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The BFI London Film Festival has unveiled the full lineup for its revamped "Industry Forum," which will feature keynote sessions with Jennifer Lee, chief creative officer of Disney Animation Studios, and Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts (AMPAS). Lee will headline what the BFI…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's your first look at filmmaker Julia Jackman's debut feature, Bonus Track, which is an official London Film Festival and TIFF Industry Selects pick.  Set in 2006, the pic follows George — a small-town sixteen-year-old — on the road to complete social and academic failure. Synopsis…

Jeymes Samuel's sophomore feature The Book of Clarence, Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, and The Boy and the Heron by Hayao Miyazaki are among the titles that have been announced within the full lineup of the British Film Institute's (BFI) 67th London Film Festival. Scroll down for the full…

New works by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Kitty Green, and Christos Nikou are among the titles that have been set to play in competition at the upcoming 67th edition of the British Film Institute's (BFI) London Film Festival. Scroll down for the full list. Eleven films will screen in the official competition…

Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget, the highly tipped animated sequel Aardman and director Sam Fell have made for Netflix, will debut at this year's London Film Festival. The pic will screen on October 14 at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall and will mark the festival's annual Mayor of London…

James Hawes's drama One Life, starring Anthony Hopkins as Holocaust rescue hero Nicholas Winton, will make its European debut at the London Film Festival in October as part of its gala program, following the film’s TIFF world premiere. The picture's starry cast also features Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin…

Saltburn, the latest film from Promising Young Woman filmmaker Emerald Fennell, will open this year's London Film Festival.  Fennell also wrote and produced the pic, which will receive its International Premiere at LFF on October 4 at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, with simultaneous…

The British Film Institute has hired Kristy Matheson as its Festivals Director to oversee the London Film Festival. Matheson joins the BFI following a stint as Creative Director of the Edinburgh Film Festival, which revealed her departure in the past half hour. During the recruitment process…

EXCLUSIVE: The British Film Institute is close to appointing a new Festivals Director, with an announcement expected imminently, Deadline understands. The incoming candidate will replace Tricia Tuttle, who announced she would step down from the role on the eve of last year's London Film…

The 66th London Film Festival closed Sunday with a lively screening of Rian Johnson's murder mystery sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.   Johnson and the film's A-list cast, including Benoit Blanc a.k.a Daniel Craig, were all in attendance and conducted a brief Q&A onstage following the…

Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer clinched the best film award in the main Official Competition of the 66th London Film Festival with her latest feature Corsage, starring Vicky Krieps. The historical drama, which is also the Austrian entry for the best international feature film Oscar race, follows…

The mammoth cast of Rian Johnson's murder mystery sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, sidestepped spoilers and jumped over plot lines as they presented their film Sunday morning at a London Film Festival press conference. Opening the presser, Johnson addressed the one plotline that sneaked out…