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‘Amelie’ actress Tautou to host Cannes opening, closing ceremonies

Audrey Tautou (Yonhap News) PARIS (AFP) ― French actress Audrey Tautou, best known for the 2001 film “Amelie,” will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival next month,...

Updated : 2013.04.10 19:49

Fans get early look at ‘Elysium’ footage

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The year is 2154, and Earth belongs to the poor. The wealthiest citizens live on “Elysium,’’ an idyllic, disease-free utopia they built in space. On Monday, a few hundred film fan...

Updated : 2013.04.09 19:27

Late-night network shows still a white men’s club

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The role of female talk show hosts in late-night TV broadcast network history, all 50-plus years of it, can be summed up in two words: Joan Rivers. It takes just another two ―Ars...

Updated : 2013.04.07 19:08

Spanish film director Bigas Luna dies at 67

Bigas Luna (IMBD) MADRID (AP) ― Spanish film director Josep Joan Bigas Luna, who discovered actors Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem and whose 1992 movie “Jamon, Jamon’’ launched their careers, ha...

Updated : 2013.04.07 19:06

Box Office: Iron Man 3, Norigae, Running Man

Iron Man 3 Opening April 25 Action. Science Fiction. Adventure. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), a self-described genius and billionaire, finds his world destroyed at the hands of his enemy, the Man...

Updated : 2013.04.05 20:16

‘Evil Dead’ remake is a humorless gorefest

Relentless, pitiless, bloody and intense ― that’s the remake of Sam Raimi’s “The Evil Dead.” But is this “Evil Dead” (they dropped the “The” in the title) any good? Yes and no. It has sever...

Updated : 2013.04.05 20:15

Famed movie critic Roger Ebert dies at age 70

Roger Ebert, the most famous and popular film reviewer of his time who became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and, on his long-running TV program, wielded America's m...

Updated : 2013.04.05 09:35

Film director Martin Scorsese appeals for ‘visual literacy’

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Film director Martin Scorsese urged Americans on Monday to pay greater heed to “visual literacy” and to embrace their rich cinema heritage before it literally fades away. Scorsese...

Updated : 2013.04.04 19:39

Western indie filmmakers look East

HONG KONG (AFP) ― A growing band of European filmmakers are realizing their cinematic ambitions in the East, lured by a healthy box-office, investment prospects and the potential for more eye-catchin...

Updated : 2013.04.02 19:36

Cutting-edge 3-D film revives a Warsaw lost to war

WARSAW (AFP) ― Nazi bombs left Warsaw as little more than a smouldering heap of rubble at the end of World War II. Now, nearly seventy years later, the charm of the pre-war Polish capital dubbed the...

Updated : 2013.04.01 19:36

‘G.I. Joe’ No. 1 at U.S. box office with $41 million

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― After a nine-month delay, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation’’ deployed to the top spot at the box office. The action film starring Dwayne “The Rock’’ Johnson, Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum...

Updated : 2013.04.01 19:34

Box Office

Iron Man 3 Opening April 25 Action. Science Fiction. Adventure. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), a self-described genius and billionaire, finds his world destroyed at the hands of his enemy, the Man...

Updated : 2013.03.29 20:12

A sci-fi love triangle plumbs ideas of self in ‘The Host’

Max Irons and Jake Abel are chasing each other up and down a hallway at the Ritz-Carlton while Stephenie Meyer looks on with a maternal smile. They’re blowing off steam after a solid block of media...

Updated : 2013.03.29 20:11

Arthouse film ‘Jeseul’ trailblazing at box office

(Japari Film) The South Korean film “Jiseul” depicting the 1948 Jeju Massacre sold 42,300 tickets as of Thursday, an unexpected feat for the small-budget independent film. The black-and-white mov...

Updated : 2013.03.28 14:19

Love in Hong Kong, 1957

Long before Jung Woo-sung and Gao Yuanyuan’s romance “A Good Rain Knows” (2009), there was Kim Jin-kyu and Lucilla Yu Ming’s “Love with an Alien” (1957). The first Korea-Hong Kong joint produc...

Updated : 2013.03.27 19:41