Schwabbelmonster on your lap.

With the animated show "Monsters vs.. Aliens" and the horror shocker "My Bloody Valentine 3D" which is often seen dead 3D digital technology comeback. Cinemas equipping themselves with more expensive hardware for the boom, it could be the future of the trends in home DVD players are.

 

Zurückzuckende body thrown face and hands: Over the next few months will be the cinema audience reinforces their natural defense reflexes train seen. Responsible for this are being especially two movies, with the appearance of three-dimensional art work and the audience through the screen from almost catapulted to bones and parts of the building in the press seats.

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Already this week starts the animated sci-fi adventure "Monsters vs.. Aliens", for which a Blondinchen in Fifties-style years after a meteorite impact on the five floors high and is growing fury in San Francisco along with a troupe Schwabbelmonster and cockroaches mutations against alien aggressors compete. By applying the latest digital 3D technology, quoted in this pretty B-movie homage collateral such as the Golden Gate Bridge crumbling and shaky skyscraper that the audience Reißseile formally and concrete blocks around the ears to fly.

Minimalistic are the makers of the horror film "My Bloody Valentine 3D", which in May in the German cinema comes with the digital copy to stereo. In this variation of the traditional slasher-theme a masked miner decimated the population of a mining town. The lonely star of the film is here, so to speak, the pickaxe. Again and again she goes down on the viewer, sometimes the eyes or intestines hanging off. The shocker of this country with a rating over 18 years running and where it is for the genre rather uncharacteristically explicit sex scenes, has been following the U.S. launch of over 50 million U.S. dollars a multiple of its production again recorded.

"We are facing a revolution of cinema"

Hard to say whether entertainment mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg on films like "My Bloody Valentine" alludes when new glorious times for Hollywood raves. In any case, the DreamWorks animation chief and "Monsters vs.. Aliens" Producer of the major promoters of the new 3D technology. "We are facing a revolution of cinema, as they are since the introduction of color film no longer has," he says the past two years with him every opportunity. At least for the light industry in the U.S. seems quite Katzenberg to keep: There has to be ambitious animation to start last weekend nearly 60 million U.S. dollars recorded. Previously ran in America have the 3D versions of the computer-shows how Federviehspäßchen "Heaven and chicken" or the butcher plate "The Legend of Beowulf" very much more successful than their two-dimensional counterparts.

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With the success of "Monsters vs.. Aliens" and "My Bloody Valentine 3D" is now certainly clear that the revitalization of the old digital technology, especially in two very contrasting audience segments will be driven: family fun and adult entertainment.

Train and play you have been the two dominant forces, with the proliferation of 3D works in its early days was fired. As with the advent of television in the fifties, is always less visitors in the U.S. cinemas lost, ensured the stereoscopic photography for new attractions: 3D-effects made it possible to 1954, that the uncanny gill man in Jack Arnold's horror adventure, "The horror of the Amazon "from the screen seemed to grow on or in the same year, the murderer in Alfred Hitchcock's" Call For Murder "threatening the public could approach.

But after the first novelty effect had worn off and the then still very much expensive, analog 3D projection technology on a broad level is no longer expected, the three-dimensional thrill in the niche association: In the cinema of fear and in the cinema of voyeurism, he celebrated a shadowy existence - albeit a very lucrative.

Niche existence in the horror genre and porn

For horror productions, such as the early psychedelic cult film "The devilish mask" of 1961 provided the technology is still just as wonderful opportunities for hardcore porn Digest of "The Starlets," in which the viewing audience Penisse entgegenragten erect 1976. Quite simply clever players combined horror and porn, just like Andy Warhol 1973 for his "Frankenstein" variation. In this way, with the cumbersome 3D apparatus is still money to be made.

As a 1982 "And again, Friday the 13th" 3D started, brought the then already slightly better stereoscopic technology to the third part of the horror saga even twice as many viewers as the 2D-predecessors. For the most successful 3D-production of all time (counting the money), however, became "The Stewardess", a Softporno of 1969. 27 million U.S. dollars to play this epic, which in academic circles today, "the 'Titanic' Tits of the films is called - in allusion to James Cameron's blockbuster superlative.

Incidentally, Cameron comes to the job now, the new 3D technology to new narrative harriers to lead. Especially, he prepared for an estimated record budget of 200 million U.S. dollars, the sci-fi epic "Avatar" before the end of 2009 starts. It will be filmed in New Zealand and is about the colonization of another planet; colonialism is the subject of rumor provide an important subtext.

A sign that the niche Trash 3D long again for the upscale mainstream good - and finally even to the high culture. Even the venerable art Cannes Film Festival continues this year on the third dimension and is supported by computer generated 3D spectacle "Up!" Pixar out of the house opened. Like the competing studio DreamWorks send at Pixar also a whole series of stereoscopic family movies at the start, as the sequels to "Toy Story" or "Cars."

The fact that the digital 3D theatrical release in the U.S. to work, last year have been successful concert films like "U2 3D" and "Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Tour" shown there with a low copy number of a large audience reached. Whether future productions now in competing formats Tru3D, Real D or Dolby 3D Digital Cinema filmed, is just really not bothered, they are all digital on the screen - and thus the notorious double projections analog superfluous, previously easily blurred images and headache led.

Tense waiting for the nude movie industry

The optimal 3D enjoyment is in Germany, however, not to have, "Monsters vs.. Aliens" and "My Bloody Valentine 3D" in some cities only in the "flat" version will be shown. The success of this pioneering three-dimensional then decide how many cinemas will be upgraded in this country. The digital equipment for a single room will cost at least 50,000 euros. The acquisition, which could be useful. But it creates an exclusive viewing to the shrinkage of box-office audience through the Internet and DVD piracy trade could absorb. As at the medial break point in the fifties, when the mass medium of television, is 3D even today particularly a form of barter.

However, in threatening the successful upgrade of the 3D cinemas though again the new threat of home entertainment front. Ironically, the industry, the history of stereoscopic film with such good faith has pushed, could be responsible for that one soon also at home can enjoy DVDs in three dimensions, because the porn industry, according to his own sentiment, thanks to the free culture on the Internet on the crisis and examines for new revenue opportunities.

Earlier today, the indestructible "Hustler" publisher Larry Flynt, therefore, by the U.S. president after car model farmer a subsidy package of five billion dollars for his business once more. A little less PR colleagues Flynt, however, have been working diligently with hardware and software manufacturers to pay incentives to new cheerful porn consumers. Very likely that they will soon 3D technology for home use will be developed.

It would not be the first time that naked film producers the technical developments in this area are determined. From VHS-Video to BluRay disc, it was always the porn industry, the crucial Zünglein was at the scales. Disadvantage for the major Hollywood Studios: If the DVD-dimensional technique widely prevails, may again remain expensive retrofitted cinemas empty.

But apart from that is the 3D feature film, after initial enthusiasm for the exciting storms enhanced image perception anyway just really enforce it, if you have for the new space, a new narrative finds depth. So nice to "Monsters vs.. Aliens" old monster movies and cited as imaginative in "My Bloody Valentine" the pickaxe is brought to use: In the long term, the eternal drama entgegengestreckter and shouted towards objects and limbs rather monotonous.

To say anti-pornographic manner: 3D art is only survive if they are exempted from the phallic dictation.

Thomas Gottschalk will play gay designers.

Thomas Gottschalk as a Hollywood star? The moderator will be in an American comedy a gay fashion designers play. ZDF will show his most important precaution master finds itself bind.

