Music Venue Trust “delighted” as two more UK grassroots music venues are saved from permanent closure

Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, which is up for five Oscars this year, will skip cinemas in the UK and debut directly on Sky Cinema. It will be released by the broadcaster on April 16, 10 days before the Oscars. The deal was made by Focus Features and Universal with Sky, all of which are owned by Comcast. The pic premiered at Sundance in 2020 and was released stateside by Focus on December 25, grossing $5.8M to date in the pandemic-hit theatrical market.

A lovely coincidence! Prince William and Duchess Kate revisited the place where they married nearly 10 years ago.

2015 terrorist attacks in Paris — but that’s only the tip of this dramatic iceberg.The Israeli-French series, which unfolds in both Hebrew and French (with English subtitles), has landed on Acorn TV and is produced by Abot Hameiri, the company behind Netflix favorite “Shtisel.” Creator and star Elie Ben-David based “The Attache” on his own experience of moving with his wife from Israel to Paris (for her job) in November 2015 — just as three separate Islamic terrorist attacks killed 130 people,

Focus Features has taken global rights to Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov’s thriller Profile which made its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018 and won the Audience Award. A theatrical release date of May 14 has been set. Universal Pictures will distribute internationally, excluding CIS/Russia.

NME about their experience of being closed for a year during the coronavirus lockdown, and how they still need support to enter an uncertain future.Today (Tuesday, March 23) marks the one year anniversary of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing the strict measures of the first lockdown to tackle the spread of COVID-19.

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Married At First Sight Australia has been all the rage in the UK, three years after it first aired Down Under. The hit show that sees strangers, who have never met, take their vows to varying degrees of romantic success has been saving us all from boredom as the lockdown continues.

Skindred have announced that they have signed a new four album deal with Earache Records. Highlighting the precarious situation that many of the UK’s grassroots venues find themselves in because of COVID, each member of the band signed the new deal in an at-risk music venue.“We could not be more THRILLED to be signing Skindred”, says Earache Records MD Digby Pearson.

Tim Burgess has launched his own new ‘Listening Party’ earphones to help raise money for UK grassroots music venues.Today, The Charlatans frontman has teamed up with Flare Audio to release his own headphones, with £5 from every pair sold donated to the Music Venue Trust.Launched back in March as the UK went into coronavirus-enforced lockdown, the regular listen-and-tweet-along online event of #TimsTwitterListeningParty sees bands and artists tweeting through a playback of one of their classic

direct to your inboxLegendary Formula One commentator Murray Walker has died aged 97.Murray, the voice of Formula One, became synonymous with the motorsport through his high-octane commentary.The sad news was confirmed by the British Racing Drivers' Club. The BRDC said in a statement: "It's with great sadness we share the news of the passing of BRDC Associate Member Murray Walker OBE.