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Spike Lee launches Kickstarter campaign for film

Jul 24, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) ― The next Spike Lee film will be a Kickstarter production.Following in the footsteps of “Veronica Mars’’ and Zach Braff, Lee has launched an online campaign to help fund his next feature film. The filmmaker on Monday unveiled his bid to raise $1.25 million over the next month using the fundraising site Kickstarter.Lee offered few details on the film but said it would be about “the addiction of blood.’’The 56-year-old director said he was inspired to crowd-source the film after hea
‘Snowpiercer’ powerfully explores class, privilege

Jul 23, 2013

Bong Joon-ho’s latest sci-fi film dark, strong in narrative and visually stunning
Superman’s past, future takes spotlight at Comic-Con

Jul 22, 2013

SAN DIEGO (AP) ― Superman is among comics’ most recognizable characters, and 75 years after Cleveland teenagers Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster’s Kryptonian made his debut in the pages of Action Comics No. 1, his popularity remains stratospheric.At Comic-Con International, Superman’s presence could be seen everywhere ― from attendees wearing various incarnations of his many costumes to scenes from the television series, cartoons, films, and even in comic books.“Superman was the first comic book su
Box Office: Snowpiercer, The Wolverine, RED 2

Jul 19, 2013

SnowpiercerAction. Sci-Fi. Thriller. Directed by Bong Joon-hoOpening Aug. 1Based on the French novel “Le Transperceneige” by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette, the film is set in a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off almost all living things on Earth with the sudden onset of an Ice Age. Survivors are on the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine. As time passes a class system evolves on the train, the elites inhabit the carriages i
Michael Pena hopes family-friendly ‘Turbo’ will bowl over his son

Jul 19, 2013

For a guy who rarely goes bowling and is content with breaking 100 on the score sheet, Michael Pena ― best known for his roles in “Crash” and “End of Watch” ― sure carried himself like a big shot on the lanes last Monday. But it was all in good fun, other than the fact that Pena really wanted to win.“Are you nervous?” asked Pena, 37, before the first of our two embarrassingly low-scoring games at Lucky Strike Lanes in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood. “I feel like you’re nervous.”In addition
‘Cold Eyes’ smashes 4 million mark

Jul 19, 2013

Korean thriller film “Cold Eyes” attracted 4 million viewers in just 17 days, becoming the fifth domestic film to hit the record this year ― following box office hits “The Berlin File,” “Secretly Greatly,” “New World” and “Miracle in Cell No.7.”The star-studded film, which stars actors Sol Kyung-gu, Jung Woo-sung, and actress Han Hyo-joo, tells the story of a group of detectives specializing in surveillance activities on high profile criminals. In the film, they together try to arrest the member
Hong Sang-soo’s latest work to compete at Locarno film festival

Jul 18, 2013

Korean director Hong Sang-soo’s latest work has been invited to Locarno International Film Festival’s international competition section, the film’s local promoters said.The film, titled “Our Sunhi,” tells the story of a young film student named Sun-hi (played by actress Jeong Yoo-mi) who is about to leave Korea to study overseas. Before moving abroad, she visits two of her ex-boyfriends (played by Lee Sun-kyun and Jung Jae-young) and her professor named Choi (played by Kim Sang-jung). “Our Sunhi
Ha Jung-woo to direct film adaptation of Chinese novel

Jul 17, 2013

Popular actor Ha Jung-woo will direct and star in a film adaptation of famed Chinese author Yu Hua’s 1995 novel “Chronicle of a Blood Merchant,” Korean film house NEW said.The novel, which is set from the early years of the People’s Republic of China until after the Cultural Revolution in the early 1950s to the 1980s, deals with a man who sells his blood for many years to support his family. The upcoming movie will be the first film adaptation of the novel. Author Yu’s 1992 novel “To Live” was f
Bong Jun-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ sets record with presales to 167 countries

Jul 17, 2013

Even before its world premiere in Seoul on Aug. 1, director Bong Jun-ho’s “Snowpiercer” has already been sold to 167 different countries, CJ Entertainment said Tuesday, setting a presale record for a film by a Korean director.Film distributor The Weinstein Company secured the distribution rights for countries in North America, the U.K., New Zealand, Australia and other English-speaking nations. French film distributor Wildside, which in the past distributed Korean films such as “Thirst” (2009),
Annual genre film festival arrives in Bucheon

Jul 16, 2013

PiFan features 229 genre movies from 44 countries, including 53 premieres
Hugh Jackman talks ‘The Wolverine’

Jul 15, 2013

Australian actor speaks on making of the movie, his love for Korean food
Johnny Depp’s interest in Wounded Knee causes a stir

Jul 14, 2013

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) ― For months, questions have swirled about whether developers, activists or tribes would be willing to plunk down millions to buy a portion of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark. Now there’s a new potential buyer in the mix: Johnny Depp.But is the star of “The Lone Ranger” really preparing to be the one who buys the property where hundreds of Native Americans were killed? Or is it just the latest rumor in the contentious debate over the landmark’s future?D
Box Office: RED 2, Mr. Go, Side Effects

Jul 12, 2013

RED 2Action. Comedy. Crime. Directed by Dean Parisot.Opening July 18While trying to enjoy a normal life, retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is notified by his old friend Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich) that Interpol is hunting him. When Frank tries to clear his name, he gets reacquainted on a global mission to track down a missing nuclear device that was sneaked into Russia and reassembled. While Frank reunites his former team of elite operatives and is working on the mission,
SeaWorld gets a black eye in new documentary

Jul 12, 2013

Filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite was something of a “SeaWorld mom.” She’d taken her kids to the San Diego location of the popular theme park corporation, “planted us firmly in the Shamu splash zone. We all just ate it up.”Then she read of SeaWorld Orlando trainer Dawn Brancheau’s grisly death by orca in February 2010. She “just couldn’t come to terms with it. I could not understand how a highly intelligent, beloved mammal could make that decision. I was confounded. Was he playing? Did she drown
Homegrown tech brings gorilla to life

Jul 10, 2013

23 billion won 3-D gorilla film ‘Mr. Go’ to be released across Asia