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Chinese Filmmakers Want To Go International -- But How?
With China opening an average of nine new movie theaters every day and now boasting the second-largest box-office market in the world, the country has become a powerhouse in the movie industry. But several filmmakers,...
Chinese Movie Ticket Sales Will Equal U.s. Sales By 2018
Within five years the Chinese box office will equal that of the United States, according to Yu Dong, founder and chairman of Bona Film Group, China's largest privately owned film distributor. In an interview with...
By Lew Irwin on 17 June 2013
American Dreams In China Tops Chinese Box Office
Hong Kong director Peter Chan's American Dreams in China has held on to the box-office crown in China for the second week in a row, earning $34.1 million, according to China Film News. That would...
By Lew Irwin on 28 May 2013
China's Movie, Tv Businesses Soar
Underscoring the massive growth of the film and television businesses in China, the Motion Picture Assn. and the China Film Distributors and Exhibitors Assn. released a study on Monday indicating that those businesses generated...
By Lew Irwin on 23 April 2013
Weinsteins Nab Rights To Distribute Berlin Opener
On the same day that it opened the Berlin Film Festival, Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster was acquired by The Weinstein Company for distribution in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. The martial arts drama,...
By Lew Irwin on 08 February 2013
Martial Arts Epic Opens Berlin Film Festival
The 63rd annual Berlin Film Festival -- The Berlinale -- gets underway tonight (Thursday) with a screening of The Grandmaster, a martial-arts epic from Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai. The director also heads the...
By Lew Irwin on 07 February 2013
Hong Kong Film Removed From Tokyo Film Festival
The Hong Kong-produced movie Floating City has been withdrawn from the Tokyo Film Festival, following violent protests on the Chinese mainland last week over Japan's decision to nationalize the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East...
By Lew Irwin on 26 September 2012
Hong Kong Film Removed From Tokyo Film Festival
The Hong Kong-produced movie Floating City has been withdrawn from the Tokyo Film Festival, following violent protests on the Chinese mainland last week over Japan's decision to nationalize the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East...
By Lew Irwin on 26 September 2012
Rambaldi, Creator Of Alien And Et Creatures, Dies
Special-effects wizard Carlo Rambaldi, who created the creatures for Ridley Scott's 1979 horror flick Alien and Steven Spielberg's 1982 family film ET The Extra-Terrestrial , has died at age 86. His work on those films...
By Lew Irwin on 13 August 2012
Erica Hill Out At Cbs This Morning
In the latest shakeup in early-morning television, CBS has booted Erica Hill off CBS This Morning and has announced that she'll be replaced by Norah O'Donnell, currently CBS News' chief White House correspondent. In a...
By Lew Irwin on 26 July 2012
Andy Serkis Never Intended Acting Career
Andy Serkis never intended to be an actor. The 47-year-old star - who portrayed Gollum in the 'Lord of the Rings' series and King Kong in the 2005 movie of the same name - never...
By Bang Showbiz on 07 February 2012
Paramount At Box-office Peak
For the first time in more than a decade, Paramount Pictures is ending the year as the box office champion. The strong showing of Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol , which took in $46.2 million over...
By Lew Irwin on 28 December 2011
Andy Serkis Returning For Planet Of The Apes Sequel
Andy Serkis is to star in a sequel to 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'.The 47-year-old actor has signed up to reprise his role as chimpanzee Caesar - who he portrays via motion capture...
By Bang Showbiz on 04 November 2011
Lady Gaga And Katy Perry Banned In China
Lady Gaga, Backstreet Boys, and Katy Perry songs have all been banned in China. The Asian country's ministry of culture has deemed 100 tracks by artists unsuitable for its citizens telling websites selling and streaming...
By Bang Showbiz on 24 August 2011
Andy Serkis' Chimp Troubles
Andy Serkis "slipped" in and out of being a monkey in his real life while filming 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'. The British star - who, through the use of motion capture technology,...
By Bang Showbiz on 15 August 2011
Competitive Penelope Cruz
Penelope Cruz is very competitive.The Spanish actress and her husband Javier Bardem are among a group of actors - including Eva Longoria and Antonio Banderas - who meet weekly to play a murder mystery role-playing...
