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Audience award of Dinard British Film Festival goes to Charlie Cattrall’s Titus.

Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant has won the Golden Hitchcock Award at the 24th edition of the Dinard British Film Festival in Brittany, France.

The prize comes with distribution support. The film also won the Cine+ Award, to promote the film during its theatrical release in France, as well as the Heartbeat Award “Le Prix Coup de Coeur” for a film with French distribution to get a special boost in Western France.

In addition, the film won the Technicolor Award for Best Cinematography.

Chris Coghill won Best Screenplay for Mat Whitecross’ Spike Island.

A special mention was given to a trio of actors — Nora Tschirner, Rob Knighton and Madeline Duggan — for Everyone Is Going To Die.

The jury included Alice Eve, Toby Jones, Michael Smiley, David Parfitt, Eric Cantona, Natalie Carter, Fred Cavayé, Hippolyte Girardot and Amanda Sthers.

Dinard opened...

Stars: Nora Tschirner, Rob Knighton, Kellie Shirley, Stirling Gallacher, Liberty Selby, Madeline Duggan, Eliza Harrison-Dine, Ellie Chidzey | Written and Directed by Jones

Review by Scott Clark of Cinehouse

Melanie (Nora Tschirner) is a young woman living out a dull existence in an English seaside town, her life crawls along until she meets Ray (Rob Knighton in his second feature performance), a recently divorced gangster-type back in town for one last job. Without a doubt the most charming and impressive feature to debut at Eiff this year, one of those films that comes along once in a blue moon and manages to hold its own amongst the vast array of features fighting for the spotlight. It sounds like a screwball gangster flick with a hint of Lost in Translation, which it could be billed as, but you’d be missing the point. Even though it flaunts moments of comedy and does...

The British film Everyone’s Going to Die premiered yesterday at SXSW. It is directed by a directing collective called Jones.

Synopsis:

Two lost souls. One last chance.

Melanie’s life in a seaside town is going nowhere until she meets Ray, back in town with a shady job to do. A moment’s escape becomes a chance to save themselves, and each other.

“Everyone’s Going To Die” is a modern British story about coming home, getting by and the redemptive power of feeling you’re not alone. A story where porn hotlines rub shoulders with sexy beavers on rollerskates; where the past is laid to rest, two lives are changed and nobody, finally, is going to die.

The film stars: Nora Tschirner, Rob Knighton, Kellie Shirley, Madeline Duggan and Stirling Gallacher.

Poster for Everyone’s Going to Die. Thanks Imp Awards.

The man in the poster stirs up...

It’s tough to believe SXSW is almost upon us, but the festival starts March 8 and the line-up is looking good. The event has a history of premiering some great titles and this year is no different.

Fede Alvarez’s much-anticipated remake of Evil Dead will have its world premiere at the festival. Opening night features the Incredible Burt Wonderstone, starring Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi as Vegas magicians. Buscemi’s blond wig alone is reason enough to see this movie. Another highlight is the panel, Bates Motel: Story to Screen with Carlton Cuse, which will feature a first look at the pilot for Bates Motel.

Still waiting on the Midnighters line-up to see what else is in store genre-wise.

See the full list of events below and check the website for more info.

The 2013 SXSW Film Festival will feature:

Downloaded (World Premiere)

Director: Alex Winter

Downloaded is a documentary...

In just a few days’ time, festivalgoers will be heading out to Park City, Utah for Sundance 2013, the first big film festival of the year. Next up is the Berlinale in February. And then comes SXSW in March, out in Austin, Texas.

Sundance continues to boast a brilliant line-up, including the premieres of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut, Don Jon’s Addiction; David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, with Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, and Ben Foster; Zal Batmanglij’s The East, with Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, Brit Marling, and Toby Kebbell; Drake Doremus’ Breathe In, with Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce; and so much more.

And now SXSW has started to announce what films we can look forward to out in Austin this spring, with the initial line-up including the world premiere of Don Scardino’s The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, starring Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, which has...

(L-r) Alan Arkin as Rance Holloway, Jim Carrey as Steve Gray, Steve Carell as Burt Wonderstone, Michael Herbig as Lucius Belvedere and Jay Mohr as Rick the Implausible in New Line Cinema’s comedy “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Ben Glass.

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced the world premiere of the comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, from Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema, as the 2013 Opening Night Film on Friday, March 8, 2013.

The story follows superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi), who have ruled the Las Vegas strip for years, raking in millions with illusions as big as Burt’s growing ego. But lately the duo’s greatest deception is their public friendship, while secretly they’ve grown to loathe each other. Facing cutthroat competition from guerilla street magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey...

