Film Industry - Can the Oscars Save the UK Film Council?

You might know that UK Film Council has lost the support of the government and will no longer be funded as a result of 'the cuts'.

To get an idea of how important they were to the UK film industry, look at this:
10 Best UK Film Council Projects
A Decade Of Homegrown Hits From The Cancelled Council

Now look at this article titled 'Can the Oscars Save The UK Film Council?'

Visit UK Film Council Website - watch their video explaining what their role has been in the film industry.

The film endings they had to change!

From 'Yahoo movies' pages, here is a list of films which did not entirely go to plan - in the end, they had to change / re-shoot the final scenes (including I am Legend)

Take a look here.

What we want from Hollywood in 2011

What we want from Hollywood in 2011
Another year, another avalanche of remakes, dodgy 3D conversions and incomprehensible M Night Shyamalan dialogue. Here's how the studios need to mend their ways:
Read full article here.

Some of the demands made:
1 Fewer sequels and remakes
2 Lay off the 3D
3 More berserk Batman casting rumours
4 Pirates of the Caribbean 4 to be shorter, and actually make sense this time
5 Don't make The Social Network the start of a new trend
6 Stop employing M Night Shyamalan
7 Give us our vampires back
8 Pixar to stop being quite so unremittingly bleak
9 No new Nicholas Sparks movies
10 Jennifer Aniston to either make better films, or bad films less prolifically

Film Industry - Reality sucks in the multiplex

Reality sucks in the multiplex
Parallel universes, dream worlds, virtual paradises – movies today are full of them. Mark Zuckerberg, it's your fault

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Film Industry: The end of MGM as we know it?

The famous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio has been looking for a way out of their financial problems for a while now.
This is MGM Wikipedia entry.

In 2005, MGM was acquired by Sony and other investors.

Back in March 2010, it looked like Time Warner might take over:
Time Warner leads pack in race for MGM (The Sunday Times)

A few days ago, it looked like Lions Gate would be the successful in a merger with MGM:

"The details of Lions Gate's proposal were released just days before MGM creditors face a Friday deadline to vote on an alternative plan to merge with a unit of Spyglass Entertainment. The Spyglass deal would see MGM creditors, owed more than $4 billion, own more than a 95 percent stake in a company worth around half of that."

Yahoo News

However, now Spyglass Entertainment is taking over the control of a bankrupt MGM:

"The studio said MGM creditors "overwhelmingly" approved what amounts to a prepackaged bankruptcy plan, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

The plan includes having Spyglass Entertainment co-founders Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum take over as co-chief executive officers, the Journal said."

UPI.com, full article here

James Bond fans now hope that production of the next film will resume...

Article on "Toy Story 3"

Here is a story about Toy Story 3, how it has become the highest grossing animated film of all time.

There are also some links to a whole host of TS3 related media, including "The Making of Toy Story 3". Please click here for the full article.

James Hiett

The biggest flick-flops: The ones that lost money

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Hollywood Most Bankable Stars

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