 

Munich - His role is probably less controversial than that of Bruno, the new media persona, the "Borat" aka Sacha Baron Cohen has designed for himself and his audience this year will be let go. Bruno is the title of a hero oblique film portraits, Cohen as the gay Austrian fashion freak is present.

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Gottschalk Moderator: Rising Role in prospect

Thomas Gottschalk, at least in Hollywood genre with works like "Sister Act 2" and come to honor this country as a film actor ( "The Super Nose," "Trabbi Goes to Hollywood") known, is now also a gay fashion experts play.

The U.S. comedian Kevin James, since the sitcom "King of Queens" an institution of the recent television series, aims ZDF presenter after his visit to the show have offered the part.

The film will be a mix of real and animated film that provides the sender Tele 5, Gottschalk for expert works as cinema - a challenge which the moderator will be master play, especially since he already "Garfield" lent his voice.

The plot of the film combines romantic troubles with the idea of a better animal than human. "The Zookeeper," says the title in the U.S. produced work that shows James as a keeper, when his four-legged Schütz Lingenfelder aroused so much pity that they begin to speak with him, and him giving advice.

Continued programmed

Those responsible at the ZDF need in a matter in any event, no decision support: You have announced the contract with her to want to extend Star, although the rates of "Wetten, dass ..?" last decline.

At a meeting of the international television market MIP TV in Cannes reaffirmed ZDF program director Thomas Bellut a contractual continued: "I can well imagine that Thomas Gottschalk also from 2010/2011 'Wetten, dass ..?" will continue to moderate. "

Also Gottschalk colleague and friend Günther Jauch needs - despite rate decline in "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" - Not about his commitment to uphold: RTL entertainment chief singer Tom said that they would hold Jauch: "RTL is his creative home."

Film composer Maurice Jarre died.

He brought to the film classic blades - and it arrived with the "Doctor Zhivago" suite to world fame: The Frenchman Maurice Jarre is a pioneer of modern film composition. Then died of triple Oscar winner at the age of 84 years in Los Angeles.

 

Paris - As a film composer, he worked for legendary directors like John Frankenheimer, Alfred Hitchcock and Luchino Visconti - was equal to three times Maurice Jarre with the most coveted trophy in the world film awards: the Oscar. Now away with the "Doctor Zhivago" suite at the world famous Frenchman came at the age of 84 years in the Sunday night in Los Angeles, as the French media on Monday morning, referring to his management reported. The father of the above all in France famous musician Jean Michel Jarre is regarded as a pioneer of modern film composition, and was at more than 150 international productions involved.

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Jarre was in his career nine nominated for an Oscar, three times has he won in the sixties for "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago", two decades later for "A Passage to India". The Berlinale honored artists in February for his life's work honored with the Golden Bears. "Film composers are often in the shadow of the great directing and acting stars. When Maurice Jarre is quite different - the music of" Doctor Zhivago ", like many other of his works, is world famous and unforgettable film history," praised him Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick.

Born in 1924 in Lyon, Jarre began his artistic journey with training as a percussionist and conductor at the Paris Conservatory CNSMDP. In 1950 he became musical director of the Théâtre National Populaire invoked. For the orchestra, he composed music for the theater more than 70 pieces.

The early fifties Maurice Jarre gave his debut as a film composer for "The Invalids" by Georges Franju. Until the mid-sixties, mainly in his native France, he then worked mainly in Hollywood. Even for films like "The Tin Drum" after the novel by Günter Grass, and "The club of dead poets", he wrote the melodies.

So funny how the police allowed.

In Germany the film can not joke: first place at the box office took the "cop shop", in second place Mario Barths comedy "men". In the United States had "Monsters vs.. Aliens" the best 3D movie-launch of all time.

 

Hamburg / Los Angeles - Light and bright it must be present when the Germans go to the cinema on the top of the German cinema charts, the comedy "The department store Cop" with Kevin James from the TV series "King of Queens". As "Focus on Film 'reports consisted of roundish actor in his first leading role with 470,000 visitors in 499 cinemas sovereign at the head - and did so again in a strong weekend and the Comedian Mario Barth behind.

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Comedian James as a "cop shop": joker in Uniform

His film "men" built on the second weekend while visibly from, but with 410,000 visitors again reported good numbers and took the hurdle of playing a total of one million visitors. It landed after visitor numbers to the sweet, pink girl movie "Princess Lillifee", the IN 510 cinemas 260,000 cinema-goers - in this case probably: cinema aisles gutters - attracted. The temptation for most first graders interior is apparently pink.

Stark was the increased to 279 copies "
Slumdog Millionaire ', which in its second weekend 245,000 spectators and was recorded in comparison to starting the weekend had suffered little loss.

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The readers "decide the top five with another 120,000 viewers and manages to develop the two million visitor mark. Six visitor numbers was also" The three? - The cursed castle "reported, thus occupied sixth place. It landed with" Suburban Crocodiles "another newcomer, who in 450 cinemas to 90,000 cinema-goers came. New in the top 20 were also"
Notorious BIG "in 249 cinemas ranked twelve had 40,000 visitors, and" The Duchess ", which with 155 copies on square 15 to 30,000 spectators came.

A total of 2.3 million tickets in the German cinemas sold - again convincing figures for the end of each quarter.

USA: Monster launch for 3D film "Monsters"

In the U.S., Jeffrey Katzenberg bill risen: With 58.2 million U.S. dollars had "
Monsters vs.. Aliens "not only the best start of a film in American cinemas this year, but above all the so far best start of a 3D movie at all - and the start of a zwölftbeste animated film and the third-best March-launch yet. Of the total of 4104 Venues the film was on 1550 screens - as Katzenberg planned - will be shown in 3D. This film was spread over a lush 3-D supplement at the ticket office are happy.

Although slating by the critics, came the horror film "The Haunting in Connecticut" at 23 million U.S. dollars, and Lionsgate has already brought the second hit in this year. At the conclusion, the release from 13 years as did the fact that unusually many female viewers in the movie flowed. In third place was the "Knowing" with Nicolas Cage passable and played with a minus of 40 percent additional 14.7 million U.S. dollars one. The film now holds at 46.2 million U.S. dollars and is aiming at a turnover of approximately 80 million U.S. dollars to.

"Witness wanted!" did brilliantly and sat around 12.6 million U.S. dollars. The comedy can be a box office earnings of 46.2 million U.S. dollars presented. "Duplicity - Common Secret Thing" decide the top five. The smart movie with Julia Roberts, however, had a minus of 46 percent suffered and played only 7.6 million U.S. dollars one.

Only in seventh, the action movie "12 Rounds" by Renny Harlin with John Cena On. 5.3 million U.S. dollars in 2331 cinemas are a fairly weak result.

Geldeintreiber of the sad shape.

A small town mayor wants a desert a tourist's paradise - and buhlt vain to investors. Klaus Stern tragicomic documentary film "Hennes Dream" is a requiem to the times when a sausage gift enough to the money flowing to leave.

 

A group of older men in dark suits stands in the landscape around and look carefully into the distance. One is aware of future attractions: "There, the club are there to Arena, where the gourmet temple." The others are all trouble, the gleaming tourist paradise to imagine that here from the ground to be rigid and impressed into the wet gray Northern Hesse. A few cows stare back unimpressed.

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"Hessisch Siberia": a touching dream of a glamorous future

After the walk there for the men in dark suits or large heavy Mettwürste. The man, who distributed them, says Henry "Henner" Sattler, and he dreams of a glamorous future for his homeland, which stands in stark contrast to the rustic meat products, with whom he as a give-aways for his region advertises.

