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Harry Potter to Gravity: how British VFX talent is leading the world
“You don’t get very long,” says Tim Webber, VFX (visual effects) supervisor on the blockbuster space thriller Gravity. “Five minutes to talk about it, a 10-minute showreel, and then three minutes of question and answer. When you’ve spent three years on a project, that’s not an awful lot of time to get it across.” Webber … Read more
Wolf of Wall Street becomes Scorsese’s biggest banker
Oscar-tipped black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street has become Martin Scorsese’s highest-grossing film after racing past the $300m mark at the global box office at the weekend. The haul for Scorsese’s tale of 80s and 90s excess beat the $294m made by psychological thriller Shutter Island in 2010. The film is likely to continue … Read more
Tom Cruise sued for $1bn over Mission: Impossible ‘script theft’
A screenwriter who claims his script was stolen by the makers of action blockbuster Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has sued star and producer Tom Cruise for $1bn (£614m). Timothy Patrick McLanahan claims in his suit that Cruise and studio Paramount used his 1998 screenplay for an unfilmed movie titled Head On as the basis … Read more
Cinema owners call for shorter movie trailers to avoid spoilers
Trailers could be getting shorter, as cinema owners have demanded that they give fewer plot details away and air nearer to release dates. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the executive board of the National Association of Theater Owners (Nato), the body set up to represent US cinemas’ interests, has issued new guidelines aimed at reducing … Read more
Quentin Tarantino shelves western “The Hateful Eight” after script leak
‘Very very depressed’ director alleges agent of Michael Madsen or Bruce Dern may have been responsible for script ending up online. Quentin Tarantino has shelved plans to direct western The Hateful Eight, his followup to Django Unchained, after the film’s script was leaked. Speaking to Deadline, an angry Tarantino said he would publish the screenplay … Read more
Thora Birch: how Hollywood’s darling disappeared
Once a rising star in films such as American Beauty and Ghost World, Thora Birch says she found herself discarded by the studios when she wouldn’t conform. Hollywood has never been kind to its young. It is an industry that famously venerates youth and, infamously, has casually destroyed so many young people, used them up … Read more
Not the Oscars ⦠the Guardian Film Awards longlist announced
12 Years a Slave may have been just pipped to the post at this year’s Oscar nominations, but there is consolation for Steve McQueen: his film dominates the longlist for the first ever Guardian Film Awards. The awards, which aim to act as an antidote rather than an addition to the established slate of ceremonies, … Read more
Bafta whistleblower says voters reward big-budget movies they have never seen
It is widely considered one of the world’s most important film awards ceremonies, one that sits behind only the Oscars and the Golden Globes in terms of public notoriety. But a whistleblower has told the Daily Mail that the winners and nominees for the annual Bafta awards are often chosen by judges who have not … Read more
Why being British is no longer a handicap when it comes to films
As someone who was born and grew up in Northern Ireland, I’ve always been aware of the pitfalls of labelling something “British”. I’ve been surprised many times about how messy it gets in the world of film. Everyone remembers Colin Welland’s battle cry when Chariots of Fire triumphed at the Oscars in 1981: “The British … Read more
UK box office suffers biggest fall for 20 years
The UK’s box office fell by the largest figure in more than 20 years in 2013, according to a new report. The 1% drop saw the total haul made by films in UK cinemas hit £1.17bn. It was the first fall in a decade in real terms in the world’s fourth largest box office, according … Read more
Keanu Reeves’ 47 Ronin expected to be one of 2013’s biggest box-office bombs
Keanu Reeves’ samurai flick 47 Ronin looks set to emerge as one of the biggest box-office bombs of 2013 after the $175m (£106m) film took just $7m in its US debut over the Christmas period. Variety reports that Hollywood studio Universal is poised to write off huge losses on Carl Rinsch’s film, which had already … Read more
Fast 7 to open in 2015
Following a delay in the wake of star Paul Walkerâs death last month, Universal Pictures has announced the new release date for Fast & Furious 7. Fast & Furious 7 will now open on April 10 2015. The film had been earmarked for a July 11 2014 release however production was halted when Walked died … Read more
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