Call for budding Spielbergs as more films set to be produced in Scotland

Source: STV

Scotland is set to host more film and TV productions over the coming years, industry experts have predicted. Major productions such as World War Z, Cloud Atlas and Under The Skin – with leads from A-list stars Brad Pitt, Halle ...
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Nottingham Post published No more Mr Nasty

Source: This Is Nottingham

P eer under the brim of the sweat-stained naval cap and you will see a familiar face. As a wise-cracking American seaman in South Pacific, Alex Ferns may be playing it for laughs – but exactly ten years ago he ...
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New review: Joanna Hogg, a very British outsider

Source: The F Word: UK Feminism

Keeping creative control of her filmmaking is of vital importance [to Joanna Hogg]. Both films have been funded independently, on small budgets ("so there are less people to tell me what to do", she says). This is ...
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Studio Canal to re-release classic British films this summer

Source: Total Film

[Click on the poster to see it in hi-res] Studio Canal are joining the revellers who’ll be celebrating all things British this summer, as they host a season of British films. As a result of the London Olympics/Paralympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee ...
Full article at: Total Film  More like this  3 days ago, 9:54am CDT

Butler 1 Yoghurt 0

Source: Brisbane Times

Video will begin in 5 seconds. John Butler has made a 'satisfactory settlement' with an ad agency over claims a yoghurt commercial which aired during the 2012 Super Bowl, plagiarised one of his songs. WITH his tribal tattoos, whispy beard and long drea ...
Full article at: Brisbane Times  More like this  3 days ago, 6:46pm CDT

BFI London Film Festival Announces New Approach

Source: Indie Wire

NEW DIRECTION FOR 56th BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL in Partnership with American Express FESTIVAL DIRECTOR CLARE STEWART INTRODUCES COMPETITION SECTIONS AND NEW PROGRAMMING APPROACH New partnership with Nintendo ann ...
Full article at: Indie Wire  More like this  4 days ago, 12:18pm CDT

Cannes 2012: BFI London Film Festival Announces Plans to Boost Competition Program

Source: Hollywood Reporter

The BFI London Film Festival is making two big changes to its program sections under the watchful eye of incoming festival director Clare Stewart. Stewart, in Cannes as the BFI's head of exhibition and d ...
Full article at: Hollywood Reporter  More like this  6 days ago, 1:40pm CDT

Vote Pink Floyd in HMV's Best of British Album poll

Source: Pink Floyd - The Official Site

Music retailer HMV is running a special online poll at apps.facebook.com/hmvjubilee which concludes today to find the best British album from the last 60 years to celebrate the Jubilee and the Olympic summer with Pink Floyd obviously being among the art ...
Full article at: Pink Floyd - The Official Site  More like this  6 days ago, 4:49am CDT

Cannes round-up: Rust and Bone, Paradise: Love, After the Battle, Broken and Mekong Hotel

Source: The Independent

It's the rule in Cannes: arrive champing at the bit for drop-dead masterpieces, and be prepared to swallow a few disappointments before things really warm up. As the competition kicks in, we've already had one film that had everyone on te ...
Full article at: The Independent  More like this  6 days ago, 6:59pm CDT