Sattler is the mayor of Hofgeismar, a 17,000-souls in the community northwest of Hesse, in the region, because of its modest appeal like "Hessisch Siberia" is mentioned. If there is disarmingly straightforward after the Lord with the brush Schnauzer is emerging here soon one of the largest construction projects in Europe, a resort on 800 acres with five luxury hotels, three golf courses and a polo trotting along with the place.

The Center is the classicist palace Beberbeck form, there are currently still 43 old people in a retirement home housed, whose lease runs another 20 years. But before they can take care of saddlery, anyway he must first rise 420 million euros.

Over two years, accompanied filmmaker Klaus Stern the mayor during his fight for the "Castle Beberbeck Resort". He looks at him like he's excited the architects back tätschelt before it together in a citizens' assembly pull, he looks him in grueling negotiations with bankers and lawyers on the shoulder, and he shows it in the moving Balz to international investors.

The finished film will Sattler understandably not so nice, but he could counter-productive in advancing his Geldeintreiben. In Northern and ran around "Hennes Dream" is already isolated, and interested citizens asked themselves after the movie and rightly so, why the father in town meetings again and again with reference to the fact that the capital was shy deer, in particular negotiation reports expressed while he was chosen in front of the camera to any discretion whistle.

Indeed, talking to Sattler in the documentation jovially around the head and neck. Approximately when visiting the Hessian Prime Minister Roland Koch of the problem to be disposed of with his retirement home to talk about dementia, and the country's rulers showed zuraunt: "That is the charm of the town, which regulates it with a bottle of wine."

Director Stern has already shot some portraits economy, mostly through early winners and losers later of the Neuer Markt. It had a study such as the award-winning young deceased on the stock market Zampano Werner Koenig inevitably be fair to the dead. But even more tragic than comic attempts by Mayor Sattler, capital, collect, distribute the atmosphere of a requiem. The film but by the customs and traditions of a recently ended Wirtschaftsära in which it seems enough, with a Powerpoint presentation and a basket of sausage gifts for adventurous investors objects to inspire.

Men and Moneten

But since the crisis is there, no one likes more than investment Hasardeur geri. Will the mayor start even researching all sides of admiring glances zugeworfen, the enthusiasm ebbed over the next two years. Even Roland Koch absentiert during his three visits ever faster out of the picture. The doubt is hard, knocking the shoulder becomes softer.

"Hennes dream" is not only Wirtschaftsrequiem and Standorttragikomödie, it is also an anthropological study of how the money or the hope of money on the male body moves: constantly embrace and tap the business is strong, it should be the physical presence economic potency suggest.

Soon, the body contact for the Mayor of Hofgeismar however, a scarce resource; sometime düster he on the hunt for investors alone with Nice and Cannes, and not even want him on the phone to former comrades-Resort gentle encouragement grant.

But Henner does not belong to the people who give up quickly. At the Expo Real in Munich, one of the world's largest commercial real estate trade fairs, for the moment he blows last attack on international donors. All politely listen to his plans, nobody wants to embarking. Not even the other in architectural and economic considerations as adventurous Arabs. Instead of a few million, the sheiks an emissary to the Germans prefer a stuffed falcon in a fine wooden casket. Mayor Sattler feel flattered, but also a little irritated.

Ah, if he had at home but a few states Mettwürste.

Toddler from Hell.

History hours of drunken, pöbelnde toddlers, cats on the treadmill: The US-American star comedian Will Ferrell is the online comedy site "Funny or Die" a surprise hit succeeded - including confusion.

 

The landlord knows no mercy. Pöbelnd, she stands in front of the door and calls for their money, abused the defaulting tenant as "Asshole" and again as a "Bitch", he threatens to shock and can only with a beer bottle abwimmeln.

The relentless nuisance, however, is only two years old and the tenant jammernde the U.S. star comedian Will Ferrell, 41 The two minutes and twenty-second sketch "The Landlord" is a massive hit in the worldwide web. From Hamburg to Tokyo, people have fun on the pöbelnde infant. More than 61 million times the clip was already called and helped the U.S. comedy website
"Funny or Die" two years ago to a grand start.

Ersponnen was the side of Will Ferrell and his colleagues, the director and writer Adam McKay. Both have their craft at the legendary U.S. TV comedy show "Saturday Night Live" and had learned after their successful outing with funny movie hits like "Anchorman" and "Talladega Nights". The principle of its web site is as simple as successful users, or modern words "user", provide fun, absurd little clips filmed with a digital camera or cell phone, but with Ferrell and McKay prominent friends with. At the end decide the user clicks through very grassroots, which was actually funny, and what it is uncompressed and therefore must die: funny or die! The sketches will be discarded in the tomb - "Crypt" - banished.

Among the hits are terrific performances by anarcho-Will Ferrell as George W. Bush, as a car dealer or prolliger TV presenter. There are also hit with the public as that of the dental anesthesia zugedröhnte nor child in the backseat of cars, cats on the treadmill or the series "Drunk History", in the seemingly alcoholic people very seriously episodes of world history to the best strategy. Overall, a huge archive of movies and private abstruse Celebrity-Klimbim clips of celebrities like Natalie Portman, Paris Hilton, Jack Black, Eva Longoria, Larry David or Bill Murray.

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"Funny or Die" is so good that it is now a British offshoot, and the TV channel HBO has acquired shares. There was only trouble with "The Landlord" because viewers anxious about the state of the child zeternden feared. Too wrong: Pearl, says the little girl is the daughter of Adam McKay, after another clip with her focus was that the little her acting career in the nail had hanged.

Oscar-show deviates Olympia.

The Oscars recognize their place for the Olympic Winter Games: 2010 is the most important film awards in the world not as usual held in February. A new date, however, was already found.

 

Los Angeles/Hamburg- sports and drama are usually not too much competition. Now, however, won the organizers of the Olympic Winter Games is the fight for a coveted event date.

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Oscar statue in front of the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles: Next year in March

Because traditionally, the Academy Award each year awarded at the end of February. But 2010 can be found from 12 to 28 February in Vancouver, Canada, the Olympic Winter Games. To prevent overlap and thus a decline in ratings to avoid was the 82nd Oscar-show so now at the 7th March postponed, as the Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced in Los Angeles.

Even the presentation of the Oscar nominations shall be reviewed in 2010 moved to 2 February. This year it was held on 22 January.

The March deadline, however, is not new for the Oscars: From 1943 to 2003, the Academy Awards is always in March or April organized. Only then was the date forward to February. But in 2006 the organizers made an exception: They moved the deadline in March - also because of the Olympic Winter Games.

It briefly became the award in its history since 1929 so far only been postponed three times: 1938 as a flood flooded Los Angeles, and in 1968 out of respect for the mourning ceremony for Martin Luther King, and 1981 because of an attack on the then U.S. president Ronald Reagan.

Unrhymed hero worship.

The legendary rapper Notorious B.I.G. wrote pop history - even since 1997, he was shot. From Sean "P. Diddy" Combs produced, was now his life filmed and kreuzbraven myths Story flattened. So you can not rhyme critical to hip-hop and its heroes.

 

The film "Notorious B.I.G." tells of life and death of rapper the same name. The main setting is only in the closing credits. When the film is over, you will learn who he has produced: Sean Combs, known world under his stage name Puff Daddy and P. Diddy. He was in the mid-nineties, the world career of Notorious BIG anstieß.

Then dear Mario Barth.

