood] was going to enhance all of those elements of inclusion and representation that are really going to be, I think, a fundamental and v

HBO have shared the trailer for their upcoming new comedy An American Pickle, which sees Seth Rogen starring in two different roles.
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Set to premiere on HBO Max on August 6, An American Pickle is based on Simon Rich’s 2013 short story, New Yorker.
It follows struggling immigrant Herschel Greenbaum (Rogen), who falls into a vat of pickles in Brooklyn in 1920, only to wake up brined and young 100 years later.

Bill Pullman has offered advice to Americans on the importance of wearing “freedom masks” to combat the coronavirus in a new video, interspersed with shots from Independence Day to mark the American public holiday.
Pullman, who played President Thomas J. Whitmore in the 1996 blockbuster, is introduced as “the most presidential actor of all time” in clip, released yesterday (July 4) via Alamo Drafthouse.
“Hello America. I may not be your president right now, but

Tom Hanks is hoping to return to Australia by the end of this year to continue filming the forthcoming, currently-untitled, Elvis Presley biopic.
As the Sydney Morning Herald reports, Hanks said the production team is tentatively looking at “making this movie in October”, but that date is still up the air.
“There is certainly a plan and a desire from the studio’s perspective and from everybody else involved in the movie to figure out a way to make it happen,” Hanks