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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BFI’s Tricia Tuttle tells us What’s Worth Seeing at LFF 2019
Another London Film Festival is beginning, giving audiences in London – and in many cases across the UK too – their first chance
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Saint Maud director Rose Glass wins £50,000 film bursary
The first-time British director Rose Glass has been won one of the largest artistic prizes in the UK, a £50,000 bursary backed by
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Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman to close the 2019 London Film Festival
The BFI has announced that Martin Scorsese’s first mob film since The Departed, thirteen years ago, will close this year’s London Film Festival
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Armando Iannucci’s take on David Copperfield to open 2019 London Film Festival
The organisers of the London Film Festival have announced that this year’s event will open with the European Premiere of Armando Iannucci’s take
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Olivia Colman adds BFI Fellowship to a slew of awards
After collecting an Oscar, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for her leading role in The Favourite, Olivia Colman has rounded off Awards Season by being honoured with the BFI’s most prestigious accolade, its Fellowship, at a star-studded event in London.
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Olivia Colman to become a BFI Fellow
The Oscar-nominated star of The Favourite, Olivia Colman, will be made a fellow of the British Film Institute at a ceremony in London
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Sequels, spin-offs and superhero dominate UK box office in 2018
The official UK and Ireland box office figures for 2018 have provided producers with advice on how to get their money back, and
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London Film Festival Awards are as topical as a news bulletin
A film about the sex-trafficking of African women in Vienna has won the top prize at the London film festival. There were also
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Half of LFF Competition Films Directed by Women
The BFI has announced the shortlist for this year’s Star of London award for Best Film at this year’s London Film Festival. Alice
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London Film Festival to premiere Mike Leigh’s Peterloo drama – in Manchester
The London Film Festival is to stage the UK premiere of Mike Leigh’s upcoming film about the Peterloo massacre – in Manchester. Mike
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New BFI-backed proposals to boost independent UK films
The BFI’s Commission on UK Independent Film has announced a series of proposals to boost grassroots film-making. The Films Minister Margot James cites
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Steve McQueen’s Widows to open London Film Festival 2018
The director of the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen, is to open this year’s BFI London Film Festival with the international
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Cannes 2018 – The Only Monday
Today started with more talk of how to improve inclusion in the UK film industry with an all-woman panel discussion at the UK
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Cannes 2018 – The Only Sunday
My day started with a sobering experience; I found out what it was like to be part of a minority in the film
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Cannes 2018 – The First Saturday
As I took my place at this morning’s press conference for Jean-Luc Godard’s Image Book, in the hope that I’d end up with
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BFI and BAFTA clamp down on bullying and harassment across TV and Film
A group of about forty UK film and TV organisations, led by the BFI and BAFTA, have launched a new set of guidelines
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BFI stats: Higher average ticket prices boost 2017 box office takings
British and Irish cinemas took a record £1.38bn in ticket sales in 2017, according to the latest figures released by the BFI. Christopher
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Harvey Weinstein stripped of BFI Fellowship amid harassment scandal
The BFI has become the latest industry body to punish the disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein over the allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape that have been emerging over the past few weeks.
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What’s Worth Seeing from the 2017 London Film Festival
It’s been another busy twelve days for Maria Duarte, sifting through the best that the London Film Festival has to offer, with at
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