Arclight, Huace Group launch Aurora Alliance Films

Gary Hamilton has struck a partnership with president Zhao Yifang of China’s Huace Group to collaborate on a slate of at least three high-concept features a year.

Huace and Aurora Alliance, a new venture created through the partnership, will jointly produce the slate of Chinese, US and Australian co-productions, while Arclight will handle sales outside China.

The parties claim to have secured “top-tier Hollywood directors” to each project and are in final talks with James McTeigue to direct what they say will be one of the most expensive Chinese co-productions ever, which is being developed with Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk.

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Justin Bieber Leaves Club With Lipstick On Cheek: Who Kissed Him After VMAs?

Justin Bieber has some explaining to do. Following his incredible VMAs performance, the Biebs was spotted leaving an afterparty with a mysterious red smooch mark on his cheek! Umm, where did that come from?

Justin Bieber, 21, made quite the comeback at the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 30, and it appeared as he did some hot praising a short time later. The “What Do You Mean?” vocalist was caught in the act with a splendid red lipstick kiss mark on his face as he was leaving Hooray Henry’s Nightclub in West Hollywood! The best part is, he completely appeared to possess it.

What does this mean, Justin? We’re humming with inquiries seeing this immense lipstick mark to his left side cheek! Justin left the club confidently wearing all dark and concealing piece of his face with a skateboard — yet one thing he wasn’t hiding was that exceptionally obvious kiss mark on his face!

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To begin with Black Actor to Play Les Miserables’ Valjean Dies at 21

THE ENTIRE LES MISERABLES FAMILY IS SHOCKED AND DEVASTATED BY THE SUDDEN AND TRAGIC LOSS OF KYLE, A REMARKABLE YOUNG TALENT AND TREMENDOUS PERSON WHO MADE MAGIC – AND HISTORY – IN HIS BROADWAY DEBUT,” THE SHOW SAID IN A STATEMENT

Actor Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first dark man and most youthful to play Jean Valjean in Broadway’s Les Miserables, died in New York, the production and neighborhood reports said.The 21-year-old made his Broadway debut toward the end of July in the wake of being an understudy as the hero of the long-running show. 

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Hugh Jackman’s Daughter Finds Him ‘Boring’

“SHE WALKS STRAIGHT UP ON STAGE AND I SAID, ‘Everybody THIS IS AVA’. I SAID ‘IS EVERYTHING ALRIGHT, DO YOU WANT SOMETHING, YOU HUNGRY?’ SHE SAID, ‘NO IT’S A BIT BORING’. SHE THEN SAID, ‘Would We be able to GO BACKSTAGE AND HANG IN YOUR DRESSING ROOM?’. Everybody IS LAUGHING AND I SAY ‘No doubt SURE’,”

Wolverine star Hugh Jackman’s little girl freely marked him as “boring”. The performer was performing on New York’s Broadway when 10-year-old Ava, who was in the audience with a companion, put her hand up while individuals were acclaiming, inciting him to shout to check on the off chance that she was alright, just for him to likely lament welcoming her dramatic, reported Female First.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Dead? No, he is not!

Claim: Actor (and former California governor) Arnold Schwarzenegger passed away from a heart attack in August 2015.

STATUS OF THE RUMOUR: FALSE

msmbc.com is reporting actor that Arnold Schwarzenegger has also passed away.

Origins: On 28 August 2015, a web site using the domain MSMBC.co (unrelated to the legitimate MSNBC news outlet, which can be found at MSNBC.com), published an article reporting that actor Arnold Schwarzenegger (who also served as governor of California from 2003-2011) had passed away from a heart attack at age 68:

Arnold Schwarzenegger was found dead at his Las Angeles [sic], California home. Schwarzenegger was 68 years old.

Police responded to the L.A. home after receiving a 911 emergency call for a “unresponsive male”. Upon entering the residence, police found Schwarzenegger’s deceased body in his bed.

“We found Mr. Schwarzenegger in his bedroom deceased around 9:30 pm on Wednesday,” said Las Angeles Police Chief James J. Freda [sic] in a brief statement to Local 4 CBS News [sic]. “We found no reason to believe foul play was a factor in his death but intent [sic] to perform a full investigation.”