Buses to Nowhere: In the episode film "Germany 09" wanted 13 prominent young directors the current state of the nation talking about it - have escaped banality full 150 minutes, vanity and retro gags. A sad "Nonstop nonsense" version of German cinema.

 

These miserable loneliness, it pushes people to the biggest and the wretched deeds. In Germany there are a number of young directors who made the creative isolation out the local cinema force syringes have set. People like Fatih Akin, with "Quick and painless" once alone classic genre cinema with the reality of young migrants has matched. Or Hans Steinbichler, with "Hierankl" an extremely modern drama staged Alps. Or Hans Weingartner, whose Attac anthem "The Edukators" pop and politics together.

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Scene from "sick house" by Wolfgang Becker: Germany as a coma patient

If this country so many strong individual voices to be found, then one could not become a grandiose choral bundle? This was probably the idea of the project "Germany 09" was based on the 13 German directors to discuss the state of the nation. Omnibus films are such productions like to call - even if they are anything but rapidly come along.

After all, the longing for togetherness, in the event of "Germany 09" Unfortunately, almost exclusive half-baked, half-truths and Halbgedachtes spawned. And tragically, the show just the contributions of Akin, Steinbichler and Weingartner particularly clear.

It would Fatih Akin's etude "The name of Murat Kurnaz" quite explosive force can possess - the director would only aesthetically ambitious approach as well as politically. For Akin two actors can be an interview after speaking to the one in Guantanamo Kurnaz imprisoned Turk Bremer the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" has been made.

But the just claims of political prisoners in the development of reconstruction no deepening of the scandal. Conclusive, it would have been the words of the candidates attacked Chancellor Frank-Walter Stein Meier, at that time with the operation of Kurnaz case, to quote, to possibly a gemeingefährlichen bureaucracy to unmask. But Akin's contribution remains concentrated concern kitsch.

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"The name of Murat Kurnaz" by Fatih Akin

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Nicolette Krebitz: "The Unfinished"
Tom Tykwer: "Solemnly travels"
Hans Weingartner: "endanger"

The same applies to Weingartner Verschwörungsdramolett "hazard", which is also a true story is based. It is about the city of Berlin sociologist Andrej Holm, from Staatsschützern was targeted after it while Googling for suspicious words in his writings have encountered. Blöde only Weingartner that the figures in hearty good Ökos and demonic Officials subdivided. The potential dangers of a porous state but are not considered to be the eve of soap once.

While Akin and Weingartner but nevertheless genuine indignation prevails, it brings Steinbichler in "fracture" just an ironic farce: His favorite actor Josef Bierbichler are here once again the conservative choleric, the editors of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung runs amok after beloved fracture font from the editorials was banished. If the enemy should be the culture war can safely be terminated.

Ah, how easy it had opposed Kluge, Fassbinder and Co., the first against granddads aufbegehrten cinema and later resulting in their 1978 collective work "Germany in Autumn" against state violence and terror hysteria anfilmten. At this plant from the cold days, clanking a deeply divided country, the boys now want to build. But in the German Short Cuts anno 2009 looking in vain the dangerous presence of a Fassbinder, who at his naked genital rubbing negative effect on the currents of the time reflects.

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"Germany 09"
The directors Christoph Hochhäusler, Sylke Enders and Romuald Karmakar about their films to the state of the nation

What is left is for onanism pure. For example, the contribution of "Perfume" creator Tom Tykwer, the "Feierlich traveling" a business man by the synchronized world of Starbucks and Co. sends globalization critics as cutting narzistisches thunderstorm. It works with the same techniques that one pretends to criticize. Subversion of the audience is looking in vain: Grandpa's cinema is back, but it was expensive einparfümiert.

Anyway, almost all of the etudes was far too noble appearance - so to see term papers particularly ambitious student film made. Whether you're Sylke Enders media criticism miniature "imbalance" is where a camera crew in a soup kitchen for the poor mind. Or, Wolfgang Becker's political satire "sick house" for the "Good Bye, Lenin!" Director pretty much all the negative terms with regard to the welfare of the settled puns, metaphor of a Total Hospital crazy bundles. Germany as a coma patient, we laugh at ourselves patchy.

Because we feel Dieter Hallervorden out the obvious for other contributions to the spiritual adviser has: And now the joke played! So she sees that the "nonstop nonsense" version of a German auteur cinema.

Since it is only logical that the only interesting work quasi-documentary are: "A democratic round table at fixed times" shows Isabelle Stever Klassenrat at the elementary school pupils - and will take place in the description of voting processes on the smallest level to an analogy of how democracy is exhausting .

Dominik Graf, however, turns his essay "The way that we do not go together" in a pamphlet against the architectural management business, which since the fall of the Wall, the town determines the FRG. When a country wants to erase its history, said the director and only true cultural warrior, which will be widely perceived as an ugly post-war architecture eliminated. Count specifies the order formally compelling contribution. Because he has created him in stichigen Super-8-images, so is his plea for the aesthetics of the fading as a counter to that of the extermination already manifest in the material.

Another little picture love comes Romuald Karmakar brothel owners psychogram "Ramses", therefore, in which an insight into Persian migrant sex there. Stark, Karmakar like the old men of the good old Vorwendetage in Berlin's red light milieu swarm can - and thereby demonstrating that the reference to the good old days long ago no German national issue more. Banal, however, the overly bold statements on all of the German Free fäkalspezifischen wishes. The Puff is very geschweinigelt doll, what else would you have thought?

Apropos schweinigeln:
In the cinema started with just sensational 600,000 weekend visitors Mario Barths' male thing ', a film full of puns in repulsive repulsive backdrop. It is feared that at any minute of the Barth plant more German than is present in the 150 minutes of vain photographed collective work.

"Germany 09": This bus is rolling into nowhere definitely.

Anne Hathaway will be Judy Garland.

A famous artist embody: It has already so many Hollywood actress profiled. The Oscar-nominated Anne Hathaway will be equal to one of the greatest entertainment icons of America play Judy Garland.

 

For her portrayal of writer Virginia Woolf got Nicole Kidman an Oscar. Beyoncé homes for their role as a Diana Ross Kritikerlob and will soon be a Soul-Etta James Tragödin occur. Sienna Miller won the part of Andy Warhol's muse Edie Sedgwick in profile.

Mario Barth captured last bastion.

The living room and the stadiums in the nation, he has already in the grip, now conquer his stale jokes, the movie theaters: Mario Barths first film "men", with over 600,000 viewers new leader of the German charts. In the U.S. it's like mystic with Nicolas Cage.

 

Hamburg / Los Angeles - "men" had been the second best start of the year and the best start by a German film in this year. According to "Focus on Film" attracted by Oliver Berben comedy produced with 630 copies of around 630,000 visitors - and has the Constantin hire the best start since "The Perfume", in the autumn of 2007 with one million visitors was up.

Comedian Mario Barth expanded its power sector so that at the cinema, which so far from his bowl jokes was spared. For the most successful DVD could now perhaps even the most successful German film socialize.

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Against the men personified joke was not even the Oscar-winner
"Slumdog Millionaire" something, which started at the same time, however, the better copy editing achieved: With only 191 copies in use came Danny Boyle Shakers history from India to 210,000 spectators - in second place in the charts.

In third place is held
"The reader" with 140,000 viewers, followed by another reboot, "The three? - The cursed castle", the 385 copies of at least 130,000 visitors attracted. The predecessor, "The three? - The Mystery of Ghost Island", was yet to 234,491 spectators come, but start with 540 copies. The conclusion of the top five is the U.S. comedy
"Marley & me", once the 120,000 visitors attracted to the cinema.

