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Celebrity culture gone mad in 'Superstar' at Venice fest
French film "Superstar" shone a harsh spotlight on celebrity culture at the Venice festival this week.
01 September 2012
Stars land in Venice for art house film festival
The Venice film festival kicks off on Wednesday with the arrival of stars on water taxis for an art house dominated line-up dealing with issues from religious extremism to economic crisis.
30 August 2012
'Expendables 2' holds lead in N. America box office
A-list action romp "The Expendables 2" held onto the top rung of the North American box office for a second weekend, keeping "The Bourne Legacy" at bay, industry estimates showed Sunday.
27 August 2012
Women directors take front row at Venice film festival
Hollywood veterans will brush shoulders with up and coming starlets and auteurs in Venice starting on Wednesday for the film festival in which women directors are set to take centre stage.
24 August 2012
Movies selected for 8th Eurasia Film Festival in Almaty
The Selection Board of the 8th Eurasia Film Festival has announced the movies selected for the festival.
20 August 2012
Troy filmmaker will chair jury at 8th Eurasia Film Festival
12 European, Asian and Central Asian movies will be screened as part of the official selection of the Eurasia Film Festival.
20 August 2012
Batman movie shooting suspect 'mentally ill': lawyer
The man suspected of gunning down 12 people at a screening of the new Batman movie last month is mentally ill, his defense lawyer said Thursday, seeking more time to assess his health.
11 August 2012
KazakhFilm Studios will nominate Zhauzhurek Myn Bala for Oscar
KazakhFilm Studios is planning to nominate Zhauzhurek Myn Bala drama for Oscar Academy Awards.
09 August 2012
Armed US man arrested at Batman screening: police
US authorities said Tuesday they arrested a man at a screening of the latest Batman movie with a bag full of weapons in a case that evoked a recent rampage in Colorado that claimed a dozen lives.
08 August 2012
Madonna airs 1944 Warsaw Uprising clip amid concert row
Madonna aired a World War II-era newsreel on the 1944 anti-Nazi Warsaw Uprising at the top of her gig in the city marking the day 68 years ago when the bloody insurrection was launched.
02 August 2012
Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' tops British list of best films
Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" has climbed to the top of the British Film Institute's poll of the greatest films ever made, dislodging "Citizen Kane" for the first time in 50 years.
02 August 2012
Men in Batman masks rob two Mexican theaters
At least three men wearing Batman masks raided two cinemas in northern Mexico Monday at showings of "The Dark Knight Rises," wounding one man.
31 July 2012
Batman movie director laments 'savage' massacre
Batman movie director Christopher Nolan lamented Friday the "senseless tragedy' and "unbearably savage" gunning down of 12 movie goers at a Colorado theater screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."
22 July 2012
US gunman bought 6,000 rounds of ammo
The gunman arrested over the Colorado movie theater massacre bought more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the Internet in the last two months, the local police chief said Friday.
21 July 2012
'Ice Age' sweeps in and tops US box office
"Ice Age: Continental Drift" entered at the top of the North American box office this weekend, knocking "The Amazing Spider-Man" off the summit.
16 July 2012
ART FEST filmmakers offered four superheroes to Astana
Participants of the youth contest ART FEST held during the 3rd ASTANA Action Film Festival made four superheroes of Astana.
11 July 2012
Alleged Australia killer on the run wins film role
A man wanted over a beheading murder who was eventually captured in the Australian Outback auditioned to be a film extra while on the run -- winning the role of a policeman in a homicide thriller.
05 July 2012
Raunchy teddy bear 'Ted' tops N. America box office
"Ted," starring Mark Wahlberg and his raunchy teddy bear pal, topped the North American box office this weekend, besting the male strippers of "Magic Mike," industry figures showed Monday.
03 July 2012
A joint project of Timur Bekmambetov and Tim Burton opens Astana Film Festival
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a joint project of Timur Bekmambetov and Tim Burton, has been selected the opening film of the festival in Kazakhstan.
03 July 2012
Bekmambetov’s “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” won’t be a moneymaking movie
The movie is extremely controversial, nobody has filmed the U.S. presidents chasing vampires with an axe before: Kazakhstan-born director Timur Bekmambetov.
03 July 2012