Sundance Films Take Top Prizes at 26th Annual Sarasota Film Festival

Ellise Shafer Mike Leigh, the veteran director of “Vera Drake,” “Another Year” and “Happy-Go-Lucky,” will be honored at Malta’s Mediterrane Film Festival with its Career Achievement Golden Bee Award. Leigh will also host a masterclass at the festival, the second edition of which is taking place June 22 to 30 in Malta’s capital city of Valletta.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The Monte-Carlo Television Festival will present its International Golden Nymph for Most Promising Talent to British actor Simone Ashley at its opening ceremony on June 14. The award recognizes the “exceptional rising talent of an actor who has elevated the bar of excellence to international acclaim.” Ashley is known for portraying Kate Sharma, the female lead of Season 2 of the Netflix series “Bridgerton.” She reprises her role in Season 3, which premieres next month.

The "wettest" cities in Scotland have been revealed in new research, with two claiming the top spots for the whole of Great Britain.

Ant McPartlin and his wife Anne-Marie are embarking on an exciting new chapter with their baby on the way. While Ant continues to charm the nation on Britain's Got Talent, he's decided to take a breather from his usual presenting roles, including a temporary halt on Saturday Night Takeaway, to dedicate time to family life. He's already embracing his role as step-dad to Anne-Marie's two children from her previous relationship.

The subject of a timely new Variety profile praising his versatility, British actor Dan Stevens is having a moment. The actor is currently competing with himself at the box office with two different films: MonsterVerse installment “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” for Warners and directing duo Radio Silence’s new vampire movie “Abigail” for Universal.

Ellise Shafer The Cannes Film Festival has announced the selections for its Immersive lineup, including projects voiced by stars like Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain. According to a press release, the Immersive competition includes “collective location-based virtual reality and mixed reality experiences, and projection mapping and holographic works.

A small piece of contemporary cinema history was written last night in St Andrews, Scotland when Steven Soderbergh sat down with Joe and Anthony Russo on stage at the Sands International Film Festival to discuss their 2002 collaboration Welcome to Collinwood. 

ITV viewers were on the edge of their seats during the final episode of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, which aired last Saturday, April 13, amid swirling rumours about whether it would be the show's last series. The end of the 2024 series was met with some excitement as the nation's cherished duo confirmed they would be stepping back from the programme for an indefinite period.

Tom Holland and his brother Harry Holland were pictured arriving at the opening night of the Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews. The Scottish film festival is set to take place over three days.

A new film and TV studio funded via a portion of a £24M ($30M) government investment has become the latest to launch in the UK.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent NBCUniversal Studio Group chair and chief content officer Donna Langley will be celebrated at the Cannes Film Festival, where she will receive the Women in Motion Award from Kering‘s chairman and CEO François-Henri Pinault, Cannes president Iris Knobloch and director Thierry Fremaux. The awards ceremony will take place at a glamorous gala dinner hosted by Kering on May 19, which will bring together major talent and executives attending the festival.

Universal Studios chief Donna Langley is heading to this year’s Cannes Film Festival where she will be handed Kering’s annual Women In Motion Award.

Lisa Armstrong, Ant McPartlin's ex-wife, showed a rare display of support for the presenter during the final episode of Saturday Night Takeaway this weekend.The popular family entertainment show, hosted by Ant and his best pal Declan Donnelly, has been a staple on our screens for over two decades. The last episode was packed with surprises and special guests like Simon Cowell and Holly Willoughby, ending with an emotional farewell from the beloved duo.

Signing off their popular TV show Saturday Night Takeaway, hosting duo Ant and Dec expressed their heartfelt gratitude to their loyal viewership on Saturday 13 April.The well-loved presenting team bid a teary farewell in the two-hour season finale of the programme which had announced its hiatus last year.Towards the curtain call, taking a sentimental moment before rolling out a reel of their fond memories, Dec shared: "When we started this back in 2002, we thought we'd be lucky if we got to do this for maybe a couple of years, so what's happened has honestly been beyond our wildest dreams. "We have truly adored every second of making this show, but there's one thing we've never, ever forgotten, and that's the fact that it's not our show, it's your show, so we'd like to say a massive thank you to you, our incredible audience." As a line-up of scenes from the past seasons followed, Ant and Dec were joined by Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones, the fresh panel of The Voice UK judges.Together they crooned McFly's tune It's All About You.

It's the end of an era for presenting duo Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly, who tonight [13 April], after two decades, are hosting the last episode of the beloved entertainment show Saturday Night Takeaway. Ant, and Dec, both 48, who also host ITV shows Britain's Got Talent and I'm A Celeb, previously revealed the reasons for taking a break from the popular Saturday night entertainment show and explained that they want to step off the "hamster wheel" and "decide what's next." However, Ant also said that saying goodbye to the series will be "bittersweet" and will come with "lots of tears." Now a source has told OK! that while the busy and in-demand hosts will "miss the show" they want to spend time with their families.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Marco Mueller has been appointed artistic director of Italy’s Taormina Film Festival, which will have a top notch selection committee comprising British film curator and former London fest chief Sandra Hebron and former Cannes Directors’ Fortnight boss Edouard Waintrop. As anticipated by Variety, Mueller, who over the past decades has headed both the Venice and Rome fests — among several other events — is taking the reins of the storied Sicilian event that has had its ups and downs over the years. Held since the mid-1950s in the Sicilian resort known to U.S.

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has announced that the 40th annual festival will take place in Santa Barbara, California, from February 4 through February 15.

The Seret International Film Festival, an Israeli film event hosted in cities across the globe, has criticized its longtime UK partners Picturehouse and Curzon Cinemas for backing out of this year’s event over what organizers described as “safety concerns.”

EXCLUSIVE: Embankment Films is making Garbo: Leave Me Alone, a feature documentary about the enigmatic movie star who died in 1990. The doc will have previously unseen archive material including personal photographs of Garbo and letters written by the iconic actress, who is regarded as one of the all-time greats.

Refresh for latest…: A busy holdover weekend for wide studio releases was led by the trio of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Kung Fu Panda 4 and Dune: Part Two. And, in a soaring performance, Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar winner The Boy and the Heron swooped into China helping the market set a new Qingming holiday record.