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Global Showbiz Briefs: London Fest Dates, ‘The Audience’ Grows & More

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 8, 2013 @ 1:54am PSTTags: Global Showbiz Briefs, London Film Festival, Sony Pictures TV, The Audience

London Film Fest Dates Set
The British Film Institute has set the dates for this year’s London Film Festival. The 57th go-around will take place from October 9-20 this year, head of exhibition and festival director Clare Stewart announced. Last year’s festival saw banner local and international premieres for the likes of Frankenweenie, Great Expectations, Argo, Amour, Beasts Of The Southern Wild and Silver Linings Playbook. The festival is currently accepting submissions for 2013. - Joe Utichi

ITV Licenses Additional Deals For ‘The Audience’
ITV Studios and ITV Studios Global Entertainment have signed new deals for The Audience, created by indie The Garden originally for Channel 4 in the UK. ITV Studios Nordic will produce 8 x 45-minute episodes for Viasat’s TV 3 in Norway, while ITV Studios Global Entertainment has secured a deal in Hungary, where Paprika Latino will produce 6 hourlong episodes for Viasat 3. ITVS GE represents the format internationally for The Garden. The Audience is from the creators of One Born Every Minute and the producers of 24 Hours in A&E at The Garden. In each episode, the show introduces someone with a life-changing decision to make who opens up their lives to The Audience – 50 ordinary people who follow them for a week and draw on their collective life experience to solve the person’s problem. READ MORE »

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‘Rust And Bone’ Named Best Film At London Festival

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Saturday October 20, 2012 @ 2:30pm PDTTags: London Film Festival, No, Rust & Bone

Jacques Audiard’s Cannes competition film Rust And Bone took the top prize at the 56th BFI London Film Festival this evening. This makes it two in a row for Audiard whose A Prophet was also named best film at the … Read More »

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London Film Festival Unveils Lineup

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday September 5, 2012 @ 3:30am PDTTags: Frankenweenie, London Film Festival

The BFI London Film Festival will screen 225 features including 14 world premieres and a further 111 live-action and animated shorts. Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie is the previously announced opener and Mike Newell’s Great Expectations closes the fest. There are 12 films in the main competition, and gala presentations include Ben Affleck’s Argo, Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet, Roger Michell’s Hyde Park On Hudson and the world premiere of Rolling Stones documentary Crossfire Hurricane. The festival runs Oct. 10-21 in the British capital. Full details follow: Read More »

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BFI London Film Festival Sets Dates

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Tuesday June 19, 2012 @ 1:29am PDTTags: BFI, London Film Festival

The 56th BFI London Film Festival is set to run from October 10-21, organizers announced this morning. Screenings and venues will increase this year, although the fest itself is running four days shorter than usual. Along with its major central … Read More »

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BFI London Film Fest Names ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’ Best Picture

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 26, 2011 @ 9:42pm PDTTags: London Film Festival, Lynne Ramsay, Tilda Swinton, We Need To Talk About Kevin

We Need to Talk About Kevin won best picture at the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday, Reuters reported. Scottish director Lynne Ramsay’s movie starring Tilda Swinton as the mother of a troubled boy who went on … Read More »

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Magnolia Closing In On LFF Opener ‘360’

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 5:38am PDTTags: 360, Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, London Film Festival, Magnolia Pictures, Rachel Weisz

EXCLUSIVE: I’m hearing that Magnolia Pictures is set to close a U.S. deal for Fernando Meirelles’ sexual drama 360, which opened the 55th BFI London Film Festival last night. Artificial Eye is also in talks to release 360 here in the UK on March 3 2012, I understand. Co-produced by Revolution Films, the UK production company behind IFC’s The Trip, the Peter Morgan-scripted feature follows a sexual circle of prostitution, infidelity and true love. Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz and Jude Law star. Paris-based sales agent Wild Bunch is selling the BBC Films-backed project internationally. Reviews here this morning have been pretty muted: The Daily Telegraph summed up the film as a “glossily unengaging trudge through other people’s love lives,” describing one moment where a character imagines a plane carrying away his lover as “spectacularly stupid.” The Times of London gives the film a pretty dismissive 3-star review, calling the plot improbable, and said the merry-go-round structure “crushes performances into twenty-minute slots that often fail to elicit our sympathy.. The Evening Standard though was much more positive, calling 360 “a well-crafted package” and “a film of beautiful moments, elegant structure and vivid locations.” Read More »

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Brit Director Ken Loach Slams Executives

By TIM ADLER in London | Friday October 15, 2010 @ 8:02am PDTTags: BBC Finance, London Film Festival, Movies, UK TV

Loach, giving the keynote speech at the London Film Festival, ridiculed senior TV executives, such as James Murdoch using last year’s Edinburgh TV Festival’s annual MacTaggart Lecture to sound off. Loach said: “I knew Jimmy MacTaggart and I have to tell … Read More »

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’127 Hours’ To Close London Film Festival

By TIM ADLER in London | Friday August 13, 2010 @ 7:44am PDTTags: 127 Hours, 54th BFI London Film Festival, Danny Boyle, Danny Boyle 127 Hours, James Franco, London Film Festival

Danny Boyle’s film starring James Franco will close the 54th BFI London Film Festival on October 28th. The thriller depicts the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s attempt to save himself after a falling boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. 127 HOURS … Read More »

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‘Never Let Me Go’ Opening London Festival

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday August 5, 2010 @ 4:00pm PDTTags: Alex Garland, Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, London Film Festival, Mark Romanek, Never Let Me Go

Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan are expected to make Red Carpet appearances on October 13th because their film Never Let Me Go is opening the London Film Festival. Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) has directed Alex Garland’s (Sunshine) adaptation of Kazuo … Read More »

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