CANNES - A man was arrested at the Cannes film festival on Friday after firing a starting pistol during a live TV broadcast on the palm-lined waterfront, sending actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil running for cover.French TV station Canal+ was interviewing Austria’s Oscar-winning Waltz ...

After ‘Bol’, ‘Khuda Key Liye’ and now ‘Chambeli’, I feel Pakistani cinema has started emerging finally. Our filmmaker’s hard work is finally showing its true colour. People have started going back to the cinemas to watch Pakistani movies. Now, it is our and ...

A statistical snapshot of the May 15-26 Cannes Film Festival:80: The number of feature-length films, comprising 52 in the festival’s official selection (of which 20 are in the competition for the Palme d’Or); 18 in the category of Directors’ Fortnight; and 10 in the Critics’ ...

SYDNEY: Australian actor Hugo Weaving, best known for his roles in “The Matrix” and “The Lord of the Rings”, will head the jury for next month’s Sydney Film Festival, organisers said Wednesday.Weaving, who stars in murder movie “Mystery Road” which opens ...

PARIS: Director Ken Loach is not impressed with much of today’s film and television. “Happy films for happy people” is the withering verdict of the man who made his name with the likes of “Cathy Come Home” and “Kes”. Movies and programmes no longer ...

LOS ANGELES: Woody Allen is to make his next movie in the south ofFrance, starringBritain’s Oscar-winning Colin Firth andUSactress Emma Stone, the project’s producers announced Tuesday. The as-yet-untitled film, to be shot this summer, will be the second set inFranceby the 77-year-old ...

LOS ANGELES: Actress Laura Linney, the female cast members of TV drama “Mad Men” and directors Sofia Coppola and George Lucas were named on Monday as winners of Hollywood’s annual Crystal and Lucy Awards, which honour women’s achievement in film. The Women in Film ...

  NEW YORK   South Korean rapper and Internet sensation Psy was honored as a transcultural phenomenon by the Tribeca Film Festival along with a host of other luminaries ranging from choreographer Twyla Tharp to controversial media host Glenn Beck. “Who knew, right?” Psy said ...

HOLLYWOOD: Scarlett Johansson is eyeing the starring role in director Luc Besson’s new film. Avengers cast member Johansson is in final negotiations to lead the cast of action movie Lucy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Lucy is the story of a drug mule who develops incredible physical ...

NEW YORK BBC - A film installation celebrating Nelson Mandela is taking over the electronic billboards in New York’s Times Square.The short presentation was commissioned by the Tribeca Film Institute, the arts organisation co-founded by Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro.Inspirational quotes ...

JERUSALEM : Palestinian activists tried to derail an ambitious European documentary shot in Jerusalem this week, complaining that the film would reinforce an image of Israeli sovereignty over the deeply divided city. Producers of the Franco-German "24h Jerusalem", which sets out to depict a ...

CALIFORNIADSDisney is set to release a new Star Wars film every year from 2015 to 2019, with a new installment in the franchise set to come along every summer.The company acquired Star Wars makers Lucasfilm last year, gaining the rights to make new Star Wars films for a cool $4 billion. Disney ...

THE 66th Cannes Film Festival has announced its official lineup.Ryan Gosling's Only God Forgives, his reunion with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, will have its world premiere in competition at next month's prestigious festival, while new films from Steven Soderbergh (Behind the Candelabra), ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) and Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) Islamabad campus have joined hands to work for the revival of Pakistan’s sagging film industry.PNCA has involved the young and creative students of SZABIST ...

LONDON  - British police are investigating the death of a young film maker who was sleeping rough while making a documentary about the homeless, they said. the body of Lee Halpin, 26, was found in a building in Newcastle on Wednesday just three days after he began the project. Police said they ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth was awarded one of Britain’s most prestigious entertainment honours for her support for the film and television industry.Actor and director Kenneth Branagh presented the 86-year-old monarch with an honourary BAFTA award - Britain’s equivalent of ...

At least 5,000 people rallied in Karachi on Sunday to denounce a US-made anti-Islam film and the publication of blasphemous cartoons in France, police and witnesses said. Police beefed up security for the rally, which was organised by Ahle Sunnat wa Al-Jamaat, while paramilitary forces also ...

KASWAR KLASRA andJAWAD R AWAN ISLAMABAD/LAHORE – Protests against an anti-Islam film continued across the country on Thursday with violent clashes between police and enraged demonstrators at several places, but the worst episode unfolded in the capital where the government had to call in the ...

A Brazilian-based movie company has acquired the rights to make a film adaptation of Bob Dylan’s iconic album ‘Blood on the Tracks’. RT Features is seeking a director for an English-language movie based on the 1975 record, which includes Dylan classics like “Shelter from the ...

Eddie Murphy’s new film A Thousand Words has been slated in America with headlines speculating whether it is ‘the worst film of all time’.Comedian Murphy, who turned 50 last April, made his name with films such as Beverly Hills Cop and voiced Donkey in the hugely popular Shrek ...

Actress Eva Longoria is nursing a painful foot after injuring herself during an impromptu dance routine on a movie set.The Desperate Housewives star hurt her right foot and posted a picture online of herself using an ice pack to reduce the swelling as she relaxed in her dressing room.In a post on ...

LOS ANGELES “John Carter,” the 3D space adventure film that opens on Saturday, was supposed to be the Walt Disney Co’s latest franchise movie, a blockbuster on par with “Cars” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” that generates profits beyond the film to ...

SANTA MONICA, California (Reuters) - Silent movie romance “The Artist” on Saturday won four Independent Spirit Awards, the year’s top honours among movies made outside Hollywood’s major studios, including best film and director in a prelude to the Oscars.“The ...

PARIS  - Black-and-white silent movie “The Artist” scooped up six Cesar awards including best film and best actress on Friday in France’s annual version of the Academy Awards, further raising French hopes it could do well at the Oscars this weekend.A misty-eyed flashback to ...

WASHINGTON - On the eve of the 2012 Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, a major American newspaper has put into sharp focus the first-ever nomination of a Pakistani documentary “Saving Face” for the best documentary (short subject). “The film also emerges as a face-saver ...

SYDNEY  - Australian researchers Thursday revealed they had filmed a pod of extremely rare Shepherd’s beaked whales for the first time ever. The Australian Antarctic Division team was tracking blue whales off the coast of Victoria state last month when they spotted the reclusive mammals, ...

WASHINGTON  - The secretive Navy SEALs are coming out of the shadows for a new Hollywood film, with elite commandos cast in starring roles in a radical departure for America's special forces. In "Act of Valor," the select troops who call themselves "the quiet professionals" take a turn as ...

SARAJEVO  - Angelina Jolie, whose directorial debut on the Bosnian war screened in Sarajevo on Tuesday night, said she would not attend a premiere in Belgrade but denied she was biased against Serbs.While thousands in Sarajevo, a mostly Bosnian Muslim city, were braving deep snow and freezing ...

LOS ANGELES - Uggie, the trick-performing Jack Russell Terrier starring in silent film “The Artist”, was top dog at the first-ever Golden Collar awards recognising canine excellence in Hollywood films.The veteran performer beat out Cosmo from “Beginners”, Denver from ...

BERLIN A sci-fi black comedy about Nazis from the moon invading Planet Earth is one of the hottest tickets at the Berlin film festival, which is better known for its gritty political fare. “Iron Sky”, a B-movie spoof drawing the crowds at the 11-day event in the German capital, imagines ...