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Further producers include Nikki Parrott and Tom Wood.

Twelve UK producers including Damian Jones, Emily Morgan, Nikki Parrott and Tom Wood are heading to Paris later this month for a series of co-production meetings arranged through a partnership between the British Film Institute (BFI) and France’s national film centre, the Cnc.

The meetings will take place from April 20-21.

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“After a successful trip of French producers to the BFI London Film Festival (Lff) last October organised by the BFI with Institut francais in the UK and Unifrance, the BFI is delighted...

In honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman's final film, A Most Wanted Man, hitting theaters today, we are reprinting David Browne's cover story on the actor's final days from our February 27th issue.

Slouched in the front row of the labyrinth Theater Company's performance space in New York's West Village last May, Philip Seymour Hoffman was his typical focused, superdisciplined self. In the intimate 90-seat theater, Hoffman – always dressed in one or another of his seemingly interchangeable baggy pants and sweaters – was relentlessly pushing the cast and crew of the play he was directing,...

Philip reportedly told a complete stranger that he was a heroin addict, just weeks before he was found dead on his bathroom floor, with a syringe still in his arm.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead on Feb. 1, in his West Village apartment, after a reported six-week heroin binge. He was a self-admitted heroin addict, who had relapsed after managing staying clean for 23 years. Philip was found slumped over on the bathroom floor of his NYC apartment and he had reportedly been laying there for hours.

Philip Seymour Hoffman Told Friends ‘I’m Going To Die’

Philip, who knew he had a lot at stake, reportedly told his friends he was destined to die from the lethal drug, according to TMZ. In December, the Capote actor began injecting himself with heroin and despite going to AA, he couldn’t kick the habit. TMZ is reporting that when asked how bad...

Jennifer Lawrence and Hunger Games novelist Suzanne Collins join the cast in issuing a joint statement praising the actor's 'exceptional talent'

The cast of The Hunger Games have spoken of their "heartbreak" over the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Hoffman had shot most of his scenes for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2 prior to a suspected drug overdose in his New York apartment on 2 February. Series star Jennifer Lawrence and her fellow cast members issued a statement outlining their collective distress in the wake of the Oscar-winning actor's passing.

"Words cannot convey the devastating loss we are all feeling right now," read a joint statement from the cast, director Francis Lawrence and saga creator Suzanne Collins. "Philip was a wonderful person and an exceptional talent, and our hearts are breaking. Our deepest condolences go out to his family."

Reports following Hoffman's death indicated that the shoot for Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2 was almost complete,...

On Sunday morning at about 9 a.m., Philip Seymour Hoffman was supposed to pick up his children from his girlfriend, Mimi O'Donnell. "He never showed up," says a police source. "That's when [O'Donnell] called a friend, who went to his apartment and called 911." The friend, playwright David Katz, had just seen Hoffman a week earlier. "He was clean and sober, his old self," Katz tells the New York Times. "I really thought this chapter was over." Sadly, it wasn't. The Oscar-winning actor would finally lose a decades-old battle with drug addiction that last year sent him to detox following a relapse.