Across The Atlantic: Tenth Edition, 18th March 2012

Due to unforeseen circumstances (I lie, I saw everything coming…I had to relocate for another job…) for one week only this will be an extended edition of Across the Atlantic. So The Artist unsurprisingly dominated at the BAFTA’s, Academy Award’s and pretty much every other awards show going, and honestly, I believe it did deservedly so. It is a heartfelt, nostalgic, little bit of filmmaking, which made me think of nothing else aside from the fact that I love this medium as it is able to evoke so many contrasting and developing emotions. Now, before I get too soppy, let’s get on with the show.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and Drive are currently heading the field at the Empire Awards with five nominations each. The winners are due to be announced on the 25^th of March. [BBC]

The Hunger Games has had a monumental seven seconds cut in the UK to reduce the emphasis on blood and injury and achieve a more audience-friendly 12A rating. [BBC] 

Disney and Pixar’s latest endeavor, Brave, will premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival at the end of June. [BBC]

The inaugural Sundance London Film Festival which takes place next month is set to premiere fourteen films which were shown in Park City this January. The event will run from the 26th of April to the 29th at the 02 Arena. [Guardian]

Stephen Fry has lent his support to a Southampton pub which is facing Hollywood pressure. The Hobbit Pub in Portswood has been told by the Saul Zaentz company, who owns the merchandising rights to JRR Tolkien’s works and The Lord of The Rings, to change its name or it will face legal action. [Guardian]

The Daniel Radcliffe driven Woman in Black has become the most successful British horror at the Box Office after taking £14m in the UK alone and over $90m worldwide. [Guardian] 

A British Film Institute archivist has stumbled across a 1901 film which depicts the earliest surviving incarnation of a Charles Dickens character on film. [Guardian]

The electrical retailer Dixons is set to launch an on-demand film and television service entitled KnowHow Movies. [Guardian]

The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that the government has no remit to intervene in the planned sale of the famous Twickenham Film Studio’s. This is yet another sad day for the British industry. [Guardian]

BSkyB has been given a boost in their battle to retain its stranglehold on pay-television after the Competition Commission announced that it will continue its investigation into the impact of LoveFilm and NetFlix. [Guardian]

A TV campaign promoting Paranormal Activity 3 pre-watershed has been curtailed by the advertising watchdogs after complaints that children found the adverts found it “distressing.” [Guardian]

The Education Secretary Michael Gove announced a few weeks ago plans to set up a weekend academy run by the British Film Institute which will look to root out and find Britain’s next generation of filmmakers. [Independent]

Pinewood Studio’s made a loss of £3.9m in 2011. [Independent]

Andre Ovredal, the director of the brilliant Troll Hunter (above), has been lured to Hollywood with an offer to direct an adaptation of Julie Kenner’s book Carpe Demon: The Adventures of a Demon Hunting Soccer Mom. [Empire]

The Fassbender train continues to power on, as Empire have reported that he is in early talks to star in Gerardo Naranjo’s romantic-drama The Mountain Between Us. [Empire]

I’ve mentioned it before, but here is the UK trailer for Ryan Andrews’ upcoming horror film Elfie Hopkins, which stars the father-daughter combo of Ray and Jaime Winstone. [BloodyDisgusting]

IFC Films have acquired the rights to the Irish horror-comedy Grabbers, and intend on releasing it into theatre’s sometime this year. [BloodyDisgusting]

Bendict Cumberbatch talks The Hobbit. [TotalFilm]

Bleeding Cool has the UK trailer for the upcoming Spanish horror three-quel [Rec] Genesis. [BleedingCool]

The directorial debut of Steve Knight, the writer of Eastern Promises, is to be a thriller starring Jason Statham entitled Hummingbird. [BleedingCool]

Channel 4 is launching a new channel called 4seven which will pick out the most ‘buzzed’ about shows of the last x amount of days and repeat them. A weird move considering that there is already an online VOD service called 4oD which does this and themsome… [BleedingCool]

The new series of Sherlock won’t start filming until early 2013, unfortunately. [BleedingCool]

Doctor Who set-pictures give us a titillating impression of what the spaghetti western episode will consist of.  [BleedingCool]

Bleeding Cool also has the UK trailer for Noomi Rapace’s upcoming thriller Babycall. [BleedingCool]

Tom Hardy has signed a first-look deal with Warner Bros and it looks like that his next role after The Dark Knight Rises is going to be as a the central character in an untitled biker picture. [Metro]

Steve Coogan and Anna Friel have started filming on the Paul Raymond biopic The King of Soho. [Metro]

Former Wales Rugby international Gavin Henson has landed himself a role is being lined up for a role alongside Sir Anthony Hopkins (‘lined up’ means nothing has been signed yet and it is just a simple tabloid rumour…). [TheSun]

Now one sports star who does seem to have taken to acting is former Manchester United footballer Eric Cantona, as he plays Detective Forgeat in the French thriller Switch. You can view the trailer by clicking the link. [TheSun]