Returning to the top spot on its third week is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which made another £1,429,159 just ahead of horror flick Ouija, which entered at second. This is the first time since January that six films have taken £1m at the UK box office. The reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film […]
Brad Pitt’s WW2 film Fury hit the top spot last weekend by pulling in £2,692,786 over three days plus previews. For a film that is relatively straight forward, a plot not based on a real life event or a must see hook, it has generated a lot of praise with the box office revenue showing […]
Knocking Gone Girl off the top spot, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles debuted with an impressive £4,785,448 making it the biggest opening for a film since The Inbetweeners 2 in early August. The film is based on the franchise of the same name and a reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series starring Megan […]
Returning to the Second World War for the first time since Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Brad Pitt will close the London Film Festival with Fury, in which he stars as a sergeant, leading a tank crew behind enemy lines in April 1945. Fury is directed by David Ayer, whose End of Watch screened at the […]
Coming late in the year, the London Film Festival is continuing its modest streak of bringing some of the best films of the year’s other festivals – including Sundance, Cannes, Venice and Toronto – to Britain. Many festivals insist on screening the world premieres for their films, but with a total of 234 features during […]
It might have been one of the wettest Cannes Film Festivals in living memory, but from from the point of view of the industry, it had to be good news – those spare moments that critics and buyers alike might have
Most of this year’s Oscar nominees have been the guests of honour at an exclusive luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel – an annual event at which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences brings the nominees together for
Months after being thrown out of Cannes for his controversial comments about being able to identify with Hitler, the Danish director Lars von Trier has won the top prize handed out by a body of American reviewers.
The National Society of Film Critics has picked the apocalyptic psychological drama Melancholia as
The New York Film Critics Circle has picked a black-and-white French film that pays homage to silent movies as it’s best film of 2011.
The Artist was directed by Michel Hazanavicius, who was named as the best director.
As the film awards season steps up a gear, and voting members of the
Brad Pitt is arguably the most famous actor in Hollywood, but one could argue that the source of his fame was not his superb acting talent, but his handsome look