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UK Film Council to be abolished

Jul 26th

26 July 2010 Last updated at 10:51 ET

The UK Film Council is to be axed as part of a cost-cutting drive by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), it has been announced.

The organisation, founded in 2000, had an annual budget of £15m to invest in British films and More >

Jul 8th

Posted by gowtham in art

The painting was bought by the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles

An 1839 Turner masterpiece of a view of Rome has sold for £29.7m in London, breaking the artist’s auction record.

Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino sold in five minutes with six bidders battling for the work which has More >

May 28th

Simon Fuller is said to be working with an ex-Barclays Capital banker on the bid

Ex-Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller is leading a consortium bidding to buy the company that owns the rights to hit TV show American Idol.

A company owned by Mr Fuller created the Idol franchise but More >

May 7th

Brad Bird, director of Pixar hit The Incredibles, is to helm the fourth Mission: Impossible film, its star Tom Cruise has confirmed.

“Everything’s signed… Brad is doing it,” the actor told Empire magazine, calling Bird “enormously talented”.

Paramount Pictures confirmed Cruise would star in a fourth Mission – to be co-produced More >