AFM 2011: Zombie vs Robots In BATTLE OF THE DAMNED

While big budget adaptations of Ashley Wood's World War Robot and Zombies Versus Robots are already in the works it appears that someone is getting the jump on the robot vs undead demographic, albeit in much smaller budget fashion.Bleiberg Entertainment... More »

By Todd Brown

New clip from Polanski's CARNAGE

Roman Polanski's Carnage has been making it's way across the Fall festival circuit ahead of it's December 16th release (see Peter Gutierrez's review from NYFF and Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg's review from London). The next stop is LA's AFI Fest and... More »

By Ryland Aldrich

AFM 2011: Get Your First Look At Andrew Lau's Flying Guillotine

A project that began life as a remake of Wong Cheuk-hon's 1976 wuxia film Master Of The Flying Guillotine before morphing in to something slightly different, there has been a great deal of drama behind the scenes of the Peter... More »

By Todd Brown

AFI Fest 2011 Announces Midnighters/World Cinema: HEADHUNTERS, KILL LIST, EXTRATERRESTRIAL

AFI FEST 2011 let loose the last wave of their lineup today with the announcement of their Midnight, World Cinema, Breakthrough, and Shorts programs. We've got a few highlights for you and the full list below. The fest kicks off... More »

By Ryland Aldrich

AFI Fest 2011 Adds SHAME, THE ARTIST, THE LADY and More!

AFI Fest has previously announced their opener J. Edgar and the festival's impressive New Auteurs and Young Americans programs. Today brings word of a whole host of incredible galas and special screenings to the fest which runs November 3-10 in... More »

By Ryland Aldrich

Beautiful US Trailer For Cannes Favourite THE ARTIST

From writer-director Michel Hazanavicius comes this French romance starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, Malcolm McDowell and Missi Pyle. It generated a lot of positive buzz at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where Dujardin took home the Best... More »

By Hugo Ozman

AFI Fest 2011 1st Wave includes BULLHEAD, OSLO AUG 31, & Swanberg Spotlight

Hollywood's AFI Fest 2011 has already announced that Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar will open the festival which is to be guest directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Today brings word of the the first wave of announced films in the New Auteurs... More »

By Ryland Aldrich

Eastwood's J. EDGAR Set to Open AFI Fest'11

AFI announced today that Clint Eastwood's J. EDGAR will world premiere as the opening night film at this year's AFI Fest 2011 kicking off November 3rd in Hollywood. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as the enigmatic founding director of the FBI, J.... More »

By Ryland Aldrich

AFI Fest 2011 to be Guest Directed by Almodóvar

News today that Spanish legend Pedro Almodóvar will be the guest Artistic Director of this year's edition of American Film Institute's annual AFI FEST. The director of artistic triumphs such as Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Talk... More »

By Ryland Aldrich

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Ryland Aldrich, Festivals Editor Los Angeles
James Marsh, Asian Editor Hong Kong
Brian Clark, European Editor Paris

China Beat: What did China See in IRON MAN 3?

Much has already been written, both on these pages and many others, about the landmark Hollywood-China co-production that is Marvel and DMG Entertainment's Iron Man 3. The film, directed by Shane Black, is the third solo outing for Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark, and has proved a phenomenal success around... More »

FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 2: I'M IN LOVE WITH EVERYBODY'S GIRL

CHAPTER 4: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANNA KARINA AND BUTT PLUGSI'm sitting outside at a small Café that my editor told me to meet him at. I'm a 10 minute walk from the Marche Du Film convention hall and I'm still waiting for my editor to arrive so he take guide... More »

CINEMA HOLOCAUST ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA, PART 1: THOSE GOD DAMN FILM BLOGGERS

MIKE'S JOURNAL. MAY 13. MORNINGI wake up sometime around five AM. My flight to France doesn't leave until five PM. I should be there for security check in sometime around 3PM. There is no reason for me to be up this early but I'm feeling anxious. I have an itch... More »

FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 1: A MAN'S HANDSHAKE SAYS EVERYTHING

CHAPTER ONE: THE BIGGER THE SIDEBURNS, THE BIGGER THE ASSHOLE. I've hit the big time now. I've finally made it. I'm in like Flint from here on out. I'm boarding a plane to France where I'll be attending the Cannes Film Festival for the first time.No more unpaid blogging from... More »

Destroy All Monsters: Leo DiCaprio and the Myth of the Chick Flick

I have a running argument about whether or not movie box office is a zero-sum game. I tend to attack film earning potential from the "mother of two" perspective - which is that while yes, it's nice to believe that if a film is good it has a theoretically unlimited... More »