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Two Cuban films will be screened at the 56th Movie Festival of San Sebastian, Spain, in honor to Cuban director Tomas Gutierrez Alea (1928-1996).
Tomas Gutierrez Alea, who was known as “Titon,” is considered one of the most representative filmmakers of Cuba. He was the director of some twenty movies, documentaries and short-feature films.
According to organizers [...]
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A new Facebook profile created for Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin claims that he has agreed to write a movie about the invention of the popular Facebook social network.
“I understand there are a few other people using Facebook pages under my name–which I find more flattering than creepy–but this is me,” the profile notes. “I don’t [...]
In an exclusive deal that will give its movies a home on cable TV, the Weinstein Co. has agreed to a seven-year deal to show its films via CBS Corp.’s Showtime Networks Inc.
The move comes nearly three months after Paramount Pictures, Showtime’s corporate cousin at Viacom Inc., spurned the cable channel and formed a cable [...]
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AT THE opening night party of the Dungog Film Festival, organiser and guiding light Allanah Zitserman was agog that in only the event’s second year “We had our own train!”
I have an XPT of my own now, too. It was in the goodie bag that graced the seats in the hall of the James Theatre, [...]
Apple has made its iTunes Movie Store available to customers in the UK, starting with around 700 feature films for rental and purchase.
Disney, Paramount, Warner Brothers and Lions Gate UK are among the major studios offering films through iTunes.
Apple will offer separate pricing for older ‘library’ titles and new releases in line with the US [...]
Domestic box-office revenues went up in five of the past seven recession years dating back to the 1960s, according to research compiled by the National Association of Theatre Owners.
While budget-conscious consumers in today’s economic downturn may hold off buying that 50-inch plasma television, “it seems they can always pull together the money to [...]
World Movies, the international movie channel from the house of UTV, has announced the “World Movies Platinum Collection†. The movies under this collection will be aired April onwards.
“This is our prized collection of the most famous, most award winning and most precious films ever made. We have hand picked every movie here from film [...]
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You have the blockbusters or nothing, Eric Beckman said. Mr. Beckman, director and founder of the New York International Childrens Film Festival, has made it his mission to bring independent and foreign projects to the next generation of moviegoers. The 11th edition of his festival begins this weekend with about 85 films from 25 [...]
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A deal would end a crippling writers strike that is now entering its fourth month. The agreement may come without renewed formal negotiations between the television and movie writers and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, though both sides still need to agree on specific language of key provisions. If that [...]
Any newcomer to the short, succinct and silent film collages by T.
J. Wilcox might assume they’re all about film editing finesse and
technique. (A Wilcox collection under the name How to Explain the Ephemeral and Tenuous Character of Life to Children is showing tonight at 8 at CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave., $5).The assumption would be right, [...]
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