SXSW London’s Head of Screen on Picking From Thousands of Films With an Int’l and Genre Lens and That ‘Get Jiro!’ Get

SXSW London’s Head of Screen on Picking From Thousands of Films With an Int’l and Genre Lens and That ‘Get Jiro!’ Get

The second edition of SXSW London is nearly upon us, with Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, starring Haley Bennett, Jack Whitehall, Lily Allen, Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Sally Phillips, Misia Butler and Elyas M’Barek, opening the 2026 Screen Festival on Monday, June 1. The rom-com from director Tina Gharavi and screenwriter Justine Waddell is an adaptation of…

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Co-opting the “Hollywood Machine to Tell Different Kinds of Stories”: Liam Young on His Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’

Co-opting the “Hollywood Machine to Tell Different Kinds of Stories”: Liam Young on His Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’

Welcome to a different kind of science fiction experience! Embark on a journey through six possible future worlds and engage with films, audio stories and soundscapes, installations and projections, costumes and tapestries, movie miniatures and speculative artefacts. This is In Other Worlds, an immersive experience created by designer, director, and producer Liam Young (Planet City),…

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Diego Luna, ‘Andor’ Star Denise Gough, Jeffrey Wright, Richard Ayoade Lend Their Voices to Liam Young’s Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’

Diego Luna, ‘Andor’ Star Denise Gough, Jeffrey Wright, Richard Ayoade Lend Their Voices to Liam Young’s Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’

A new and star-studded immersive experience at London’s Barbican Centre invites us to explore “imagined futures for our planet, rooted in real technology and climate-based possibilities,” and imagine a better one. The voice of Diego Luna (Rogue One, Andor, Y tu mamá también) takes us out of everyday life with a prologue to In Other…

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BFI’s Cannes Great 8 Showcase Includes Films With Christina Hendricks, Joe Locke, Hiam Abbass

BFI’s Cannes Great 8 Showcase Includes Films With Christina Hendricks, Joe Locke, Hiam Abbass

The Brits are coming… to the Croisette! The British Film Institute (BFI) continued an annual tradition on Thursday, unveiling its 2026 crop of “Great 8” movies, eight features from the “most exciting first-time and early career filmmakers” that it will showcase to international distributors and festival programmers in the run-up to and during the Marché du Film market taking place during…

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London’s Queer East Festival Is a Mix of Cinematic Milestones, Film Discoveries and Community

London’s Queer East Festival Is a Mix of Cinematic Milestones, Film Discoveries and Community

London’s Queer East Festival is back for its seventh edition, showcasing cinema and performing arts in venues across the British capital from May 1 to June 6. The annual exploration of East and Southeast Asia’s ever-evolving queer landscape will kick off at the Barbican with the U.K. premiere of the landmark 4K restoration of the 1986 Taiwanese film The Outsiders, the first screen adaptation of…

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Dwayne Johnson and Stephen Merchant Adapting ‘Fighting With My Family’ Into Stage Musical

Dwayne Johnson and Stephen Merchant Adapting ‘Fighting With My Family’ Into Stage Musical

Dwayne Johnson and Stephen Merchant‘s 2019 film Fighting With My Family is getting the musical treatment. Merchant’s biopic is being developed for the stage by Tilted Musicals, in collaboration with Seven Bucks Productions (co-founded by Johnson and Dany Garcia), Merchant himself, Kevin Misher and Birmingham Hippodrome. With the book and lyrics by Olivier Award-winning playwright…

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ITV’s ‘Believe Me’: Daniel Mays on the Toll of Playing the “Black Cab Rapist” and Writer Jeff Pope on Focusing on Victims Rather Than the Predator

ITV’s ‘Believe Me’: Daniel Mays on the Toll of Playing the “Black Cab Rapist” and Writer Jeff Pope on Focusing on Victims Rather Than the Predator

The upcoming ITV drama Believe Me features established and rising British stars coming together to tell a harrowing British story. Aimée-Ffion Edwards (Slow Horses, Peaky Blinders, Mr Burton), Aasiya Shah (Raised by Wolves, Bloods, The Beast Must Die) and Miriam Petche (Industry) feature in the four-episode series opposite Daniel Mays (Line of Duty, Des, A Thousand Blows, Moonflower Murders) as John Worboys,…

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