The ongoing spat between the U.K. government and the U.K. Film Council is slowly descending into a very British kind of farce. By Stuart Kemp, The Associated Press LONDON — The ongoing spat between ...

James Lee, former chairman of Scottish film agency Scottish Screen, has written to UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt proposing all £15 million of lottery funding be injected into a single distribution ...

The UK Film Council (UKFC) is proposing to merge its Premiere, New Cinema and Development funds to create a $25m (£15m) Film Production Fund, as part of a major overhaul of the organisation following ...

The UK film industry has generally welcomed the news of the potential reorganisation of the UK Film Council, describing the major changes as “producer friendly”. “It is a very positive thing that ...

The U.K. Film Council dipped into its reserve funds Thursday to fuel an additional £5.5 million ($11 million) in annual spending across the movie industry here over the next three years. By Stuart ...

LONDON — A total of 44 U.K. Film Council posts will transfer on April 1 to the British Film Institute, the bodies announced Thursday. These include head of the UKFC’s film fund Tanya Seghatchian, head ...

Two weeks after the general election, the new culture minister Ed Vaizey called off the proposed merger between the UK Film Council (UKFC) and the British Film Institute which had been under ...

Yesterday, the UK Film Council published its three-year plan and launched a new £15m (approximately €17m) Film Fund. It is the most significant revision of UKFC activities in ten years. The ...

UK Film Council (UKFC) Chair Tim Bevan has strongly opposed the impending closure of the body. The British government had announced the closure in July. Bevan told a Parliamentary Select Committee, ...

AS ROBERT JONES CLEARED HIS DESK at the U.K. Film Council last week, nine candidates to replace him as head of the org’s flagship Premiere Fund trooped in for their interviews. The nine invited to ...

It remains to be seen how many Baftas The King's Speech will pick up on Sunday, but here are some other figures to be getting along with. The film's global box office tally stands at $177m and rising.

Tanya Seghatchian has been named the head of the newly-unified UK Film Council (UKFC) fund. The former Harry Potter producer will report directly to UKFC chief executive John Woodward and be ...