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CBC | Film News
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TIFF hotel workers stage walkout
Hotel workers at the Hyatt Regency, the home of this year's Toronto International Film Festival, have started a one-day walkout.
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Atlantic Film Festival opens with Score
The Atlantic Film Festival will open with Score: A Hockey Musical, Michael McGowan's light-hearted romp through Canada's national sport.
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Panahi 'mentally imprisoned' as Iran blocks travel
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was released from prison in May after an outcry by filmmakers from around the world, is still not free to travel.
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Bollywood plans Jesus biopic
The life of Jesus, which has seen film adaptations by directors from Cecil B. DeMille to Mel Gibson, is now to get the Bollywood treatment.
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Lepage's Das Rheingold in Met's new HD season
New York's Metropolitan Opera plans to bring 12 of its operas to cinema screens in 2010-11, including a production of Das Rheingold by Canada's Robert Lepage.
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Hollywood's best actors for the buck
Earning $20 million US upfront for a movie is so 2007. These days studios are squeezing every cent they can out of actors, and that means many stars only earn the big bucks after the studio gets back its money.
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Gone With the Wind fans give for gowns
People from across North America have donated enough money to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin to restore dresses Vivian Leigh wore as Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 movie Gone With the Wind.
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Venice film festival to host novel films
The Venice Film Festival opens with its share of big-screen bound blockbuster potential, from Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, to Sofia Coppola's highly anticipated Somewhere and Ben Affleck's sophomore directorial effort, The Town.
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Icahn raises Lions Gate bid
Shares in Vancouver-based Lions Gate Entertainment reached a new high Tuesday after activist investor Carl Icahn raised his bid for the boutique film studio.
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Crocodile Dundee star 'can't afford' tax bill
Actor Paul Hogan, star of the Crocodile Dundee movie trilogy, said Tuesday he cannot afford to pay even 10 per cent of what the Australian Tax Office says he owes in back taxes.
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Cineplex puts bedbug claim to rest
Canadian theatre chain Cineplex has refuted a patron's claim of potential bedbug bites suffered at one of its downtown Toronto cinemas - a key screening venue for the city's upcoming film festival.
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Woo's Flying Tigers film to be Imax
Hong Kong film director John Woo plans to create an Imax action epic based on the story the Flying Tigers, a volunteer group of U.S. army and navy fliers who trained a Chinese flight squadron in the Second World War.
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French director Alain Corneau dies
Alain Corneau, a French filmmaker who had a huge hit in 1991 with Tous les matins du monde, has died. He was 67.
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Rossellini to lead Berlin film festival jury
Celebrated actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini will preside over the jury for the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival, set to unspool in February.
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John Cusack plays Poe in movie thriller
John Cusack is set to portray writer Edgar Allan Poe in a fictional movie called The Raven.
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