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Harvey Weinstein Talks Politics, Gives Film Refresher Course In Wide-Ranging Keynote

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday October 11, 2012 @ 4:07pm PDTTags: BFI London Film Festival, Big Deals Film, Harvey Weinstein

“This won’t be political — in case you’re writing that down, Deadline Hollywood,” Harvey Weinstein said from the stage during his jam-packed London Film Festival keynote address this evening. But the mogul, fresh from a trip to Cannes to hype his company’s TV slate at MIPCOM, did make several politically charged comments during a wide-ranging speech and Q&A that touched on everything from Mitt Romney and fundraising for President Obama to criticizing government regulators, Google and Apple and piracy, and Hollywood studios over their penchant for remakes and sequels.

Suggesting that regulators are not being smart enough to deal with issues of consolidation — “Six companies will end up owning” a 500-channel universe, creating a “Central Bureau” with fewer content buyers — the Obama supporter said there was a need for “smart guys — like the ones who do Mitt Romney’s taxes.” He then riffed about the Republican presidential candidate’s lack of transparency when it comes to his 1040s. “Fourteen percent! How can he pay that? Why is he not showing 10 years of taxes?” Noting how Romney’s father made a dozen years of returns available when he ran for president, Weinstein said Romney the younger “doesn’t even listen to his dad.” And when a sports film journalist posed a question, Weinstein asided that he loved Clint Eastwood’s baseball movie Trouble With The Curve but couldn’t resist adding, “I don’t like Clint’s politics, but I love his movies. I love him, he’s just a little misplaced right now. Maybe they should have called it ‘Trouble With The Chair’.” READ MORE »

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Tim Burton & Helena Bonham Carter To Be Honored As London Film Festival Begins

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday October 10, 2012 @ 3:00am PDTTags: BFI London Film Festival, British Film Institute, Frankenweenie, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton

The 56th BFI London Film Festival, which kicks off tonight in the British capital, is set to honor Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton with the BFI Fellowship. The highest award bestowed by … Read More »

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Tim Burton’s ‘Frankenweenie’ To Open London Film Festival On Oct. 10

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday August 23, 2012 @ 4:17am PDTTags: BFI London Film Festival, Frankenweenie, Tim Burton

The European premiere of Frankenweenie will officially be held at London’s Leicester Square Odeon cinema. But, in a first-of-its-kind move for the BFI London Film Festival, the premiere screening will be simultaneously transmitted to 30 moviehouses around the UK when … Read More »

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David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes To Get BFI Fellowships

By TIM ADLER in London | Tuesday October 4, 2011 @ 2:03am PDTTags: A Dangerous Method, BFI London Film Festival, Coriolanus, David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes

The British Film Institute will award David Cronenberg, director of A Dangerous Method, and Ralph Fiennes, director of Coriolanus, a BFI Fellowship each. It’s the highest award the BFI can offer. Previous fellows include Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor and David … Read More »

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London Film Festival Sets Program As George Clooney Global Tour Continues

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 7, 2011 @ 4:38am PDTTags: A Dangerous Method, Anonymous, BFI London Film Festival, Carnage, George Clooney, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Pariah, Rampart, Restless, Shame, The Artist, The Descendants, The Ides of March, This Must Be The Place, Trishna, W.E., We Need To Talk About Kevin
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The 55th BFI London Film Festival has set its slate for the 16-day festival that runs Oct. 12-27. It’s composed mostly of the high-profile films that will have made their debuts at the Venice, Telluride, Toronto and New York film … Read More »

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‘Deep Blue Sea’ To Close BFI London Fest

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday August 30, 2011 @ 1:37am PDTTags: BFI London Film Festival, Rachel Weisz, Terence Davies, The Deep Blue Sea

BFI London Film Fest Opens With ’360′ From Fernando Meirelles
The Deep Blue Sea starring Rachel Weisz (who also stars in the festival’s opening-night film, 360), Tom Hiddleston, and Simon Russell Beale will close the 55th … Read More »

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