The Swiss Police and Justice Department called a news conference on the possible extradition to the U.S. of film director Roman Polanski. The news conference will be held at 2 p.m

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Swiss Announce News Conference Today in Bern About Polanski’s Extradition

The Transformers 3 news conference held Wednesday at the Office of Emergency Management and Communications wasn’t meant to stir up interest in the film, which will shoot in Chicago from July 10-Aug. 19, but to prepare the general public.

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Filming of Transformers 3′ to snarl downtown traffic

The 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival begins in the west Bohemian spa town next Friday. As an event, this years festival will no doubt be as big and colourful as ever. But the programme will be slightly smaller with only 180 films, around 30 fewer than usual.

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UK star Jude Law among special guests at 45th Karlovy Vary film festival

WASHINGTON, May 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Oliver Stone, the award-winning film director of movies including “JFK” and “Platoon,” will speak at a speaker’s news conference on June 23, 2010.

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Oliver Stone, Film Director, Will Speak at the National Press Club on June 23

French director Jean-Luc Godard didn’t attend the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of his latest, Film Socialisme, a typical Godardian cacaphony.

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Godard doesn’t turn up to explain latest film

Filed under: Hip-Hop News , Movies Beastie Boy Adam Yauch is most definitely coming back strong from a cancer hiatus. His film distribution company, Oscilloscope Laboratories , has just announced a new partnership with Specialty Films to develop and produce a documentary feature around a popular book called ‘Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of New Hollywood.’ Written by Mark …

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Adam Yauch’s Film House Preps ‘Pictures at a Revolution’

CANNES (France) – JENNIFER Hudson’s film biography of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is about to start production, despite threats of legal action by the ex-wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela, the film’s producer said Saturday.

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Winnie film on despite threats

SINGAPORE (AP) Columnists and bloggers are calling him Singapore’s Tiger Woods — not for his golfing skills but for an extramarital affair that has tarnished the image of the city-state’s most beloved film director. On Thursday, in a news conference reminiscent of Wood’s confession on live television last month, director Jack Neo, admitted to cheating on his wife, culminating a week of …

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Cheating film director called ‘Singapore’s Tiger Woods’ (The Japan Times)

Showing its tough line towards those who question its policies, China has jailed a Tibetan film-maker for six years for a documentary in which ordinary Tibetans praised the Dalai Lama.

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Tibetan film-maker Dhondup Wangchen jailed over pro-Dalai Lama documentary (Times Online)

New Delhi, Jan 7 : Noted filmmaker Mira Nair discussed her upcoming film ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ at a news conference here on Wednesday.

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Filmmaker Mira Nair talks about her new film, ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ (Calcutta News)