Nickelodeon Films is to  make a $30m family film about kids inspired by the Olympics, based on a short produced for London's 2012 bid. Nickelodeon's "Legend of the Rings" will focus on children who are inspired to greatness by watching the games, but it will also address the issue of failure.

  From pop fans to combatants in Iraq, digital technology is creating a new generation of would-be Spielbergs. This is the digital world of DIY movie-makers,

  It's Hammer time as the American Cinematheque celebrates The Golden Age of British Horror, 1955-1975. For two decades, Hammer Film Productions, along with other British purveyors of terror, such as Anglo-Amalgamated, Amicus, Independent Artists and Tigon, unleashed a steady string of scary B-movies, often drawing from the same gothic literary sources that Universal had succe...

After a few hanging chads lost him the presidency and set the world in a different direction, what did Al Gore do next? He made a movie, of course. An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary looking at the effects of climate change around the world, opens this weekend in the US, and hopes to wake up an American public who are frequently told that Global Warming is a myth.  In a rar...

  A 3-minute short filmed in a local park from St Albans director Andy Pearson has set him on the long road to success. It has been bought by the BBC for a series on short films and leading French channel Canal+ will be showing it this year. The entire was shot on 35mm entirely in Clarence Park in St Albans starting last autumn and filming was only completed in February this ye...

  Bitesize Cinema is taking shorts to the masses, whilst  filmmakers Matthew Jones and MJ McMahon want to make short films a viable alternative to just wandering down to your local Odeon.  Suchandrika Chakrabarti reports

More actors spend time "resting" than working according to Skillset and a large proportion of them earn less than £6,000 a year from their acting skills, but a third of those surveyed had worked in television within the last year.