Elton John's Movie Set to Open Tribeca Film Festival

Set to take center stage, the documentary about the making of Sir Elton John's album "The Union" will open the 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival.

Organizers just announced that "The Union" will be one of the 32 featured films of the festival, with the "Tiny Dancer" based picture to be the very first one shown.

Of the decision, festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal told, “Cameron Crowe gives audiences unprecedented access into Elton John and Leon Russell’s artistic process in an emotional and realistic way."

"The Union" is set to be shown on the Tribeca Film Festival's April 20th kickoff, with Elton set to perform live after the screening.

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U2 to play Glastonbury festival

The 2011 show will be U2's first time ever performing at Glastonbury U2 have confirmed they will play at this year's Glastonbury festival.

In a video speech at the 2011 NME awards in London, guitarist The Edge said the band would headline on Friday 24 June.

It will be the band's debut at the festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset - they had been due to play in 2010 but frontman Bono injured his back and the performance was cancelled.

Coldplay and Beyonce have already been announced as the other two headliners.

Edge, who made a guest appearance playing guitar with Muse in 2010, said he was excited by the chance to get back on to the main stage at the long running festival.

'Greatest audience'

"I have to say there is something really special and iconic about that stage," he said.

"So, we're all looking forward to coming back to pick up where I left off.

"We're so excited to get to play in front of the world's greatest festival audience. We'll see you there!"

The announcement came after Glastonbury won the best festival award at rock magazine NME's annual ceremony.

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Glasgow film festival kicks off

17 February 2011 Last updated at 10:18 GMT Romantic comedy You Instead, by Scots director David Mackenzie, is set at a music festival The seventh Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) starts later, with a string of new films including two much anticipated Scottish features.

More than 250 films are to be shown across the city over the next 10 days.

They include a retrospective of the films of Meryl Streep and the newly-restored classic The African Queen.

Scottish films include You Instead - a romantic comedy filmed at T in the Park - and The Eagle, which is a drama set in Roman-occupied Britain.

Festival organisers said they were pleased with box office sales.

Ticket sales rose to more than 30,000 last year - an increase of 23% on 2009.

The first Glasgow festival in 2005 pulled in just 6,000 people.

'All welcome'

Allan Hunter, GFF co-director, said it was an "inclusive" festival, with something for everybody.

"There are no prejudices," he told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme.

"It embraces all cinema from something that might be considered a challenging art house film to a really big mainstream Holywood blockbuster."

Mr Hunter said the festival offered a breadth of events, with director Ken Loach, actress Shirley Henderson and actor Aidan Gillen introducing their latest films, and film historian and showman Bruce Goldstein making The Tingler screening an "interactive experience" for the audience.

He added: "It's not just for a certain type of cinema-goer or a certain type of film.

"It's come one, come all, see The Eagle, see the Le Quattro Volte - the Italian film - and you're all welcome."

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