We are just about to kick off our Sundance coverage, and we already have another film festival to focus on. SXSW has gone ahead and announced a few great titles from its upcoming lineup. The WB/New Line comedy Incredible Burt Wonderstone has been announced as the opening film. The film stars Steve Carrell, Jim Carrey, and Steve Buscemi as competing Las Vegas magicians. TV Veteran Don Scardino directs from the script by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley.

Other titles announced include some World Premieres of highly anticipated films such as Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead remake and Alex Winter’s documentary Downloaded, which follows the rise and fallout of Napster. Also scheduled is Joe Swanberg‘s Drinking Buddies, and Good Ol Freda, a film about The Beatles’ secretary Freda Kelly, and directed by Ryan White. Add on a conversational appearance by Matthew McConaughey, and the debut of the full...

SXSW is coming in March and they have some awesome premieres this year. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone hits opening night and the Evil Dead remake is getting it’s world premiere.

Here’s a list of the films hitting SXSW:

Downloaded (World Premiere)

Director: Alex Winter

Downloaded is a documentary that explores the rise and fall of Napster and the birth of the digital revolution. It’s about the teens that helped start this revolution, and the artists and industries who continue to be impacted by it.

Drinking Buddies (World Premiere)

Director/Screenwriter: Joe Swanberg

You know what makes the line between “Friends” and “More Than Friends” really blurry? Beer.

Cast: Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Ron Livingston, Jason Sudeikis (uncredited), Joe Swanberg

Everyone’s Going to Die (World Premiere)

Director/Screenwriter: Jones

A guy whose life is falling apart, meets a girl whose life can’t get started.

Ben Mitchell is set to leave 'EastEnders' this summer. Charlie Jones - who has played the partially-deaf schoolboy for the past four years - apparently had to be ''consoled'' after bosses on the BBC One show told him his alter-ego would be written out during one of the summer's biggest storylines, expected to be based around his hatred of his younger sister Louise. It was also revealed that Madeline Duggan, who plays teenager Lauren Branning, will soon be leaving Albert Square too. A BBC spokesman said: ''Charlie and Madeline have been a pleasure to work with and we wish them all the best for ..

Two of EastEnders' youngest stars will be written out of the soap later this year, it has been confirmed. Charlie Jones and Madeline Duggan - who have played Ben Mitchell and Lauren Branning for the last 4 years - will bow out of the Albert Square serial in the coming months as part of the soap's ongoing revamp under new executive producer Bryan Kirkwood. According to the Daily Star Sunday, 13-year-old Jones had to be "consoled" by his chaperone after hearing the news that his 4 years with the soap would be coming to an end. He has yet to film his final scenes, but his exit will allegedly have nothing to do with Barbara Windsor's departure as Peggy Mitchell in the autumn. It has been suggested that his final story will revolve around the climax of his hate campaign against Louise - or tie in with Lucy Benjamin's...

EastEnders' Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) turns to Max Branning (Jake Wood) in a fortnight's time in the hope that he'll help raise the funds to save the Mitchells from financial ruin. Max, however, is bogged down with money troubles of his own - hence the reason why he conned the Mitchells in the first place! Lauren (Madeline Duggan) and Abi (Lorna Fitzgerald) hand over their Christmas lists and insist on having a real tree this year, as opposed to their usual artificial one. With Phil in one ear and his family in another, Max resorts to selling his watch online in a bid to raise some spare cash. Later, Phil suggests to Max that they scam Phil out of a shedload of cash and solve both their money woes in one fell swoop. Max insists that he's no crook, but Phil tries to remind him otherwise as he mentions...

When Tanya (Jo Joyner) discovers that Lauren (Madeline Duggan) and Abi (Lorna Fitzgerald) have been using her situation with Max (Jake Wood) to their advantage, she decides to turn the tables on her daughters in tonight's episode of EastEnders. Trying not to burst into laughter, Max and Tanya explain to the girls that their father's situation is a lot worse than it actually is. Devastated (more)...

EastEnders dropped to a 14-month audience low on BBC One in a clash with Emmerdale on Tuesday. The episode saw Lauren Branning (Madeline Duggan) confront mother Tanya (Jo Joyner) about her relationship with her brother-in-law Jack (Scott Maslen). Just 5m (26.8%) tuned in from 7.30pm - far short of the soap's 8.3m (37.5%) average for the year to date, and the smallest audience since 4m (19.6%) on May 17 last year. An additional 1m (5.9%) watched the BBC Three repeat of the episode at 10pm, however. ITV1 easily dominated the slot, with Emmerdale drawing 5.8m (32.5%) between 7pm and 8pm, while the Channel 4 News was watched by 852,000 (4.8%). Charles (more)...