Film Studios

After Chinese goods taking over the Indian market, a Chinese film will open 40th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) here Monday. 'Wheat', directed by He Ping, is set in 260 BC when China was mired in a long and bloody war between the Qin and the Zhao dynasties. Starring Fan Bingbing and Wang Jue, 'Wheat' tells the story of women left behind after their husbands are sent to war.  

News Corp , Time Warner Inc and Qualia Capital LLC are interested in buying Hollywood's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio , home of the James Bond movies , Bloomberg News reported on Friday. Citing people with knowledge of the situation, the report said the companies have not yet examined the studio's finances and their level of interest will depend on price. Burdened by about $4 billion in debt, Los Angeles-based MGM said last week it was weighing options, including a possible sale of the company.  

The third film with the ridiculously hilarious Focker clan is currently in the making but, according to the reports now coming in, it could very well be that not all is great in Focker-land. Meant to reunite the original cast, presumably with the addition of Jessica Alba , "Little Fockers" was seen as the logical continuation of "Meet the Fockers." The problem is that Dustin Hoffman might not be returning to the franchise, Entertainment Weekly has learned.  

Wyoming moviegoers this holiday season might find the flick they're watching set a little close to home. In the big-budget disaster film "2012" currently showing in theaters, John Cusack and Woody Harrelson find in Yellowstone National Park that the park's massive but long-dormant volcanic caldera — spoiler alert — isn't so dormant after all. And on Dec. 18, Columbia Pictures will release the romantic comedy "Did You Hear About The Morgans?" featuring Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker as ...  

Well, according to a report in Variety, you'll be able to do just that soon using a new technology called "augmented reality," which launches movable 3-D images or games on computer screens when an item is held up to a webcam. And while some movie studios have used the augmented reality for some of their home video releases -- most notably Paramount for 'Star Trek,' which offered a 3-D holographic tour of the U.S.S. Enterprise when viewers held the disc packaging up to a webcam -- the technology is getting a gigantic multi-million dollar consumer push with 'Avatar.' Why?  

Jean-Marie Messier (mehs-YAY') told a federal jury Friday in New York he did his "very best" to build the company and couldn't foresee worldwide financial problems that contributed to its near-bankruptcy in 2002.  

At just 338 words, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are must be among the shortest books in the canon of popular fiction. Yet those 338 words and the magnificent illustrations that accompany them have charged the imaginations of children ever since they were published in 1963. Having already sold 10 million copies worldwide, they have this year inspired a 300-page novelisation by Dave Eggers, a $100m Hollywood movie by Spike Jonze (from an Eggers script), and an HBO documentary by Jonze about ...  

Adapted from the popular board trivia games, the Scene It? game series debuts on the Wii in this follow-up to Box Office Smash (available only on Xbox 360). Trivia questions cover popular movies and blockbusters ranging from the 1970s to current 2009 cinematic offerings. Developers give equal time to all movie studios within the immense 2,800-plus question cache.  

Metro Goldwyn Mayer, once the most powerful and prestigious film studio in all Hollywood, is looking for a buyer to bail it out of nearly $4bn of debt. The company that gave the world Tom and Jerry cartoons, The Wizard of Oz, and a host of other classic musicals has said it has begun to explore a "potential sale". The decision is a reversal of a refusal to sell a year ago.