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19.09.2023

Say hello to Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson and the Olympians premieres on Disney + on December 20. Today, Disney+ released a new teaser trailer for the upcoming Disney+ Original series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. This latest teaser begins to lift the veil on the heroic quest Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell), Grover Underwood (Aryan Simhadri), and Annabeth Chase (Leah Sava Jeffries) are about to embark on when the series debuts December 20 on Disney+ with a two-episode premiere, followed by new episodes weekly. Based on Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series by award-winning author Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians tells the fantastical story of

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15.09.2023

BFI Cinema Unbound: the creative worlds of Powell and Pressburger comes to big screens UK-wide this autumn

Celebrate the groundbreaking filmmaking duo in cinemas UK-wide from 16 October – 31 December 2023 CINEMA UNBOUND: THE CREATIVE WORLDS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER, a major BFI UK-wide film celebration of one of the greatest and most enduring filmmaking partnerships in the history of cinema: Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988), best known for their iconic films including THE RED SHOES (1948), A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946) and BLACK NARCISSUS (1947), comes to big screens nationwide this autumn. CINEMA UNBOUND: THE CREATIVE WORLDS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER today announces a UK-wide programme, funded by National Lottery, with over 56 special events and screenings in the first round, supported in partnership by BFI Film Audience

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15.09.2023

Film4 celebrate success as Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things wins the Golden Lion prize at the 80th Venice International Film Festival

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Film4-backed feature POOR THINGS has won the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival. POOR THINGS marks Film4’s fourth collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos after backing THE FAVOURITE, THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER and THE LOBSTER, each of which enjoyed impressive festival runs and awards successes. Film4 developed the screenplay for POOR THINGS with Lanthimos’ regular producers, Element Pictures and co-financed the film with Searchlight Pictures, who also co-financed Lanthimos’ Bafta and Academy Award-winning THE FAVOURITE with Film4. The highly anticipated POOR THINGS tells the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a young woman

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