The people behind Weekend should be smiling today, as the little film that could not only hit £200k at the UK box office over the weekend but it’s just picked up two nominations from the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.
Director Andrew Haigh is up for Breakthrough British Filmmaker while Tom Cullen is in the mix for British Actor Of The Year. It’s a great shame the film missed out in the British Film Of The Year category, but that’s more testament to what a good year it’s been for UK film than anything about the wonderful movie.
Other LGBT allied nominations include Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In in the Foreign-Language Film Of The Year category, and Christopher Plummer up for Best Supporting Actor for playing an elderly gay man in Beginners.
You can find the full list of nominations here.
For a man who’s keen to insist he’s straight, James Franco sure does have a lot of interest in the gays (and I’m not hinting at anything there, as if he was gay Hollywood would probably be insisting he had nothing to do with anything that wasn’t 100% straight). Franco’s played gay in Milk and Howl, and the last two films he directed were both biopics of gay people.
The Coen Brothers’ next movie, Inside Llewlyn Davis ,is slowly coming together, ready to start shooting in NYC early next year. Now another piece of the casting puzzle has been filled, with actress Jeanine Serralles (Two Lovers, Across the Universe) signing on, according to 
The trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is due to hit on Thursday, but today on 
A six-minute prologue to The Dark Knight Rises has been playing ahead of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol at IMAX cinemas in the UK over the weekend and causing much excitement. There have been a couple of problems though, as not everyone has an IMAX cinema close by to watch the footage and with the villainous Bane wearing breathing apparatus, it’s tough to tell what he’s saying.
