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Elijah Wood was last seen lending his voice to Mumble, the cute dancing penguin in Happy Feet 2. Now he's all set to play the lead role in Grand Piano. In this independent thriller, Elijah Wood will play a concert pianist who is paralysed with stage fright in later life. When his character plucks up the...

The famous Hollywood theatre that hosts the prestigious Oscar awards ceremony has been renamed the Dolby Theatre in a new sponsorship deal. American audio company, Dolby, are now sponsoring the venue which Kodak were rumoured to have been paying $3.6m annually for naming rights. Formally known as...

An exciting summer is on the way for film lovers at the BFI Southbank film-centre in London. In the coming months, the venue will be honouring sibling stars Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine, as well as two masters of Japanese cinema, Kaneto Shindo and Kozaburo Yoshimura. Warren Beatty...

The films at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival may not have a bank-breaking budget, but they do have exactly what a true cience fiction fan wants. The big ideas and quirky stories begin today (1st May) and end on 7th May so if you are into fantasy and other-worldly goings-on, then London is the place to be this...

Avengers Assemble (known as The Avengers in every other country) has had some inter-dimensional hype for a lot of the last year, and it has finally made its expected impact on the box office. It took $178.4 million in ticket sales before the US release. We were expecting it and we're still...

When Mark Ruffalo came hulking into the new superhero sensation film, Marvel Avengers Assemble, many found his Hulk to be a surprise favourite. So, Marvel have decided to bring back the big, green, smashing machine and have locked the actor in for a whopping six films. Marvel Comics' character Dr. Bruce...

For those salivating at the prospect of a new Nolan Batman film, the third trailer for The Dark Knight Rises should help you survive until release date. Interestingly, the trailer also features the voice-change Bane underwent in order to become a little more intelligble. Sadly, he was less intelligible in...

According to The New York Times, Benedict Cumberbatch auditioned for his role in the Star Trek sequel by filming himself on his mobile phone. The Sherlock star was in his friends kitchen when he filmed the audition, and was apparently so agitated and tired it aided his performance. "I was pretty...

Bridget Jones, Marty McFly and Maximus Meridius are just some of the iconic characters which make up Universal Studios' rich cinema history. And to celebrate 100 years of filmmaking, we take a look back at the nation's most cherished Universal movie-moments of the past century. As part of the studio's...

Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings, The Lovely Bones) decided to shoot The Hobbit at a higher frames-per-second rate than usual - twice as high, in fact. Did the audience notice? Yep, and they're not all happy. The reaction is mixed simply because it appears to take some getting used to. At least one claim...