Paramount enters luxury hospitality business

American film and television production & distribution company Paramount plans to create up to 50 hotels and resorts themed around Hollywood and California. The luxury hotels will be focused on ‘elements of the California lifestyle’. The hotels of one of the leading companies in the history of cinema will be centered around the art of … Read more

Chinese New Cinema iPad magazine launched

The first bilingual quarterly iPad magazine about ‘Chinese New Cinema’ called DSL CineMag was launched in the AppStore and is available in both English and Chinese. Chinese cinema has in recent years played an indispensable and compelling role in understanding therapid transformation of contemporary Chinese society for domestic and international audiences alike. Founded by the DSL … Read more

Archipelago Cinema – a floating movie theater in Thailand

Floating Cinema by Ole Scheeren.  Constructed in the most unlikely of places: right on top of the water   Beijing-based architect Ole Scheeren constructed an outdoor temporary floating cinema designed to be the stage for the final night of the “Film on the Rocks Yao Noi” new film festival in Thailand (9th- 12th March 2012). … Read more

Jean-Pierre Dardenne: The Jury for the Cinéfondation and Short Films at Cannes Film Festival 2012

Jean-Pierre Dardenne: President of the Jury for the Cinéfondation and Short Films On 23rd May, the Festival de Cannes will welcome the jury for the Cinéfondation and short films, presided over this year by Jean-Pierre DARDENNE (Belgian director, scriptwriter and producer), who shared the honours of the Grand Prix with his brother Luc for The … Read more

Jean Dujardin: “This is luxury”

Jean Dujardin: “C’est un luxe, un honneur, encore plus de liberté” To become famous on a global scale by praising Hollywood’s silent era. What could be more honorable. His story, magnetism style and smile are charming. Jean Dujardin (39), the talk of the town in Hollywood, the highest-paid actor in his native France and sometimes … Read more