There is no truth to the above-quoted story. This rumor originated with a fake news web site that uses the domain MSMBC.co in order to trick readers into believing that they are reading reports from the MSNBC.com news organization.

While MSMBC.co does not contain a readily available disclaimer, the web site’s pitch for new writers does shed some light about the quality of the web site’s content:

No experience needed! If you have internet access and the ability to type then you are qualified.

Best of all — we will pay you if it’s good. You talk directly to the editors — no form letter rejections.

Your work could be seen by millions of people.

We are looking for highly unqualified individuals (qualified people are welcome too) familiar with writing, photoshop, infographics, videos, and apps. Take your pick!

In addition to the fact that the the only requirement needed to write for MSMBC.co is the ability to type, the search box for the web site promises users that “bullcrap” is only a click away.

MSMBC.co is also responsible for a similar death hoax involving country music singer Willie Nelson.

Christopher Nolan, Tacita Dean to launch new LFF industry series

Nolan to debate future of film as part of a new series of talks on the industry side of the BFI London Film Festival.

The 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has unveiled a new series of industry talks under the banner LFF Connects, which will aim to explore the future of film and how the medium engages with other creative industries including TV, music, art, games and creative technology. 

Interstellar director Christopher Nolan and artist Tacita Dean, whose exhibitions include the grand-scale FILM at the Tate Modern, will launch the new series on Oct 9 at London’s BFI Southbank with a conversation that “reframes the future of film”.

The conversation, moderated by BFI creative director Heather Stewart, will see Nolan and Dean explore the importance of seeing films projected on film as part of our cultural experience, as well as the necessity of determining new archival and exhibition standards that secure film’s future. 

Nolan, the British director behind The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception, has led the vanguard for filmmakers wanting to work with film. US directors Judd Apatow, Bennett Miller and JJ Abrams joined him last year in making the case for film, which contributed to Kodak committing to continue to make and provide negative, intermediate and archival film.

They will also be joined in the discussion by Alexander Horwath, director of the Austrian Film Museum who has written and spoken extensively about the importance of showing film as film and preservation.

Irrfan Khan: Cannot Survive in Hollywood Without Agent

"In Hollywood, you cannot survive without an Agent. There is no system where you just pick up the phone and greet them (FILMMAKERS). No, You have to goThrough an agent," IRRFAN said.

                                         Irrfan says one can't work unless one is a piece of the framework

Piku performing artist Irrfan Khan is one of only a handful few Hindi film on-screen characters who have possessed the capacity to land parts in Hollywood. He says operators 'facilitate the procedure of survival' in the West, yet it doesn't imply that life gets changed by simply having a specialists 

Irrfan, who will be found in Inferno, said here, "In Hollywood, you can't get by without an operators. There is no framework where you simply get the telephone and welcome them (movie producers). No, you need to experience a specialists. You must be a piece of the framework, else you can't work." 

The on-screen character additionally focused, "There is a misguided judgment that on the off chance that you get a specialists, your entire life will be changed. It is totally false. An operators can't make work for you. He is only a middle person. In the event that there is work, he brings it for you," included the on-screen character." 

He said he could call his own specialists, "I never said that he doesn't get any work yet takes cash. He takes cash just when he gets work." 

The Slumdog Millionaire performing artist, who has likewise highlighted in movies like Life of Pi, The Amazing Spider-Man and Jurassic World, was talking at the trailer dispatch of Meghna Gulzar's Talvar.

Seattle "Up" house Movie in works

                       Pixar has denied that Up, discharged in 2009 and underway by 2004, was motivated by the tale of the house.

"Annie" executive Will Gluck is set to co-produce the account of the renowned Seattle house which brought on a media sensation because of its likenesses to Pixar's 2009 energized film "Up". At the focal point of the film will be the house's proprietor Edith Macefield, who held out against engineers and lived there, while a shopping center was constructed around it. Fox Searchlight, the honorable motion picture arm of Fox, has gotten the untitled undertaking, said The Hollywood Reporter. Gluck, is ready to create the show alongside Jodi Hildebrand, his accomplice at Olive Bridge Entertainment. Gluck is not attached to direct at this stage.

