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A 3D version of Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster will hit theaters in China next month with new footage, Variety reports.
Peter Jackson‘s Lord of the Rings trilogy will screen with a live orchestra in New York City in April, Gothamist reports.
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Steven Okazaki‘s new documentary on Toshiro Mifune will begin shooting this month, Variety reports.
At In Contention, Kris Tapley reports from the Telluride screening of Apocalypse Now:
While press and patrons were hustling into gondolas and over to the Chuck Jones Cinema for the World Premiere of Jean-Marc Vallée’s “Wild,” the 41st annual Telluride Film Festival was kicking off with a bang at an over-stuffed Werner Herzog Theater for the lead program of this year’s schedule: a tribute to Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.” The ticket was so hot that well over a hundred pass holders were turned away at the door.
AV Club highlights 15 documentaries that switched course during filming.
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The documentary Banksy Does New York will premiere on November 17th on HBO, THR reports.
At Vanity Fair, Kate Erbland on how indie films became the future of rom-coms:
The all-time highest-grossing domestic romantic comedy hit the box office back in April of 2002, pulling in a staggering $241.4 million during an elongated 360-day theatrical release, the little engine that could (and did, for nearly a year). My Big Fat Greek Wedding beat out films starring box-office draws like Will Smith, Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, and Sandra Bullock to take the crown, and its box-office total is still so high (No. 2 on the list, What Women Want, only made $182.8 million) that it threatens to never be dethroned.
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