Released in the UK in the new year, the film follows the box office success of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, another ensemble piece about a group of British pensioners in a retirement hotel in India.
Australian feature film The Rocket has taken the top honour at this year's Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
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The process was explained to me by Havens, a 42-year-old former New York City film and TV actor turned social-media maven who has gathered together some important people to support the project (though money is, of course, elusive).
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Several training courses have already taken place, resulting in the production of a 52 minute film on the Afghan New Year, as well as three educational films which have been shown throughout the country thanks to a campaign conducted via travelling cinema.
If the new Pirates film doesn't end the year as one of the 10 highest-grossing films, it will be counted as a disappointment for Disney.
When Susan Lewis visited a Manhattan day spa, she was all set for a deep-tissue massage and some "quiet and relaxation, " says the 42-year-old film producer in New York.
Director Karen O'Hare doesn't ignore the up-and-coming talent either, and there are sessions this year for crowd funding as well as new film-making opportunities.
As film professor Jim Collins describes it, the Weinsteins, who remain masters of promotion, would release a film late in the year in New York and Los Angeles, build momentum through critical praise and advertising, and use the Golden Globes and the Oscars to boost films even more.
Besides the revival and film of "The Last Five Years, " he's got two new musicals debuting this year: "Honeymoon in Vegas, " an adaptation of the 1992 film written with Andrew Bergman that will premiere at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, and "The Bridges of Madison County, " a musical he wrote with Marsha Norman that debuts at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts this summer.
Adding depth to the local film scene also is the annual New Orleans Film Festival, which is celebrating its 24th year this October.
Singapore's international film festival earlier this year premiered three new local works.
This vinyl recording is just one of some 10, 000 items in the collection of 73-year-old Yoshio Kishi, a retired New York film editor.
Dunham is the 24-year-old writer-director of the new indie film, Tiny Furniture, her second micro-budget autobiographical feature which won the top prize at the South by Southwest Festival this March and recently opened to extremely limited release straight to Video On Demand.
Sky today continues to strengthen its leadership in movie content by agreeing a new multi-year deal with the UK's leading independent film distribution company, Entertainment Film Distributors, to bring Sky Movies customers exclusive access to hit movies including The Master, Silver Linings Playbook, Beautiful Creatures and The Host, alongside a wide range of classic titles.
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Some people age better than others, of course: the 65-year-old Harrison Ford looks sprightly enough in the new Indiana Jones film.
He also appears in 200 Cigarettes, a film about a group of friends who meet up on New Year's Eve, 1981.
Perabo: What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.
Randa wishes to move to Canada, however fearing a possible identity crisis for her four-year-old son after watchin a film about Arabs in New York post 9-11.
The most highly anticipated movie of the year is Avatar, James Cameron's new live action 3-D film, which has no stars at all.
This year's London Film Festival will close with the European premiere of new Charles Dickens adaptation Great Expectations, directed by Mike Newell.
Nicholls revealed last year that he had written a new ending for his "thriller" version of the film.
It is most fitting that in the year of Prince Will and Princess Kate, cinematic royalty is kicking off a new British film festival now rolling out in movie theaters across the United States.
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News Corp is expected to start a new life as a publishing company when it splits from its TV and film interests in June this year.
He is also to make his Hollywood debut in a new film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, due to be released late this year.
This is among the biggest film news of the year, along with the announcement of Disney buying LucasFilms to develop new Star Wars movies.
While still small in comparison to marquee film festivals like the Toronto International Film Festival, which draws about 400, 000 attendees each year, attendance at the New Orleans festival has more than doubled to 17, 000 in the past three years.
On Thursday, cast and crew from the film will return to the convention for the third year in a row and likely will present new footage to continue to build fan intensity around the movie.
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The talk show queen spent much of 2012 splitting her time between Montecito, California, her new home base since she left Chicago, and New Orleans, where she shot a film called "The Butler" opposite Forest Whitaker, due out this year.
The 76-year-old Oscar winner is in the picturesque spa city to introduce the opening night film, a new adaptation of Jane Eyre, in which she appears.
Since his March release from prison, the rapper has inked an endorsement deal with Remy Martin, starred in the film Takers and put the finishing touches on a new album called King Uncaged, due out later this year.
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