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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is buying back his iconic magazine. Hefner will splash out $6.15 a share, which values the company at $207m, after convincing his board to buy back the adult mag from a private equity firm. Hefner, 84, owns 70 per cent of Playboy shares and beat out a rival bid from the [...]

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese has donated $275,000 to the BFI’s campaign to Rescue the Hitchcock 9 through his Film Foundation. The initiative was set up to support the restoration of Alfred Hitchcock’s nine silent films and it was recently given its largest single donation. The Film Foundation supported the project by donating $275,000 in partnership with [...]