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- Hollywood Fest To Honor Sly Stallone
- 'Die Hard' Director Gets Jail Term
- Asian Stars Head To Busan Film Fest
| Hollywood Fest To Honor Sly Stallone Posted: 14 Oct 2010 02:43 AM PDT Sylvester Stallone will receive a career achievement award this month at the Hollywood Film Festival. Stallone will be feted 20 October at the 14th annual fest's awards gala in Beverly Hills. The event will also pay tribute to Morgan Freeman and business partner Lori McCreary of digital entertainment company Revelations Entertainment for their technological innovations. Director Tom Hooper will be honored with a helming award. Hooper's The King's Speech, starring Colin Firth, is considered a leading awards contender. Stallone's most recent film is his acting/directing venture The Expendables. (Hollywood Reporter) | ||
| 'Die Hard' Director Gets Jail Term Posted: 14 Oct 2010 02:43 AM PDT Die Hard director John McTiernan was sentenced to one year in prison this week for perjury and lying to officials in a wiretapping case involving a former private investigator who represented many Hollywood stars. McTiernan, 59, was also fined US$100,000 at the conclusion of the long-running case which stemmed from him hiring convicted sleuth Anthony Pellicano to wiretap a film producer after they both worked on the 2002 movie Rollerball. McTiernan initially lied to the FBI about his involvement with Pellicano, pleaded guilty in 2006, and then asked to withdraw his guilty plea saying he had received poor legal advice. In 2009, he was indicted by a grand jury and pleaded guilty to two counts of making false statements and one count of perjury. "The defendant doesn't think the law applies to him, and the court has no reason to believe he will not violate the law again when it suits him," U.S. District judge Dale S. Fischer said before sentencing McTiernan. Pellicano was convicted of racketeering, conspiracy and wiretapping in 2008 and is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence. McTiernan, whose other movies include The Hunt For Red October and the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, did not address the court at the sentencing hearing. (Reuters) | ||
| Asian Stars Head To Busan Film Fest Posted: 14 Oct 2010 02:43 AM PDT
Stars from Hollywood, Bollywood and China gathered with film-makers and fans Thursday for the launch of Asia's most prestigious film festival in the South Korean port city of Busan. The 15th Pusan International Film Festival kicked off with an outdoor screening of Chinese's director Zhang Yimou's Under The Hawthorn Tree at the Haeundae Yachting Centre, with thousands of screaming fans lining up to welcome South Korean heartthrobs such as Won Bin and Lee Yo-Won. Attention also focused on international stars Kim Yun-Jin, star of the hit TV series Lost, Japanese starlet Yu Aoi and Chinese star Tang Wei. A few hundred lucky fans were able to pick up tickets to the screening and they roared their approval when the event was officially opened with fireworks by its founder and outgoing festival director Kim Dong-Ho. From next year the festival will move to the US$133-million purpose-built Dureraum, or Busan Cinema Centre, and Kim took time to thank the fans who had made the festival "so special." "It is an event for the people and for the benefit of Asian cinema," he said. The opening ceremony began with a touching musical tribute to Kim, played to screen shots of the history of the festival. Outside the event, American-based star Kim said she had been dazzled by the attention and the spirit of the South Korean fans. "It's remarkable," she said as she waited to walk the red carpet. "It's just so exciting to be here and it looks like being a wonderful night." Acclaimed director Zhang, known both for blockbusters such as Hero and House Of Flying Daggers as well as being the man behind the opening ceremony at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, said he was honoured to have his film selected to open the event. "I have been to Busan before," the director said. "It is a wonderful festival that does a lot to introduce Asian films to fans. It is the largest and greatest festival in Asia and I am proud to be here. It is a great honour." Zhang's Not One Less was screened as the closing film at the festival's 1999 edition and the director revealed the attention it received had helped introduce his work to the world outside his homeland. "It is a festival that gives filmmakers opportunities," he said. Under The Hawthorn Tree, Zhang's touching drama following a love affair set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution and starring Shawn Dou and Zhou Dongyu, was the first of 308 films to be screen at the festival, 103 of them world premieres. Hollywood heavyweights Oliver Stone and Willem Dafoe were scheduled to arrive in town for the festival, along with Bollywood golden couple Aishwarya Rai and her husband Abhishek Bachchan, and French actress Juliette Binoche. The festival's main award, called New Currents, offers two first prizes of US$30,000 to first or second-time Asian directors. There are 13 films from across the region vying for the award, which will be announced on 15 October. The festival will close on that day with the screening of a project driven by festival director Kim as a tribute to Busan. Camellia tells three separate stories set in the city and directed by Thailand's Wisit Sasanatieng, Isao Yukisada of Japan and South Korea's Jang Jun-Hwan. (Relaxnews) |
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