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Netflix strikes movie deal with Weinstein Co.

Aug 21, 2013

BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) ― In a drive to add subscribers, Netflix has expanded on a movie licensing deal with The Weinstein Co. that will add more films to its Internet video service beginning in 2016.The multi-year agreement announced Tuesday builds upon a partnership that Netflix Inc. forged with Weinstein Co. last year. That deal gave it the streaming rights to the Oscar-winning film, “The Artist,” as well other foreign films and documentaries from the 8-year-old studio.The new deal giv
1-D goes 3-D in boy band’s debut on screen

Aug 20, 2013

LONDON (AP) ― In the tradition of great music movies, One Direction’s feature-film debut has sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll ― just without the sex or the drugs.The Morgan Spurlock-directed 3-D documentary “One Direction: This Is Us” hangs out with Harry, Louis, Liam, Niall and Zayn backstage, at home and on the road, and comes to the conclusion that the five well-coiffed lads who have conquered the world are, well, pretty nice.Spurlock ― who made his name with socially engaged documentaries such a
Park brothers enlist public to capture Seoul on film

Aug 20, 2013

‘Seoul, Our Movie’ to be made from video submissions about the city
Seoul festival brings youth closer to film

Aug 19, 2013

Annual teen film festival to screen 142 films from 40 countries Aug. 22-29
Mayor begs Woody Allen to make a movie in Rio

Aug 19, 2013

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) ― Rio de Janeiro’s mayor says he’ll pay “whatever it takes” to get Woody Allen to set one of his films in this sensuous seaside city, host of the 2016 Olympics.“I’ll pay 100 percent of the production,” said Eduardo Paes in an interview published Sunday by the daily O Globo.Allen has made a string of recent movies featuring some of the world’s great cities ― London, Barcelona, Paris and Rome ― and Paes is determined to add Rio to the list.“I’ll pay whatever it takes to get hi
Soo Ae: Best characters have iron fist in a velvet glove

Aug 19, 2013

Actress says the doctor she played in ‘The Flu’ is the most flawed character she’s ever played, and she isn’t as ‘reserved’ as people think
[Newsmaker] Hong Sang-soo wins Best Director at Locarno

Aug 18, 2013

Korean director Hong Sang-soo’s latest film “Our Sunhi” has nabbed the filmmaker the Best Director award at this year’s Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland. The award marks Hong’s first win at the annual film fest, which was held Aug. 7-17.“Our Sunhi” is Hong’s 15th film, starring actress Jeong Yoo-mi and actors Lee Sun-kyun and Jung Jae-young. It tells the story of a young film studies graduate student named Sun-hi, who is about to leave for the United States to continue her stud
'Snowpiercer' surpasses 8 mln viewer mark

Aug 18, 2013

South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho's English language debut film, "Snowpiercer," has attracted more than 8 million viewers in 19 days since opening, the national film promotion agency said Sunday.The film, starring top Korean actor Song Kang-ho alongside Hollywood thespians Chris Evans, Ed Harris and Tilda Swinton, attracted a total of 8,004,089 viewers as of Sunday morning, the 19th day since first playing on local screens, the Korean Film Council said. The feat marks a faster speed in attract
Box Office: The Grandmaster, The Flu, The Place Beyond the Pines

Aug 16, 2013

The GrandmasterAction. Directed by Wong Kar-wai. Opening Aug. 22Ip Man (Tony Leung) is a martial arts specialist who enjoys a peaceful life with his wife (Song Hye-kyo) and two children in southern China. While Ip is training, he is challenged to a duel by Gong Yutian, a martial arts master known for his 64 hands technique. Ip wins, much to Gong’s surprise. He later runs into Gong’s daughter, Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi), who visits Ip to regain her father’s honor. The two form a special bond through an
The incomparable Karen Black in 1970s cinema

Aug 16, 2013

Though actress Karen Black never stopped working, news of her passing last week at age 74 sent me back to the 1970s. That era ― a transformative cultural moment for women in general ― had the films I remember the actress in most.It actually starts on the eve of the decade with 1969’s “Easy Rider,” the movie that put Black on Hollywood’s radar. (She had already made an imprint on stage.) It’s hard to forget her portrayal of a leggy prostitute with a long tangle of brown curls taking an LSD-fueled
BIFF gives Asian filmmaking award to Cambodian director

Aug 15, 2013

Celebrated Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh has been selected as the winner of Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award.The annual prize from BIFF is given to an Asian filmmaker “who has significantly contributed to the development of Asian cinema and culture.” Past winners include Iran’s Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Taiwan’s Hou Hsiao-hsien and Hong Kong’s Andy Lau. The 49-year-old filmmaker’s works have been largely focused on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime
15 years later, Oprah is back in the movies

Aug 15, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) ― The day before Oprah Winfrey began shooting “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” she was at the White House, talking to the president. Her access to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (this particular trip was for a 2012 campaign interview) is considerably greater than her character’s in the film. She plays Gloria Gaines, the wife of a long-serving White House butler (Forest Whitaker), whose service spans seven presidents and decades of civil rights sea changes. “They said, ‘Do you want to talk to s
Matt Damon: ‘Elysium’ resonates with the world we live in

Aug 14, 2013

American actor visits Korea for the first time with dystopian thriller
Matt Damon: ‘Elysium’ resonates with the world we live in

Aug 14, 2013

American actor visits Korea for the first time with dystopian thriller
When martial arts become cinematic poetry

Aug 13, 2013

Filmmaker Wong Kar-wai’s “Grandmaster,” contrary to what the title suggests, is not exactly a biopic of the legendary Chinese martial artist Ip Man (1893-1972), the grandmaster of Wing Chun who famously taught Bruce Lee.Rather, it is Wong’s poignant, visually stunning tribute to what is now gone ― China before the Japanese invasion and the glory years of Chinese martial arts in the 1930s. Though it features the life of Ip, the film focuses on martial arts itself rather than the individual. What