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Original Star Wars cast members return for Episode 7
The team behind the upcoming Star Wars film have confirmed that some of the key cast from the original trilogy are to return to the franchise.
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Loach and Leigh to go head to head in Cannes
Two British directors will be up against each other for the prestigious Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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12 Years beats weighty Gravity to the top Oscar
In what turns out to have been one of the most predictable Awards seasons in many years, 12 Years a Slave has taken the top Oscar, while missing out on most of…
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12 Years A Slave dominates Independent Spirit Awards
The critically acclaimed slave drama 12 Years A Slave dominated the Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles, a day before finding itself under the limelight at the Oscars.
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12 Years beats Gravity to BAFTA’s Best Picture
Gravity has come off the biggest winner of the night at the British Academy Film Awards, taking six trophies, but the top prize of the night, for Best Picture, eluded the space…
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Berlin honours films from China, Japan and the US
The jury at the Berlin Film Festival has given its top prize, the Golden Bear, to the Chinese film Black Coal, Thin Ice.
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London Critics hail 12 Years a Slave
The British-led US slave drama 12 Years a Slave has come away from the annual London Film Critics Circle awards as the big winner, being chosen as the Best Film, as well…
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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.
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UK film production and box office take both top £1bn
Cinema audiences in the UK and the Irish Republic spent more than a billion pounds to see films released in 2013.
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Christian film loses Oscar nomination
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has withdrawn the Oscar nomination from one of the contenders for Best Original Song at this year’s ceremony.