Speaking at the Venice Film Festival, where his latest film Contagion is featured in competition for the Golden Lion, Oscar-winning director, Steven Soderbergh, dismissed reports that he is retiring from film-making.“It’s less dramatic than it sounds – it’s just a sabbatical,” the Ocean 11 director said.In the last couple of

George Clooney’s American presidential campaign drama Ides of March opened Venice Film Festival on Wednesday in a well-received gala screening. The film, starring George Clooney, Rayan Gosling, Philip Seymoure Hoffman and Paul Giamatti, follows a Democrat presidential candidate vying to win Ohio primary, while battling some moral dilemmas.Other movies

Mel Gibson will pay his former Russian girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva 750,000 as part of a settlement agreed in a Los Angeles Superior Court hearing on Wednesday, ending a bitter dispute over the custody over their 22 month-old daughter and financial matter.The acrimony between the couple surfaced a year ago following

Forcing the closure of cinemas in major cities along the US east coast such as New York, Hurricane Irene knocked down the US domestic ticket sales by 23 compared to the taking of the same weekend from last year.Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst from Hollywood.com, who had published these results,

Besson’s biopic of the Burmese pro-democracy activist, Aung San Suu Kayi, will open the 6th edition of Rome Film Festival next October, where it will have its European Premiere in the festival’s out-of-Competition. The premiere will attended by Besson and the stars of the movie Michelle Yeoh and David

The founder and former chief exec of the Foundation of Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool, Eddie Berg, who had previously served as the artistic director of BFI Southbank since 2005, has been appointed by the BFI to the newly-created role of director of partnership.Berg will be responsible for leading

The British Film Festival, which is held in the seaside resort Dinar in Brittany France and runs 5-9th of October, will feature British pictures including: Paddy Considine’s directorial debut Tyrannosaur, David Mackenzie’s You Instead, Jim Loach’s Orange and Sunshine and John M. McDonagh’ Irish comedy The Guard.In additions to the

David Hare's spy drama Page Eight, starring Rachel Weisz and Bill Neigh, will close next month's Toronto Film Festival.The festival opens in September 8th with the documentary "From the Sky down" about the Rock band U2, from director Davies Guggenheim, who won an Oscar for making Al Gore's  Inconvenient Truth.

Comedy this month includes a new festive edition of the perennially popular Royle Family, duo Watson And Oliver get a full series after a successful pilot and Off Their Rockers imports the popular Belgian hidden camera show featuring a group of badly behaved pensioners. Funny Families will attempt to turn