Coming soon to a theater near you: China’s Communist Party. From demanding changes in plot lines that denigrate the Chinese leadership, to dampening lurid depictions of sex and violence, Beijing is having increasing success in pressuring Hollywood into deleting movie content Beijing finds objectionable.
Erik Matti’s “On the Job” was selected to be part of the Directors’ Fortnight—making it the third Filipino film that will premiere in Cannes next month.
The Hollywood film “Django Unchained” was pulled from Chinese theaters on its opening day Thursday, in a rare move despite weeks of promotion in the country for director Quentin Tarantino’s violent slave-revenge saga.
Alessandra de Rossi won best actress and Anita Linda best supporting actress for their roles in “Sta. Nina” at the first Asean International Film Festival Awards (Aiffa), filmmaker Dante Nico Garcia, local liaison director of Aiffa told the INQUIRER on Saturday.
Johnny Depp is coming to Las Vegas to talk to fans about “The Lone Ranger.”
The caveman comedy “The Croods” left an indelible mark on the wall, opening at No. 1 with an estimated $44.7 million.
Big-budget 3D fantasy adventure flick “Oz the Great and Powerful” topped the North American box office for a second straight weekend, earning $41.3 million, industry figures showed Monday.
“Veronica Mars” fans just bought themselves a big-screen version of the cult favorite TV series. A crowd-sourcing campaign on the Kickstarter website to raise $2 million for the project hit its goal in less than a day.
The red carpet had been rolled out as early as 6 p.m., or even much earlier. Photographers, cameramen and show-biz scribes roamed the lobby of the AFP Theater waiting for the first batch of celebs to grace this year’s 29th Star Awards for Movies, mounted by the Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) last Sunday.
Actor Dingdong Dantes believes his girlfriend Marian Rivera deserved the best actress award she received recently from the Entertainment Press Society, which had sent fans of superstar Nora Aunor staging a walkout after its announcement.
Plans to remake the 1981 cult horror film “Evil Dead” may have brought some initial skepticism, but with the original filmmakers behind the scenes and a fresh-faced director and cast to inject youthful enthusiasm, the South by Southwest festival crowd welcomed the reboot with open arms.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy (APSA), described as “one of the most prestigious award-giving bodies in the Asia-Pacific region” based in Brisbane, Australia, officially closed shop on January 31 due to funding problems. “There had been a change of government in the state of Queensland and there was concern… (about) a large debt from the [...]
