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Toy Story 3D will get IMAX 3D release in summer 2010

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has revealed that Toy Story 3, the third installment of the Pixar franchise, will be released to IMAX 3D theatres simultaneously with its wide release on 18 June 2010. Toy Story 3 will be digitally re-mastered into an The IMAX Experience using proprietary IMAX... more>

The Muppets win Christmas film poll

The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Christmas film that the UK public would most like to see adapted for the stage, according to a poll from London theatre breaks website Show-and-Stay.co.uk The retelling of Dickens' classic tale starring Jim Henson's Muppet characters came top of the list with 25%... more>

Self-funded Yorkshire comedy premiered in Leeds

A self-funded movie made in Yorkshire will be premiered at the Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds at 2pm on Saturday 28 November. Tuck Bushman and the Legend of Piddledown Dale was produced by Lumbfilm Productions and The Discount Comedy Checkout. The 95-minute feature film, shot on location in... more>

Moving to Mars to be shown at IDFA

Moving to Mars: A million miles from Burma the social justice documentary from UK director Mat Whitecross (The Road to Guantanamo) and Coded Pictures follows its Sheffield Doc/Fest world premiere on 4 November with its International premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival... more>

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Sherlock Holmes does his bit for Britain

The release of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, action-adventure mystery has seen national tourism agency VisitBritain join forces with the film’s distributor Warner Bros. Pictures to invite tourists to discover Sherlock Holmes’ Britain – Past and Present. The campaign and... more>

Britain's best of the Noughties revealed

British stories fill a chart of the top 20 films of the decade 2000 to 2009 produced by the Film Distributors' Association. All six Harry Potter films released to date feature in the list, alongside the two most recent James Bond thrillers starring Daniel Craig and the first Bridget Jones episode,... more>

Film location finder app launched

National tourism agency, VisitBritain and etv online have launched a free... more>

NI piracy swoop leads to charges

A 36-year-old man from Belfast has been charged with two offences related... more>

DigiTraining Plus 2010: European Cinemas Experiencing New Technologies

MEDIA Salles organises a new edition of the training course... more>

The Muppets win Christmas film poll

The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Christmas film that the UK public would... more>

Academic wants BFI to take over UKFC stats role

Colin MacCabe, the academic and film maker, believes that the British Film... more>

Avatar conquers all before it

Avatar dominated the Christmas box office, with 20th Century Fox launching it on 303 screens. In a canny piece of counter-programming aimed at people not too bothered about beautifully rendered CGI blue aliens, Entertainment opened the second St Trinian's movie on 428 screens to secure a good second spot.

UK box office Weekend 18-23 December 2009
	Title	Weekend	Total to date
1	Avatar	£8,509,050	£8,509,050
2	St Trinian's 2	£1,586,832	£1,586,832
3	A Christmas Carol	£1,003,616	£17,800,095
4	Nativity	£578,510	£3,629,077
5	Planet 51	£451,420	£3,240,615
6	Where the Wild Things Are	£415,900	£1,763,287
7	The Twilight Saga: New Moon	£349,440	£25,862,050
8	Law Abiding Citizen	£307,104	£5,452,528
9	Paranormal Activity	£305,637	£9,389,581
10	2012	£171,827	£19,211,971

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