With action heroes and sci-fi themes populating the fall TV schedule, studios are planning to increase the presence of their television properties at Comic-Con International.
The July 24-27 fandom mecca in San Diego will feature more than two dozen sessions promoting upcoming TV series. The events including panels for such shows as Fox’s “Fringe” and “Dollhouse,” […]

With India’s entertainment billionaires seemingly blessed with limitless pockets, Bollywood is flexing its movie muscle, taking on Hollywood in unexpected corners of the globe and buying up theatres worldwide.
“Bollywood now has the muscle and (Indian) corporates have big money,” prominent Indian filmmaker Jagmohan Mundra told AFP.
Mundra said Bollywood companies began the bid to buy into […]

 
On Wednesday morning festivalgoers — or at least the hordes of journalists who stumble into the Salle Lumière every day at 8:30 after a few hours’ sleep and a hasty café au lait — were given a bit of a break. In a departure, there was no competition press screening on the schedule, which provided […]

Spike Lee is slamming Clint Eastwood over his two recent Iwo Jima movies, saying the filmmaker overlooked the role of black soldiers during World War II.
Lee - whose next film is this fall’s “Miracle at St. Anna,” the story of an all-black U.S. division fighting in Italy during the war - said Eastwood’s 2006 movies […]

A gripping Clint Eastwood thriller starring Angelina Jolie and a new-genre animated documentary from Israel are shaping up as critics’ favourites for the Palme d’Or prize as the Cannes film festival hits the halfway mark.
Eastwood’s wrenching tale about a mother and her missing son picked up more applause from the critics Tuesday than any of […]

 
You would think Jeffrey Katzenberg had to be one of those kids with movie posters plastering his bedroom walls - images of “Pinocchio,” “Peter Pan,” “Dumbo,” all of his favourite animated fantasies.
How could the studio executive who oversaw the resurrection of one animated kingdom at Disney and created another at DreamWorks be anything but a […]

 
When the 61st Cannes Film Festival opens here on Wednesday, all the customary glamour, spectacle and high Gallic seriousness will be in place: the red carpet, the hatchet-faced guards, the shouting paparazzi, the promenading stars and bleary-eyed journalists. If the Americans look a little more anxious than usual, it’s not just the enfeebled dollar.
Everyone may […]

Outside the Carlton Hotel, workmen have pasted a giant poster of Robert Downey Jr. in blackface, promoting his part in the upcoming Ben Stiller comedy, Tropic Thunder. The garish image is a reminder that Cannes is in the business of selling what most people call movies as well as what cinephiles call cinema.
Each year, headlines […]

 
Blindness, a thriller starring Julianne Moore, is to open the Cannes Film Festival in France next month.
Based on a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago, the movie focuses on a town which is hit by a sudden epidemic of sight-loss.
The comedy drama What Just Happened, starring Robert de Niro, Bruce Willis, and Sean Penn, […]

 
Film festivals can be a rollercoaster of highs and lows.
A premiere can be an ecstatic experience, but there’s a bit of a hangover the next day. Now what? Will the movie get in more festivals or is this it? Is this movie going to sell? Will we make our money back?
Similarly a documentary film festival […]