Ellen Burstyn to Receive Venice Lifetime Golden Lion

Ellen Burstyn to Receive Venice Lifetime Golden Lion

Oscar-winning actress Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, The Exorcist) will be honored at this year’s Venice Film Festival with a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Burstyn will attend the 83rd Venice Festival and receive her award at the screening of Flesh Impact, a new short film from director Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Bride!) which…

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Nansun Shi, ‘Infernal Affairs’ Producer and Pioneer of Hong Kong Cinema’s Golden Age, Dies at 75

Nansun Shi, ‘Infernal Affairs’ Producer and Pioneer of Hong Kong Cinema’s Golden Age, Dies at 75

Nansun Shi, the pioneering Hong Kong producer and executive who helped shape the territory’s cinematic golden age as the co-founder of Film Workshop and who later produced Infernal Affairs — the cult crime thriller Martin Scorsese would remake as the Oscar-winning The Departed — died Monday at Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital. She was 75….

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Banijay-All3Media: Is This the Last Great Super-Indie?

Banijay-All3Media: Is This the Last Great Super-Indie?

The merger of Banijay and All3Media creates the largest independent television production group the industry has ever seen. By almost any measure, it is an extraordinary business, bringing together some of television’s strongest production labels, an enormous catalog of intellectual property and operations across 25 territories. It also represents the latest chapter in a story…

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Tom Holland, Meet Tom Holland: ‘Odyssey’ Star and ‘Rest Is History’ Podcaster Talk Myth and Movies

Tom Holland, Meet Tom Holland: ‘Odyssey’ Star and ‘Rest Is History’ Podcaster Talk Myth and Movies

The Tom Hollands have come together for a search engine-confusing conversation about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey — and broken the internet. British actor Tom Holland, playing Telemachus in the film, joined his fellow countryman, the historian and The Rest Is History co-host Tom Holland, to discuss the extraordinary scale of the adaptation, acting in Imax, and balancing the movie’s…

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Stephen Chow’s ‘Kung Fu Soccer’ Kicks Off With Mighty  Million Two-Day Debut at China Box Office

Stephen Chow’s ‘Kung Fu Soccer’ Kicks Off With Mighty $74 Million Two-Day Debut at China Box Office

Stephen Chow is officially back! Kung Fu Soccer, the comedy legend’s long-awaited Shaolin Soccer spinoff and his first film as director in seven years, dominated China‘s box office with a mighty $73.6 million (RMB 500.3 million) haul over the weekend, according to data from Artisan Gateway. The two-day tally accounted for nearly three-quarters of all…

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Karlovy Vary Film Fest Awards Go to ‘Fruit Gathering,’ ‘The Guest,’ ‘Lover, Not a Fighter’ and ‘Incinerator’

Karlovy Vary Film Fest Awards Go to ‘Fruit Gathering,’ ‘The Guest,’ ‘Lover, Not a Fighter’ and ‘Incinerator’

Aung Phyoe’s Fruit Gathering won the Grand Prix — Crystal Globe, the top award, at the closing ceremony of the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF). The Special Jury Prize went to Mads Mengel’s The Guest, starring Trine Dyrholm (The Girl With the Needle, Poison), Simon Bennebjerg (The Pact, Promised Land) and Josephine Park (The…

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