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Exclusive: Iconic British driver James Hunt is the subject of a feature doc from Deep Fusion Films.

British production house Deep Fusion has entered into a creative partnership with the James Hunt Estate on the production of Hunt: We Need to Talk About James, a 90-minute film that will offer “an unprecedentedly intimate look at the life and legacy of the man who helped define the glamour and danger of Formula 1, both on and off the track.”

Hunt had a well-publicized reputation as a playboy and adrenaline junkie, and was considered a golden boy of motorsports during his seven-year Formula 1 career, which culminated in him winning the 1976 World Championship in a dramatic final race.

While his personality and attitude made him hugely popular with the public and a familiar face in newspapers, his ‘live fast, die young’ approach was less well received by Formula 1’s establishment, who...

Key European territories among those to pick up rights to the documentary about the late actor’s struggle to make a film about Le Mans.

Content Film has secured a raft of pre-sales for McQueen: The Man & Le Mans, a film about the struggle that late Hollywood actor Steve McQueen endured while making a feature about the famous 24-hour race.

Content has sold the film to the UK (The Works), France (Marco Polo), Italy (Iwonder), Germany, Scandinavia & Australia/Nz (Entertainment One (eOne)), Portugal (Lusomundo), Middle East (Salim Ramea Co.) and Yugoslavia (VIP).

Filming began on the documentary this spring, continues in France and will conclude in the Us at the end of the summer. The screen icon’s son, Chad McQueen, will attend Le Mans Classic – returning to the circuit for the first time since he was on the original movie set as a boy. He will retrace his father’s footsteps at the track - integral...

Sci-Fi-London celebrates its tenth anniversary this year and with a varied programme that includes premieres, all-nighters, panels and of course the 48 Hour Film Challenge, this looks set to be their biggest year yet.

Running from the 23rd of April to the 2nd of May the festival features a number of interesting films including world and UK premieres. The line up was added to the festival website in full today and there are some interesting choices from the looks of things. Sitting alongside fiction films such as James Gunn’s Super, the notorious Uwe Boll’s Blubberella and the intriguing Beyond the Black Rainbow, there are documentaries such as Let There Be Light, a film about the making John Carpenter’s Dark Star, and the conspiracy theory doc The Truth is Out There.

Also featured on the line up are a number of all-nighters including ones themed around Anime, Mystery Science Theater 3000...

Prof Richard Wiseman from the University of Hertfordshire is an expert on laughing, giggling and guffawing. He even has his own iPhone app. He's giving a talk at the Royal Institution on Wednesday 31 March.

We also reveal the world's funniest joke as told by people on the streets of London.

The European premier of the new Imax film, Hubble 3D, has taken place at London's Science Museum. David Brower tells us about the complexity of rendering some of the fly-throughs, including the 'star' of the show, the Orion nebula.

A new exhibition at the Royal College of Art attempts to predict some of the ways current research will help create future technologies. Producer Andy visited Impact.

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