 The little farmhouse remained in Seattle superbly fine for around 100 years as the city developed around it, until in 2006 when a major business advancement infringed on it, purchasing every one of the homes in the area with the exception of the one holdout. The property holder held fast and turned down a reported offer of USD 1 million from engineers, turning into a neighborhood saint.

Amazingly, Macefield struck up a profound kinship with the administrator of the five-story development venture, Martin, who might look in on the old woman day by day, even as the shopping center was gradually manufactured around her home. At the point when Macefield passed on in 2008, she willed the house to Martin, the man regulating the building venture that was attempting to show her out. The component venture, planned to be a comedic show, will recount the tale of Macefield and her far-fetched association with Martin, how each changed the other's life, and how carrying on with an existence with respect is a fundamental human need. 

The building got to be known as the Up house because of visual similitudes and in addition likenesses in the middle of Macefield and Carl Fredricksen, the elderly character from the motion picture, who declined to move as "advancement" came in. Be that as it may, while fans attached inflatables to the house, mirroring the film, Pixar has denied that Up, discharged in 2009 and in progress by 2004, was enlivened by the account of the house.

Amol Palekar Will Head Jury to Select India's Entry for Oscars 2016

Amol Palekar was last seen in the Marathi film Samantar with Sharmila Tagore. 

A NATIONAL AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR, MR PALEKAR IS FAMOUS FOR PORTRAYING THE COMMON MAN HERO IN '70S FILMS SUCH AS RAJNIGANDHA, EK CHHOTI SI BAAT, CHITCHOR AND GOLMAAL.

Performing artist chief Amol Palekar has been selected the administrator of a jury to pick the nation's official section for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscar honors one year from now, Film Federation of India secretary Suparn Sen said.

An elated Mr Palekar said the procedure of selecting the film to speak to India at Oscars 2016 was yet to start.

"I am glad that I have been selected as the administrator of India's Oscar jury. We haven't settled on any criteria for selecting a film for Oscars. I will have a meeting first with our regarded individuals and work out the choice criteria," he expressed.

A National Award-winning executive, Mr Palekar is acclaimed for depicting the basic man legend in '70s movies, for example, Rajnigandha, Ek Chhoti Si Baat, Chitchor and Golmaal.

Presently 70, Amol Palekar is a regarded producer and dynamic in Marathi silver screen. A few years prior, his film Paheli, featuring Shah Rukh Khan, was picked as India's official Oscar accommodation.

Additionally on the jury is on-screen character and BJP part Naresh Kanodia, a conspicuous name from Gujarati stage and silver screen.

A year ago, India sent Liar's Dice to the Oscars however in the event that neglected to make it to the last five. The Indian movies that have so far been designated for the Foreign Film Oscar incorporate Mother India, Salaam! Bombay and Lagaan.

Movies Without Borders heads to Slum Film Festival

Movies Without Borders' most recent creation Tales From The Slums will screen for the current week at Nairobi, Kenya's fifth-yearly Slum Film Festival (Aug 24-29). 

The celebration, which this year has the topic of Reels of Hope, portrays itself as "the first ever film stage highlighting stories from ghettos, about ghetto substances and made by movie producers from the ghettos in Africa – and past. It is a festival of the innovativeness of movie producers living and working in ghettos." 

Movies Without Borders has as of late completed a workshop making short movies with youngsters from Nairobi's ghettos of Kibera and Mathare, taking a gander at adolescents turning their lives around furthermore praising the example of overcoming adversity of rapper Octopizzo. 

"We feel favored to have worked with the super keen youngsters of Kibera and Mathare," says Films Without Borders author Jill Samuels. 

"They went up against us an excursion through the ghettos and thusly permitted us into their to some degree troublesome lives they generally had a radiance in their eye and a grin on their countenances. 

