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‘Alice’ continues to enchant auds

Film News: Disney pic wins weekend over trio of new releases -- For a third week in a row, Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" is tops at the box office.
20Mar/10Off

MGM pushes back deadline on bids

Film News: Assets on block include 'Hobbit,' James Bond -- Beleaguered MGM appears to have pushed back the deadline for binding offers until at least Monday.
19Mar/10Off

Guadalajara fest fetes ‘Portraits,’ ‘Perpetuum’

Film News: Pics nab jury grand prizes at 25th annual event -- The 25th edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival feted Colombian helmer Carlos Gaviria's "Portraits in a Sea of Lies" (Retratos en un mar de Mentiras) and Nicolas Pereda's "Perpetuum Mobile" with jury grand prizes .
19Mar/10Off

Buenos Aires fest set to unspool

Film News: Harmony Korine, Angela Bassett will be attending -- The 12th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film unspools April 7-18.
19Mar/10Off

Mexico tries to lure shoots back to troubled country

Film News: Incentives, film commission try to smooth way for easier filming -- For generations, helmers like Mel Gibson have fallen in love with Mexico as a backdrop, perhaps starting the day John Huston jumped off a boat at the Port of Veracruz in 1925.
19Mar/10Off

Fate of Iranian director still unknown

Film News: Jafar Pnahi believed to be in Tehran jail -- Concern is growing for the well-being of Iranian helmer Jafar Panahi, a vocal supporter of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi. Panahi was arrested at his Tehran home March 1 along with fellow filmmakers and family members.
19Mar/10Off

Predicting box office for profit or loss

Film News: Firms launch futures trading on movie grosses -- Guessing the weekend box office is a game played by everyone from the people who actually made the movies to the auds lining up at the local multiplex. But the launch of two movie trading exchanges will soon enable folks to back up their forecasts with real cash.
19Mar/10Off

Indigo Films brings color to Italian production

Film News: Production company gives local talent a chance -- In Italy a film production shingle doesn't get much more genuinely indie than Nicola Giuliano and Francesca Cima's Indigo Film, best known internationally for Paolo Sorrentino's "Il Divo."
19Mar/10Off

Polishing ‘Dragon’s’ sheen

Film News: Artists work black magic on new Dreamworks critter -- When designing CG characters, "the two things you want to stay away from are pure white and pure black," says surfacing supervisor Sabrina Riegel.
19Mar/10Off

Filmart kicks off in Hong Kong

Film News: Asian confab buzzes with local momentum, looks ahead to 3D -- The galloping Chinese box office and 3D top the list of what the Asian biz will be buzzing about at Hong Kong's Filmart, which runs March 22 to 25.