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Jamie Lang Raindance Film Festival, Britain’s largest independent film festival, will return to cinemas this year, reimagined and restructured with a host of new partners and new films. Running Oct.

Travis Fimmel, Brady Noon and Frances Fisher have been added to the cast of Rust, the feature Western that stars Alec Baldwin and is written and directed by Joel Souza (Crown Vic). The pic, originally set up in May 2020, now moves forward with a planned October start of principal photography in New Mexico.

Jamie Lang Spain has selected a high profile trio of films as finalists for the country’s 2021 International Feature Oscar submission.The favorite, at least at this early stage, is Pedro Almodóvar’s “Madres paralelas,” which just saw lead Penelope Cruz take the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.

Naman Ramachandran Visual effects and animation studio DNEG, whose credits include “Dune” and “No Time to Die,” will pay enhanced overtime to its U.K. employees.From October, DNEG will pay overtime at 1.5x rate to all U.K.

Jamie Lang After being delayed in 2021, The 36th Spanish Academy Goya Awards ceremony will return to its traditional time frame, taking place on Feb. 12 from the Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia.

Naman Ramachandran More than a dozen members of the British Royal Family offer their personal thoughts in a new documentary as they pay tribute to the life of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who died in April at 99.All the children of the Queen and the Duke, along with their adult grandchildren and other members of the Royal Family, agreed to take part in Oxford Films’ “Prince Philip: The Royal Family.” Originally conceived to mark Prince Philip’s 100th birthday, the

Naman Ramachandran The 17th Zurich Film Festival (Sept. 23-Oct.

Jamie Lang Sky and London’s Tottenham Hotspur, featured in the 2020 edition of Amazon Prime Video’s hit “All or Nothing” documentary series, will work together to make the club’s Sept. 19 fixture against London rivals Chelsea Football Club the world’s first net zero carbon major soccer match, ahead of next month’s UN COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.The match, supported by COP26 and the English Premier League (EPL), is being branded as #GameZero.

Jamie Lang Abacus Media Rights (AMR) has picked up global distribution rights to BBC Two’s Joan Collins documentary, produced by Salon Pictures and commissioned by Mark Bell at BBC Arts. Promising to tell the life story of the Hollywood actor from her point of view, the 90-minute documentary will be narrated by Collins herself.

Naman Ramachandran Amazon Prime Video has revealed the first look for its upcoming six-part series “The Rig.” The series stars Martin Compston (“Line of Duty”), Emily Hampshire (“Schitt’s Creek”), Iain Glen (“Game of Thrones”), Calvin Demba (“Kingsman: The Golden Circle”) and Mark Bonnar (“Line of Duty”).“The Rig” follows the crew of the Kinloch Bravo oil rig stationed off the Scottish coast in the dangerous waters of the North Sea.

Jamie Lang FIRST-LOOKPathé has dropped a first-look image from “The Lost King,” the upcoming feature film about the astonishing 2012 discovery of King Richard III’s remains. In the film, Oscar nominated and Golden Globe winning actress Sally Hawkins will play Philippa Langley, the woman who uncovered the remains which had been lost for 500 years.An amateur historian, Langley spent years researching and searching for the ruins, in spite of skepticism from friends, family and academics.

Jamie Lang Sky will premiere its upcoming Sky Original documentary “Hawking: Can You Hear Me?”, described as the human story behind one of the 20th century’s best known scientific minds, Stephen Hawking, on Sept. 20.

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off wrapping season one of Amazon’s mega-budget The Lord Of The Rings series, Saint Maud star Morfydd Clark has signed to star alongside Sam Riley (Control) and Dominic Cooper (Preacher) in revenge thriller The Duchess Of Malfi.

Naman Ramachandran The 17th Zurich Film Festival (Sept. 23-Oct.

Jamie Lang Francis Ford Coppola’s classic 1983 coming-of-age drama “The Outsiders” is getting a new 4K restoration from Studiocanal, Warner Bros. and American Zoetrope. The remaster, titled “The Outsiders: The Complete Novel,” is designed to allow fans of the original film to see more of the world created in S.E. Hinton’s original novel.

Naman Ramachandran Taliban hostage drama “And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead,” by Swiss filmmaker Michael Steiner (“The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch”) will open the 17th Zurich Film Festival (Sept. 23 – Oct.

Jamie Lang BFI London Film Festival (LFF) will host the European premiere of Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” for its closing ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 17 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.

Jamie Lang Netflix has unveiled that actors Miguel Ángel Silvestre (“Sky Rojo”), Patrick Criado (“Riot Police”) and José Manuel Seda (“23-F: la película”) will appear in the fifth and final season of its hit Spanish series “Money Heist,” (“La Casa de Papel”) launching globally on Sept.