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The Belgrade Free Zone Film Festival kicks off today
The 9th edition of the Belgrade Free Zone Film Festival starts today and will run through November 13th.
The Free Zone is a series of programs based on the socially engaged contemporary film production aimed at addressing current social and political issues f...
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Sundance Selects Acquires German Oscar Contender ‘Two Lives’
Two Lives, Germany's submission for the Best Foreign Film category of this year's Academy Awards, will be distributed in the United States by Sundance Selects.
Directed by he Georg Mass and starring Juliane Kohler, Liv Ullman and Ken Duken, the film is abo...
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Birthday Wishes: Emma Stone & Ethan Hawke
Today is Emma Stone's birthday, turning 25, as well as Ethan Hawke's, turning 43. They don't really have anything else in common besides this shared birthdate, but I wanted to celebrate both of them - one with a bright and burgeoning career, the other with a s...
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Focus Features International Will Be Shutting Down Dec. 31st
Following a change in leadership early last month, Focus Features will be shutting down it's London-based foreign sales office by year's end.
Today's announcement coincides with the start of Santa Monica's American Film Market, which Focus Features Interna...
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Blockbuster to Close All Stores, And There Was Weeping And Gnashing of Teeth
In an event that will signal countless thinkpieces reflecting on the current state of home cinema and the blogosphere's relation to it, Blockbuster announced that they will be ending all retail operations. The chain's 300 remaining U.S. stores, as well as its ...
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The 8th Rome Film Festival kicks off on 8 November
The 8th edition of the Rome Film Festival will kick off on 8 November and will run through 17 November 2013. Among some of the names that will walk on one of the world's largest red carpets are those of Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence, R...
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Birthday Wishes: Saint Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton, born 1960, turns 53 today. A recent favorite of Roger Ebert, she's attended his annual Ebertfest twice, this year leading the audience in a conga line through the infamous Virginia Theater. Aside from her charity work (such as appearing in Russi...
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David Cronenberg Slams Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’
In the past few weeks, it's been all the rage to rag on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The man behind the tale of extreme writer's block and telekinesis, Stephen King, recently called the 1980 adaptation of his classic horror novel "misogynistic," among other ...
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Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart together again for “American Ultra”
Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart's last film together was the surprisingly entertaining and not at all what the ads said it would be Adventureland, where Eisenberg played that nerdy,verbose type he's honed to a science and Stewart demonstrated that her affe...
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Birthday Wishes: Matthew McConaughey (44)
Alright alright alright everybody. Please bust out your bongos and just relax for a moment. Today is Matthew McConaughey's 44th birthday. McConaughey has become one of the most versatile actors of our time, able to play the golden-haired leading man in many a ...
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