Oscar winning-director Ang Lee has cancelled plans to direct the pilot of new US television series Tyrant, saying that he needed to rest after spending four years working on 3D fantasy-adventure film Life of Pi.
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Why JJ Abrams is the best thing to happen to Star Wars in a long time
Monday 28 January 2013
Film critic Christy Lemire on why the departure of George Lucas from the Star Wars helm might be a vast improvement
Local filmmaker Stanley Kubrick to be celebrated at first St Albans Film Festival
Wednesday 23 January 2013
Despite currently having no cinema, St Albans has a rich film-making heritage. One of the pioneers of moving pictures Arthur Melbourne-Cooper was born in the city in 1874, while Stanley Kubrick lived and worked in Childwickbury Manor just outside St Albans. It is also close to historic film studios Leavesden, Pinewood and Elstree.
Who was the real Sir Alfred? 'Hitchcock' director Sacha Gervasi backs auteur against 'sadistic monster' portrayed in 'The Girl'
Tuesday 22 January 2013
Gervasi said: 'He was a popular entertainer, not Pol Pot'
'It suddenly seems like I've got a contagion of diseases, I mean awards' - Helena Bonham Carter on Critics' Circle gong
Monday 21 January 2013
Helena Bonham Carter has said she hoped her lifetime achievement award from the Critics' Circle was not a hint to stop acting.
Radcliffe ‘weirded out’ by media focus on gay sex scenes in new film
Sunday 20 January 2013
Actor says he found incessant questioning at the Sundance Film Festival ‘strange’
How did Bigelow access America's secrets about torture and Bin Laden's assassination for Zero Dark Thirty?
Friday 18 January 2013
Oscar contender is triggering growing criticism from US senators that the movie supports 'waterboarding'
Quentin Tarantino's interview outburst tarnishes violent cinema
Monday 14 January 2013
Tarantino refused to comment on the violent nature of Django Unchained in an interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Thomas Pynchon joins Bowie as the second returning recluse of the week
Thursday 10 January 2013
Alice Jones' Arts Diary
Oscar nominations to be announced
Thursday 10 January 2013
All-conquering Adele will find out if she has a chance of adding an Oscar to her armful of awards when the nominations for Hollywood's big night are announced later today.
Complaints as new voting system casts Spielberg and Mendes as extras
Wednesday 09 January 2013
A member of Bafta is set to complain after this year's change in the voting system left large parts of the academy unable to cast a vote for one of the showpiece categories.
James Long: Divine inspiration
Tuesday 08 January 2013
It was a case of Divine inspiration for James Long's autumn/winter collection, quite literally as the drag performer's portrait graced an intarsia knit jumper - hand crafted by Long's own mother.
Nintendo announces Pokemon X and Y for 3DS
Tuesday 08 January 2013
New 3D Pokemon adventure will arrive worldwide in October 2013
Olympic highlights DVD is a best-seller
Tuesday 08 January 2013
Highlights from the London 2012 Olympics have notched up a new record to become the best-selling sport DVD.
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Bloody attack brings terror to capital’s streets
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Mothers' diets may harm IQs in two-thirds of babies
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Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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Eyewitness gives extraordinary account of her confrontation with Woolwich attackers
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Woolwich attack: The EDL might have a sinister plan as a soldier is murdered in suspected Islamic terrorist attack
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