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The programme for The Times BFI 53^rd London Film Festival, has been announced today by Artistic Director Sandra Hebron. The line-ip includes a diverse selection of world and international premieres with a total of 191 features and 113 shorts screening alongside an exciting line-up of special events and expected guests.

The film chosen to close the 53rd London Film Festival, which kicks off in October, has been revealed to be NOWHERE BOY, a flick which follows the childhood years of former Beatle John Lennon.

Full press release after the jump.

The folks over at Disney have released some new artwork from their upcoming film RAPUNZEL, which hits cinemas for the 2010 holiday season.

Dan Fogler, David Schwimmer and Kristin Chenoweth all provide voices for the animated film. Take a look at a still from the new movie above. Click the link for more.

According to a press release that we received earlier on, Wes Anderson's THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX is set to open this year's London Film Festival.

The Times BFI London Film Festival is proud to announce that this year's Festival will open on Wednesday 14 October with the world premiere of FANTASTIC MR. FOX, from visionary director Wes Anderson (THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, THE DARJEELING LIMITED).

Anderson's first animated film, which he co-wrote with Noah Baumbach, uses classic handmade stop motion techniques to tell the story of the best selling children's book by British author Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James and the Giant Peach). The film features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Jarvis Cocker and Helen McCrory. It is produced by Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin and Allison Abbate.

A wealth of British stars will be out to support British film as the Notting Hill Film Festival gets underway on Friday 10th July at Kensington Odeon. The week-long festival promises to bring the limelight to Kensington as A-list stars turn up in force to support their work.

An eclectic mix of genres will be shown, from horrors to music documentaries and fight films. We have some amazing red carpet events which we want people to join in with. Every night has a special gala screening with Q & A with the filmmakers and stars of the film afterwards. We will be kicking off with the Gorrillaz docu-film 'Bananaz' on Friday night, followed by Nick Moran's directorial debut 'Telstar'.