"Every single one of our members conveyed something other than what's expected to the table and it is clear they can't change what has happened in the past however with their quality and strength and determination and uplifting viewpoint they may well be the era who can make change for what's to come." 

Movies Without Borders lives up to expectations with youngsters in testing groups, preparing them in film generation. Already the philanthropy has worked with youngsters from South Africa, Israel, Rwanda and Palestine. 

The UK-based philanthropy is additionally in chats with a main African TV organization to offer vocation chances to its members. 

The work in Kenya was done in relationship with the Sandy Vohra Foundation and with backing by Sarova Hotels and Swiss International Airlines. 

The Slum Film Festival is a joint task facilitated by Slum-TV and The Hot Sun Foundation, and upheld by World Friends, the Royal African Society, and the Embassy of Spain (Kenya), and the Alliance Françai.

New Europe Film Sales gets Mark Cousins' 'I Am Belfast'

Jan Naszewski's Warsaw-based deals outlet New Europe Film Sales has grabbed world deals rights to Mark Cousins' narrative, I Am Belfast. 

In the film, the Northern Ireland city is represented by a 10,000 year old lady who uncovers its story. Topics raised in the film range from the scenes encompassing the city, its changing building design and social structure to the political and individual repercussions of the Northern Irish clash. 

The component, with a score by author David Holmes (Ocean's Eleven), got its reality debut as the opening element of the Belfast Film Festival in April and played in the narrative rivalry of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July. 

Cousins past documentaries incorporate A Story of Children and Film (2013), The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) and The First Movie (2009). 

I Am Belfast is a co-creation between Hopscotch Films and Canderblinks Films. It was financed by the BFI (executive maker Lizzie Francke), Creative Scotland (executive maker Leslie Findlay), Northern Ireland Screen (head of generation Andrew Reid) and Hopscotch Films. 

The cinematography was taken care of by Christopher Doyle, who took a shot at combative technique epic Hero and Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love and 2046. 

The business arrangement was arranged by makers John Archer and Chris Martin and New Europe's CEO Jan Naszewski, who depicted the film as "a radiant survey experience". 

"It's an intriguing, mindful adventure, joined by Christopher Doyle's brilliant pictures," Naszewski included. 

Makers Archer and Martin said: "This one of a kind depiction of a notorious city is one that pushes limits of filmmaking, an enchantment realist piece that is as interesting an investigation of a city an individuals and a society after some time that you are ever liable to see."

Andreas Ohman to direct US remake of 'Simple Simon' with 'Breaking Bad' producer

Andreas Ohman, the Swedish writer/director of 2010 Oscar-shortlisted drama Simple Simon, is attached to direct a US remake of the film.

A US writer is now being confirmed for the project, and Ohman will travel to Los Angeles this autumn to start collaborating on the film, which is expected to shoot in 2016.

The original comedy, Simple Simon, is about an 18-year-old with Asperger’s syndrome who tries to play matchmaker for his brother.

“I’m very confident with the story and feel like I’ve personally developed so much since I was 24 (and shot the first film),” said Ohman.

“It’s similar, but it’s a new take. Doing it in another language also helps to make it different… it also feels like my next step should be an international movie.”

Ohman told journalists at Goteborg’s Way Out West festival (Aug 13-15), where he screened a preview of his new feature, Eternal Summer (Odödliga). SF will release the film in Sweden today.

The story follows two young people in Stockholm, Isak (Filip Berg) and Em (Madeleine Martin), who meet, start to fall in love, and go on an impulsive road trip through northern Sweden. When the trip turns sour, they must make tough decisions about their future.

Speaking about the genesis of Eternal Summer, Ohman said: “A very close friend of mine passed away and for a few months I didn’t write anything. I didn’t see the purpose of doing anything.

“I needed to do something he would have liked. It’s not about him, but it’s an energy that reminded me of him.”

He added: “It’s inspired by American road movies like Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands, and True Romance. It’s been a while since we did a road movie in Sweden.”

Ohman said both his young lead actors are destined for stardom and described Berg as “the new Joel Kinnaman. He’s handsome, but vulnerable and also extremely funny”.

