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The 66th London Film Festival closed Sunday with a lively screening of Rian Johnson's murder mystery sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.   Johnson and the film's A-list cast, including Benoit Blanc a.k.a Daniel Craig, were all in attendance and conducted a brief Q&A onstage following the…

Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer clinched the best film award in the main Official Competition of the 66th London Film Festival with her latest feature Corsage, starring Vicky Krieps. The historical drama, which is also the Austrian entry for the best international feature film Oscar race, follows…

The mammoth cast of Rian Johnson's murder mystery sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, sidestepped spoilers and jumped over plot lines as they presented their film Sunday morning at a London Film Festival press conference. Opening the presser, Johnson addressed the one plotline that sneaked out…

Janelle Monáe was fashionably late as she strolled onstage at the BFI Southbank, where she headlined the London Film Festival's final major keynote 'screen talk' Friday afternoon.  During the talk, Monáe dug into some of the biggest successes of her career. She also shared some of her future goals…

Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi will no longer attend the London Film Festival premiere of his latest film Subtraction after authorities stopped him from boarding a flight to London.  A spokesperson for the BFI London Film Festival told Deadline that Haghighi was turned away at the airport by Iranian…

MK2 Managing Director Fionnuala Jamison was the focus of the London Film Festival's second 'spotlight' industry talk Wednesday, during which she provided insights on navigating the international film market, including how regional prejudices can impact how films are sold. Jamison opened the…

Director Darren Aronofsky embraced Brendan Fraser as the lights came up, the credits rolled, and applause rang through the auditorium at the UK premiere of their latest film, The Whale, at the London Film Festival Tuesday evening. We were in the crowd. The pair were joined by screenwriter Samuel D…

Producers Tristan Goligher (Supernova) and Mike Goodridge (Triangle of Sadness) highlighted the importance of working across platforms and developing projects over an extended period during an industry keynote at the London Film Festival Tuesday.  The pair headed the keynote as part of the festival's…

The 16th Film London Production Finance Market opened Tuesday morning with a keynote talk featuring BFI CEO Ben Roberts who spoke at length about his 10-year funding plan for British cinema and the financial issues hitting the industry, including the recent shuttering of the Edinburgh Film…

Aubrey Plaza gave a keynote “screen talk” Monday at the London Film Festival, where she revealed that she received a call from her agent during the shoot of Dirty Grandpa telling her that her co-star, Robert De Niro, was "freaked out" by her behavior on set. Plaza said she received the call early…

On Saturday during the BFI London Film Festival, Deadline hosted an industry party at The Twenty Two. The Deadline Studio captured stars, creatives and executives from several films in the festival lineup including Ali Abbasi, Zar Amir Ebrahimi from Abbasi’s Holy Spider, the Utopia film and Denmark’s…

The strengths and possibilities of cinematic language were heavy on Alejandro G. Iñárritu's mind as he sat down for a keynote ‘screen talk’ at the London Film Festival on Sunday afternoon. The director is in London to screen his latest film Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. The keynote…