Marc Webb is chosed to take charge of the new SPIDERMAN series.
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Academy has shortlisted nine foreign films from the 65 submitted to advance to the next round of voting.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:
- Argentina, EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS, Juan Jose Campanella, director
- Australia, SAMSON & DELILAH, Warwick Thornton, director
- Bulgaria, "THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER, Stephan Komandarev, director
- France, UN PROPHETE, Jacques Audiard, director
- Germany, THE WHITE RIBBON, Michael Haneke,
- directorIsrael, AJAMI, Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, directors
- Kazakhstan, KELIN ,Ermek Tursunov, director
- The Netherlands, WINTER IN WARTIME, Martin Koolhoven, director
- Peru, THE MIK OF SORROW, Claudia Llosa, director.
The shortlist will be winnowed down to the five nominees by specially invited committees in New York and Los Angeles. The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Feb. 2 in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The Academy Awards will be presented March 7 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood.
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The 2D version of AVATAR is being pulled from more than 1,600 screens in China to make way for Chow Yun Fat starrer CONFUCIUS a patriotic, state-backed biopic of the philosopher
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Hawai gets set to play host to the shooting of the fourth installment of the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBBEAN series. The film shall be directed by Rob Marshall for producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
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DreamWorks has tapped playwright-screenwriter Ronald Harwood to pen its Martin Luther King Jr. biopic.
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Warner Bros. Entertainment France has acquired all French distribution rights to Woody Allen's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" which stars Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts , Freida Pinto. VARIETY
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Horror maestro Hideo Nakata ("Ring," "Ring 2") has inked with talent shop Horipro to helm psychological suspenser THE INCITE MILL.
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