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UK creative industries minister Chris Bryant underlined the government’s vision for supporting the UK film industry in an emphatic speech at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16.

“We want to do two things in the UK as the Labour government in relation to film,” said Bryant. “We want to be the best place in the world to make film,” pointing towards the roles played by local authorities, film studios, business rates for studios, and promoting a deep pool of talent.

He encouraged the industry to continue to access funding from “the United States of America, or from India, or Nigeria,...

A long-forgotten, and underrated, action movie starring Blade’s Wesley Snipes and Hollywood icon Tommy Lee Jones is headed to free streaming. Released back in 1998, the action thriller outing U.S. Marshals is, in fact, a sequel to the 90s Harrison Ford action classic The Fugitive, and finds another wrongly accused man on the run from Jones’ unrelenting Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal, Samuel Gerard. This time, instead of chasing Indiana Jones, Gerard must deal with The Daywalker.

Directed by Stuart Baird and written by John Pogue, U.S. Marshals finds Snipes’ federal fugitive Mark Roberts on the run...and possessing his own particular set of skills. Starring several cast members from The Fugitive alongside Jones, including Joe Pantoliano, Daniel Roebuck, and Tom Wood, as well as Kate Nelligan, Latanya Richardson Jackson, and Robert Downey Jr., U.S. Marshals is headed to free streaming platform Tubi on April 1, and you can...

British diver Tom Daley is the subject of 1.6 Seconds, a new feature documentary from Warner Bros. Discovery, the Olympic Channel and UK producers Western Edge Pictures.

Directed by Western Edge Pictures’ Vaughan Sivell, 1.6 Seconds will premiere on the discovery+ channel in the UK and Ireland in early June, and broadcast on Really and TNT Sports later that month.

Olympics.com will premiere the film in the US and territories outside of Europe; while it will broadcast on Max and discovery+ across mainland Europe in early June, then on June 23 on Eurosport.

The film has been produced for Warner Bros. Discovery...

UK distributor Verve Pictures has picked up a trio of titles for theatrical release, including BFI Flare world premiere A Night Like This.

Two men cross paths one night and join forces in a quest around London to find a meaning to their miserable lives, to find their connection takes a deeper turn. Liam Calvert directs A Night Like This, which is written and produced by Diego Sceratti, and co-produced by Reece Cargan and James Heath, of Scottish production company Randan. Alexander Lincoln, Jack Brett Anderson and David Bradley star.

Also joining Verve’s slate is Sheffield Doc Fest title Where Dragons Live,...

Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s Dreamers and Brian Durnin’s Spilt Milk are among the nine feature films and documentaries taking part in the fourth edition of the BFI London Film Festival works-in-progress showcase.

Dreamers is the directorial debut of Gharoro-Akpojoto, producer of Blue Story and Boxing Day and is in post-production. Ronkę Adékoluęjo stars in the love story set in a detention centre, produced by Emily Morgan’s Quiddity Films, with backing from BBC Film and the BFI. The Yellow Affair by Newen Connect represents sales.

Spilt Milk is Dublin filmmaker Brian Durnin’s first film. It follows an 11 year-old boy...

Actor Matthew Fox, best known for his iconic role as Jack Shepherd on the ABC hit Lost, has been cast as the lead in the Max drama series The Assassin. As per a report by Deadline, the series is based on the book series by British novelist Tom Wood, and is being developed by John Glenn, who has served as the showrunner on the popular series' Seal Team and Allegiance. Wood's book series, known as the Victor the Assassin series, began in 2011 with The Killer, and currently totals 11 novels, with a 12th due in November.

The books tell the story of a world-class assassin known only as Victor (to be played by Fox in the series), who goes on the run when he is betrayed by an anonymous client. Not only is he being hunted by his enemies, the CIA and a contract killer are after him as well.

Lost alum Matthew Fox has put pen to paper on his next project, marking his return to TV following last year's C*A*U*G*H*T, which was reserved for Australian audiences. The new drama series titled The Assassin is based on the popular book series, Victor the Assassin Series by acclaimed British novelist Tom Wood. According to Deadline, the project is currently in production at Max with Fox also serving as an executive producer.

After outsmarting a smoke monster, tolerating Sawyer’s shenanigans, and appearing in a handful of films and TV series since Lost left the air, Matthew Fox will return to screens for The Assassin, a drama series from writer-producer John Glenn (Seal Team). The project, in development at Max, finds Fox leading the charge.

John Glenn wrote The Assassin script based on the book series by British novelist Tom Wood. The Assassin focuses on a cunning assassin known only as Victor (Fox), who, after being betrayed by an anonymous client, finds himself relentlessly hunted by CIA operatives and a contract killer who’s as good at making people disappear as he is. Victor must look inside himself to find his humanity in an impossible situation. Only then can he hope to identify his pursuer and confront the dangers ahead.

