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Jared Leto shows off his new movie in London

“Dallas Buyers Club” star Jared Leto was in London last week to show off his next film project.

Staying at posh Claridge’s, Leto was screening “Artifact,” a doc he’s directed under the pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins that follows a bitter legal battle that his band, 30 Seconds to Mars, waged against EMI.

Leto also hit a dinner at private club 5 Hertford Street, where top talents took breaks from their own latest projects. James Bond franchise producer Barbara Broccoli was en route to the Berlin Film Festival where she’s a judge, and “Les Misérables” director Tom Hooper dropped hints about his Super Bowl ad for Jaguar. Stephen Frears and Steve Coogan arrived from a screening of “Philomena.”

Also at the power dinner hosted by Peggy Siegal were “Mission: Impossible 5” director Christopher McQuarrie, “Downton Abbey” star Elizabeth McGovern and her director hubby Simon Curtis.

Guest William Astor regaled the others, we hear, with his behind-the-scenes account of the 1960s UK political scandal “the Profumo affair,” which began at his childhood home and is the subject of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest London musical. Astor has written an essay on Weber’s show and the real-life events that inspired it for The Spectator.