The film, which Ohman wanted to make as a more DIY project rather than waiting for Swedish Film Institute backing, is produced by Johannes Hobohm & Bonnie Skoog Feeney. SF and TV4 invested in the film, as did private sources.

Ohman wants to keep moving between genres in his career, inspired by someone like Richard Linklater who also can’t be pigeonholed. “I’m learning. You only develop if you challenge yourself to do something new. I’d love to make a sci-fi movie. I’m in love with movies, I love so many different kinds.”

He is also discussing UK film projects and developing a potential Swedish TV series, The Wolves, about “a group of female heroes who hunt down rapists”.

The team has raised crowdfunding to shoot the pilot, which will see women seeking specific kinds of vengeance that relate to the rapists’ crimes. He said: “It could be controversial in Sweden, but it has potential to travel.”

Jackie Chan’s going to Dubai to shoot his latest flick Kung Fu Yoga.

  A still from the movie Karate Kid 

Jackie Chan is making a beeline for Dubai in September to shoot his most recent motion picture Kung Fu Yoga, which will likewise include Bollyood star Katrina Kaif.

The film was initially anticipated that would shoot completely in India, and albeit a few scenes will even now be shot there, sources say a group is now on the ground in Dubai while the business' go-to generation site, IMDB, has as of now started to list Dubai line team. The film is the first piece of a three-motion picture understanding marked by the Indian and Chinese governments amid a visit by the Chinese president Xi Xinpeng to India a year ago.

The Indian makers, Viacom 18, have a long-standing association with the UAE – including propelling the TV stations Colors in 2012. With Kaif marked on, Aamir Khan was reputed to be joining the Chinese/Indian co-generation, yet planning clashes with his next Bollwood film forestalled it.

As he told India's First Post in May: "Jackie is arranging that film with chief Stanley Tong, who has made number of Jackie's movies. It is impractical for me to do it. I would have wanted to do it. They are shooting in September-October and that time I will be occupied with Dangal. I can't begin any film in August-September."

With a sudden and overwhelming generation plan this harvest time confronting the UAE's film industry, sources report rivalry for team between this film and the Netflix-supported, Brad Pitt-featuring, War Machine. That creation is being conveyed to the capital by twofour54, with shooting slated for October.

A week ago in Dubai, Miranda Davidson Studios directed three days of throwing for additional items for Star Trek: Beyond, which is because of begin shooting in the emirate in September. Sources say the Bollywood film Dhishoom, likewise set to film in the UAE at around the same time, will be bringing a large portion its could call its own group and cast, which is most likely lucky considering the sheer measure of movies that give off an impression of being coming into the UAE at this moment.

The capital has seen a sensational hop in global acknowledgment since the spring arrival of Furious 7, which was shot here in 2014 alongside Star Wars: The Force Awakens, due in theaters December 18th.

Terence Stamp was killed? Almost, he says!

Terence Stamp was included in a close passing knowledge on the arrangement of his new film, as indicated by a meeting with the performing artist.

The Oscar-selected star of Billy Budd uncovered that a stallion fell on him while making Bitter Harvest, a period sentiment featuring Max Irons and Barry Pepper.

"My stallion had a propensity, when I conveyed it to a stop, of lifting its front legs up," he said. "On my last day, I conveyed it to a stop however slid off the back … I gazed upward and saw that this stallion, which measured a large portion of a ton, had lost its offset and was going to fall specifically on me."

Stamp went ahead to say that the stallion fell on his midsection and pelvis, prompting different wounds. "In the event that it had handled any further up, it would have murdered me," he said. "It softened my pelvis up six places, two ribs and tore a tendon in my arm.

"I generally envisioned that my last contemplations would be some way or another significant, yet what experienced my brain was, "Recognized on-screen character executed by horse's arse.'"

He kidded that on the off chance that he had been American, he may have considered lawful activity yet he "couldn't be annoyed".

Stamp as of late stood out as truly newsworthy subsequent to speaking so as to guarantee that you "can scarcely get" English in London any longer. He was most recently seen on the extra large screen in Tim Burton's Big Eye.