Topic: United Kingdom

Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go" to open London film festival

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British talent and some extraordinary feats of digital restoration are just a few of the highlights promised for this year's BFI London Film Festival, due to run from 13th to 28th October. The Festival, run by the British ...

Swinging sixties British film director dies

Clive Donner, the British film director whose movies helped set the tone for the swinging sixties, died Tuesday at the age of 84, his family said. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease and died in London. Donner's career began at Pinewood ...

Stallone keeps Jolie from top UK movie spot

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Sylvester Stallone's latest mercenary action movie topped the British box office after its opening weekend, ending the month-long reign of Toy Story. Stallone directed and starred in "The Expendables," the story of a ruthless group hired to overthrow ...

Britain bids to save silent Hitchcock thrillers

Examining buckled film reels under a microscope, technicians pore over each precious original frame of Alfred Hitchcock's early movies as Britain bids to salvage the master's magic. The delicate nitrate reel -- brown, brittle and shrunken -- is handled with extreme care ...

"Toy Story 3," "Inception" lead foreign box office

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After three weeks at No. 2, "Toy Story 3" reclaimed the top spot at the foreign box office during the weekend, drawing $62 million. The Pixar cartoon has earned $351 million from 43 markets. Driving the weekend ...

"Saw" movie franchise to get Guinness world record

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The "Saw" horror movie franchise is getting a place in the Guiness World Records as the "Most Successful Horror Movie Series," one of the film's producers, Mark Burg, said on Thursday. "I'm still in shock," Burg told Reuters. ...

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt awarded damages over tabloid claim

LONDON (Reuters) - Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accepted an undisclosed amount of damages on Thursday after suing a British tabloid newspaper which had claimed they were separating. In January, the News of the World reported the couple planned to ...

Pitt, Jolie win privacy damages from UK tabloid

Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accepted undisclosed damages on Thursday from a Sunday newspaper in Britain over claims they were separating, their lawyer said. The unmarried actors had sued the News of the World on privacy grounds over a ...

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt win damages over tabloid claim

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accepted an undisclosed amount of damages on Thursday after suing a British tabloid newspaper which had claimed they were separating. In January, the News of the World reported the couple planned ...

"Eclipse" still has bite at foreign box office

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" ruled the foreign box office for a second weekend, grossing $81.1 million in 63 markets, bolstered by No. 1 openings in Britain and France. "Shrek Forever After" followed with $56.2 million from 47 ...
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