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. As well as taking the Best Feature prize, at the ceremony on the Santa Monica beachfront, the British director Steve McQueen took the Spirit Award for Best […]
Holding on the top spot for a second week is The Lego Movie as it makes £5,978,904 from cinema ticket sales last weekend. The film is about an ordinary Lego minifigure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, as he is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from gluing the […]
Conquering the top spot is American 3D computer-animated comedy, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, who are based on the characters from the Peabody’s Improbable History segments of the 1960’s animated television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The film, which is the first DreamWorks animated film to feature characters from the Classic Media library since DreamWorks […]
The annual awards, handed out by America’s biggest acting union, the now-merged SAG-AFTRA, have seen Steve McQueen’s slave drama 12 Years a Slave join the race for the most prestigious acting awards of the year, the Oscar. At the SAG Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto repeated their lead and supporting […]
Last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters shocked the film industry when they overlooked Ben Affleck in the best director’s category, this year they outdid themselves, snubbing safe potential contenders such as Emma Thompson, Robert Redford and Tom Hanks in the acting categories and Paul Greengrass in the directing category. Other […]
David O Russell’s 1970s crime caper American Hustle has won the most awards at the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills, taking the Best Film in the Comedy and Musical category as well as acting awards for Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence, in the lead and supporting competitions respectively. The best dramatic actress award went, as […]
In the last few years, The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has increasingly become more of a barometer for Oscar contenders than a platform to discover small movies that often rely on festivals to gain some attention. Films are not measured by creative quality or commercial viability anymore but by their Oscar potential – a […]
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