BFI Pleaded With Government To Exclude UK Screen Industries From Trump Trade Deal, Saying It Would Cause “Fundamental Harm”

EXCLUSIVE: The British Film Institute lobbied ministers to request that the UK’s film and TV business not be included in any trade deal signed with U.S. President Donald Trump. The BFI sent the British Foreign Office a policy document in May 2025 outlining why including the screen industries in any trade agreement would cause “fundamental […]

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BFI Pleaded With Government To Exclude UK Screen Industries From Trump Trade Deal, Saying It Would Cause “Fundamental Harm”

EXCLUSIVE: The British Film Institute lobbied ministers to request that the UK’s film and TV business not be included in any trade deal signed with U.S. President Donald Trump. The BFI sent the British Foreign Office a policy document in May 2025 outlining why including the screen industries in any trade agreement would cause “fundamental […]

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Jimmy Kimmel Thanks ‘Pumpkin McPornhumper’ Trump for His Peabody; ‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Urges Crowd to Take on Fascism Before It’s Too Late: ‘F— the Empire’

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was among the 34 winners chosen by the Peabody Awards jury to win this year’s prizes, and Kimmel joked that he “never felt dumber” being awarded along side documentaries and news programs that “exposed the horrors of ice, prison abuse and a teacher who took on Putin.” But the audience at Sunday night’s ceremony […]

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Yeon Sang-ho’s Cannes Midnight Title ‘Colony’ Passes 3 Million Admissions On Korean Release

Zombie thriller Colony, directecd by Korea’s Yeon Sang-ho, has flown past three million admissions during its second weekend of release in its home market, following its world premiere in the Midnight Screenings section at Cannes film festival.  Released in Korea on May 21, the film has so far racked up 3,475,000 admissions and grossed $24.84M, […]

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‘All Night Wrong’ Director on His Hitchcock-Meets-Wilder Film With ‘Severance’s’ Zach Cherry and Maria Bakalova as Broken Souls

Canadian filmmaker Jason James talks to THR about his dreamlike neo-noir-thriller-meets-rom-com, which premieres at SXSW London, about people doing “all the wrong things for all the right reasons.”

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