New British film tax incentive approved by EU
The European Union has approved the government’s plans to extend tax breaks to the British film industry. The Chancellor George Osborne says he
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Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs to close LFF 2015
Danny Boyle is to close the London Film Festival for the third time, with his eponymous biopic of the Apple founder, Steve Jobs.
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Venice and Toronto pave the way for awards season
The starting gun has been fired on the 2016 film awards season, with the announcement of the line-ups of two of the most
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Mr Turner 2014’s most complained about film to BBFC
Mr Turner, Mike Leigh’s eponymous biopic of the master painter JMW Turner was the subject of more complaints than any other film to
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Rampling repeats Berlin success in Edinburgh
The Edinburgh Film Festival has honored Berlin nominee 45 Years with its Best British Feature Film award, and honoured its lead actress Charlotte
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Another British actor takes over Spider-Man role
A little-known nineteen year old British actor, Tom Holland, is to take over the role of Peter Parker and Spider-Man on the big
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Foo Fighters cancel Glastonbury, Wembley and Edinburgh
Grohl posted a photo of his X-ray on the Foo Fighters website The American rock band Foo Fighters have cancelled the rest of
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Amy documentary to screen at Glastonbury
The acclaimed documentary about Amy Winehouse is to be screened at the Glastonbury Festival on Thursday, 25th June, a week ahead of its
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Suffragette to open London Film Festival 2015
The London Film Festival has announced its opening film – more than four months before the start of the event. Carey Mulligan in
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Cannes 2015 ends with Palme d’Or for Audiard
A Cannes Film Festival that opened with one French director has ended with another taking the top prize; at the fourth time of
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Mel Brooks honoured by BFI
One of America’s best loved comedians, Mel Brooks, has been honoured by the BFI with a Fellowship. The eighty-eight year old director, producer,
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Berlin win for Panahi seen as victory for free speech
The dissident director Jafar Panahi plays a taxi driver in his Golden Bear winning Taxi The top award at the Berlin Film Festival,
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Boyhood is the biggest Globes winner as honours are split
With so many categories at the Golden Globes, not least the split between dramas on the one side and comedies and musicals on
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International politics creeps into LFF Awards
At an unusually political set of awards at the 2014 London Film Festival, it’s almost as if the BFI is trying to solve
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Al Pacino becomes a BFI Fellow
One of Hollywood’s most respected actors, Al Pacino, has been honoured with a BFI Fellowship. At a ceremony at the Corinthia Hotel in
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LFF opener Imitation Game wins over Toronto audiences
Benedict Cumberbatch’s starring role as the mathematician Alan Turing, who broke the Nazi Enigma code during the Second World War but then led
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Brit Timothy Spall among Cannes winners
Timothy Spall wins best actor prize for portraying the painter JMW Turner in Mike Leigh’s biopic With two British films among the eighteen
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Tributes paid as Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead
The Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead in his apartment in New York from a suspected drug overdose. The star,
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Metro Manila tops a big budget night for low budget films at BIFAs
A Philippine-set thriller, in the little-known language of Tagalog, has won the most awards – including the top awards – at this year’s
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Record LFF ticket sales but who’ll remember 2013?
The BFI has hailed the success of Clare Stewart’s second London Film Festival at the helm, with last year’s record audience attendance being
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