Steve McQueen’s ‘Mangrove’ to Open BFI London Film Festival

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Weather mapping from independent forecaster WXCharts shows up to 20 inches (50cm) of flakes falling in parts of northern Scotland on Friday March 11, following a sweeping weather movement down from the Arctic.Snow accumulations of 7 inches are also likely in areas further south, such as Wales, the Midlands and the south coast on the same day.Elsewhere the front from the Atlantic is expected to arrive in the form of heavy rain of around 2mm an hour, with chilly lows of -3C possible overnight.Meteorologists from the Met Office expect a new phase of windy and changeable weather to begin at the end of the week.Their long-range forecast from Friday 11 March to Sunday 20 March reads: "Temperatures are expected to be mostly near normal to rather mild, though feeling colder in the wind." "Through the rest of the period, frontal systems push eastwards which are likely to bring strengthening winds and rain." "The main impacts are likely to be from heavy rain and gales during this time. Clearer weather, with showers, possibly wintry, may reach all areas by the end of this period."In the meantime temperatures will continue to rise towards the middle of the week, with Paul Michaelwaite from Netweather tipping them to rise "into the teens" across England and Wales, and potentially southern Scotland.Max temperatures could even slide up to 16-17c by Thursday, he added.

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Sharareh Drury administratorSPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for the Season 6 premiere of “Outlander,” which aired on March 6. Nearly two years have passed since the fifth season of Outlander wrapped, ending on an incredibly solemn and foreboding note. Claire’s brutal assault by Lionel Brown (Ned Dennehy) and his gang of men was eventually avenged by Jamie (Sam Heughan) and the men of Fraser’s Ridge.

Ant Anstead couldn't help but joke about his girlfriend Renee Zellweger's shocking transformation for her new series The Thing About Pam.While promoting the two-time Oscar winner's latest project, in which she portrays convicted killer Pam Hupp, the42-year-old British TV host pleaded with his other half to please 'leave the wardrobe at work.''This is one bonkers crazy story coming March 8th to @nbc @nbcnews @blumhouse #thethingaboutpam,' he captioned a video of the trailer to his Instagram on Sunday. 'An Epic cast including the smoke show Ren.' Raising eyebrows: Ant Anstead told his girlfriend Renee Zelwegger (seen in October on the set of The Thing About Pam) to ‘leave the wardrobe at home’ of her new show, where she wore a controversial ‘fat suit’Anstead was nodding to the facial and body prosthetics put on Zelwegger, which took 80 minutes to apply each day on set.

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Dave McNary Film ReporterSofia Coppola’s “On the Rocks,” centered on a father/daughter duo played by Rashida Jones and Bill Murray, will world premiere at the New York Film Festival as part of its new spotlight section.“On the Rocks” will be released in October by A24 and Apple TV. Coppola and Murray collaborated on 2003’s “Lost in Translation,” for which won Coppola the Academy Award for original screenplay, while Murray was nominated for best actor.The spotlight lineup for the 58th New York Film Festival, which opens Sept.

Ammonite, the buzzy LGBT period romance starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, is set to close the 2020 BFI London Film Festival. The film — from Brit director Francis Lee (God's Own Country) which will have its world premiere in Toronto in September — will bow in the U.K.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe BFI London Film Festival has set Francis Lee’s Ammonite as its closing film.Starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, the film is set in the 1840s, following palaeontologist Mary Anning when she encounters a young woman recuperating from a personal tragedy,It is world premiering at Toronto and also took part in the 2020 Cannes Label selection at the cancelled French festival.The London screening will take place on October 17 at cinemas across the UK, alongside a virtual introduction from Lee and key cast.Steve McQueen’s race drama Mangrove is closing this year’s festival. It is holding a hybrid physical and online program from October 7.

Mangrove is set to open the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) later this year.The film, which stars Black Panther‘s Letitia Wright, will tell the story of the Mangrove Nine – a group of Black activists who clashed with London police in 1970 during a protest march, which led to a highly publicised trial.Mangrove forms part of McQueen’s Small Axe anthology series, and will premiere at New York Film Festival before having its European premiere at LFF, later airing on BBC One and Amazon Prime Video this autumn.The series of films will tell individual stories on London’s West Indian community between the 1960s and 1980s, with the other four being Lovers Rock, Education, Alex Wheatle and Red, White and Blue.Speaking of opening the LFF, the director

Tara Conlan BBC content director Charlotte Moore has warned that unless diversity is prioritized in the UK TV industry, the sector will not survive.Speaking today at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Moore unveiled new programs including an investigation into the impact of race on coronavirus by actor David Harewood and a spin off of World On Fire writer Peter Bowker’s hit series The A Word written by disabled writers. These shows will be among those to spearhead BBC1’s line-up next season.Moore also highlighted Mangrove, the first film in Steve Macqueen’s series Small Axe, which will air this autumn.

Steve McQueen's Mangrove is set to open the 2020 BFI London Film Festival, marking the second time the director has raised the curtain on the festival in three years after Widows opened the 2018 edition. The film will have its European premiere on Wednesday, Oct.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorThe BFI London Film Festival’s (Oct 7 – 18) opening film will be Steve McQueen’s race drama Mangrove, starring Letitia Wright, Shaun Parkes and Malachi Kirby.The film will get its European premiere on Wednesday 7 October as part of the festival’s 12-day hybrid physical and online program.Marking 50 years since the events depicted in the film, Mangrove tells the true story of the Mangrove 9, the group of Black activists who clashed with London police during a protest march in 1970 and their highly publicised trial that followed. The trial was the first judicial acknowledgment of behaviour motivated by racial hatred within the Metropolitan Police.

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