Following the government’s funding cuts across all sectors of culture and the arts, the Mayor of London has cut the annual funding Budget of Film London by 22 to £1.3 million for 2011/2012.In spite of the budget trimming, Film London will continue to offer the micro-budget filmmaking scheme Microwave, the
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Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor dies
The double Oscar winner, Dame Elizebath Taylor, has died this morning in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure. She was 79.Born in London in 1932 to American Parents, the legendry Hollywood actress moved to Los Angeles at the age of 9 and within three years she became a star, taking
Sundance is coming to London
Following the success of its expansion in American cities and several territories around the world, Sundance Institute is joining forces with AEG Europe to launch a Sundance London, a four-day, multi-disciplinary arts festival to be held at AEG’s O2 venue. The festival will be inaugurated in April 26-19, 2012.Like
Johnny Depp: The Accidental Actor
The highest paid actor in Hollywood and the star of The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise didn't have acting ambitions when he arrived in Los Angeles in 1983. Johnny Depp, who had played the guitar from the age of 12, wanted to be a rock star.
Youth without youth at the Oscars
The Hollywood calendar has peaked with the top film talent being recognised by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, and awarded golden trophies called Oscars. Presenters James Franco
Elton John gets a new gnome
Husam Asi learns how Sir Elton John is inspired by young artists as well as old One of pop music's living legends, Sir Elton John, has sold more than a quarter of a billion records and enjoyed more than fifty Top 40 hits over his five-decade career, reaching a kind of
Glee and Social Networking at The Golden Globes
There was plenty of Glee in Hollywood where the TV show about a song-filled high school walked away with all the TV comedy awards at the Golden Globes - the first major awards ceremony of the year.
Hilary Swank: an actress with conviction
"I became an actor because I felt like an outsider," Hilary Swank reflects. As a child, the double Oscar-winning actress was the pariah neighbours didn't let their kids play with because she lived in a trailer park. At the time, she couldn't understand why people would look down on her, and
Danny Boyle creates an immobile action hero
He reveals how he made an action movie in which the action hero couldn't move. After the phenomenal success of his multi-Oscar winning, rags-to-riches hit, Slumdog Millionaire, in 2009, Danny Boyle was deluged with directing offers from Hollywood, but, having been stung by a Hollywood adventure in the past with
Colin Firth learns how not to stammer
The man who epitomised Englishness on the screen, doesn't even feel that he belongs to the English society. Last year, Colin Firth awed Toronto International film festival audience playing a gay British professor who grapples with solitude after the death of his partner in "Single man", for which he earned an
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