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Coming soon: YouTube’s movie of mankind

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Life in a Day, the experimental film in which people across the world were invited to record a snapshot of their own lives on a single day and submit it via YouTube, is set to be shown in British cinemas in June.

Chris Langham returns to screen with film role

Sunday, 10 April 2011

Paul Bignell: Former 'Thick of It' star makes his first acting appearance since release from prison.

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Charlie Chaplins hit London en masse

Friday, 8 April 2011

A troupe of Charlie Chaplins took to London streets to shoot a short film to launch Virgin Media Shorts 2011, the UK’s biggest short film competition and the only one which champions undiscovered UK film talent across four screens - at cinemas, on TV, on mobile and online.

When movie stars were movie stars

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Rob Sharp: Ingrid Bergman's pose suggests elegant decorum and shows little evidence of the furore which had recently enveloped her failed marriage to the Italian film director Roberto Rossellini.

China hot under collar over world's first 3D porn film

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Clifford Coonan: Reworking of Sex And Zen due to open in Hong Kong.

Disaster movies pulled from Japanese screens

Monday, 4 April 2011

Hollywood studios have delayed films featuring scenes of mass destruction.

British film of Luther King's life halted as family objects

Sunday, 3 April 2011

Emily Dugan: Spielberg waits in the wings as supporters of the murdered human rights leader say Greengrass project would resort to trivia and smears.

From giant gems to huge homes: Taylor's billion-dollar legacy

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Jonathan Brown: Actress, who immortalised Cleopatra, died leaving enough money to buy a pyramid or three of her own with personal riches estimated at up to $1bn (£625m), it was claimed yesterday.

Double trouble for Portman

Monday, 28 March 2011

Like most winners of the Best Actress Oscar, Natalie Portman devoted a huge proportion of her victory speech in February to a series of tearful thank you messages to the people who she believed had helped on the long journey to the summit of her profession.

Coming soon. Opus Dei: The movie

Sunday, 27 March 2011

Joanna Moorhead: Secretive Catholic organisation pumps money into £25m biopic to counter Dan Brown's bad publicity.

Postlethwaite's last take: Dying star's final film

Sunday, 27 March 2011

Tom Teodorczuk: Dircetor Nick Hamm pays tribute to actor's professionalism while battling cancer.

Hollywood mourns the ultimate celebrity

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Guy Adams: Tributes have been pouring in for Elizabeth Taylor, who died yesterday.

Screen icon Elizabeth Taylor dies

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

The Hollywood legend, renowned as one of the world's most glamorous stars, has died at the age of 79.

From child star to Oscars winner

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Elizabeth Taylor's acting career began when she was just 10.

Problem-plagued 'Hobbit' under way

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Cameras started rolling yesterday on director Peter Jackson's production of The Hobbit, after months of delays on the prequel to his Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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The $175m flop so bad it could end the 3D boom

Monday, 21 March 2011

Geoffrey Mcnab: Disney expected 'Mars Needs Moms' to strike it rich. But then audiences saw it.

Batman's butler Michael Gough dies

Saturday, 19 March 2011

The British actor Michael Gough – a favourite of director Tim Burton and best-known for his role Alfred the butler in the Batman films – has died aged 94.

I suffered post-traumatic stress after being waterboarded on Ken Loach set, says actor

Friday, 18 March 2011

A former paratrooper claims he suffered sustained panic attacks and post-traumatic stress after being waterboarded for a scene in a new film by Ken Loach.

Birmingham gets Fierce and Flatpack

Friday, 18 March 2011

Two festivals descend on Britain's second largest city in the same week

Mel Gibson: Can a falling star ever rise again?

Friday, 18 March 2011

Guy Adams: Only a few months ago he was considered toxic in Hollywood. Now he is back on the silver screen.

3D 'Yellow Submarine' sunk by spiralling costs

Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Fans of The Beatles are no longer packing their bags for a return journey beneath the waves to the land of submarines: Disney has announced that it intends to scrap an eagerly awaited 3D remake of the cult 1968 film Yellow Submarine.

Stunt expert not guilty in film death

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

A special effects expert was cleared of health and safety breaches yesterday after the death of a cameraman during the making of the last Batman film.

And...cut! Credits roll on Steven Soderbergh's career in movies

Saturday, 12 March 2011

Steven Soderbergh, one of Hollywood's best-known directors, as deft at making blockbusters as he is small arthouse films, is to quit filmmaking.

Gibson avoids prison with plea deal

Saturday, 12 March 2011

Mel Gibson used some lightning legal moves to abruptly end a domestic violence case involving a fight last year with his then-girlfriend.

Tarantino sues neighbour over 'blood-curdling' noise of pet parrots

Saturday, 12 March 2011

Quentin Tarantino, the director who has made us cover our eyes during the goriest sequences of his films like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Reservoir Dogs is apparently a little squeamish himself when it comes to sound effects, especially those that are, as he puts it, "blood-curdling" and "pterodactyl-like".