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Cannes QED China’s Huayi Brothers Form Co-Production Partnership
CANNES, France – Chinese film studio Huayi Brothers has signed a strategic co-production and distribution agreement with QED International. The new partners will first work together on the release ...
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Cannes World War Z With Brad Pitt to Open Moscow Film Festival
Brad Pitt Introduces Marc Foster's Zombie Thriller 'World War Z' They also unveiled the first 10 competition titles, with the rest set to be announced later this month. The first members of the competition jury are writer and ...
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France enacts gay marriage into law - Sun 19 May 2013 PST
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Cannes 2013 fashion report Sonam Kapoor leads Vidya Balan trails
Midway into this year's Cannes film festival, we're taking fashion stock of our desi lovelies Vidya Balan and Sonam Kapoor. Vidya predictably played it safe and ethnic with a wardrobe exclusively designed by favourite couturier Sabyasachi. Did we say safe? After a classy pre-festival outfit of a maroon and black lehenga, Vidya took us by surprise in a regal black and white lehenga, ...
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Digital Cannes Meet the IMDb guy – Colin Needham
CANNES, France – Just like it has newspapers, magazines, and television, digital technology is poised to change the way people consume movies. The Netflix-ization of your favorite films means that more and more, you can stream what movies you want, when you want, straight to whatever device you want. The principals of several digital companies working to do this with independent and ...
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French spiderman scales highest outdoor elevator
Rock climber Jean-Michel Casanova from France scales the 172-meter tall metal elevator frame in Zhangjiajie, a scenic spot in Central China's Hunan province, May 18, 2013. Casanova scaled the structure in 68 minutes equipped with only hiking shoes and a waist pack containing climbing chalk. The structure is the highest outdoor sightseeing elevator in the world. ...
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France Must Take Deficit Cuts Seriously Bundesbank head
France has a special responsibility as a euro zone heavyweight to take deficit reduction rules seriously, even though its budget deficit is above target, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said in an interview published on ...
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Cannes U.K. Sales Banner Moviehouse Entertainment Shops Animation The Hero of Color City
U.K. based sales banner Moviehouse Entertainment is looking to draw up deal memos with foreign buyers for former studio animation division high ...
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Well always nab Paris
It Books When the "Bling Ring" - a group of high school kids who pulled off a stunning series of robberies from October 2008 to August 2009, stealing over $3 million worth of high-end clothes, jewelry, art, cash and more from celebrities - were deciding on their first celebrity victim, they quickly realized that it had to be Paris ...
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Sports Briefing | Soccer Paris St.-Germain Victory in Last Home Game for David Beckham
Zlatan Ibrahimovic stole some of the spotlight from David Beckham, scoring two goals to lead the French champion Paris St.-Germain to a 3-1 home win against Brest. Beckham, who announced Thursday that he would retire at the end of the season, was given a standing ovation as he left the field in the 81st ...
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Federer to fight against Nadal in Rome final
Second seed Roger Federer beat French upstart Benoit Paire in straight sets on Saturday to set up a tantalizing clash with fifth seed Rafael Nadal.Federer staved off a fierec challenge from Paire 7-6 (5), 6-4, and in the earlier semifinals, six-time Rome champion Nadal defeated sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych 6-2, 6-4.This will be Nadal's eighth consecutive final since his return from an injury ...
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France must take deficit cuts seriously Bundesbank chief
France has a special responsibility as a euro zone heavyweight to take deficit reduction rules seriously, even though its budget deficit is above ...
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Sacre bleu French in uproar over plan for courses in English
So when Higher Education Minister Genevieve Fioraso last week introduced a bill that would let French colleges teach more courses in English, even when English is not the subject, the idea sparked ...
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Cannes Weinsteins Radius Nabs Blue Ruin
Cannes: 'Only God Forgives' Director Nicolas Winding Refn on Making 'Films Like a Pornographer' (Q&A) The film centers on a man who receives upsetting news and returns to his childhood home to seek revenge. He soon finds himself in a fight to protect his estranged ...
