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...part Red Cliff, John Woo's return to Chinese-language action films, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro, which has taken in $125 million; and Hayao Miyazaki's charming animé for kids, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, earning $177 million. U.S. fans of Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) will be pleased to hear that Disney will be releasing the film in the States this summer. Meanwhile, the No.1 international film last week was Slumdog Millionaire, which has taken in $170.6 million in foreign markets along with its $139.7 million in North America...
...more filmmakers consider unorthodox release strategies - Wayne Wang premiered The Princess of Nebraska last year on YouTube, and Soderbergh agreed to a simultaneous video-on-demand release for his Cannes selection Che - Swanberg says it's the media's acceptance of these nontheatrical debuts that has the potential to alter the economics of the independent film industry. "It's so palpable for me to remember that frustration I felt growing up in the suburbs of Chicago," he says. "I remember reading Film Comment and reading about these movies I really couldn't see because they never came to the theaters...
...from one dank jungle camp to the next. But the character earning the most scorn in their lengthy account turns out to be a fellow captive. French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, whose rescue in the same mission that freed the authors made world headlines, comes off as a "frickin' princess" more interested in playing power games than in establishing solidarity with her fellow prisoners. Her emotional relationships with the many men surrounding her, the authors say, provoked jealousy so divisive that FARC minders often separated her from the others. Of course, until Betancourt tells her side, we have only...
...Betancourt, a French-Colombian who was kindapped while campaigning for the Colombian presidency and was rescued along with the Americans and 11 other hostages last summer. The authors describe the married Betancourt as carrying on an affair with a Colombian hostage, acting like a privileged blue-blood - "a frickin' princess" in Stansell's telling - bossing around the other prisoners and hoarding precious books, food and a transistor radio. They even claim that she told the guerrillas that the Americans were CIA agents. Asked to elaborate on Betancourt, Stansell told TIME: "That's an infection I lived with for many years...
...Cambridge resident began his own street performing career playing the same instrument in the same location and soon became a regular among the street performers at Faneuil Hall. He then branched out internationally, playing in Tokyo in 1986 for audiences as prestigious as a Japanese princess. “Your job is to get an audience. Not like on a stage when you pretty much know people are coming to the venue. You have to create the venue pretty much out of thin air,” Nieman says. “There were times it wasn?...