Anticipation for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is hotting up, at least for Top10Films it is. New featurettes have been released by Warner Bros featuring recently edited footage and cast interviews.

After the delayed release of the Half-Blood Prince fans have had to wait even longer for the conclusion to this long-running fantasy saga. With J.K. Rowling’s book The Deathly Hallows to be told over two movies, we’re all going to have to wait that bit longer to find out what happens to Harry and his friends at the end.

The 20th June this year marked the 35th anniversary of Jaws. The film, considered the first blockbuster, was financially groundbreaking, saved a Hollywood studio, made Steven Spielberg a household name, and changed the face of American film forever. For Slash Film’s wonderfully pictorial celebration of Jaws take a look here.

The Greatest Comedy Tournament is entering its final stages over at AnomalousMaterial.com, if you have yet voted, head on over there for a look. Meanwhile, while you’re here – if you haven’t cast your vote in the Godfather 1 versus Godfather 2 debate you can do so right here! We’ve been busy posting many top 10 lists over the last few weeks, the most popular (and controversial) of which is Rodney Twelftree’s Top 10 Sequels of all time. We followed that up with the less controversial Part 3s that are better than Part 2s top 10. Rodney has also written an excellent top 10 list looking at the best Australian comedy films.

Ruth at Flixchatter and Aiden at Cut The Crap Movie Reviews have been on the happy pills and seen fit to give the Happy 101 Award to Top10Films. This award thingy is all about what makes us happy. Ten things that make us happy to be more precise.

Angie and Chantale over at CinemaObsessed.com were kind enough to invite me to write a guest post for the site. I decided to wax lyrical about my love of the films I saw growing up – notably those late 80s movies that started appearing on UK television in the early 1990s. You can see my little article right here!

If you know who composed the Oscar-winning score for Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.” then you could win a selection of family films on DVD. How does “E.T.”, “The Wizard of Oz”, “Mary Poppins”, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, “Toy Story”, “Shrek”, “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”, “Back to the Future” and “The Sound of Music” sound? And there’s ten lots of ten to giveaway!

British film took a direct hit from Conservative cost-cutting as it was announced the UK Film Council will be abolished by April next year. The UKFC offered key financial support to new and veteran filmmakers throughout pre-production to production, promotion, and distribution. It remains to be seen what affect this will have on the British Film Institute which relied heavily on UKFC funding.

Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th marks BBC Films weekend as the filmmaking arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation launches its new television home on BBC Two. The channel will show the network premieres of three of the BBC’s most critically acclaimed films of the last few years – “Is Anybody There”, “The Damned United”, and “Eastern Promises”.

The weekend is a showcase of the BBC’s finest feature film work in its new home on BBC Two. The move to showcase BBC films on the channel is part of the network’s recent Strategy Review which, amongst other things, pledged £25m to the production of quality drama.