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Movie legend Robert Redford will open his own Sundance Film Festival at The O2 when he appears in conversation with writer Nick Hornby.

He will be joined at the April 26 event by Grammy Award winning musician T Bone Burnett to discuss the relationship between cinema and music. Another muscial guest will be unveiled at a later date.

There was no red carpet and the photographer posse was a bit on the small side but Canary Wharf still put on a good show as it hosted the world premiere of First Night.

The film, starring Richard E Grant and Sarah Brightman, had its first official airing at Cineworld West India Quay last night.

Forget Canary Wharf, it will be California Wharf when the creators of Secret Cinema arrive in the area with their new concept.

The Wood Wharf area will be the centre of Future Cinema's California Classics weekend on September 3-4, with more than 8,000 people expected to attend screenings of cult movies The Lost Boys and Top Gun.

Keep your eyes peeled for some stars of the silver screen, including X Men star James McAvoy, hanging around Canary Wharf over the next few weeks.

The estate will provide part of the scenery for a new film, Welcome to the Punch, being shot by Isle of Dogs-based director Evan Creevy.

Daniel Craig and David Tennant will be two of the stars on the red carpet when The O2 plays host to a huge film festival in August.

James Bond star Craig's latest film Cowboys and Aliens will get its UK premiere at the Empire Presents Big Screen event on August 12. Tennant's new flick, Fright Night, follows suit on August 14.

FILM
Sunshine Cleaning (15)
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Two down-on-their-luck sisters set up a crime scene clean-up business and find there's more to life than stubborn splatter patterns.

Angels And Demons (12A)
Dan Brown's God and science sequel

Synedoche, New York (15)
Charlie Kaufman gets inside his head

Fighting (15)
Bare knuckle fighting laid, er, bare

As seminal comic book Watchmen hits the big screen, The Wharf talks to artist and co-creator Dave Gibbons about the real reasons why "masked heroes" fight crime, the British approach to comics and the secret shame under Rorschach's leather coat.