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Unused Carrie Fisher footage to be used in Star Wars Episode IX

27th July 201829th July 2018Jason Korsner

Disney – the parent company of Lucasfilm – has revealed that Episode 9 of the Star Wars saga – which begins filming next [click for more...]

Autumn festival line-ups fire starting gun on Oscars race

27th July 201829th July 2018Jason Korsner

The first clues as to the likely contenders for next year’s Oscars have been revealed, with the line-ups for the two big film [click for more...]

New BFI-backed proposals to boost independent UK films

18th July 201823rd July 2018Jason Korsner

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 [click for more...]

Steve McQueen’s Widows to open London Film Festival 2018

12th July 201812th July 2018Jason Korsner

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 [click for more...]

Polanski’s wife says “Non Merci” to Oscars Academy

8th July 20188th July 2018Jason Korsner

French actress Emmanuelle Seigner said she was offended that the Academy had invited her to become a member, after expelling her Oscar-winning husband. [click for more...]

Calibre wins Best British Film at Edinburgh International Film Festival

29th June 20186th July 2018Jason Korsner

The debut feature from the Scottish director Matt Palmer, Calibre, has won the Michael Powell Award for the Best British Feature Film at [click for more...]

Harry Potter wins top Broadway theatre award on a good night for Brits

11th June 201813th June 2018Jason Korsner

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child picks up the story of the boy wizard, as an adult. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child [click for more...]

America’s ABC TV network cancels its most successful sitcom Roseanne over racist tweet

29th May 201830th May 2018Jason Korsner

Sara Gilbert, Roseanne Barr and John Goodman. Photo: ABC One of America’s most successful TV shows, the sitcom Roseanne, has been cancelled [click for more...]

New Morgan Freeman statement clarifies earlier apology

26th May 20187th June 2018Jason Korsner

The Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has released a new statement – a day after apologising for making anyone feel uncomfortable or disrespected. Morgan [click for more...]

Danny Boyle confirmed as director of Bond 25

25th May 201825th May 2018Jason Korsner

Trainspotting director Danny Boyle will take over Bond 25. The producers of the James Bond franchise have confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets [click for more...]

Japanese film Shoplifters wins Palme d’Or at Cannes 2018, under the spectre of Harvey Weinstein.

20th May 201820th May 2018Jason Korsner

The Japanese film Shoplifters has won the top prize at a Cannes Film Festival, overshadowed by the spectre of Harvey Weinstein. [click for more...]

Un Certain Regard prizes at 2018 Cannes Film Festival

18th May 201818th May 2018Jason Korsner

A Swedish fantasy romance thriller has won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard strand at the Cannes Film Festival. Gräns, about [click for more...]

Cannes 2018 – The Second Wednesday

16th May 201818th May 2018Jason Korsner

It was my last day in Cannes, so for once, I had to make sure I was up for the 8.30am screening. In Under the Silver Lake, Andrew Garfield stars as a guy who’s just lost his job and is on the verge of losing his LA apartment, when he gets involved with a girl who disappears and then turns up dead, alongside a missing businessman. [click for more...]