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26 April 2012 7:54 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

The London Film Memorabilia Convention

Saturday May The 12 th ( 10 am – 4 pm )

Central Hall Westminster

UK’s longest running film convention!

Dealers from all over the UK , Europe and Canada!

Specialising in selling vintage film memorabilia and rare collectIbles. Items covering the history of cinema can be found.

From the silents to the present.

A Unique Event For Anyone With An Interest In Cinema!

Stills Posters Both Vintage & The Latest Releases

Programmes Books Rare And Hard To Find Soundtracks

& DVD’S Books Magazines Lobby Cards Autographs Postcards Vintage & Retro Film And Television Related Toys Props Actors Signings And Talks

Special Guests –

The legendary cult actor David Warner – Who will be signing and selling some personal memorabilia from such films as Star Trk V , Star Trk VI , Titanic , Planet Of The Apes and some Peckinpah related items!

Sylvia Syms – Who acted in such films as Ice Cold In Alex , Victim

Flame In The Streets »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

27 March 2012 3:42 PM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »

The Kinks are finally set to become the "Celluloid Heroes" they once sang about.

The story of the British rockers and self-described "Muswell Hillbillies" will be put to the silver screen in the musical biography film, "You Really Got Me," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"You Really Got Me," named after arguably the band's most popular single (besides perhaps "Lola"), will concentrate on the rock group founded by brothers Ray and Dave Davies that recorded such '60s pop ditties as "All Day and All of the Night" and "A Well Respected Man" before moving on to harder-edged '70s tracks such as "Low Budget" and "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" and finally becoming MTV darlings with Top 40 '80s hits like "Come Dancing" and "Don't Forget to Dance."

The script is set to be written by British scribes Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, which will concentrate on »

- Bryan Enk

27 March 2012 9:20 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

The success of well-received ghost tale "The Woman In Black" has benefited pretty much everyone: Star Daniel Radcliffe has proven he can be a viable lead outside of the "Harry Potter" franchise, revived horror label Hammer Films has taken its place again at the top of the British genre tree (the picture has taken £20 million at the U.K. box office, making it the most successful home-grown horror picture ever), and director James Watkins has undoubtedly landed himself on the top of many wishlists.

Watkins, who made his debut with the Michael Fassbender-starring hoodie horror picture "Eden Lake," has sci-fi actioner "Methuselah" in the works from 'Potter' producer David Heyman, but it looks like that won't be his next picture: Screen Daily reports that he's changing lanes, excuse the pun, to direct the based-in-fact sports drama "Second Is Nowhere" for BBC Films and Al Films.

The script, penned by "Johnny English Reborn, »

- Oliver Lyttelton

16 January 2012 12:38 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Attention British film-makers: the prime minister requires you to make more commercial movies. Here's how

British film-makers! Put down those clapperboards and pay attention because David Cameron, who happens to be a huge fan of your work – assuming you're making The King's Speech II – wants you to focus on films likely to be a "commercial success". Which presumably is the last thing you want.

Cynics say Cameron knows squit about British films. When that photo of SamCam and Michelle Obama having a coffee morning in the Downing Street flat was released, there didn't seem to be many British films in the Cameron DVD collection. Not even Carry On Screaming. Mainly Us TV boxsets. Oh, and he owns the film Armageddon on DVD. It's hard not to judge him for that.

To be fair, the photo was taken before The King's Speech had come out on DVD. Apparently he bought 26 copies of that. »

- Charlie Brooker

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