“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 [...]

As English tutors go, Eminm is not the obvious choice. But that’s how the Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi, star of Hero and House of Flying Daggers, learnt the language. Of course, she picked up more than her fair share of profanities listening to the Detroit rapper’s CDs. “It’s normal,” she giggles. “The first thing you [...]

 
With his ever-present sunglasses and cultivated mystique, Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai has become one of the most distinct brand names on the international cinema circuit. His latest, “My Blueberry Nights,” which opened Friday in Los Angeles, has all the tell-tale signs of previous films such as “In the Mood for Love” or “2046″ [...]

 
When Amit Shah, a budding young actor born in Chicago, auditioned for a role in the upcoming Hollywood comedy “Fraternity House,” the directors picked him to play an Indian exchange student. He was told to wear glasses and sport a thick Indian accent like Apu, the convenience-store owner in “The Simpsons.”
The 27-year-old of Indian origin [...]

 
Bollywood is all set to open its doors for many aspiring artists from Britain and all over the world. The world’s biggest film industry will soon make its presence felt more strongly in the international arena, thanks to the first official Bollywood acting school in Britain.
The school will open in the West London borough of [...]

 
They are all over Bollywood – in their dark glasses and business casuals, making offers you cannot refuse.
Not the new mafia, they are Bollywood’s new corporate honchos, the new age producers transforming the movie industry. And from two opposite ends of the city, two men are watching.
Over three decades, Mahesh Bhatt, Bollywood’s master of reinvention [...]

 
Last October Aishwarya Bachchan grappled with a tough choice. The Bollywood star could either stay in Los Angeles to pursue a lead role in Will Smith’s new film, “Seven Pounds,” or she could return home to Mumbai to celebrate Karva Chauth, a daylong ceremonial fast that some married Hindu women observe as a prayer for [...]

It is slick, fast-paced and is being touted as a Canadian contender in the popular roster of TV shows such as “24,” “Alias,” and “The Unit” that focus on the ins and outs of government and military agencies.
Emmy-awarding winning documentary producer Peter Raymont launches “The Border” on Monday — his first television show about an [...]

 
International investors are preparing to make an unprecedented onslaught on Bollywood this year, with several Hollywood studios and a group of London-listed funds looking to take a share of the world’s most prolific movie-making market.
Studio groups such as Sony Pictures Entertainment, Viacom – which controls Paramount Pictures – and Disney are working on new releases [...]