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Rain doesnt ruin red carpet at first weekend of Cannes
Regulars claim rain at Cannes used be rare, but the continual downpours are not stopping the stars from gracing the red carpet. Making an appearance on Saturday night was Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, who is actually in France promoting Catching Fire, the second Hunger Games film. Old-school Hollywood glamour came from Jane Fonda and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was the heavy-metal ...
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Hunger Games sequel’s Cannes promotion gets rained out
From left to right: Hunger Games actors Liam Hemsworth, Sam Claflin and Jennifer Lawrence, and director Francis Lawrence in Cannes for the 66th Cannes Film Festival, May 18, 2013. (Yves ...
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Dockers injury woes part of AFL Lyon
Fremantle's injury woes worsened in Saturday night's AFL draw against Sydney, with Michael Walters unable to finish the game due to an ankle injury. Walters, the Dockers' leading goal-kicker this season with 19, was assisted from the field in the third quarter and played no further part in the match. Scans will confirm the full extent of the damage, but coach Ross Lyon said he ...
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Cannes THR and Jimmy Choo Honor Fan Bingbing at Martinez Fete
's first ever International Artist of the Year award. The event, originally planned for the Mouton Cadet Wine Bar atop the Palais des Festivals, was moved indoors due to the heavy rain that plagued Cannes all of ...
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Soccer star David Beckham earns assist in likely final game
David Beckham assisted on a goal Saturday in what was likely the final game of his career, a 3-1 win by Paris Saint-Germain over Brest. Beckham, who was given the captain's arm band prior to the contest, set up a Paris Saint-Germain score in the 31st minute with an accurate pass to Blaise Matuidi, who fired it into the back of the net. The former England captain helped PSG claim the Ligue ...
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Catching Fire dampened but not drowned at Cannes
From left, actors Liam Hemsworth, Jennifer Lawrence and Sam Claflin pose for photographers during a photo call for the film The Hunger Game: Catching Fire at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (Photo by Todd ...
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France signs gay-marriage act into law
The rush toward France’s first same-sex marriage officially began Saturday morning, after President François Hollande signed the country’s "marriage for all" act into ...
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Tomic ready to go for French Open
France Australian tennis coach Josh Eagle is confident the lure of grand slam tennis will ensure Bernard Tomic casts aside recent drama and fronts up at the French Open.Tomic's participation at Roland Garros remains in some doubt after his father and coach John Tomic indicated at a Madrid court last week he was unlikely to compete.Australia's top-ranked man has not played a match ...
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David Beckham walks off pitch in tears after last home game for Paris Saint-Germain
Paris Saint Germain's midfielder David Beckham's wife Victoria Beckham and her daughter Harper, arrive to attend the French League One soccer match between PSG and Brest, at the Parc des Princes stadium, in Paris, Saturday, May 18, 2013. Paris Saint-Germain hopes to strike a deal with David Beckham in the next two weeks in which the former England captain will work with the French club ...
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France legalises same-sex marriages
PROTESTING: People hold placards during a sit-in protest called by Act Up gay organisation in front of a 'Wall of homophobs' displaying portraits of national and international public personalities stamped by the organisation as homophobic in Paris. -- AFP photo PARIS: France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage yesterday after President Francois Hollande signed the ...
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Hilda Koronel Lino Brocka take Cannes by storm once again
Hilda Koronel is reunited with Pierre Rissient, the Frenchman who brought ';Insiang'; to Cannes in 1978. Photo courtesy of Tikoy Aguiluz CANNES--If Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" had Kim Novak, Lino Brocka's "Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag" had Hilda Koronel. Both vintage films are featured in the world's biggest festival, specifically in the Cannes ...
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Paris has one of the largest and most emulated bike-sharing systems in the world
Paris is becoming ever more eco-friendly with bike-sharing becoming the major fad of daily commuters and public transport users. The system is so popular, major expansion plans have been announced.
Paris is already home to the largest bicycle-sharing system in the world, but the corporation set up to manage the city’s most eco-friendly form of public transport, Velib, has extensive expansion plans for the network, which is also one of the most copied in the world. Read more
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