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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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Hotel for Dogs
1 Nov 2009 | Issue Web | Comment > Popcorn
Bounding into their third year, the Fido Awards, presented for canine cinematic excellence are this year teaming up with Dogs Trust, the UK’s largest dog welfare charity. The event honours dog performances on the silver screen and will take... more>
31 Oct 2009 | Issue Web | Comment > Popcorn
An attempt by 128 German cinemas to break the world kissing record last week. Even though 9,000 people kissed simultaneously in cinemas across the country the bid failed.. The attempt to make it into the Guiness Book of Records tool place before a... more>
Star Wars has best score
2 Oct 2009 | Issue Web | Comment > Popcorn
John Williams’ score for the original 1977 Star Wars movie has been declared the best science fiction movie soundtrack of all time in a poll conducted by popular sci-fi website Totalscifionline.com The score to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,... more>
Sean Young in Blade Runner
12 Aug 2009 | Issue Web | Comment > Popcorn
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford and set in a bleak LA of the future, has been named the greatest sci-fi movie of all time by sci-fi website Totalscifionline.com. The online publication has produced a definitive list of the... more>
24 Jul 2009 | Issue Web | Comment > Popcorn
Noel Fielding, half comedy duo The Mighty Boosh, will star as the Zombie King in Film4 and Warp Films’ upcoming production I Spit On Your Rave. The movie will be filmed at this year’s Big Chill Festival. The film is set in 2018, a world... more>
Peter Simson and Hannah McDonagh
20 Jul 2009 | Issue Web | Comment > Popcorn
A man hired a cinema, complete with an audience, to screen a self-made film in order to propose to his girlfriend. 26-year-old Pete Simson had told 25-year-old Hannah McDonagh that they would be watching a French arthouse movie at the Watershed in... more>
The Fakenham crew go Pottering
17 Jul 2009 | Issue Web | Comment > Popcorn
Harry Potter came to Fakenham last night when the foyer was transformed to look like Hogwarts for a special late night evening show on Thursday. The cinema's staff worked their magic in costume for the sell out performance and also raised money for... more>
14 Jul 2009 | Issue Web | Comment > Popcorn
That consumable staple of any cinema visit, popcorn, has been found to serve another function, that of a sexual aid, according to the latest issue of the male body beautiful magazine Men’s Health. It reports that eating the starchy food snack... more>
Hitchcock understood bladder capacity
19 Jun 2009 | Issue 56 | Comment > Popcorn
Alfred Hitchcock once said that the running time of a motion picture should not exceed the capacity of the human bladder. This is a dilemma for those patrons sitting cross-legged until forced into a toilet break, and wondering on their return what... more>
29 May 2009 | Issue Web | Comment > Popcorn
Dirty Dancing has been voted the UK’s favourite film of all time. It beat off stiff competition from some of the most famous movies made over the last 70 years to take top spot. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey danced their way to number one,... more>
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