Win a Shane Meadows Box Set + Poster with Tyrannosaur

Tyrannosaur UK Poster

To celebrate the cinema release of Paddy Considine’s TYRANNOSAUR on Friday, we’re giving you the chance to win one three goodie bags, containing a Shane Meadows DVD boxet of This Is England, A Room for Romeo Brass, Dead Man’s Shoes and Twenty Four Seven, plus a Tyrannosaur poster signed by writer/director Considine! The highly-anticipated directorial [...]

Tom Harper is Lost For Words

Tom Harper

British director Tom Harper has been tapped to helm a new film project from Working Title called Lost For Words. Harper was responsible for 2009′s The Scouting Book for Boys and has just finished duties on Channel 4′s This Is England ’86, a TV sequel to Shane Meadows’ This Is England. Synopsis: Lost For Words [...]

Save the UK Film Council! – Sign the Petition

In The Loop

A couple of days ago, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced that the UK Film Council is to be axed as part of departmental cost-cutting measures. The UKFC was founded in 2000 and through it, the government funded UK films to the tune of around £15m each year. The UKFC chairman, Tim Bevan, [...]

Government to Abolish UK Film Council

John Woodward, CEO of the UK Film Council, told staff this morning of the plan to abolish the UK Film Council, which, since it’s launch in 2000, has invested Lottery money and government grants in the production of more than 900 films, including such critical and commercial successes as: Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold), In The [...]