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With the release of “The Hunger Games” next week, Lionsgate is about to become a big Hollywood player. It will still field a hodgepodge of mid-budget Tyler Perry and horror films, but its hotly anticipated film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ bestselling novel will give the studio the kind of blue-chip franchise that can lift a minor company [...]
A new documentary film about bullying set for theaters this month could come out unrated after objections from teenaged victims, celebrities, members of Congress and others over its restrictive rating by a Hollywood studio group. The head of the Motion Picture Association of America said on Thursday there were several options to get around the “R” rating that would [...]
Underdogs fighting off a foreign invasion or small-time hopefuls competing against all odds for the spotlight. Those could be plot lines for Hollywood scripts – or the real world plight of China’s movie producers, now that Beijing has approved imports of a new wave of American blockbusters. A deal hammered out during Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit to the [...]
Frenchman Jean Dujardin won the Oscar for best performance by an actor in a leading role on Sunday for the silent film “The Artist,” in which he plays an actor in 1920s Hollywood. Dujardin, largely unknown outside of France until “The Artist,” became the toast of film festivals and started racking up awards last year [...]
Silent romance “The Artist” won five Oscars on Sunday including best film, and Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” also took five of the world’s top movie honors on a night where stories about movies felt the love of Hollywood. “The Artist,” a black-and-white tale of a fading star who finds redemption through romance in the era when [...]
Meryl Streep, who holds the record with 17 for the most Academy Award nominations by any actor, won the Oscar for best lead actress on Sunday for her portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.” It was Streep’s third Academy Award, but her first since winning the Oscar for “Sophie’s Choice” in 1982. She [...]
The movie Hot Boy Noi Loan, Cau Chuyen ve Thang Cuoi, Co Gai Diem va Con Vit (Lost in Paradise) by director Vu Ngoc Dang will be screened at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival on February 9-19 in Berlin. Dang’s latest film is the first Vietnamese production to feature a positive view of homosexual [...]
Arnold Schwarzeneggerwill join fellow muscle man Sylvester Stallone starring in Summit’s action thriller “The Tomb,” Summit said Wednesday. Schwarzenegger will play Church, a prison inmate who fights to keep other prisoners from losing their humanity. Stallone playsRay Breslin, the world’s foremost expert on security — who, framed for a murder he didn’t commit — has to escape from [...]
Now Angelina Jolie has another reason to accompany her Oscar-nominated husband Brad Pitt to the Academy Awards on February 26: Jolie will serve as a presenter, producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced on Wednesday. Jolie’s directorial debut, “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” was not nominated for any Oscars this year. She did, however, supply a voice for one of the Best Animated Feature [...]
“The Descendants,” starring George Clooney as a family man, and the silent black and white movie “The Artist,” were among 10 movies earning Producers Guild Award nominations on Tuesday. “Midnight in Paris,” Woody Allen’s cinematic bow to the French capital, and the surprise summer box office hit “The Help,” which tells of black maids in Mississippi dealing with [...]