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- Bertolucci to lead Venice film festival jury
- 'Jurassic Park 4' movie put on hold
- 'Stepford Wives' director Bryan Forbes dies aged 86
| Bertolucci to lead Venice film festival jury Posted: 09 May 2013 03:41 AM PDT ROME: Oscar-winning Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci will lead this year's Venice film festival jury, organisers said on Thursday, defining the filmmaker as "one of the most influential in cinema history". Bertolucci, 72, the author of "The Conformist", "Last Tango in Paris" and "The Last Emperor" among many others, will decide on the Golden Lion prize at the festival which begins on August 28. "Few directors can bring together like Bertolucci a long experience with the fact of living in the present of cinematography," festival director Alberto Barbera said in a statement. Bertolucci, who previously headed the jury in 1983, accepted the post, saying the festival "manages to probe the most mysterious cinematographic niches of the most mysterious countries in the world". Bertolucci started out working with Pier Paolo Pasolini on "Accattone" (1961) and his latest film "Me and You" came out in 2012. "The Last Emperor" in 1987 won nine Oscars and was the first and only Italian film to receive a golden statue for best director.-AFP |
| 'Jurassic Park 4' movie put on hold Posted: 09 May 2013 01:10 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The anticipated June 2014 release of the fourth installment of Jurassic Park, one of the highest-grossing film franchises, has been put on hold, Universal Pictures said on Wednesday. The decision was made to give "the studio and filmmakers adequate time to bring audiences the best possible version" of Jurassic Park 4, the studio said in a statement. The film was slated to be released in theatres on June 13, 2014. Universal has yet to announce a new date for the release. The three Jurassic Park films generated US$1.9 billion in worldwide ticket sales between 1993 and 2001, according to the movie website Box Office Mojo. Steven Spielberg directed the first two and will be taking on the executive producer role for the fourth film, while newcomer Colin Trevorrow will direct. No announcement has been made on casting or on whether franchise stars Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough will return. The first film, released in 1993, captured audiences with its story of a theme park of cloned dinosaurs and generated US$967 million in worldwide ticket sales, according Box Office Mojo, ranking 16th among best-selling films in the United States. It has generated US$400.9 million in domestic sales to date, including $42.5 million from its limited theatrical re-release in 3D in April. |
| 'Stepford Wives' director Bryan Forbes dies aged 86 Posted: 08 May 2013 05:18 PM PDT LONDON: British film director Bryan Forbes, who made the 1970s sci-fi horror classic "The Stepford Wives", has died aged 86, a family friend said on Wednesday. Forbes passed away at his home in Surrey, southern England, "following a long illness" and was surrounded by his family, including the actress Nanette Newman, according to his friend, the journalist Matthew D'Ancona. "Bryan Forbes was a titan of cinema, known and loved by people around the world in the film and theatre industries and known in other fields including politics," D'Ancona said in a statement. "He is simply irreplaceable and it is wholly apt that he died surrounded by his family." "The Stepford Wives" (1975) based on a novella by Ira Levin, tells the story of a woman who moves to a conservative American town only to find out that the bland, submissive women who live there are actually robots. Forbes also directed "Whistle Down the Wind" (1961), about three English farm children who discover a fugitive living in their barn and believe he is Jesus. - AFP |
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