"Despereaux - The little mouse hero", the newly launched animation adventure from Universal, started on 12th place In 307 cinemas were 40,000 tickets for the family film sold. Overall, the visitor numbers drop, despite the spring on Friday and Saturday compared with the previous week to recover. There were 1.9 million tickets.

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On the American box office, there was a small surprise: The sci-fi thriller "Knowing" with Nicolas Cage in the lead role was heavily advertised on the comedy "I Love You, Man!" (German: "witness wanted!", Launched on April 23) by.

The slapstick by John Hamburg, was of U.S. cult director Judd Apatow ( "Knocked Up") and has produced with Paul Rudd and Jason Segel on two-Apatow regulars - after successes such as "Never again having sex with the ex 'actually a self-goers. But the comedy about the turbulent search for a groom to be a witnesses continued since its launch on Friday in cinemas 2711 only around 18 million U.S. dollars. That is not bad, but just not good enough for the top position.

The went to the first film by director Alex Proyas since "I, Robot" (2004). "Knowing" (Germany starting on 9 April) tells the story of a man (Cage) who discovers a numerical code, which predicts all future disasters. The problem: The code has yet to be deciphered.

Futuristic and mystical in the U.S. is the trend, which demonstrates the success of TV series like "Lost," "Fringe" and "The Mentalist." The sci-fi "thriller" Knowing "continued since Friday cinemas in 3332 to 24.8 million U.S. dollars. In" Twilight "is the second big surprise success for the production company Summit this season.

After "Knowing" and "I Love You, Man" follows in third place until the restart with two Hollywood mega-stars: "Duplicity - Common Secret Thing" (Germany start on 30 April) brings the two "Closer" partner Julia Roberts and Clive Owen in a thriller again. The new film "Michael Clayton" director Tony Gilroy has played in 2574 movie theaters but only 14.4 million U.S. dollars one.

Vorwochenspitzenreiter "The hunt for the magic mountain" covered with 13 million U.S. dollars sales in fourth place, followed by the
"Watchmen" at the U.S. box office again to 62 percent the previous week, and after reducing 6.7 million U.S. dollars this weekend, only now, three weeks after launch, shortly before jumping on the 100-million-dollar sales hurdle is.

Noble Knight of slum sad shape.

A film like an earthquake: Danny Boyle surprise Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire" almost bursting with energy and pace. The slum-epic is so colorful, loud and funny, that every mitreißt who can not hold.

 

Eight Oscars, which is a lot. We can and will long argue about whether "Slumdog Millionaire" really is so great that he deserves them all. But no matter how it finds itself - that Hollywood's Academy this film holds for so grandiose, it is understandable: "Slumdog Millionaire", this for relatively little money in India, turned independent film by the British director Danny Boyle ( "Trainspotting"), is deep in his heart great classic Hollywood cinema, as Hollywood itself is now little more how.

Meanwhile, most know what it is: The slums grew up in Jamal (Dev Patel) from Mumbai is the Indian edition of "Who will be a millionaire" just before the main prize. So far, he may only have brought with fraud, the police, drags him to the interrogation, torture a little, and can be explained and the viewer, where Jamal all know what he knows. Because for most of the questions to him in the show were, Jamal has anecdotes from his life at hand, it has long been the responses have taught - whether it is a Hindu deity or who goes on the back of a 100 dollar note is displayed.

He tells how he and his devious brother Salim as small boys have been orphaned, as they grew up in misery, like the small Latika the two connected and has at Jamal's great love was, and how they all three in the catch of a gangster advised and that their paths have separated. And slowly it becomes clear that Jamal is not in the show is because he the big money behind her is. Because, as it is for a noble hero film belongs to him is above all about love.

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"Slumdog Millionaire", after the novel "rupees! Rupees!" by Vikas Swarup is so colorful and loud, funny and fast as you would rarely see in the cinema, but behind the modern, hip-styled pseudo-Bollywood facade hides a good portion of old-fashioned narrative cinema, a feel-good movie Hollywood School: The simple story of a climber on the super-rich ends, lined with a few fun, a few bad guys, a little social criticism and a lot of romance.

The characters do not have to be complex - Jamal is the noble knight, Latika (as an adult played by Freida Pinto), the beautiful princess who is to be rescued, and his brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) is the right of way has lost Hallodri. Good deeds in this world after a certain passion always rewarded and bad is always punished. The feelings are great, the absurd and unrealistic coincidences (destiny! Predetermine!), And Boyle is not afraid of cliché, whether he has a little water boarding during police interrogation shows, or stupid tourists at the Taj Mahal.

But it all fits together in "Slumdog Millionaire" because this is a film that focuses on the heart and exactly true. And that does not work with understatement. Boyle unleashed an earthquake of a film, a storm, everything and everyone wants to be snapped up. At breakneck speed he flogs the story forward, something always happens anywhere is something to discover, there is a barely time to breath, until completely predictable, but still staggeringly exciting staged finale.

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At the end there is a big Bollywood dance number with all Beiteiligten at the station, simply because it is fun. That should be enough for everyone to confirm that there is not a realistic image of India, or a serious commentary about class differences. This is the game of life as a fairy tale told, and everybody who might be taking, is an excellent mood to leave the cinema. This is the great performance of "Slumdog Millionaire." In the Oscars is not to be measured.

The game of life.

Won eight Oscars the film "Slumdog Millionaire" in which a poor Indian boy all the questions answered in a quiz. The movie heroes are in reality. Harsh Nawathe was through television to millionaire - today he is to Slumkinder.

 

Harshvardhan Nawathe sits before a small television, he had a tiny apartment, situated in the north of the city. It is Sunday evening in early March, a week after the Oscar ceremony, which will run on television talk show "We the People". The people on TV arguing about the film "Slumdog Millionaire" won eight Oscars. They argue, as it fights all over India, since days now.

Harshvardhan, in India only Harsh called, was also invited in this program. It is a question of whether the film in which an orphaned boy from the slum to millionaire in a quiz, which insulted the country. Or whether India should be proud of. From Harsh said.

He turns from the TV, takes his four-month-old son in his arms, talking with him, grimacing exercises, as experts recommend in education book "Baby Minds Brain Building", which he just read. Schlau Saraansh times should be smart like his father.

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He, the father wants nothing to do with all the hubbub about "Slumdog," he has no time for that. He works with children in the slums of Bombay - or Mumbai, as the city is also called - in a foundation, which pays teachers, textbooks, clothing and computer courses, so that no one of them will leave school without qualifications.

There is probably nobody in India is so much to "Slumdog Millionaire" as he could tell how Harshvardhan Nawathe. He has seen the movie, right after the India launch in January. He wanted to know if it something of his own history recognizes. In the taxi rickshaw drove with his wife to the nearest cinema, only the last two rows were filled. As always in Bombay cinema collected all of the seats and sang the Indian national anthem. At the beginning, as a movie hero Jamal into a septic tank full of shit jump, the woman passed Harsh appetite, she had her bag of popcorn stand. She found the scene and mangy felt hurt in their honor as Indian. Harsh also was disappointed. A film only. A tale from Hollywood - and Bollywood, no matter. The reality looks different, he thought, my life is true.

Harshvardhan Nawathe is India's real "Slumdog Millionaire." The first and only major winner of the quiz KBC "Kaun Banega Crorepati", says "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" in India. Nobody so far made it as far as he was.