Victor appears in eleven novels and two short stories written by Wood.

Matthew Fox is taking on a new role!

The 58-year-old Lost star will appear in the drama series The Assassin that is currently in the works at Max, according to TheWrap.

He will also executive produce alongside writer John Glenn and original book series author Tom Wood.

Keep reading to find out more…

Here’s a description of the series, via HBO: “When a merciless assassin known only as Victor is betrayed by an anonymous client, he finds himself hunted across the globe by multiple enemies that include relentless CIA operatives and a contract killer equally as deadly. To stay alive, Victor must uncover the identity of his betrayer while grappling with a buried spark of humanity that begins to resurface within him and might just be the greatest threat to his survival.”

Find out which shows Max has renewed and cancelled so far in 2024.

Lost alum Matthew Fox has found his next gig. (I’m 99.44% certain I’ve used that intro before with Lost actors, but man, it really works.)

With Lost‘s 20-year (!) anniversary fast approaching, Fox — who two summers ago starred in Peacock’s Last Light — is set to headline The Assassin, a series now in development at Max.

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Matthew Fox has been tapped to star in drama series “The Assassin” that is currently in the works at Max, TheWrap has learned.

The “Lost” actor will also executive produce alongside writer John Glenn and original book series author, British novelist Tom Wood.

Here’s the official description of the series, per HBO: “When a merciless assassin known only as Victor is betrayed by an anonymous client, he finds himself hunted across the globe by multiple enemies that include relentless CIA operatives and a contract killer equally as deadly. To stay alive, Victor must uncover the identity of his betrayer while grappling with a buried spark of humanity that begins to resurface within him and might just be the greatest threat to his survival.”

Fox is best known for playing Dr. Jack Shephard in J.J. Abrams’ hit series “Lost,” for which he took home a Screen Actors Guild Award...

Andrea Arnold’s Bird, Sandhya Suri’s Santosh and Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight are among the films to receive backing from the latest round of UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf) awards.

The BFI has made 19 additional awards totalling £527,563 through the £7m Ukgsf, which is financed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms).

Cannes premieres Bird, Santosh and Sister Midnight all received international distribution awards via the festival launch track, which supports festival runs for UK films to reach global audiences.

The only film to receive an international distribution award via the prints and advertising support track in...

Andrea Arnold’s Bird, Sandhya Suri’s Santosh and Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight are among the films to receive backing from the latest round of UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf) awards.

The BFI has made 19 additional awards totalling £527,563 through the £7m Ukgsf, which is financed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms).

Cannes premieres Bird, Santosh and Sister Midnight all received international distribution awards via the festival launch track, which supports festival runs for UK films to reach global audiences.

The only film to receive an international distribution award via the prints and advertising support track in...

Bad Boys: Ride or Die takes the franchise in new directions, mirroring the plot of U.S. Marshals. Mike and Marcus become fugitives working with Mike's son, pursued by federal agents. Joe Pantoliano's connection between U.S. Marshals and Bad Boys highlights the franchise link.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die takes the franchise in a variety of different directions, and part of the story copies a sequel to Harrison Ford's The Fugitive. As the fourth entry in the Bad Boys series, the movie follows somewhat of the same formula that has made the films so successful. This includes leaning into the buddy-cop dynamic between Will Smith and Martin Lawrence that has helped define the Bad Boys movies. But, Bad Boys: Ride or Die's story does take the franchise down a fresh path by making Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett wanted men working with Mike's son.

This portion...

Vertigo Releasing has picked up UK-Ireland rights to Alice Lowe’s sophomore feature Timestalker from HanWay Films.

It will be released theatrically on September 27.

Lowe also stars in the feature, billed as an anti-romantic comedy, alongside Jacob Anderson, Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds and Nick Frost. A hapless heroine travels through time as she repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, and is reincarnated a century later, before meeting him again and starting the cycle anew.

The SXSW premiere reunites Lowe with the producers of her directorial debut Prevenge, UK outfit Western Edge Pictures. Vaughan Sivell, Mark Hopkins,...

Today, award-winning production and development company Paperclip Ltd founders, Yeardley Smith and Ben Cornwell announce the launch of a new podcast network, Audio 99. From the makers of hit podcasts “Small Town Dicks” and “The Briefing Room,” the Audio 99 network will remain fiercely independent with projects that share the first-hand experiences of ordinary people who are having an extraordinary impact on their communities.

Audio 99, which will operate as a subsidiary of Paperclip Ltd, is in the process of developing and releasing a slate of new shows. First, a historical true crime series called “Beyond Recognition: The Ruxton Murders” set to debut July 19, 2024. Based on the forensic science bestseller, “Ruxton: The First Modern Murder” by legendary Scottish detective Tom Wood, the series delves into the 1935 disappearance of a glamorous young mother and her dutiful maid, whose deaths resulted in one of the most important investigations the world had ever seen at that time.

