London (PTI): Socialite Paris Hilton is in Cannes to promote a documentary on her life, ‘Paris Not France’.
Hilton flew to the city to promote a film she once tried to stop being shown, Guardian online reported
‘Paris, Not France’ was made three years ago by director Adria Petty, daughter of singer Tom Petty.
Shot while Hilton […]

Cannes (PTI): The film festival in Phukhet has been called off due to the political unrest in the country, said the organisers.
The helmers of the festival said that it had become impossible to hold the festival in the country due to the high security measures enforced by authorities for the upcomimg inter-governmental summit ASEAN, including […]

Cannes (IANS): Aishwarya Rai, a regular at the Cannes Film Festival red carpet and L’Oreal brand ambassador, is going beyond her glitz and glamour tag. She is beginning to reinvent herself on the global scene as an activist for social and humanitarian causes.
As a step in that direction, the Bollywood diva will, alongside Queen Noor […]

New Delhi (IANS): Hrithik Roshan starrer mega-budget Kites will be among a bouquet of films that will be marketed by Reliance BIG Pictures at the 62nd International Cannes Film Festival, starting May 13.
Directed by Anurag Basu, “Kites” also stars Barbara Mori, Kangana Ranaut, Nick Brown and Kabir Bedi in pivotal roles. The entertainment arm of […]

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CHENNAI: After a car accident, spirits of two people get trapped in a dangerous limbo, awaiting a chance for rebirth. The story on how they pass dangerous paths through their power of love forms the crux of ‘Dark side romance,’ a Thai film, which lucidly captures the emotions of the actors through its vivid […]

HONG KONG (AP): A new movie backed by the Chinese government about Japanese atrocities during the World War II-era “Nanking Massacre” earned a strong $10 million in its opening week, its director said on Monday.
“City of Life and Death” deals with the sensitive topic of the 1937 rampage in the eastern city now known as Nanjing. […]

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Economy and migration of studio work elsewhere put many LA staffout of a job
Bruce McCleery hardly had a day out of work in 25 years. As one of Hollywood’s most sought-after lighting technicians, he worked on big-budget movies like Independence Day and Mission Impossible III. He travelled the world as part of an […]

New Delhi (PTI): Tamil movie “Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai”, the moving story of a director desperately trying to make his first feature film, has been honoured at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
Directed by Chennai-based Krishnan Seshadri Gomatam, the film won the award for the ‘Best Drama Feature’ in the ‘Best Feature […]

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Chennai: “I don’t understand foreign languages, but I always had a flair for languages, and my father used to make me watch movies. So, I follow the movie seeing the sub-title.”
That was singer Mahati, one of the special invitees, getting nostalgic about how she got acquainted with international films, at the opening of the […]

Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) (PTI): Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire will be the inaugural movie at the 14th Jamshedpur International Film festival beginning here on March 14.
The week-long festival, hosted jointly by a local film society “Celluloid Chapter” and Tata steel, will have Indian Panorama comprising five movies, including Annirudha Roychowdhury directed Bengali film Antoheen, Rituporno Ghosh directed The […]