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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The stars of “Bridget Jones’s Baby” took to the pink carpet on Monday for the film’s London premiere, contemplating shooting another episode in the misadventures of cinema’s most hapless singleton. Crowds gathered in Leicester Square to catch a glimpse of the cast of the third Bridget Jones film, in which Renee Zellweger plays the disaster-prone, chardonnay-swigging heroine. Ahead of the screening Zellweger suggested she would be open to a fourth […]
FRANCFORT, Germany (AFP) — A masked and armed man barricaded himself in a German multiplex cinema with dozens of people inside Thursday before being killed by police, officials said. No hostages were injured in the complex in the western town of Viernheim, 75 kilometres (50 miles) south of Frankfurt, Hesse state interior minister Peter Beuth said. “The assailant moved through the cinema complex, according to the information we have now, and appeared confused,” he said. […]
by Benoit TOUSSAINT VERHEIM, Germany (AFP) — A masked gunman barricaded himself in a German multiplex cinema with dozens of people Thursday before being killed by police on high security alert following a string of attacks around Europe, officials said. No-one else was injured at the complex in the western town of Viernheim, 75 kilometres (50 miles) south of Frankfurt, the interior minister of Hesse state, Peter Beuth, said. “The assailant moved through the cinema complex… […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Cinema’s ultimate villain, Darth Vader, is set to make a comeback with a menacing appearance in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” industry magazine Entertainment Weekly said on Wednesday. The first standalone “Star Wars” story, “Rogue One” is set just before “A New Hope” — the original film in the blockbuster series — and stars Felicity Jones alongside Mads Mikkelsen and Forest Whitaker. EW said on its website it […]
MANILA – Through German cinematic history we go! The Goethe-Institut will be running a new series entitled “Glimpses of German Film History” featuring films about the pillars of Germany’s hundred-year history of cinema. The screenings will take place every Wednesday at 6:00pm starting July 29 until September 23 at theGoethe-Institut. Headlining the nine-part cycle is the documentary Auge in Auge (“Eye to Eye”) by Michael Althen and Hans Helmut Prinzler, which explores the essence of […]
MANILA – German director Klaus Maeck of the award-winning film B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin is coming to Manila to grace the World Premieres Film Festival organized by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP). Klaus Maeck will be in Manila by the invitation of the Goethe-Institut, the German Cultural Center in the Philippines, which promotes cultural exchange and helped the FDCP in acquiring the German film for its festival. B-Movie is a […]
MANILA – As France and the Philippines reach a high note in their bilateral relations following the historic state visit of French President François Hollande to the country last February, cinema continues to serve as a bridge between Filipinos and the French through the French Film Festival. This year, the French Film Festival celebrates its 20th year of bringing critically-acclaimed films and blockbusters to local audiences. The festival aims to promote French culture and, at […]