Just over eight years, on 19 October 2000, Harsh won ten million rupees, 150,000 euros, then the maximum profit. One third of all Indians, therefore, the 350 million people, feared before their televisions and in front of the shop windows of electrical stores with this indigent students. Until today, they recognize him on the street, he is a folk hero in Bombay, and its history in India is much more popular than the movie from "the Hollywood". It sounds like a continuation of "Slumdog." What makes the fame of one who comes from below and suddenly stands at the top? How long does it a dream? And what comes next?

Harsh has seen many pictures and read many articles by this Oscar night. He saw Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. years old, the amateur actor from "Slumdog Millionaire," on the red carpet in Los Angeles. He saw them at the airport of Bombay by a car convoy were collected, how they deal with chains of flowers behängt, as the convoy through the city in their slum pulled, called the Garib Nagar, poor location. He looked like Azharuddin, the brother of "Slumdog" hero Jamal plays on a plastic chair in front of a corrugated iron hut crouched and cool gestures made it on the red carpet had learned that his naughty grin anknipste, so all the love, the Finger on the Victory sign spreads.

And he read that Azharuddin from his father had been beaten, just a slap in the face, but one with consequences. His father suggested, because he had promised an interview and Azharuddin had no desire to the many questions. He read that the boy now has this self-consultant, prior to his cottage loaf and journalists call on them for each Rupienscheine Story zustecken, there were photos of this slap in the face, and newspapers around the world printed this story. After Azharuddin had to give more interviews, Family Minister of India threatened to investigate the incident to leave, his father had to apologize. And now come from the surrounding neighbors huts are envious and gleeful, arguing with Azharuddins parents say their son would anyway have been much better suited for the role, they ask, where is now the Gage and where the new apartment, by the you always say?

Donnersmarck for Tom Cruise movie in an interview.

Noblesse oblige? In Hollywood speak any case over a contract for staatstragenden director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The Oscar-winner is Tom Cruise with a twist conspiracy thriller - in which Hollywood superstar the U.S. president plays.

 

New York / Los Angeles - Tom Cruise did it with the German aristocracy. After the German resistance hero Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg embodied, he could soon with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck twist. So mutmaßt any case, the film industry magazine Hollywood Reporter. " The director of "Das Leben der Anderen" was in the interview, the director for the political thriller "The 28th Amendment" to take over.

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Also in this film, Cruise would have been a politically explosive, and even state-supporting role: His part would be the U.S. president, the federal government discovered a secret. The course has sinister plans - the assassination of heads of state, for example.

The film was lawyer John Grisham thriller "The Firm" to the White House moved, they say. The plot varies popular conspiracy theories, indicating that a powerful clique in politics and pull the threads off foes. An early version of the screenplay suggests even, John F. Kennedy was of such Geheimbündlern just been murdered.

Non-secret is that Denzel Washington will also play and already has two directors out of the race include: Both Neil Jordan ( "The stranger in yourself") and Philip Noyce ( "Bone Collector") have had discussions with the executive led Warner Studios .

As scriptwriters were Alan Kurtzman and Roberto Orci committed. The two are writing partner and have, inter alia, the Autozerknüll-spectacle "Transformers" on the conscience. Kurtzman also has the new "Star Trek" movie series Star JJ Abrams mitgeschrieben, and both are the Lead Author team
Abrams' new series "Fringe", in which it also goes for political conspiracies.

In order to stay in the picture: The 35-year-old Henckel von Donnersmarck is thus the least-described sheet. He has no new film, since his Stasi drama of 2006 Oscar for best foreign-language film won.

"Watchmen" in free fall.

Failed Experiment: The elaborate comic adaptation "Watchmen" had in the U.S. in its second weekend to accept revenue-sensitive - the mass audience was apparently made. In Germany, the boot is not against the "readers" to.

 

Hamburg / Los Angeles - The dream of the big blockbusters: The fan not only in circles eagerly awaited adaptation of the cult comic "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is a problem case to the American box office. After quite ordinary start to the week is the curiosity of the fans seem to satisfy - the film lost 67 percent of its sales launch and played on the second weekend only 18.1 million U.S. dollars, which is still in second place for the box-office Charts presented.

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Scene from "Watchmen": no flop, but also no success

After ten days was almost 150 million U.S. dollars expensive antiheroes drama at around 85 million U.S. dollars turnover, experts expect a U.S. release of 120 million U.S. dollars from. What do not flop, but also no success. It was director Zack Snyder the leap from fan event in the mainstream desired. "I think the time is ripe, and the audience is ready for an evolution towards more sophisticated material in the genre of comic book adaptations," he said
In an interview with blogs ONLINE. But the bare figures tell a different language: Despite strong consumer comic films like "300" and "The Dark Knight denied the mainstream audience the" Watchmen ", which of course may also be due,
that the two and some half-baked film between the author and cinema effects spectacle commutes.

The mass strives to prefer the tried: New Leaders in the American movie charts is the Disney adventure film "The Race To Witch Mountain" (German title: "The hunt for the magic mountain, starting on 9 April). With 3187 copies to start, came the family-action comedy with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, according to "Focus on Film" to a solid start 25 million U.S. dollars revenue.

"Sunshine Cleaning" - the indie summer hit?

The horror-classic remake of "Last House on the Left", genre justice on Friday the 13th started, had 14.7 million U.S. dollars is also a solid start - third place behind the "Watchmen". Fourth place went to the lasting thriller "Taken/96 Hours". The spectacle of revenge with Liam Neeson once built only nine per cent from its Vorwochenumsatzes played 6.7 million U.S. dollars, and now stands at 126.8 million U.S. dollars turnover. The unlikely success of comedian and filmmaker Tyler Perry with his comedy "Madea Goes to Jail" decide the top five with 5.1 million U.S. dollars and a total turnover of 83.2 million U.S. dollars.

The newly launched comedy "Miss March" had to deal with 2.4 million U.S. dollars and ten modest place, while a limited number of copies ongoing comedy "Sunshine Cleaning," the successor of the successful film "Little Miss Sunshine" producers promising start: $ 53,000 , the film with Amy Adams and Emily Blunt as sympathetic unsuccessful sister pair in only four cinemas around New York. An upcoming indie summer hit?

First time for weeks broke sales in the U.S. cinemas a little one. Industry experts, however, with the DreamWorks animated film "Monsters vs.. Aliens", which starts in two weeks, already the next potential blockbusters on the horizon. Germany start on 2 April.

Until then, it is likely also in the local cinema charts little change.
"The readers' held the audience in its third week in his spell. At least after turnovers. By pure numbers of visitors expected, allowed the U.S. comedy
"Marley & me" secure the top position: The dog Dramolett with Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson drew loud "Focus on Film" 240,000 visitors and brought about the "readers" with 10,000 tickets, however, with a box office earnings of 1.7 million euros around 100,000 euros before 'Marley & me "was.

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"Shopaholic - The bargain hunter" in third place. The U.S. comedy in 425 cinemas attracted 170,000 visitors. It landed "Hexe Lilli - The Dragon and the Magic Book", with 105,000 visitors and "The Pink Panther 2" (100,000 viewers).

Outside the top five ranked at the second weekend the "Watchmen", which in Germany is not quite as dramatic as in reducing the U.S., but still down more than 50 percent on the second weekend had to cope. Almost 100,000 spectators saw the comic adaptation of the weekend.

The strongest was the German film reboot
"Hilde," but disappointing with the 80,000 spectators to place eight landed. The horror film "The Unborn" landed with 75,000 visitors still barely in the Top Ten.

With total about 1.7 million visitors were registered in German cinemas this weekend so far the weakest of the year.