By Bang Showbiz on 13 August 2011
Andy Serkis' Motion-capture Frustrations
Andy Serkis gets "frustrated" performance capture is misunderstood.The 47-year-old actor - who has played used the technique in 'Lord of the Rings' to portray Gollum and chimpanzee Ceaser in new movie 'Rise of the Planet...
By Bang Showbiz on 05 August 2011
Chinese Critics Blast Kung Fu Panda
Despite efforts by DreamWorks animation to ensure that Chinese culture was treated with no disrespect in Kung Fu Panda 2 , the film is already drawing condemnation on the Chinese mainland. Leading the critics is...
By Lew Irwin on 01 June 2011
Video Game Nerd Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera has an arcade at home.The 'Fighter' hitmaker - who has a three-year-old son Max with ex-husband Jordan Bratman - loves playing "old school" video games and claims no one can beat her top...
By Bang Showbiz on 27 May 2011
Hugh Hefner 'Fortunate' To Have Crystal
Hugh Hefner is happier than he has even been thanks to his fiancee Crystal Harris. The 85-year-old Playboy founder will marry the 24-year-old blonde beauty at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles on June 18...
By Bang Showbiz on 14 May 2011
Rio Trivia
Some tangled trivia The only other movie musical with "Rio" in its title was 1933's Flying Down to Rio, the film that first paired Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It was produced by Merian C....
By Lew Irwin on 18 April 2011
Miley Cyrus Leads Kids' Choice Nominations
Miley Cyrus leads the nominations for Nickelodeon's 2011 Kids' Choice Awards.The 18-year-old singer and actress will compete for honours in three categories, Favourite TV Actress - which she will contest with Miranda Cosgrove, Selena Gomez...
By Bang Showbiz on 10 February 2011
Katie Price To Divorce Alex On Anniversary
Katie Price will file for divorce from Alex Reid on their first wedding anniversary.The 32-year-old star will start official proceedings on the earliest possible date of February 10 - which will be exactly a year...
By Bang Showbiz on 02 February 2011
Naomi Watts Joins J. Edgar
Naomi Watts is to star in Clint Eastwood's biopic 'J. Edgar'.The Australian actress will star as the FBI director John Edgar Hoover's secretary of 54 years Helen Gandy, who after his death destroyed his personal...
By Bang Showbiz on 26 January 2011
Ricky Gervais To Voice Mole In New Wind In The Willows
Ricky Gervais is to voice Mole in a new movie version of 'The Wind in the Willows'.The legendary comedian was handpicked by director Ray Giggs who has been desperate to sign up the 49-year-old in...
By Bang Showbiz on 07 January 2011
James Bond Gun Sells For 277k
A pistol from a James Bond movie has sold at auction for £277,250. The weapon - a Walther air pistol - was used in promotional shots featuring star Sean Connery for the 1963 film 'From...
By Bang Showbiz on 26 November 2010
Kelly Osbourne Shocked On Ellen Degeneres Show
Kelly Osbourne almost wet herself during a recent TV appearance.The 26-year-old star - who is the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne - was so stunned to be surprised by a person disguised as Super...
By Bang Showbiz on 25 November 2010
Simon Pegg's Twitter Prank
Simon Pegg is a paranormal prankster.The 'Shaun of the Dead' star revealed he recently confused a whole host of his twitter followers by pretending he had been abducted by aliens that were living in his...
By Bang Showbiz on 13 October 2010
Alex Reid Breaks Sex Ban
Alex Reid has broken his sex ban with Katie PriceThe cage-fighter - who is has a bout with Tom Kong Watson coming up next month - admits he had to break the rules after he...
By Bang Showbiz on 31 August 2010
Jackson Bases King Kong On Silverback
Movie maker PETER JACKSON wants the star of his upcoming re-make of KING KONG to look as realistic as possible, so he's basing the mythical giant ape on a silverback gorilla. The director is...
By WENN on 01 February 2005
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