Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it's Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday – GMT, of course – I'll be bringing you a round up news, links and coverage specific to the film comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we'll be talking about films that have already played in the US, other times it will be films that won't make it to the US for a good while yet, and from time to time you'll read about films that will never make it to the US at all.
Coming up after the break are a record breaking attempt from Mission: Impossible, Grant Morrison teaming up with Stephen Fry, your first chance to see The Princess and the Frog in the UK, Steve Martin playing banjo and an awful lot more.
This Saturday night, Pinewood Studios are hoping to set a world record for the largest cinema screen ever. Their presentation of Mission: Impossible is set to measure over 73 metres wide and more than 18 metres tall. Have no fear about picture quality, though, as The Telegraph tell us that " the very latest projection technology" will ensure the film "will look absolutely sensational".
Waterstones online are currently offering a 30% discount on a series of BFI books.
The lineup for the London Children's Film Festival has been announced. The opening night Gala on November 21st will be Miyazaki's Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea and the festival will end on November 29th with the first UK screening of The Princess and the Frog. There's also something called Burton's Bedtime Stories, in which a double bill of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Corpse Bride will be punctuated with slumber-party themed activities.
Martine McCutcheon, sometime tea lady to Prime Minster Hugh Grant and erstwhile Eastenders ragamuffin, has told The Telegraph that the lead character of her new novel The Mistress was created in the actress' image to give herself an acting job.
UK Film magazine Little White Lies are selling screen prints of their special Geoff McFetridge Where the Wild Things Are cover.
Former Channel 4 drama head Liza Marshall has told Broadcast that her new position at Ridley and Tony Scott's Scott Free is good for Brits in the industry:
Ridley loves the UK market and the talent here, but has not found the right person to run it. He loves the shows I worked on such as The Devil's Whore and he has optioned Red Riding. That shows a commitment.
After 20-some years on the London stage, courtesy of Stephen Malatratt's wonderful adaptation, Susan Hill's ghost story The Woman in Black seems set to become a 3D feature film. Dread Central report that Jane Goldman has been hired to pen the screenplay for the newly renovated house of horror we call Hammer.
Here's a new poster for Philip Ridley's wonderful Heartless. The film opens in the UK next Spring, but there's another early chance to see it this November 24th, at the ICA. The screening will be accompanied by a Q&A with the director and is part of the Comica festival, of which a screening of The Sky Crawlers is the only other movie moment.
With a series of incremental updates, Bleeding Cool managed to piece together that Grant Morrison, Stephen Fry and Paul McGuigan were looking to collaborate on a BBC Scotland project. We don't know what they were pitching, and we don't know how it went - but we do know that Morrison wore a purple suit to the meeting. BBC Scotland were interested in adapting Morrison's The Invisibles comics at one point… could this be that?
When the UK Blu-ray of Moon gets let out of the traps on the 16th, a good few copies could be winging their way to foreign lands as it has been confirmed by the Man Made Movies blog to be a region free disc. That's just the BD mind, not the DVD.
The UK Film Council have named their Breakthrough Brits, a roster of 13 black and Asian film makers from Blighty
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