The Star Online: Entertainment: Movies
The Star Online: Entertainment: Movies |
- 'I'm not perfect': Arnie admits to multiple affairs
- Busan festival puts Asian film in spotlight
- 'Hotel Transylvania' checks in with top box office spot
| 'I'm not perfect': Arnie admits to multiple affairs Posted: 01 Oct 2012 12:41 AM PDT LOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted he had multiple affairs during his doomed 25-year marriage to Maria Shriver, but said fathering a child with their housekeeper was the "stupidest" thing he did. In a TV interview aired before his memoirs were published Monday, the former bodybuilder and Hollywood star told how Shriver confronted him about the child the day after he left office as California governor in January 2011. He also admitted he had a habit of living "in denial" and keeping secrets, including not telling Shriver that he was going to run for governor until days before he announced it, and trying to conceal having heart surgery from her. "That's the way I handle things. And it always has worked. But, I mean it does not - it's not the best thing for people around me because I sometimes - some information I just keep to myself," he told the CBS show "60 Minutes." "So I became an expert in living in denial," he said. Shriver filed for divorce in July last year citing "irreconcilable differences" with her husband, whom she met in 1977 and married in 1986, following him into the California governor's mansion in 2003. Schwarzenegger had admitted in May 2011 that he had fathered a child, called Joseph and born in 1997, with the family's long-time housekeeper, Mildred Baena, and announced the couple's separation. In the "60 Minutes" interview, he said he realized when Joseph was about seven or eight that the boy resembled him physically, and while not discussing it open, began giving her mother financial support for them. The housekeeper remained in their employment, and Joseph even played with the couple's children. But her suspicions grew and she finally confronted him the day after he left office, when they saw a marriage counselor. Shriver asked him point blank: "Hey, I think that Joseph is your kid," to which he replied: "You're absolutely correct." She filed for divorced a few weeks later. Baena was not the first time he had been unfaithful to Shriver, he acknowledged - in the book he writes about a "hot affair" with actress Brigitte Nielsen while filming the 1985 film Red Sonja. Pressed in the CBS interview about other infidelities, he admitted: "I had others. But that's something that's between Maria and me," adding that Shriver knew about his behavior. "I'm not perfect," he said. - AFP |
| Busan festival puts Asian film in spotlight Posted: 30 Sep 2012 08:45 PM PDT HONG KONG: Asia's largest film festival rolls out the red carpet in South Korea on Thursday, offering a window into the region's cinema landscape and a rare screening of a North Korean film. Organisers of the 17th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) have stressed the importance of the event in terms of promoting Asia's film industry, within which South Korea's booming domestic market is a current bright spot. Much attention is expected to be focused on North Korea's romantic comedy "Comrade Kim Goes Flying", with its filmmakers having been invited to the screening. It is the first time such an invitation has been extended to the North and Busan organisers say they are awaiting a reply. "We are proud to say that we have played our part in the cultural exchange between North and South Korea," festival director Lee Yong-kwan told AFP. Lee said one of the main aims of the event was to support and introduce to a wider audience lesser-known works and those of smaller production companies from across Asia. "The likeliness of these films being presented at other internationally prestigious film festivals is low," he said, highlighting the importance of the Busan festival. To that end, the 10-day event will close with the world premiere of Bangladeshi director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's humour-laced drama "Television". Farooki said the attention his film would attract after being screened at this year's festival would draw global attention to his country's nascent film industry. Last year's event welcomed more than 182,000 film fans. "I believe it will inspire a whole generation of younger filmmakers to believe in themselves and dream even bigger," the director told AFP. This year Busan will showcase a special sidebar devoted to Afghani films saved from the Taliban by the Afghanistan National Film Archive, while the Window on Asian Cinema section features 49 films from 11 countries across the region, including 13 world premieres. The festival, which has previously featured international stars and Academy Award winners including director Oliver Stone and French actress Juliette Binoche, will this year put Asian talent in the spotlight, with Chinese actresses Zhang Ziyi and Tang Wei making appearances. Forming the backdrop to a festival screening 304 movies from 75 countries is a domestic industry enjoying unprecedented box office returns in what has so far been a stellar year for Korean productions. The Korean Film Council recently announced around 120 million cinema tickets had been sold across the country by the end of August, a year-on-year rise of around 20 percent. Art-house maverick Kim Ki-duk became the first Korean to win the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice film festival with his tale of revenge "Pieta" earlier this month, and local films have topped box office charts. Among them is casino caper "The Thieves", the second most successful Korean film in history, with admissions of more than 12.5 million. A joint Korean and Chinese production directed by Choi Dong-Hun, it boasts Korean stars Lee Jung-jae and Jun Ji-hyun and will screen as part of the Open Cinema programme at BIFF. Festival organiser Lee said one of the main roles of the festival was to support and promote such collaborations within the Asian film industry through its market and film fund programmes. "This is where BIFF distinguishes itself from American film festivals or film markets where the focus is on worldwide cinema," he said. The main competition of the event - the New Currents Award for debut or second-time Asian filmmakers - offers two prizes of $30,000 and has this year attracted a field of 10 productions from eight countries, including Lebanon and Iraq. The winner will be announced on October 14, the last day of the event. This year's Asian Filmmaker of the Year award will go to the Japanese veteran Koji Wakamatsu, 72, who produced the controversial "In The Realm of the Senses" (1976) and has directed three films in the past 12 months. BIFF begins Thursday with the world premiere of the Hong Kong thriller "Cold War" starring Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Ka-fai. - AFP |
| 'Hotel Transylvania' checks in with top box office spot Posted: 30 Sep 2012 05:12 PM PDT LOS ANGELES: The animated monsters who become Dracula's guests in "Hotel Transylvania" scared up $43 million in their first weekend out, industry estimates showed Sunday. Another film in its premiere weekend, "Looper," a mob movie starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, trailed in second place with a $21.2 million debut. Cop drama "End of Watch" with Jake Gyllenhaal, was in the number three spot with $8 million for its second week in theaters. It was followed by Clint Eastwood's "Trouble with the Curve," about a baseball recruiter losing his sight, with $7.5 million. Fright flick "House at the End of the Street" brought in $7.2 million in the number five spot, while teen comedy-musical "Pitch Perfect" was sixth with $5.2 million. The 3D version of pioneering 2003 animated movie "Finding Nemo" was in the seventh spot with $4.1 million. In eighth was "Resident Evil: Retribution," cashing in $3 million. "The Master," about the rise of a religious leader in the United States in the 1950s, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, earned $2.75 million. Rounding out the top 10 was "Won't Back Down," about two mothers trying to improve a school, raking in $2.7 million.- AFP |
| You are subscribed to email updates from The Star Online: Entertainment: Movies To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
0 ulasan:
Catat Ulasan