1917 tops a 2020 UK box office crushed by Covid
It’s been an unprecedented year across all walks of life – all sectors of industry – but the global film and entertainment business
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What’s Worth Seeing from an unconventional, largely online LFF 2020
This year’s London Film Festival has to be the most unusual to date, with many features being screened virtually for the first time,
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Viewers give LFF’s top prize to Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round
The most unconventional of London Film Festivals has come to a close with a virtual awards ceremony, whose winners were chosen by members
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LFF boss tells us What’s Worth Seeing in 2020
As coronavirus infections continue to gather pace across the UK – and the world – the London Film Festival is getting started in
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Bond’s No Time To Die delayed again
The film industry has been left reeling by the perhaps not unexpected news that the release of Daniel Craig’s final outing as James
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Raindance and London Film Festivals make more events free to public
As film festivals around the world continue to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic – with Cannes announcing only yesterday that it will stage
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Steve McQueen and Francis Lee to bookend London Film Festival
The organisers of the London Film Festival have announced the opening and closing night films for this year’s Covid-affected event. Steve McQueen’s Mangrove
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London Film Festival announces new post-Covid format, with full online programme
The organisers of the London Film Festival have announced a new format for this year’s event, which will take place just weeks after
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Netflix funds BFI scheme to help industry freelancers
The streaming giant Netflix has put £1m behind a relief fund, set up by the BFI and The Film and TV Charity, to
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BFI Flare film festival moves online
The BFI has moved its annual LGBTIQ+ film festival Flare online, days after the last-minute cancellation of the regular event, because of the
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BFI Flare film festival latest Coronavirus casualty
The BFI has cancelled its Flare Film Festival, just two days before it was due to begin. The BFI said the “very special
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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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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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