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Hollywood to BT: "Block The Pirate Bay."

A coalition of Movie, Music and and publishing companies have formally requested BT block internet access to The Pirate Bay voluntarily, before they send the boys around.

The group are called BPI, and supported by the rest of the UK creative industries, they asked Britain’s largest ISP to voluntarily deny public access The Pirate Bay.  The resistance would seem futile, since it'd probably be too easy for the studios to get a court order to get BT to do it.  But regardless of that, we hope they say no.

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Infographic of the day: Michael Bay

Lets be honest, even though the simple title "Infographic of the day" seems menial enough, the fact that the name "Michael bay" has been put just a colon and space to the right of it just makes the whole affair seem more epic.

But enough of that, we know the first thing anyone thinks about when they hear of Bay is the explosions.  How many have their been in the history of his film-making career?  And what is the correlation between the amount of explosions, and the amount of money his films make?  These are questions that Kyle Vanhove answered in our Infographic(s) of the day. 

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Editorial: 3D retrofitting. A Sinking Ship?

This week, Avatar and Terminator 2: Judgment Day director James Cameron invited specialist press to a special 15-minute demo screening of his latest project, Titanic 3D. Cameron, who has been an advocate of the move to 3D ever since Pandora was but a whisper of an idea, follows Pixar (the Toy Story trilogy) and Disney (The Lion King 3D) in bringing the 3D treatment to his 1997 box-office juggernaut.

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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of all time

  
In a true pirated slap-to-the-face of the movie industry, TorrentFreak has been spending a fair few years (half a decade to be exact) compiling data on the most pirated movies of all time.
 
The list makes sense, all are films with ridiculously high budgets and grossed highly, meaning lots of people know about them and lots of people will pirate them.
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Mayhem returns to Nottingham

Nottingham's creative quarters turn to the strange and scary as the Mayhem Horror Film Festival returns, with a myriad of extreme cinematic horror exultations. 

From the BAFTA winning pictures to the best of disturbing Asian cinema, played at Midnight just to add that extra atmosphere, the Broadway cinema has an impressive selection for your perousal from the 27th-31st October.  Same as usual: best costumes win prizes, talks with directors and outbursts of laughter and applause and the most implausible of deaths.

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