News and Notes

BAFTA held it’s Television Awards over the weekend whose winners included Dominic West, Monica Dolan & Emily Watson for Appropriate Adult and Andrew Scott for Sherlock

The Independent reports that despite Harrison Ford‘s reluctance to return to the role director Ridley Scott definitely wants the actor on-board for the sequel to Blade Runner which will center around a female protagonist

The Vulture is reporting that writer/director Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene) wants to adapt The Exorcist as a ten-episode television mini-series

Variety is reporting Austrian writer/director Michael Haneke‘s drama Amour won the coveted Palme d’Or at the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night