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VENICE, Italy (AFP) - Russian director Aleksei Fedorchenko's "Silent Souls" and "Post Mortem" by Chile's Pablo Larrain were favourites Friday to win the Venice film festival's Golden Lion.Published 2 hours, 17 minutes ago |
TORONTO (AFP) - Olivia Newton John is in talks to do a Bollywood film, she said Friday after her latest movie opened the Toronto film festival.Published 2 hours, 28 minutes ago |
VENICE, Italy (AFP) - "Barney's Version", a film adaptation of Canadian author Mordecai Richler's beloved but unwieldy novel, screened in Venice on Friday as the world's oldest film festival entered the home stretch.Published 3 hours, 58 minutes ago |
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has launched a 24-hour satellite television entertainment channel to broadcast serials and films to audiences in the Arab world, media reported on Friday.Published 4 hours, 12 minutes ago |
PARIS (AFP) - The theatre bosses said it would never work: a lone Frenchman on stage before a crowd of paying Parisians, trying to make them laugh for an hour at their own bad manners -- in English.Published 4 hours, 18 minutes ago |
YANGON (AFP) - With dreadlocks, denim and the Rastafarian colours of red, green and gold, singer Saw Phoe Kwar's homage to reggae legend Bob Marley is hard to miss as his band "One Love" strikes up in a Yangon bar.Published 4 hours, 18 minutes ago |
MADRID (AFP) - Paramount Pictures said Friday it has reached a deal to open its first theme park in Europe in Spain, the world's third most visited country, which will create thousands of jobs.Published 5 hours, 46 minutes ago |
LONDON (AFP) - A leather and silk-bound photographic autobiography by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page will go on sale later this month for a hefty 445 pounds (540 euros, 690 dollars).Published 5 hours, 54 minutes ago |
LONDON (AFP) - One of Britain's best-loved television characters, pub landlady Peggy Mitchell, will bow out of the show on Friday after 16 years at the heart of the long-running soap "EastEnders".Published 6 hours, 1 minute ago |
TORONTO, Canada (AFP) - The Toronto film festival opened with a nod to Canadians' obsession with ice hockey, hoping also to capitalize on a renaissance of musicals in Hollywood.Published 14 hours, 53 minutes ago |
