Chinese literary film "River Road" to be released on September
A news conference on Chinese Indie filmmaker Li Ruijun's literary film "River Road" has been held in the province of Gansu.
Director Li Ruijun together with executive producer Fangli and best-selling author Han Han attended the conference.
The film is a masterfully lensed nomadic road movie set in his dusty native province of Gansu, in Northwestern China.
In the film, Bartel and Adikeer, two Uyger ethnic minority brothers, venture out with their two-humped camels to join their herdsman father, after their grandfather dies, by following a dried-up river bed.
It is slated for release on September 3.
Chow Yun Fat and Gong Li's film "Shanghai" to be screened in the US
The 2010 mystery/thriller neo-noir film directed by Mikael Håfström, starring John Cusack and Gong Li is set to be screened in the United States.
The film directed by Swedish director Mikael Håfström was first released in China in 2010.
The movie tells the story of an American who stumbles upon secrets while investigating the death of a friend in 1940s Shanghai.
John Cusack plays the American, Chow Yun Fat plays the head of a gangster group while Gong Li take the role of a famous singer in a night club, who works for the Chinese resistance group fighting the Japanese invaders.
The film will be limited screened in some theatres of in the United States from August 21.
'Steve Jobs' to screen at New York Film Festival
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney's film of "Steve Jobs: Man In The Machine" is to be screened at the New York Film Festival.
A new trailer for the documentary film gives a look at the personal and private life of the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs.
The film follows Jobs from his days tinkering in his garage to his reign as CEO of a game-changing multibillion-dollar company.
However, the film also delves into Jobs' shoddy treatment of the people around him, as interviews with friends, family, lovers and employees painting a picture of a man driven by ambition and ego.
Universal has set an October 9 North American release for the film.
Tyrese Gibson on his most recent solo album and creating a short film
R&B singer Tyrese Gibson's album, "Black Rose" has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts.
He created what he says is his most emotional album while going through a messy divorce and custody battle and dealing with the death of friend and "Fast and Furious" co-star Paul Walker.
"This is my last solo album, and it is the most emotional baby I have ever worked on ever in my life. It was like a, it's an analogy but it was like a three and a half year pregnancy that came with a lot of complications."
He plans to release a short film called "Shame" in November. The 25-minute short film is based on his single "Shame" and is produced by Denzel Washington and directed by Paul Hunter.
Christopher Nolan Has a New Short Film on the Way
After last year's sprawling science-fiction family drama "Interstellar" Christopher Nolan has made a short documentary.
The film named "Quay" is said to be already done and will be screened at the New York city this August.
The film is about Stephen and Timothy Quay, a pair of identical twin stop-motion animators who have been making highly influential and revered short films for decades.
Nolan's documentary will debut on August 19 as part of a Brothers Quay retrospective at the Film Forum in New York City, which Nolan himself is curating.
It'll feature their movies "In Absentia","The Comb" and "Crocodiles".
Each movie will be presented in 35 mm film, which is no surprise given Nolan's championing of using real film over digital.
A Blu-ray of Nolan's "Quary" will be released Oct. 20.
Channing Tatum's 'Gambit' to start shooting in October
The spin-off to 'X-Men', 'Gambit' starring Channing Tatum, will reportedly start filming in October in New Orleans.
For Channing Tatum's role as the energy charging Cajun Remy LeBeau aka Gambit, Tatum is already being taught hand card tricks by magician David Kwong who was the magic consultant of "Now You See Me".
The Channing Tatum Gambit movie is rumored to be an origins story of the titular character because its casting call includes numerous street criminals.
Souces have claimed that 20th Century Fox will cost 154 million US dollars for the production.