"I am a prostitute who loves her profession".

His epic "The Fall" is a surreal spectacle of cinema. Blogs ONLINE spoke with the director Tarsem Singh about his obsessions, the stories of his childhood - and about why "The Lord of the Rings" today looks totally ridiculous.

 

blogs ONLINE: The genesis of "The Fall" sounds quite adventurous to: 11 years of preparation, shooting four years. Here you are at least 18 different countries traveled.

Singh: The first time I have even 23 years ago talked about the project. And I have several other contracts with which I had money, so canceled. For "The Fall" but nobody wanted me a penny of money. I have nevertheless continued.

blogs ONLINE: You have a worrying obsession.

Singh: You know, my friend had asked me at that time by one day to the next exit. I was devastated. The only way for me out of this hole, it was this film. He has helped me to survive.

blogs ONLINE: At the heart of "The Fall" is a little girl and the stories that it has in mind. How did you come?

Singh: In the Indian Himalayan region, where I then went to school, there was no cinema. But we had a teacher who told us stories - the thought of it spontaneously. I hung on her lips. And the stories I have still not forgotten.

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Singh: In retrospect, they listen to almost grotesque. For us, however, they were very big cinema: the story of a mix of James Bond and Robin Hood, for example, who tried the mystery of the Watergate scandal to solve. Every week, let us with a Cliffhanger back. And we fieberten next week contrary to hear what comes next.

blogs ONLINE: In an era in which comedy itself is no longer live without computer tricks, do not use special effects and turn in original locations. Why?

Singh: I love special effects - but the problem is that they rarely work. Take a film like "The Lord of the Rings." At that time, the computer is technically the measure of all things. But three years later, the film looks cheap and ridiculous from. Even the current version of the video game is probably better than the movie. I wanted a timeless story. I do not want my film in 20 years old works.

blogs ONLINE: Your brother has the movie for you produced. He has a very patient man.

Singh: That's him. And we complement each other in a kind of symbiosis. When I in the U.S. at the College at some point the money out, he came to my help. He cleaned toilets for two years in order to finance my studies. Because my father had us turn off the tap off, not because we wanted to study what he had imagined. Later I contacted my brother and revanchiert the law school allows. He has two children and I am his third child. Without him I would be lost.

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Tarsem Singh was born in 1961 in India. With 24 years he went to the United States. He began his career as director of music videos, including the award-winning video of the REM song "Loosing My Religion". As he worked on commercials for Levi's, his works are part of the Spot collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 2000 came his directorial debut in the film: "The Cell", a psychological thriller with Jennifer Lopez in the lead role.

blogs ONLINE: Their next two projects are classic Hollywood projects. How you cope with the shift from art to commerce?

Singh: Very excellent. I am a prostitute who loves her profession.

blogs ONLINE: Why not turn a quick Bollywood film before, the trend is over?

Singh: Ask each of the Indians? But I have to live well in this to be pigeonholed. As a teenager I loved Bollywood films. But already with seventeen years, I found it just embarrassing. Only since the Western perspective, I know, I have re-established it as its own genre to appreciate. These films have their own peculiar laws, which you must accept. And like the Chinese martial arts cinema, they have survived in their isolation. But for me it's nothing.

blogs ONLINE: In the meantime, you are happy again affiliated. Would you, you should once again suffering from lovesickness, "The Fall 2" rotate?

Singh: Oh, no. Please do not! I'm glad that I had made this film. But I hope also implore that I was this terrible addiction never has a grip. I do not want to be backslid.

World War II drama is Lola favorite.

The candidates for the German Film Prize are: Nominated include 'The Baader Meinhof Complex "and" Jerichow. " The greatest opportunities are, however, the Kriegsepos "John Rabe" with Ulrich Tukur disclosure.

 

Hamburg - What the Oscar for the international cinema, is in Germany, Lola, long known under the name of a little bourgeois Federal Film: the main award of the film industry. On Friday morning, have Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and the actress Jasmin Tabatabai nominations announced.

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Ulrich Tukur as John Rabe: Favorite for the German Film Prize

As a favorite game for the film is
"John Rabe." The World War II drama with Ulrich Tukur was awarded a total of six nominations. Besides the large-scale production
"The Baader Meinhof Complex" were also four nominated films Author: Özgür Yildirim
"Chiko"
"In the winter one year" by Caroline Link,
"Jerichow" by Christian Petzold and Andreas Dresen
"Cloud 9".

To Lola for Best Actress actresses compete Anna Maria Mühe ( 'November children'), Ursula Werner ( "Cloud 9") and Johanna Wokalek ( "Der Baader Meinhof Komplex"). When the male main cast are Josef Bierbichler ( "In the winter one year"), Denis Moschitto ( "Chiko") and Ulrich Tukur ( "John Rabe") is proposed.

In the year 2008 had Fatih Akin for "On the other hand," the Game Award will receive the Lolas for best actor went to Nina Hoss (Yella) and Elmar Wepper ( "cherry blossom"). The Lola is just about three million euros prize money (including the nomination of premiums) of highly doped German Culture Prize. The best feature is 500 000 is excellent.

Magic and madness.

The surreal cinema spectacle "The Fall" deeply immersed in the thought world of a little girl. Although there is pretty silly too, but in the overwhelming images, obtained as a movie lover should have seen: just drop it and enjoy.

 

Fresh is "The Fall" is really no more, in the sense you can look forward to the movie it's still in the German cinema has achieved. The official premiere took place already in autumn 2006 at the Toronto Film Festival held a few months later he was still in a rather inconspicuous Generations series shown at the Berlinale, and then nothing happened first. Only about a year later, the U.S. had a small theatrical release, more or less of the public. In Canada, he came only as a DVD.

A bitter lot for the eagerly awaited second feature by director Tarsem, whose debut film - the serial killer movie "The Cell" with Jennifer Lopez - in 2000, although for very mixed reactions caused, but its exciting to nightmarish imagery attracted much attention and a respectable result box provided.

The two films have much in common: recovery plays a big part of the plot in the thought world of a protagonist from, again, there are stunning pictures to see and again wins the style clearly doubtful about the substance.

This is not, however, the sick imagination of a murderer to explore, but the colorful dream world of the little girl Alexandria (Catinca Untaru). The arm is broken and lies in a hospital in Los Angeles, sometime from 1910 to 1920, not coincidentally, at the time when the film industry just started to invent. Because it is boring, she makes friends with a shackled to the bed and love-sick movie stuntman (Lee Pace, known from "Pushing Daisies") that is it a mystical story begins in five in the desert exiled heroes who with an evil tyrant (Daniel Caltagirone) record.

In Alexandria imagination take people from the hospital in the roles of legendary heroes history, and she thinks are colorful places and worlds in favor of changing eras, as it probably only a small child can. Slowly mix the two levels of narrative, the images are absurd, grotesque and brutal to unleashed, roaring finale.

This all looks incredible good. Over four years, the former advertising and music video director Tarsem in 18 different countries of the Fiji Islands Chile to Cambodia rotated, and incredible filming locations found, which he with all sorts of camera tricks a surreal, fairy same aura missed. Whether a mysterious blue city, one of stairs lined abyss or endless deserts and underwater worlds - a visual spectacle triggers from the next, allegedly without computer effects, just as you would have never seen before.

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One problem is the screenplay, which in excessive fidelity to the prospect of a five-year-olds sometimes arg gets silly and infantile. Adults may be bored quickly, while for children towards the end just too much violent way. Unlike Guillermo del Toros similar stroke of luck "Pans Labyrinth" Tarsem offers no intelligent and exciting context for its dreamlike images, the film suffocates without credible level in almost magic and madness.

