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GST to affect film industry badly

Edit The Times of India 21 Sep 2016
The South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce (SIFCC) will make a representation to the Union finance ministry on how GST would adversely affect the film industry. The film chamber has taken the opinion of tax consultants on the issue and will present the same before the Union finance ministry soon. "As it is, the film industry is not doing well, and the GST will deal a deadly blow to it....

Curtis Hanson, ‘8 Mile’ Director, Dies at 71

Edit The Wrap 21 Sep 2016
A producer and screenwriter as well as a director, Hanson won an Oscar in 1997 for Best Adapted Screenplay for the neo-noir crime film “L.A ... Hanson’s other films included 1992’s “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” and the 2000 film “Wonder Boys.” ... “Cinema” before turning to film, co-writing the H.P....

Rs 21 lakh award for new Kolkata film fest category

Edit The Times of India 21 Sep 2016
The Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), which will be held between November 11 and 18 this year, has instituted a new award ... The best film in this section will get a prize money worth Rs 21 lakh ... According to rules, the cash prize will be shared equally between the film's director and producer ... Apart from films from the US, Mexico, France, ......

Curtis Hanson dies; ‘L.A. Confidential’ thrust him to forefont of US directors

Edit The Miami Herald 21 Sep 2016
Curtis Hanson, the director and Oscar-winning screenwriter whose eclectic body of work included the film noir “L.A ... Director Michael Apted reportedly completed the final 15 days of principal photography on the film, which was released in October 2012 ... Confidential” was the film that thrust Hanson into the forefront of American filmmakers in 1997 ... As Hanson put it, the magazine “was my film school.”....

‘The Magnificent Seven’ Could Be The Next Box Office Bomb

Edit Inquisitr 21 Sep 2016
The Magnificent Seven is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name, which is itself an Americanized version of Akiro Kurosawa’s iconic 1954 film Seven Samurai ... Toronto film fest opens with the remake of Magnificent Seven https.//t.co/Mmx2Y2YV85 pic.twitter.com/w0AQP13nlh ... While a $35 million opening is a respectable amount, especially for a low-budget film, Seven needs to do a lot more than win the box office....

David Oyelowo hails Disney for Uganda-set Queen Of Katwe

Edit Belfast Telegraph 21 Sep 2016
David Oyelowo has admitted he was surprised Disney decided to set his latest film in the slums of Uganda ... At the film's premiere in Los Angeles, Oyelowo said it was rare to see a "positive, life-affirming story" from Africa on the big screen and the movie was a "love letter" to his daughter Zoe ... "The last film I did in Uganda was The Last King Of Scotland, a very different kind of film....

Who does Shahid Kapoor consider as his BIGGEST critic? Find out here!

Edit Bollywood Life 21 Sep 2016
Shahid adds, “People think my dad and my sister are my biggest critics, but they are rather cool and chilled-out about the films I do. They don’t critique me.” Ask him to name the last film of his that Ishaan didn’t like, he says, “He has not liked me in many of my films and some of them are ones where I also feel I was bad ... And that in return has now become a major hindrance in beginning the shoot of the film....

Absolute Beginners

Edit Skiddle 21 Sep 2016
Scalarama, HEART and Film Fringe celebrate the 30th Anniversary of this forgotten 80s cult classic starring the late pop icon David Bowie ... As part of the Scalarama annual September celeberation of cinema we are screening the cult Bowie film Absolute Beginners at Heart, Headingley (we are also showing the Nick Cave docudrama '20,000 Days on Earth' on 2nd September)....

Oscar-winning writer and director Curtis Hanson dies aged 71

Edit ITV 21 Sep 2016
Born in Reno, Nevada, Hanson grew up in Los Angeles, dropping out of high school to work as a photographer, writer and editor of the magazine Cinema, which he described as "in a sense, my film school" ... The film starring ......

Toronto Film Festival: All Hail the Female Filmmakers Who Splash Us in Blood

Edit Houston Press 21 Sep 2016
The film was dismissed before it was later embraced by women as a manifesto on misogyny and the female gaze. But what’s most surprising about Harron's movie — in which prostitutes are dismembered willy-nilly like a slicked-up Frankenhooker — is that it’s one of the few big films to break through and showcase the wicked-dark sense of humor of female screenwriters ... Get the Film & TV Newsletter....

“I’m not interested,” says Radhika Apte when quizzed about her leaked sex scene from Parched! – watch video

Edit Bollywood Life 21 Sep 2016
However, because of the content of bold scenes in the films she takes up, that becomes talk of the town ... In the film, basically, Radhika has a lovemaking scene with Adil Hussain, which is the kind that Censor Board may never pass. But no, that’s not the big issue, the film being called a porno and being sold likewise is what’s the big issue ... People who want to watch the film will go and watch the film....

Bridget Jones courts legal history

Edit Belfast Telegraph 21 Sep 2016
Makers of the latest Bridget Jones film have created legal history by using the UK Supreme Court as a location ... "A film crew spent one weekend in the building, avoiding any ......

Watching sad films boosts endorphin levels in your brain, psychologists say

Edit The Guardian 21 Sep 2016
Traumatic films may boost pain tolerance and feelings of group bonding by increasing levels of feel-good chemicals produced by the brain, study reveals ... Tyrannosaur, Breaking the Waves and Schindler’s List might make you reach for the tissues, but psychologists say they have found a reason why traumatic films are so appealing ... produced in the brain....
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