Religious Films Pull in Big Bucks in Indonesia
As the fasting month draws nearer, the country's cinemas are embracing their spiritual side by welcoming a spate of new releases...
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Durban International Film Festival focus is Africa, India, Canada and COP17
South Africa's longest-running film festival, the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), opens on July 21 with the world premiere of the...
McCartney’s 9/11 documentary to be broadcast
A documentary about Paul McCartney's experiences in New York immediately after the September11 attacks on the city is to get its...
The 10 greatest “missing movies”
With the newly restored 35mm version of the late German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder's long-unavailable 1973 science-fiction epic "World on a...
Hong Kong star Andy Lau rescues hit film
The Straits Times / Equal parts bone-cracking, sidesplitting and heartbreaking, "Gallants" is the sort of Hong Kong martial arts comedy you...
‘Rana’ to resume shoot from September
With 'thalaivar' Superstar back after regaining his health back from Singapore all seems to be falling in place for 'Rana's team....
More sex films coming? Maybe not
The day few of us thought would come has arrived. This week, a much-ballyhooed film, claimed to be the first soft-porn...
Century-old film studio gutted
One of the city's oldest film and television studio, Bharat Laxmi Studio, was on Monday gutted in a major fire. This...
Bappi Lahiri talks MC Hammer and Will to Live
Best known for pioneering the use of disco music in Bollywood films, composer Bappi Lahiri has contributed to some of the...
Less angst in new short film contest
Many Singaporeans portray Singapore in a pessimistic light in films submitted to competitions, say film-industry veterans. But, after this year's watershed...
Toonz to Cast its Magic Spell
Singapore based media and entertainment house, Toonz Entertainment is all set to enthrall the audiences and Harry Potter aficionados the world...
HPE, Imagenation sign co-fi deal with China’s Angel Wings
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and Imagenation Abu Dhabi are teaming up with the China-based company on a slate of English-language...