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| ‘My Week with Marilyn’ starring Michelle Williams Posted: 06 Oct 2011 08:38 AM PDT
Based on the memoir The Prince, the Showgirl and Me, written by Laurence Olivier's assistant Colin Clark, the film takes places during the 1956 production of The Prince and the Showgirl in England. The footage reveals a week originally missing from Clark's diary, when the assistant showed Monroe an idyllic time away from the tensions on the set between the actress and Olivier, played by Kenneth Branagh (Valkyrie), and the pressures of her Hollywood persona. After Monroe's husband, playwright Arthur Miller, leaves England, she has a fling with the young Clark, played by Eddie Redmayne (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), who falls for the sex symbol. The film screens at the New York Film Festival this weekend and releases on November 4 in North America, November 18 in the UK, Denmark and Sweden in November and other markets in early 2012. Trailer: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810178830/video/26836089 – AFP |
| Red carpet rolls at new Busan film festival home Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:36 AM PDT  (L to R) Director Song Il-Gon,actress Han Hyo-Joo and actor So Ji-Sub attend a photocall for 'Always', the opening film of the 16th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), during the press conference at the Busan Cinema Center on October 6, 2011 in Busan, South Korea. – AFP pic "Today is a day of great meaning and significance," said Korean director Song Il-gon, whose romance "Always" was chosen to open the 16th edition of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). "Busan has long played an important role in Korean cinema and in Asian cinema and it now has a building of significance that reflects that role. This is a landmark for cinema." Scaffolding was coming down at the new Busan Film Center, a complex covering 30,000 square metres and including a 4,000-seater outdoor theatre, just hours before the stars were due to arrive. Around 150 faithful film fans had camped out overnight in an effort to ensure prime star-gazing positions for the big event and they were to be joined by more than 4,000 official guests for the evening festivities. Among those expected to grace the red carpet were Korean idols Song Hye-kyo and Ahn Sung-ki, alongside Taiwanese heart-throb Takeshi Kaneshiro and China's Tang Wei, here to promote the Peter Chan-directed blockbuster "Wu Xia". International A-listers include veteran French actress Isabelle Huppert, French director Luc Besson and Malaysia's Michelle Yeoh, star of Bessons latest film, "The Lady", on the life of Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi. They will be joined by one of Hollywoods rising stars, Logan Lerman, promoting the 3D feature "The Three Musketeers". Chinese director/producer Tsui Hark is also in town to collect the Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award for a career spanning three decades that has included credits on the likes of the gangster classic "A Better Tomorrow" and the ground-breaking fantasy "Zu Warriors". Song, whose opening film "Always" is a romance between an out-of-luck boxer (So Ji-sub) and a young woman who is going blind (Han Hyo-joo), said he was "honoured and thrilled" to play his part at the new venue. Festival director Lee Yong-kwan said he was happy that South Korea and the world could see what his team had been working on for the past three years. "Our new centre is a place for films and a place for people," he said. "We are confident it will serve more than the festival but become the home of cinema in Asia." BIFF has lined up 307 films to be screened over nine days, with 135 either world or international premieres, meaning they are screening outside their home nations for the first time. The Busan festivals major award, New Currents, offers two US$30,000 (RM95,385) prizes for first or second time Asian filmmakers and has attracted a final field of 13 productions, representing 11 countries. The diverse range of finalists includes a Sri Lanka production that looks at life in a drought-plagued village ("August Drizzle") and a Chinese drama set against the backdrop of the search for missing rock climbers ("Lost in the Mountain"). The New Currents jury is headed by the Taiwanese-born filmmaker Yonfan ("Peony Pavilion"), whose work is also the focus of a retrospective at the festival. BIFF has this year raised the prize money for its secondary Flash Forward award for first or second time European filmmakers to US$30,000 from US$20,000 in an effort to boost ties between Asian and European film-making communities. A jury headed by Australian director Gillian Armstrong will judge the 10 contestants. Europe is extensively represented at this year's festival, with 80 films screening and a large delegation of filmmakers expected for the Asian Film Market, the trade-led sideshow to the festival from October 10 to 13. The festival proper continues until October 14, when the winners of the New Currents and Flash Forward awards will be announced. Last year's edition of the festival attracted 200,000 people – a record for the event. – AFP |
LOS ANGELES, Oct 6 – The first trailer for My Week with Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine, Brokeback Mountain) as Marilyn Monroe, was released on October 5.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Showbiz To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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