Sony's low-budget horror film "No Good Deed," starring Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson, secured the top place in the North American box office, with an estimated tickets earning of 24.5 million U.S. dollars over the weekend.
An Armenian movie director on Monday presented a documentary film about his nation's role in the ancient Silk Road.
The 71st Venice Film Festival ended here on Saturday with the Golden Lion, the highest prize given at the festival, awarded to a Swedish film by director Roy Andersson, and a large presence of Chinese works shown to international audience.
China deserves better international film festivals given its film industry's "huge" development in recent years in terms of technology and market, said the Director of the 71st Venice International Film Festival Alberto Barbera in an exclusive interview with Xinhua Thursday.
A biopic that portrays Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, the country's greatest since Dante, is considered as a good opportunity to present the poet to the world and enhance cultural understanding.
A brilliant future is expected to come into China's cinema market from the internet, the president of China's online video giant iQiyi Motion Pictures, Li Yansong, said on Wednesday at the Venice film festival in Italy.
Film professionals and experts gathered here Tuesday to discuss the global development of Chinese cinema at a forum held on the sidelines of the Venice International Film Festival.
The film which makes Chinese American actress Joan Chen feel "a bit different" when she walks out of a theater is the one that she will vote for at the ongoing Venice film festival, where she is a member of the international jury this year.
One of the most awaited superstars at the ongoing Venice film festival, American actor Al Pacino was a solitary man who approaches the possibility of new love in a movie presented here in the competition section.
The 71th edition of the Venice film festival kicked off here on Wednesday in the pursuit of a renewed interest for fresh proposals and tendencies in international cinema.
Zhang this time abandoned commercial appeal to return to one of his favorite themes: a love story with twists and turns.
As the public is still debating whether stars found to have used drugs should be given a second chance, associations of China's movie industry have voiced an outright rejection attitude.
"Brangelina", the American celebrity super couple -- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, will start their new movie called By the Sea on Monday at the Mgarr ix-Xini beach in Gozo, Malta's second largest island.
"Equals", a film about rights of children in the Balkan region, was well received by audience on Sunday at the ongoing Sarajevo Film Festival.
On the 7th day of the ongoing Cannes Film Festival, Belgian brother directors expressed their reflection on the current economic crisis in Europe, while a Japanese woman filmmaker explored nature in their movies presented in Competition on Tuesday
The Chinese film presence will be ramped up at this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) when organizers announced a portion of their lineup on Tuesday.
Georgian film "Corn Island", directed by George Ovashvili, won the main prize Crystal Globe and and a 25,000 U.S. dollars cash prize at the prize-giving gala of the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Saturday night.
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