Yeardley Smith, known for her voice work on The Simpsons and her crime-centric audio shows, is launching a new podcast network through her company Paperclip Ltd.

The network, entitled Audio 99, will operate as a subsidiary of Paperclip Ltd., which Smith founded in 2014 with Ben Cornwell. Smith is known for voicing Lisa Simpson on Fox’s long-running animated series The Simpsons, in addition to being a regular presence on her true-crime podcasts Small Town Dicks and The Briefing Room.

Audio 99 is focused on developing and releasing a slate of new shows, with the first one, historical true-crime series Beyond Recognition: The Ruxton Murders, premiering July 19. Based on author Tom Wood’s 2019 forensic-science bestseller Ruxton: The First Modern Murder, the show explores the real-life disappearance of a young mother and her maid in 1935 and the trailblazing forensic techniques that were used at the time.

Also in production for Audio 99 is new talk series Can’t Yeardley Wait!

When Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert sat down at the end of 1993 to pick their 10 favorite movies of the year, they largely selected prestige, Oscar-bait films like The Piano, The Age of Innocence, The Joy Luck Club, and Schindler’s List. They skipped nearly all of the big multiplex hits of the year, including Jurassic Park, Sleepless in Seattle, and Mrs. Doubtfire, making an exception only for The Fugitive. It’s an honor they didn’t give to Die Hard in 1988, The Terminator in 1984, Aliens in 1986, or many other great action movies of the VHS era.

Further producers include Nikki Parrott and Tom Wood.

Twelve UK producers including Damian Jones, Emily Morgan, Nikki Parrott and Tom Wood are heading to Paris later this month for a series of co-production meetings arranged through a partnership between the British Film Institute (BFI) and France’s national film centre, the Cnc.

The meetings will take place from April 20-21.

Scroll down for the full list of participants

“After a successful trip of French producers to the BFI London Film Festival (Lff) last October organised by the BFI with Institut francais in the UK and Unifrance, the BFI is delighted...

It's probably fair to say that when "The Fugitive" came out in 1993, people weren't exactly demanding a big screen version of the '60s show; even the director and star said they'd never seen it. Even so, the gripping, intelligent thriller for grown-ups became a box office smash and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, the first TV adaptation to compete for the big prize.

The movie was a satisfyingly old-school nail-biter with its fair share of spectacular set pieces, but the highlight was the battle of wits between two very human opponents. Harrison Ford, just a few years after riding into the sunset as Indiana Jones, played a far more down-to-earth protagonist as a grieving doctor framed for his wife's murder, while Tommy Lee Jones won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as the dogged lawman on his trail.

Despite the film's resounding success, it felt very...

Baz Luhrmann’s sixth feature film, “Elvis,” has been out for a few weeks now, and it hasn’t been doing bad in terms of the domestic box office, where it’s already surpassed most of Luhrmann’s movies, other than 2013’s “The Great Gatsby.” With the caveat that we have only just crossed the midway point of the year, it still seems like a good time to look at the “Elvis” Oscars potential.

Let’s start with Luhrmann himself, because believe it or not, the Australian visionary has only been nominated for a single Oscar, for producing his 2001 masterpiece “Moulin Rouge!” That’s Luhrmann’s most successful movie with the academy, receiving eight Oscar nominations and winning two for Luhrmann’s wife Catherine Martin‘s costumes and production design, but it also went on to inspire a Broadway musical which won 10 Tony Awards 20 years after the original movie’s success.

To mark the release of Gazza, out now, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.

Paul Gascoigne was the face of ‘90s Britain, the most celebrated young footballer in the world, and a newspaper editor’s dream. His on-field brilliance was matched only by his off-field antics, which the tabloid media ruthlessly exploited for a celebrity-obsessed audience.

Gazza is an unflinching portrait of the ultimate tragic hero, whose love for the riches and limelight of fame proved to be his downfall. An unmissable documentary for any football fan, featuring interviews from friends, family, and former teammates and coaches including Alan Shearer, Bryan Robson, Paul Ince, Ian Wright and Terry Venables.

Gazza was directed by Sampson Collins and was produced by Gareth Dodds, Tom Wood, Vaughan Sivell & Will Kane with Keith Haviland & Mark Stewart credited as Exec Producers.

Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only...

The fund has previously backed titles including ‘Censor’ and ‘The Colour Room’.

The UK’s Ffilm Cymru Wales has invested £280,183 of National Lottery funding in the development of 12 feature films, throughout the past year, the Welsh film agency has revealed.

The agency offers writers, directors and producers support through the development process, and up to £25,000 of funding.

Titles to receive backing from this funding round include A Womanly Way: The Story Of Olivia Records, from director Hannah Berryman and producer Catryn Ramasut/ They previously worked together on Rockfield: The Studio On The Farm, and have received £24,980 for their documentary about...