Apart from Adolf Hitler and Vlad the Impaler, there are few historical figures more in need of a public relations makeover than Ghengis Khan. The 13th-century Mongol leader, who founded the largest contiguous empire in history, has become a byword for brutality and warmongering.
“The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies,” he is credited with [...]

The 80-million-dollar film The Battle of Red Cliff, which is the most expensive Asian movie ever, has been forced to suspend filming after a stuntman was killed and six people were injured in an accident on set, Variety reported Tuesday. The movie by John Woo is adapted from China’s classic novel Romance of the Three [...]

“Mongol” may fool you: It’s a foreign-language film, yes, but it has enough appeal to pull in the same fanboy audience that made “300″ a huge hit. Russian director Sergei Bodrov’s Oscar-nominated movie about the early life of Genghis Khan is thoroughly exotic, utterly romantic, beautifully shot and features some of the bloodiest, most astounding [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It could be a scene straight out of a Bollywood movie. An Indian billionaire sees a foreign rival struggling to raise money as the global economy sinks, and swoops to pick up a clutch of big names at rock bottom prices.
But yesterday fiction became fact when Reliance Big Entertainment, the media arm of Anil Ambani [...]

 
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 [...]

 
A year at the Yale School of Drama costs $25,735. Juilliard is about $1,500 more. And you don’t even want to know what an education from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art will set you back. For aspiring movie actors, it would be a lot cheaper just to study the career of Juliette Binoche. A [...]

 
“We can kill each other when it’s over,” says Jackie Chan as the Drunken Master Lu Yan to Jet Li’s Silent Monk in the new Asian-American fantasy film The Forbidden Kingdom. But when these honored veterans of Hong Kong martial-arts movies get into fighting mode, it’s an open question as to whether they’ll survive till [...]

 
Leading producer Martin Brown believes the federal government’s new film production rebate will open the floodgates for big budget movies to be shot in Australia.
Brown is currently working on 67-year-old director Fred Schepisi’s Vietnam War epic The Last Man, set to star Australian actors Guy Pearce and David Wenham.
The film will be shot in Queensland [...]