From shortage to excess? The changing face of UK film studio facilities
An American film production facility has announced its intention to invest £150m in building and running a new film studio complex just outside
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AuthorJason Korsner
Parasite upsets Oscar’s apple cart as acting awards go to favourites
Parasite – a dark social comedy from South Korea – beat 1917 to Oscar’s top two prizes. South Korea’s social satire Parasite has
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The Farewell, Uncut Gems, The Lighthouse and Marriage Story among the big winners at the pre-Oscar independent Spirit Awards
As a film awards season nears its end, during which a lack of female directors has been one of the key talking points,
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1917 dominates BAFTAs as the acting prizes go to favourites
The First World War epic 1917 has emerged as the big success at this year’s BAFTA Film Awards, taking seven prizes on a
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Review
DIRECTED BY: Marielle Heller – FEATURING: Matthew Rhys, Tom Hanks, Carmen Cusack, Chris Cooper, Christine Lahti, Enrico Colantoni, Maryann Plunkett, Noah Harpster, Susan Kelechi Watson, Tammy Blanchard, Wendy Makkena
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Richard Jewell – Review
DIRECTED BY: Clint Eastwood – FEATURING: Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Charles Green, David Shae, Ian Gomez, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, Mike Pniewski, Nina Arianda, Olivia Wilde
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2019 breaks record of UK spend in film and high-end TV
Spending on film and high-end TV production in the UK reached a record of £3.62 billion in 2019, with just shy of £2
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The Personal History of David Copperfield – Review
DIRECTED BY: Armando Iannucci – FEATURING: Dev Patel, Aimée Kelly, Aneurin Barnard, Anna Maxwell Martin, Ben Whishaw, Benedict Wong, Daisy May Cooper, Darren Boyd, Gabrielle Quaye, Hugh Laurie, Morfydd Clark, Paul Whitehouse, Peter Capaldi, Rosalind Eleazar, Tilda Swinton, Victor McGuire
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Parasite surprise winner as most SAG awards fall where you’d expect
Parasite – a dark social comedy from South Korea – won the Palme d’Or. The South Korean social satire Parasite has surprised Hollywood
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Bombshell – Review
DIRECTED BY: Jay Roach – FEATURING: Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, Nicole Kidman, Alice Eve, Allison Janney, Connie Britton, Jennifer Morrison, John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Liv Hewson, Madeline Zima, Malcolm McDowell, Marc Evan Jackson, Mark Duplass, Mark Moses, Richard Kind, Rob Delaney, Stephen Root
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Spike Lee to chair the jury at Cannes 2020
The American director Spike Lee has been selected to chair the main Palme d’Or jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Photo: Spike
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Joker – and Netflix – dominate Oscar nominations
The dark comic-book origins drama Joker has continued to dominate the nominations stage of Awards Season, being in the running in 11 categories
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Uncut Gems – Review
DIRECTED BY: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie – FEATURING: Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Eric Bogosian, Idina Menzel, Jacob Igielski, Judd Hirsch, Keith Williams Richards, Kevin Garnett, Lakeith Stanfield, Maksud Agadjani, Mike Francesa, Natasha Lyonne, Noa Fisher, The Weeknd, Tilda Swinton, Tommy Kominik, Wayne Diamond
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1917 – Review
DIRECTED BY: Sam Mendes – FEATURING: George MacKay, Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Daniel Mays, Dean-Charles Chapman, Justin Edwards, Mark Strong, Richard Madden
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Diversity backlash clouds BAFTA nominations that see Joker lead the pack
Hot on the heels of the Golden Globes, Britain’s film and TV academy, BAFTA has announced a set of film award nominations that
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1917, Rocketman, Joker and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood among Golden Globe winners
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has spread its honours thinly, making it hard to make predictions ahead of next month’s Oscars, but the
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The Gentlemen – Review
DIRECTED BY: Guy Ritchie – FEATURING: Charlie Hunnam, Hugh Grant, Matthew McConaughey, Christopher Evangelou, Colin Farrell, Eddie Marsan, Eliot Sumner, Henry Golding, Jason Wong, Jeremy Strong, Michelle Dockery, Samuel West
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The Favourite Late Night Report is a Marriage Story in a Green Book: What was – and wasn’t – Worth Seeing in 2019?
2 of the best and 2 of the worst of 2019: Marriage Story, Ad Astra, Late Night and Green Book. So 2019 is
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Little Women – Review
DIRECTED BY: Greta Gerwig – FEATURING: Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Bob Odenkirk, Chris Cooper, Eliza Scanlen, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, James Norton, Laura Dern, Louis Garrel, Meryl Streep, Tracy Letts
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Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker – Review
DIRECTED BY: JJ Abrams – FEATURING: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Anthony Daniels, Billie Lourd, Billy Dee Williams, Carrie Fisher, Domhnall Gleeson, Dominic Monaghan, Greg Grunberg, Harrison Ford, Ian McDiarmid, Jodie Comer, Joonas Suotamo, Kelly Marie Tran, Keri Russell, Lupita Nyong’o, Mark Hamill, Naomi Ackie, Richard E Grant, Shirley Henderson, Warwick Davis
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