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EL James confirms new Christian Grey
With no confirmation from the studio, it’s been left to EL James, the author of one of the fastest selling erotic trilogies of all time, the Fifty Shades books, to confirm the…
Jason Korsner
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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 broken, with the figure passing the 150,000 mark for…
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Master and pupil honoured by LFF on the same night
A visiting tutor at the National Film and Television School in Buckinghamshire has won the top prize at the London Film Festival Awards and one of his pupils has collected the award…
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Fifty Shades loses male lead
The British actor cast to play the older lover in the big screen adaptation of the erotic best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey has pulled out of the project.
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BFI Fellowship for Sir Christopher Lee
The BFI has announced that the veteran actor Sir Christopher Lee will be awarded a Fellowship of the British Film Institute at the awards ceremony towards the end of this year’s London…
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British film about Afghanistan takes top prize at Raindance
A film about British soldiers serving in Afghanistan, The Patrol, has won the Film of the Festival prize at Raindance.
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BAFTA turbocharges “Breakthrough Brits”
A group of seventeen up and coming British creatives from the fields of film, television and gaming have been named as BAFTA’s first ever “Breakthrough Brits.” The group will be invited to…
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Edith Bowman hosts Van d’Or awards in London’s East End
A short film about a teenager, struggling to keep a secret about the death of his girlfriend, has won three of the top prizes at the 3rd annual Van d’Or Awards.
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BAFTA picks British film for Foreign Language Oscar race
The British crime thriller Metro Manila is marking its UK theatrical release with the news that it’s been picked to represent the UK in the race for next year’s Best Foreign Language…
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Woody Allen to be honoured at 2014 Golden Globes
One of the film industry’s most prolific and highly respected film-makers, Woody Allen, is to received the Cecil B DeMille award for his contribution to the film industry, at next year’s Golden…