Film today: movie turkeys roasted in time for Christmas

Today's film news is sad for the financial stability of the film industry, but cheerful too as it can hear sleigh bells

On the site today

• Financial analysts named 2013's biggest movie turkeys.

• Baz Luhrmann was tipped to direct Spielberg-produced miniseries based on Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon for HBO.

• Life of Pi's tiger "nearly drowned", according to a report into animal safety on film sets.

• Scarlett Johansson's Her performance was ruled ineligible for the Golden Globes.

• Twelve Years a Slave lead the Independent Spirit Awards nominations list.

• Scottish funding for Pixar's Brave "damaged local film industry", according to producer Gillian Berrie.

• Clip joint tucked into restaurants.

• Charles Gant's legendary UK box office report told us that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire turned up the heat.

• Emma Thompson took Walt Disney for a spin in our interview with the Saving Mr Banks star.

• And Tom Shone posted our first-look review of Spike Lee's Oldboy remake.

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• British films by female writers and directors make more money, finds BFI

• Brittany Murphy's mother rebuts poison claim, accuses father of trying to exploit actor's death for personal gain

• Peter O'Toole unretires for period tale Katherine of Alexandria

• Film quiz: High school proms

• Ben Affleck bulking up for Batman - too soon?

• Sony and comic book legend Stan Lee plans original superhero movie

• Maltese Falcon sells for $4m

• 8 Minutes Idle turns to Kickstarter to escape distribution limbo

• We've the late breaking US box office report

• 'Boo to you, Ron Burgundy!' Anchorman's 'boring' jibe riles otters

• Cine-files heads to Faversham

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