Art & Culture
Academy Elects Four First-Time Governors, Returns Seven Incumbents
Cinematographer Richard P. Crudo, producer Gale Anne Hurd, composer David Newman and film editor Michael Tronick make up this year’s first-time electees to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors. In addition, seven incumbents were reelected and three other motion picture professionals will return to the Board after a time away.
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'Bob And The Monster': The Curious Question Of What You Leave Out
While most of Bob And The Monster is a straightforward documentary, it employs a couple of stop-motion animation sequences.
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'Being Elmo': Covering Raw Talent With Bright Red Fur
Elmo and Kevin Clash, photographed on the Sesame Street set in 2006.
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China Invests In Filmmaking, For Image And Profit
Director Feng Xiaogang, whose 2010 film Aftershock is China's highest-grossing Chinese-made film of all time, arrives at the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival. At left is his wife Xu Fan, who starred in Aftershock.
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UN to help West African musicians get paid for their creativity
The United Nations intellectual property agency today announced a project to help musical artists in 11 West African countries to get paid for their work through a single, standardized registration system.
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Feature Film 'The Hunger Games' Begins Filming in North Carolina, Extras Casting Notices are Ongoing
Hollywood's most beautiful actress Elizabeth Banks plays District 12 chaperone Effie Trinket.
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World's Richest Man Opens Flashy Museum In Mexico
The Soumaya Museum in Mexico City was designed by Carlos Slim's son-in-law and houses Slim's collection of more than 65,000 pieces. It is dominated by works from European and Mexican artists.
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International Action Movie ‘Amsterdam Heavy’ Casts the Red Light on the Croisette
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Actress Julia Roberts Joins Alliance for Clean Cookstoves as Global Ambassador
Academy Award winning actor Julia Roberts will join the Alliance for Clean Cookstoves as “Global Ambassador,” and together with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will help to bring attention to the global issue that kills nearly 2 million people annually: toxic smoke from unsafe and inefficient cookstoves.
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