James Caan is slated to be the toast of the 10th annual Marrakech International Film Festival. The "Godfather" star will be on hand to kick off the festival with the opening night screening of Malcolm Venville's "Henry's Crime," in which he stars alongside Keanu Reeves, who will also make an appeara...
Read More »Vietnamese box office hit "Clash," which marks Lê Thanh Sơn's filmmaking debut, has been acquired for U.S. distribution by Indomina Releasing, following its international premiere earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Read More »Serving as AFI Fest's first-ever Guest Artistic Director, David Lynch picked five feature films to screen as a sidebar in the upcoming AFI Fest in Los Angeles. Lynch's first feature, "Eraserhead," will also screen in the section, organizers said Monday.
Read More »Tom Hooper's Oscar frontrunner "The King's Speech" is set to open the seventh Dubai International Film Festival on December 12, 2010. Starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter, the film is based on the true story of King George VI, father of Queen Elizabeth II, who reluctantly and...
Read More »While the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival closed up shop a month or so ago, its new home, the TIFF Bell Lightbox, has continued on with the first batch of its year-round programming. Among the highlights has been "Essential Cinema," a series focusing on "the 100 greatest films, like you've ...
Read More »While the studios continued to see overwhelmingly strong October openings with the huge debut of "Paranormal Activity 2", the specialty market had a relatively slow weekend. According to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier today, Zipporah Films' release of Frederick Wiseman's acclaimed doc "Boxin...
Read More »Filmmaker/actor/writer Paul Mazursky has been selected as this year's recipient for the Career Achievement Award on behalf of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA). The director of "Harry and Tonto," "Blume in Love," and "An Unmarried Woman," will collect his prize at the 36th LAFCA award...
Read More »Simón Saavedra's "Adios Mundo Cruel" and Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel's "Louder Than a Bomb" took top honors at the Austin Film Festival, winning Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary Feature respectively. Set in the Chilean capital, Santiago, "Cruel," written by Jack Zagha Kababie and Enrique C...
Read More »Canada's Best Foreign-Language contender "Incendies" along with Japan's "Good Morning" and Lucy Walker's "Waste Land" were among the top prize winners at the recent Vancouver International Film Festival.
Read More »Cinecittà Luce and The American Cinematheque are working together to bringing the latest in Italian cinema to Southern California. The organizations, an arm of the Italian Ministry of Culture and a reportory cinema program at the Egyptian Theater, will present Cinema Italian Style 2010 November 9-2...
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