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Booming Bollywood comes home for 'Oscars' 20th edition
Mumbai hosts the "Bollywood Oscars" for the first time in India in 20 years this week with the megastars, movers and shakers of a booming Hindi film industry celebrating another bumper year, including in huge markets like China. With nearly 1,800 titles released in 2018, the South Asian...
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'Joker' wins top award at Venice Film Festival
Joker by American director Todd Phillips won the Golden Lion award on Saturday at the 76th Venice Film Festival. The comic book movie starring Joaquin Phoenix portrays the transition of an artist into an iconic villain. The world's oldest film festival also awarded Swedish director Roy...
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Toronto Film Festival kicks off with The Band
The 44th Toronto International Film Festival kicked off Thursday with a documentary celebration of Canada’s The Band and the premiere of Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of “David Copperfield.” The start of North America’s largest film festival heralds the beginning of the fall movie...
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Cubans 'not free to talk' says star Penelope Cruz
Spanish star Penelope Cruz said Sunday that Cubans were not free to talk frankly when she was making a new film about the communist island's biggest modern heroes. In "Wasp Network", the actress plays Olga Gonzalez, the wife of one of the intelligence officers known as the "Cuban Five" who...
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