Edinburgh Film Festival to Cease Trading as Owner Goes Into Administration

The Pet Shop Boys will headline Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Concert in the Gardens.

A blaze has broken out at a flat in Edinburgh, sparking an emergency response from firefighters who sped to the tower block.

A woman has died at a tower block in Edinburgh. Emergency services swooped on Cobbinshaw House South in the Wester Hailes are of the capital at around 5pm last night.

This year's The Great British Bake Off is in full swing, fans are absolutely loving it, and one Scot has sailed his way through to the seventh week.

The Fratellis’ debut Costello Music has been honoured for National Album Day and to mark the occasion a mural has been created re-imagining the artwork as a Jack Vettriano painting.

CCTV images have been released of a man who cops are hunting following a serious assault which took place in Edinburgh three months ago.

Frightening footage has shown both a police vehicle and a car completely smashed up following a chase in Edinburgh city centre this morning.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Both Brendan Fraser and Darren Aronofsky have had some high-profile setbacks when it comes to the comic book genre. The two men, who are collaborating on the acclaimed indie drama “The Whale,” opened up about their struggles during recent interviews with Variety. Fraser spent months in Glasgow, Scotland portraying Firefly, a pyromaniac who faces off against Leslie Grace’s costumed heroine in “Batgirl.” That film was supposed to debut on HBO Max, but it was scrapped, a victim of the merger between Discovery and WarnerMedia, the streaming service’s parent company. “It’s tragic,” Fraser told Variety as part of a cover story on “The Whale.” “It doesn’t engender trust among filmmakers and the studio. Leslie Grace was fantastic. She’s a dynamo, just a spot-on performer. Everything that we shot was real and exciting and just the antithesis of doing a straightforward digital all green screen thing. They ran firetrucks around downtown Glasgow at 3 in the morning and they had flamethrowers. It was a big-budget movie, but one that was just stripped down to the essentials.”   

The 16th Film London Production Finance Market opened Tuesday morning with a keynote talk featuring BFI CEO Ben Roberts who spoke at length about his 10-year funding plan for British cinema and the financial issues hitting the industry, including the recent shuttering of the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Manori Ravindran International Editor BBC Film boss Eva Yates has set out her new editorial team, with the BFI’s Kristin Irving joining as a commissioning executive, and Anu Henriques boarding as a development executive. Meanwhile, Claudia Yusef has been named commissioning executive, expanding her responsibilities across development and production. Irving was a senior production and development executive at the BFI’s Film Fund. She formerly worked in a number of development roles including for production company Portobello Pictures on films such as Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning “Ida.” She also worked across sales at sister company, Fandango Portobello. At the BFI she has exec produced films including “Rye Lane,” “A Gaza Weekend” and “The Origin.” She joins BBC Film in November.

The Highlands of Scotland are the perfect backdrop for Andrew Cumming’s prehistoric genre piece The Origin, a survivalist horror that also works as a thoughtful human drama as its core cast of six fight for their lives against a violent, unseen creature. The Origin had its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival.

Scots workers have been left stunned after finding a collection of voodoo dolls in an Edinburgh waterway. Leith Conservation trust had been cleaning the river when they made the spooky discovery.

The trustees in charge of the Centre for the Moving Image (CMI), the charity which runs the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh, and Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen, have appointed administrators.

A house fire has broken out on a quiet street in Edinburgh, sparking a 'huge' emergency response.

A bus crashed into a car on a busy road in Edinburgh today, sparking an emergency response.

A 'huge' fire has ripped through a flat in Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Christmas markets could be axed this year after event organisers pulled out with just weeks to go.

A cat sadly had to be put down after it became impaled on a fence in Edinburgh despite desperate efforts to save it.

Passengers have been evacuated from Edinburgh Airport after a fire broke out at Hudson Bar and Grill.