Filmmaker Wes Anderson’s trailer for his latest venture Asteroid City has been revealed. Coated in candied pastel tones, the trailer features quirky snapshot of Anderson’s signature symmetrical style. The film consists of a star studded cast including Hong Chau, Margot Robbie, Tom Hanks and Scarlett Johansson. Asteroid City is set for limited theatre release on 16 June and wider release on 23 June.
General sale for tickets to the honouring of writer, actor, producer, author and NYU Grad Film Tenured professor Spike Lee will go on sale today at 4pm GMT. Lee will be honoured with the BFI Fellowship, the highest honour to be bestowed by the BFI. The filmmaker’s work includes his Academy Award-winning BlacKkKlansman and classics such as She’s Gotta Have It, later adapted for the Netflix series of the same title, and Do The Right Thing. The ceremony will take place at the BFI Southbank on 13 February, hosted by BFI Chair Tim Richards and BFI Chief Executive Ben Roberts.
On Thursday 29 September 2022, Oscar-winning actor and BFI fellow Tilda Swinton announced the four winners of the BFI and Chanel Filmmaker Awards. Receiving a prize of GBP 20,000 each, the winners include Baff Akoto, Kathryn Ferguson, Sam Firth and Erfan Saadati.
BFI are partnering with fashion and fragrance brand Chanel to bring the Filmmaker Awards: Celebrating Creative Audacity. Chaired by BFI fellow and Chanel ambassador Tilda Swinton, and many other leading creatives, the awards will be a celebration of creative originality and risk taking.
Cannes Film Festival is back in its traditional May slot after two years of disruption. Attendance figures for Cannes’s 75th Anniversary are expected to reach pre-pandemic levels, hitting between 30,000 and 35,000 accredited guests in comparison to 20,000 at last year’s July edition. While the 2021 festival included over 80 titles in its Official Selection category, 2022’s line-up currently stands at just under 70 films. Previous Palme D’Or Winners are in contention for this year’s top prize, alongside a host of familiar - and surprise - names across the international filmmaking community.
Set in the early 1980’s, Joanna Hoggs semi-autobiographical film The Souvenir tells the story of Julie, young film student played by Honour Swinton-Byrne, who becomes romantically involved with a deceptive older man, portrayed by Tom Burke. The film filmed exclusively in Norfolk, where a former RAF base was adapted into a soundstage.
Running for twelve days from the second to the thirteenth of October the 2019 BFI London Film Festival will present two-hundred and twenty-nine films that celebrate the diverse landscape of international cinema.
Shooting in the Charente region of France, Anderson’s film The French Dispatch will spend EUR27 million in France, the biggest budget on record for an incoming film.