James Bond to Harry Potter film studios owner Pinewood Shepperton reveals a 68% surge in film revenues as the company turns down television contracts in favour of big screen work... more
Idris Elba is currently training for a charity boxing match in aid of Sport Relief and says the experience has given him a desire to repeat the exploit in a movie... more
The script for a new film about Robin Hood was such a hot property that it sparked a bidding war between three studios. Lee Marshall reports on an everyday Hollywood story.... more
Many of the year’s big adventure movies will be released in the coming months including Iron Man 2, Prince of Persia and a re-make of television series The A-Team.
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Her father made Gladiator and her uncle made Top Gun, so it was inevitable that Jordan Scott, Ridley's daughter, would end up in the family business.... more
The Pinewood, Shepperton and Teddington studios group has reported a 55% slump in half-year profits following the recent screenwriters' and actors' disputes in America.... more
Body of Lies can't decide whether to be an all-out thriller or a savvy political drama but since it is directed by Ridley Scott, you can forgive a lot.... more
Given the financial hurricane that devasted the City last month, that 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for British film and our leading directors and actors ... more
The director of the new Robin Hood blockbuster has pulled the plug on the film shoot after realising the green Sherwood Forest would turn brown before filming was over.... more
The director of the new Robin Hood blockbuster has pulled the plug on the film shoot after realising the green Sherwood Forest would turn brown before his crew had finished work... more
The Heritage Orchestra brought musical heroics to their performance at Massive Attack's Meltdown Festival, during which they delivered an atmospheric interpretation of the Blade runner soundtrack.... more
Ridley Scott directs Russell Crowe in A Good Year, a film that leaves the viewer feeling that it would be fun to leave the real world behind and bask in wine, food and women in Provence.... more
Richard Linklater turns his stars into cartoons to create a cold but stylish vision of the not-too-distant future. But A Scanner Darkly suffers from a lack of real emotional involvement.... more
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