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$0 If you live in London, England and are fortunate to be around the BFI Film on Film Festival you were in for a special treat on 12th June as the festival had the first screening of the original cut of Star Wars, the first showing of this cut since 1978!
The movie was significantly changed in the Special Edition version of Star Wars in 1998 in the run up to the first prequel movie Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace in 1999.
This was a very rare treat for fans of the series as the Special Editions, especially of this movie, have caused controversy over the year, especially the now famous "Han Shoots First" scene.
A brief history of this print of the film as found in various sources on the internet:
The BFI (British Film Institute) found the print in their archives and after contacting Lucasfilm about doing a screening they agreed.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said she was surprise that the print existed, but agreed to the screening as she thinks it is a valuable artifact in historical cinema.
Kennedy presented the showing to prove it was a legal copy!
As explained by the BFI
"In these very special screenings, we present the film exactly as experienced by audiences on its original 1977 release. Screening from one of the precious handful of dye transfer IB Technicolor prints produced uniquely for the first British release, and preserved in the BFI National Archive"
Lets hope this sentiment to the original cut goes that bit further and, as the whole trilogy is owned by Disney since the buyout of Fox, it gets a 4K remastered home release, as well as Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Return of the Jedi.
More in fo can be found here.The Cannes Film Festival winning movie How To Have Sex has been given a 15 age rating in the UK for sexual violence, strong language, sex, sex references, drug misuse.
The movie stars Mia McKenna-Bruce who has previously been seen in Persuasion from 2022 and the 2023 movie Kindling, the movie also stars Shaun Thomas who has been seen in The Selfish Giant and Ali and Ava.
The movie is directed by former Cinematographer Molly Manning Walker who is making her feature film debut with How To Have Sex.
Movie Synopsis
Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday – drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
Its been a busy time at this years CinemaCon festival and today during the Paramount Pictures presentation they announced the names of Mission:Impossible 7 and the spin off A Quiet Plavce movie.
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 will be released in July of 2023, pushed back from 2022 so as not to clash with the other big Tom Cruise sequel Top Gun Maverick.
A Quiet Place: Day One will be released sometime in 2023 and as the title suggests it will take us back to the origins of the hearing sensitive aliens.
The suggestion for Mission:Impossible it would seem is that the eight movie in the series will be Part 2 but thats not been confirmed, maybe the original movie was so long they split it in two!
The movie is directed by Christopher McQuarrie and stars Tom Cruise returning for his 7th outing as Ethan Hawk.
The world which John Krasinski created in the blockbuster A Quiet Place seems to be expanding more in each film, and director Michael Sarnoski will be in charge of showing how that world started.
Rumour has it John Krasinski will be back in 2025 directing a direct sequel to his 2021 movie A Quiet Place Part II.
It's time for another catalogue film to hit the top of the UK box office as England comes out of lockdown and cinemas slowly start to open again, 231 cinemas made up this weeks box office.
Elf was first released in the UK at the beginning of December 2003, it never hit the top then spending 4 weeks in the runner up spot, exactly 17 years later the movie get to the top.
Highest new movie of the week is a new telling of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol while outside the top 5 Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular makes a debut at number 10, director Rob Savage's move Host is new at 14 and the re-edit of The Godfather Part III is new at 15.
UK box office Quickview.
Here is a breakdown of the top 5 film on the UK box office 4th - 6th December 2020.
After 17 years director Jon Favreau's festival favourite hits the top of the UK box office, albeit under strange circumstances, with a weekend gross of £48,244, a 97% increase from last weekend.
The big increase from last weekend is due to the increased number of cinemas that have re-opened, but the movie has taken a total of £17 Million since its release in 2003.
The Chris Columbus movie falls from the top this week with £36,878, a 93% increase from last weekend!
This pushes the movies total gross to £9.64 Million since its 1990 release.
Highest film of the weeks that is not a re-release is this animation from directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart which takes £26,171, a 94% increase over last weekend.
The movie has now taken £74,874 since its release 4 weeks ago.
Highest new movie of the week lands at number 4, a re-telling of the classic Christmas story, this time directed by Jacqui Morris and starring Simon Russell Beale and Martin Freeman.
The film takes £22,366 on its debut weekend of release.
Finally on the top 5 is the former number 1 movies which takes £21,952 on its 7th weekend of release giving the animated take a total gross of £1 Million, it finally made it over the Million line!
Director Taika Waititi brings his new film Jojo Rabbit to the big screen and it has been given a 12A age rating in the UK.
As described on the BBFC website JOJO RABBIT is a comedy drama in which a ten-year-old Hitler Youth member begins to question the Nazi ideology after discovering a Jewish girl living in his home.
The film is bound to contain plenty of director Waititi satirical sense of humour, although the subject matter might not appeal to a larger audience.
The BBFC have given the film its 12A rating in the UK for discrimination, violence, bloody images, sex references, strong language and the film has a runtime of 108 minutes (1 hours 48 minutes) and it is released on 3rd January 2020 however the film will be shown at the London Film Festival on October 5th 2019.