On the surface, Mardi Gras looks like good, cheap (if not always clean) fun. On the internet, $17 will buy ten dozen Mardi Gras beads––roughly what a group of revelers might be expected to toss as bait for tossed-off tops on Bourbon Street in a single hour. This ritual––one part libido, one part alcohol, one [...]
August 1, 2008 – 12:31 pm
Steven Boone reports from China, where the third MUMMY movie is working diplomatic magic.
While the oil crisis is making money for the studios, the country whose escalating consumption is partially to blame for the crisis is cracking down on a Hollywood film? COINCIDENCE?!?!?!?!?!
Exciting news from David Redmon and Ashley Sabin, co-directors of a couple of our favorite recent docs, Kamp Katrina and Intimidad: they’re expanding the purview of their production company, Carnivalesque Films, in order to start distributing DVDs. Their first release will be their own film, the 2005 Sundance premiere Mardi Gras: Made in China, and [...]
And no, it’s not because the censors just discovered BASIC INSTINCT.
Disney celebrated Earth Day by announcing Disneynature, a new production shingle exclusively devoted to making documentaries about the environment. Films in the pipeline include Oceans, the lastest from Winged Migration director Jacques Perrin.
Jackie Chan has been recruited by the MPA as the poster boy for a new campaign targeting piracy in China. The action star [...]
February 18, 2008 – 1:35 pm
China wanted a fairy tale Olympics, so they hired Steven Spielberg. What will they do now that the director has backed out of the Games in political protest?
January 22, 2008 – 3:26 pm
Yung Chang’s documentary Up the Yangtze had the honor of being the first sale at a Sundance that has turned out to be a rather quiet marketplace. The film explores the area of the Yangtze River currently being flooded by the Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydroelectric project in the world. As millions are being [...]
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January 18, 2008 – 11:35 am
The documentary dealing with China’s Three Gorges Dam competes in the World Cinema - Documentary category.
January 2, 2008 – 9:19 am
China says ‘no’ to sex freaks, Spielberg says nothing about his next project, and moviegoers once again say ‘yes’ to chipmunks.
