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The Australian Embassy in Hanoi will organize a free screening of the Award-winning Australian Aboriginal musical movie titled “Bran nue dae” (Brand New Day) from July 12 to 17 in seven north-western Vietnamese provinces. The event is intended to mark Australia’s National Aboriginal Islander Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) Week 2012. The locations include Son La, [...]
The new “Spider-Man” climbed to the top of movie box office charts with weekend sales of $65 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, a smashing debut for the reinvented franchise about a web-slinging superhero. “The Amazing Spider-Man,” starring Andrew Garfield in the role played by Tobey Maguire in three earlier installments, started strong with $7.5 million in midnight [...]
Box-office stars Tom Cruise andAdam Sandler both stepped out of their comfort zones in movies that opened this weekend – “Rock of Ages” and “That’s My Boy” – and landed flat-footed. Warner Bros.’ $74-million “Rock of Ages,” with Cruise as an aging rock icon, opened to a disappointing $15 million. Sony’s $65 million “That’s My Boy,” with Sandler in his [...]
Julia Stiles holds a degree in English literature from Columbia University and has taken the stage in plays written by David Mamet and some guy named Shakespeare. Despite that pedigree, the cynical teen from “10 Things I Hate About You” and secret agent from the Bourne movies wants to spend her Monday talking about female escorts. Well, whether she wants [...]
“Ranh Gioi Trang Den” (White-Black Boundary) will be premiered in four Southeast Asian countries on July 6 to become the first Vietnamese movie that reaches out to the regional market. This action movie, costing producers, Vietnam’s Vinacinema Company and PT Jelita Ali from Indonesia, around VND10 billion (US$500,000), will be shown in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia [...]
Gary Oldman (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Dark Knight Rises) and Dominic Monaghan (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Lost) will join Malcolm McDowell in the upcoming true story of jewel-thief, con-man and serial killer Ray Fontaine (AKA Archibald Hall). Director Douglas Rath will extend his 2010 short film of the same name which also starred McDowell, who will be [...]
Joe Eszterhas isn’t done with Mel Gibson just yet. The screenwriter has written “Heaven and Mel,” an eBook recounting in colorful detail his relationship with the disgraced director that Amazon will be released on June 6, TheWrap has learned. “I can’t remember ever reading a more haunting, nuanced portrait of a Hollywood superstar in decline,” Dave Blum, editor of Kindle Singles, told [...]
Guy Ritchie may bring the same splashy touch to Long John Silver that he already applied toSherlock Holmes. The “Snatch” director is attached to “Treasure Island,” aWarner Bros. spokesperson told TheWrap. If the script by Alex Harakis comes to fruition, Ritchie would direct and produce the project. Lionel Wigram and Kevin McCormick are also attached as producers. The Robert Louis Stevenson adventure story [...]
Australians are enjoying a high profile at Cannes this year, but beyond the star power of Nicole Kidman and Kylie Minogue, the film world will be watching the ground-breaking work of Aboriginal artists. Indigenous stories have breathed new life into the film scene Down Under, with “The Sapphires” the latest to come to international attention [...]
John Travolta’s lawyer on Friday hit back at “ridiculous” new claims of sexual advances leveled at the actor by a third man, as a first accuser backtracked on the date of an alleged Beverly Hills incident. Cruise ship worker Fabian Zanzi claimed on a Chilean TV show, “Primer Plano,” that the Hollywood star offered him [...]