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  • Yodafone – UK network signs Jedi Master for ad campaign

    Yodafone – UK network signs Jedi Master for ad campaign

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    UK mobile network Vodafone has signed legendary Star Wars Jedi Mater Yoda to front a new series of smartphone adverts. The first ad premieres on Channel 4 on Thursday night and focuses on RED Box, a service that automatically transfers contents from an old phone to a new handset. Yoda is seen enthusiastically attempting to…

  • BFI celebrates David Lynch with screening season

    BFI celebrates David Lynch with screening season

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    The BFI is hosting a celebration of David Lynch’s films with a retrospective of his work. Lynch has been responsible for some of the most innovative, daring and talked-about films in the last 40 years of American cinema. Throughout February all the filmmaker’s work, including his early shorts and feature films, will be screened at…

  • MTV to premiere US supernatural comedy-horror

    MTV to premiere US supernatural comedy-horror

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    Later this month MTV will host the UK premiere of horror-comedy Death Valley which follows a police force tackling vampires, werewolves and zombies. Already a smash hit in the States, Death Valley takes viewers to a place they’ve never been before with everything from vampire hookers to werewolf porn stars. The show airs on MTV…

  • Video: Tyne Daly discusses Master Class

    Video: Tyne Daly discusses Master Class

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    With the show set to open this week, we’re delighted to bring you this great video of Tyne Daly talking about her role as legendary opera soprano Maria Callas in Master Class. The production will run at the Vaudeville Theatre for 14 weeks only from 21 January to 28 April. Tickets are on sale now…

  • The Artist and Tinker Tailor top BAFTA hopefuls

    The Artist and Tinker Tailor top BAFTA hopefuls

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    The nominees for the 2011 The Orange British Academy Film Awards have been announced. 
The Artist receives 12 nominations, while Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is nominated in 11 categories. Hugo has nine nominations, My Week with Marilyn has six nominations and The Help and War Horse are each nominated five times.…

  • Third series for BBC One’s Sherlock

    Third series for BBC One’s Sherlock

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    BBC One’s Sherlock will return for a third series, co-creator Steven Moffat has confirmed. The second series of the critically acclaimed re-telling of SirArthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes concluded on BBC One on Sunday evening. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman star as Sherlock and Watson respectively alongside Rupert Graves as Inspector Lestrade and Una Stubbs…