UK Box Office Recovers To Pre-Lockdown Level; Exhibitors Celebrate Best Weekend In 14 Months

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Big Thief have announced a UK and European tour for early 2022.The four-piece – Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, James Krivchenia and Max Oleartchik – will play 23 headline shows from January to March next year, concluding with a trio of gigs at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London.In the UK Big Thief will also perform in Glasgow, Manchester and Bristol, while an Irish date in Dublin is also set for February 26.You can see Big Thief’s upcoming UK and European tour dates below.January 202231 –

EXCLUSIVE: UK creative industry union Bectu has opened an investigation into an alleged racially insensitive incident involving Ken Ashley-Johnson, the chairman of its grip branch, on the set of a recent shoot. As part of the process, Ashley-Johnson has been suspended pending the outcome of the inquiry.

The BAFTA Television Awards 2021 were held on Sunday, June 6, 2021 at London’s Television Centre. The event was held in keeping with the COVID-19 protocols and hosted some of the biggest celebrities from British Television who walked the red carpet looking their best.

Celebrity Gogglebox star Georgia Taylor is married to a BBC star. Celebrity Gogglebox fans will recognise Taylor from ITV’s Coronation Street where she plays Toyah Battersby.

Buckingham Palace barred ethnic minorities from office jobs during the 1960s, the Guardian newspaper reported, citing documents in the United Kingdom's National Archives. The revelation, published on the newspaper's front page, was based on papers showing that Queen Elizabeth’s chief financial manager told civil servants in 1968 that it was not the palace’s practice to hire "coloured immigrants or foreigners" for clerical posts and other office jobs.

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A Quiet Place Part II has broken the US box office record in the pandemic era on its opening weekend.The horror sequel starring Emily Blunt opened in the United States this weekend (May 28) after multiple COVID-related delays.

Boris Johnson has reportedly tied the knot with his partner, Carrie Symonds, making the 56-year-old the first British Prime Minister to get married while in office in 199 years.

Stephen Hawking, from his personalized wheelchairs to landmark papers on theoretical physics and his scripts from his appearance on “The Simpsons.”The entire contents of Hawking’s office at Cambridge — including his communications equipment, memorabilia, bets he made on scientific debates and office furniture — will be preserved as part of the collection belonging to the Science Museum Group.Hawking occupied the office at the university’s department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics

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Moviegoing kicked off again in the UK and France this week, with the former reopening cinemas on Monday and the latter on Wednesday. And so far, signs are very positive after roughly seven months of darkened screens in each market. Advance sales are strong and exhibitors in both are encouraged at the early results.