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Lindsay Lohan returns to court, may return to jail

Nov 2, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan returns to court Wednesday to learn whether a judge will agree with a prosecutor advocating that the actress be returned to jail for failing to complete a community service assignment at a women's shelter. Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner revoked Lohan's probation at a hearing nearly two weeks ago, but now must formally determine whether Lohan violated the ...
Hugh Grant becomes a dad, but mother undisclosed

Nov 2, 2011

LONDON (AP) — Hugh Grant has become a father for the first time after a brief fling, his spokesman said Tuesday — but the identity of the baby's mother is not being disclosed. Publicist Carrie Gordon said Grant "is the delighted father of a baby girl." She said Grant and the mother "had a fleeting affair and while this was not planned, Hugh could not be happier or more supportive." "He and the...
Oldest movie camera rental shop in Hollywood auctions off its film cameras

Oct 31, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― Call it film’s last gasp. Birns & Sawyer, the oldest movie camera rental shop in Hollywood, made history last week when it auctioned off its entire remaining inventory of 16- and 35-millimeter film cameras. Owner and cinematographer Bill Meurer said he didn’t want to part with the cameras but had little choice as the entertainment industry has largely gone digital. “People aren’t...
‘Barrier-Free’ films offer universal experience

Oct 31, 2011

‘Blind’ becomes first local barrier-free film for people with hearing or visual impairments “Blind,” this year’s highly successful serial-killer with a visually impaired heroine has been converted into Korea’s first “barrier-free” film, which people with hearing or visual impairments can view along with the non-disabled. The new version is accompanied by a descriptive audio feature and subtitle...
Algerian film wins top award at Qatar festival

Oct 31, 2011

DOHA (AFP) ― Qatar’s annual film festival gave its top award to filmmaker Merzak Allouache’s production of “Normal,“ a movie that follows disillusioned Algerian youth in the wake of the “Arab Spring” revolutions. The award, which carries a bonus of $100,000, was announced at the third annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival awards ceremony Saturday, alongside seven other prizes, including, best Arab d...
New ‘Twilight’ film screens at Rome festival

Oct 31, 2011

ROME (AP) ― Jackson Rathbone, a star of the “Twilight” movies, likened the wildly popular series about love between a human and a vampire to the story of Romeo and Juliet, as the next-to-last film in the saga was screened Sunday at Rome’s film festival. Speaking to reporters about “The Twilight Saga ― Breaking Dawn Part 1,” Rathbone called the love between Bella and Edward “almost as mythologica...
Comedian-turned-director slapped with exit ban over embezzlement charges

Oct 31, 2011

Disgraced comedian-turned-director Shim Hyung-rae has been banned from leaving the country in connection with suspicions that he embezzled huge company funds, police said Monday. Police have recently launched an internal probe into suspicions that Shim, chairman of the movie production company Younggu Art, misappropriated 4.1 billion won (US$3.7 million) of company funds for private purposes, fo...
Box Office

Oct 28, 2011

The King of Pigs (Korea) Opening Nov.3 Thriller/Drama. Directed by Yeun Sang-ho. Kyung-min, a 30-something CEO impulsively kills his wife after his business goes bankrupt. He seeks out his long-lost friend Jong-suk, whom he was close with in middle school. The two meet up and talk about their middle school days where both of them were severely bullied by their classmates. At the time, they beca...
‘Johnny English’ star Rowan Atkinson finds the U.S. a tough bean to crack

Oct 28, 2011

If British comedian Rowan Atkinson had any doubts about his international appeal, they’ve been put to rest by stories he keeps hearing from English aid workers returning from trips to Africa. “They go to these African villages where there are four thatched huts,” said Atkinson, 56. “There is nobody in any of them except one, where the entire village is crammed in there. There’s a tiny black-and-...
A woman’s life is turned upside down by an affair

Oct 28, 2011

Anne Enright doesn’t believe in leading readers gently into anything ― certainly not an affair. In “The Forgotten Waltz,” the Irish writer plunges us headlong into the world of Gina Moynihan, young IT consultant and adulteress at large. Gina is not so much an unreliable narrator as someone obsessed with her own unreliability. Dissecting her love affair with married man Sean Vallely, she constant...
Film on Myanmar activist opens Rome festival

Oct 28, 2011

ROME (AP) ― A biopic about Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday opened Rome’s film festival, whose organizers quoted the Nobel Peace Prize winner as calling truth and justice bastions against brutality. “The Lady,” by French director Luc Besson, features former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh playing Suu Kyi, who was freed from house arrest last year after spending most of the last ...
Yoon Seok-hwa to return to big screen

Oct 27, 2011

Veteran stage actress Yoon Seok-hwa is returning to the big screen after 24 years for director Kim Tae-gyun’s debut film. According to Pan Cinema, the production house of the upcoming movie, it only took a day for Yoon to decide to take the role. The actress was instantly moved by the script, the company said. Based on director Kim’s personal story, the film, titled “Spring Snow,” is about a fa...
‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ gets London prize

Oct 27, 2011

LONDON (AP) ― The beautiful, terrifying domestic drama “We Need to Talk About Kevin” has won the London Film Festival’s best-picture prize. Lynne Ramsay’s film stars Tilda Swinton as a mother grappling with grief and guilt after her teenage son carries out a high-school massacre. “Shakespeare in Love” director John Madden, who chaired the judging panel, on Wednesday called it “a sublime, uncomp...
Twisted revenge tale gives anime dark edge

Oct 27, 2011

BIFF award-winning ‘The King of Pigs’ first of its kind in Korea After this year’s huge box office hit “Leafie,” Korea’s animation scene sees the arrival of a highly controversial work sure to leave an impact long after its theater run. A low-budget feature debut by director Yeun Sang-ho, “The King of Pigs” claims to be “the first animated vicious thriller in Korea.” Unlike “Leafie,” which sold...
Holiday releases range from Muppets to Marilyn Monroe

Oct 26, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Only Hollywood could assemble a holiday guest list that ranges from the Muppets, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Puss in Boots and dancing penguins to J. Edgar Hoover, Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn Monroe and a steed in the trenches of World War I. The latter are among a batch of potential Academy Awards contenders from past winners and nominees: Leonardo DiCaprio as the FBI boss in dir...

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