But who in the power of pictures and believes loves the cinema, because it can create worlds like no other medium, it is written in "The Fall" correctly. Just drop and enjoy.

Bargain with Deppchen.

So is Hollywood that is tackling the economic crisis: hogans In PJ "Shopaholic" is a purchase for financial Expert addicts. But the bill does not address. Especially not for the target audience: women.

 

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer said the film "a tale of triumph," a winning story. A Girl modenärrisches metropolitan economy is editor, overcomes her shopping addiction and get a great man is indeed "Shopaholic - The bargain hunter" is a triumph - everything a good chick flick really mind.

Hilde Homeless.

A Star World, petty portrays: Heike Makatsch klimpert as "Hilde" perfectly with the eyelashes, the secret of her Knef remains sealed. Director Kai Wessel returns a despondent nacherzähltes Star portrait from - a time-dubious pleasure.

 

The one or the other they had compliment to her grave, they drove some of defamation to new peak. "A German girl in pure culture," Joseph Goebbels enthused about it after it at the end of the war first film had seen pictures. "Gift for the Youth" was the early fifties on flyers after the premiere of "The sinner" called only for a few seconds because her breasts on the screen to see was.

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Mysterious Rose: Hilde (Heike Makatsch) in the recording studio

There is probably hardly any other German star, the so consistently as a projection surface for longings and anxieties of his time has been used - and these attributions repeatedly undermined virtuosically to re-invent. Hildegard Knef was a total work of art. Impossible to say where the real Hilde stopped and the stage persona Knef began. After all, how do we pay for an artist who her autobiography merely as a commodity that was from a large to survive I had to shape?

This makes it difficult to explore the ways in which the little one to Hildegard Knef was great and the other as the true Hilde behind the stage looked ego. The makers of the film biography "Hilde" have tried it anyway and are the most important life stages of the artist.

The guards ask to checkout.

Topstart for the cult comic: Zack Snyder "Watchmen" struggling in the U.S. despite the R rating on square one. In Germany, the dark adaptation, however, Jennifer Aniston and her dog beaten type.

 

Hamburg / Los Angeles - "Who watches the Watchmen?" - Who actually looks at the people who monitor us? This question has in the eighties, not only Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons employed, the two creators of the comic "Watchmen", which in her had become a cult classic work is a dark, rotten from the cold war world marked. No, they are also employed as the producers of the movie version of a superhero-force unverfilmbar substance - on an economic level, of course.

After starting the weekend, they can at least in the U.S., the heartland, a little more relaxed in the cinema seat recline. According to "Focus on Film" landed
"Watchmen" with 55.6 million U.S. dollars on the top box at Box Office.
Zack Snyder comic book adaptation created so that the previously best start the weekend of the year.

Because of the enormous publicity it was a good result is expected, but given a period of nearly three hours and an R-rating is the success of the film started in 3611 but amazing movie - even though he was not as strong as previous Snyders
"300", which exactly two years ago with 70.9 million U.S. dollars was received.

Second place went to the stable "Madea Goes to Jail," the fourth part of a series of comedy and Tyler Perry. The film, in which Perry dressed as a woman plays a Southern Lady, has his total earnings after 8.8 million U.S. dollars to 76.5 million U.S. dollars to increase, making it the most successful film of his career.

Good run continues, the thriller "Taken/96 Hours", on the sixth day of the weekend, only 24 per cent biodegradable and after 7.4 million U.S. dollars in total 118 million U.S. dollars already has implemented.

The 100-million-dollar mark has also
Oscar-winner "Slumdog Millionaire" already skipped. Danny Boyle film highly decorated continued his good run at the weekend with another 6.9 million U.S. dollars and continued shakedown comes to a total profit of 125.4 million U.S. dollars.

The top five Decides "The department store Cop" King of Queens star Kevin James, the recordings 4.2 million U.S. dollars and 133.6 million U.S. dollars with a total box office to date most successful film of the year.

Rapidly went downhill, however, with the boy band movie "Jonas Brothers - The ultimate 3D concert experience" from the house of Disney, which is a minus of 78 percent and thus had to cope from second place on nine fell.

Triumph of a pretty blonde family

In Germany, it is heavier than comic films in the U.S., and so came
"Watchmen", launched in 371 cinemas, with 185,000 viewers (no preview numbers) only in third place. We had hoped for an outcome, as it
"Batman Begins" in 2005 was reported. The first Batman movie by director Christopher Nolan (about 900,000 viewers in total) came on his first weekend at around 218,000 visitors, however, was also almost twice as many copies gelaufen (674).

At number one landed on the other hand, another reboot of the reason her mood probably the exact opposite of the dark "Watchmen" is:
"Marley & me". The romantic comedy is a blonde family (Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston and her Labrador) was already in the United States became a surprise success, and came here in 548 cinemas around 370,000 visitors.

Behind it followed the front-runner last week, "
The readers', which again of about 310,000 viewers and was now determined on the one-million-visitor mark zusteuert. With a total of more than 700,000 visitors is the best film adaptation of Oscar-winner Kate Winslet is already the second film of the Senator Film lending since its restructuring two years ago.

At number four landed the Disney children's film "Hexe Lilli", for the 165,000 tickets have been resolved, and thus also to the one-million-visitor mark zusteuert. The top five decides another newcomer, Clint Eastwood's
"Gran Torino" in 143 cinemas with a good cut to 100,000 visitors came and so into the race a little better off than
"Million Dollar Baby" four years ago.

"The journey to the center of the Earth" came in 223 cinemas with 65.000 spectators barely in the Top Ten, Willibald, and the wonders of this world "there would have been in 163 cinemas with 60,000 Kinogängern almost done.

Altogether, about 2.1 million tickets in Germany dissolved.

"I wanted this excessive violence".

The cult comic book "Watchmen" was considered unverfilmbar, U.S. director Zack Snyder, it is managed. With blogs online, he talks about death threats from fans, the sense of bloody violence in the cinema - and told his mother about what Super Mans fortress in the arctic white.

 

blogs ONLINE: Mr. Snyder,
You have dared, the cult comic book "Watchmen" adaptation to the Holy Grail of comic book fans. How many death threats have you ever received?

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Scene from "Watchmen": "Cinema can not afford what a comic, but conversely, it is precisely the same"

Snyder: Oh, there were some. But honestly, not so many as when I use the remake of "Dawn of the Dead" turned.

blogs ONLINE: You take quite abandoned.

Snyder: Because it is normal. This belongs to the passionate anger about fan culture, particularly when it comes to works which are so seriously and personally used such as "Watchmen". And what I already do? I carry a weapon at least not if you believe. What I still do not understand is the schizophrenia of supporters: You want one do not, that you filmed your favorite comics, and then again you can not wait. Very strange.

blogs ONLINE: Do you fear the reaction of the cinema audience and the fans on your "Watchmen" version? Not least stand next to your reputation than 100 million U.S. dollars budget to the game.

Snyder: Oh, in these categories, I think not. I am now more about the film to show at last. I'm ready! I'm excited! And also do I want after three years with this film again even other things. It was an affair of the heart that I had nothing, but it is good to be finished.

blogs ONLINE: Is the film, now in the cinemas is your definitive version of "Watchmen"?

Snyder: I would still continue for many years off work. But seriously: There's a Director's Cut, which is three hours long, and an even longer version, an animated addition to the action around the pirate ship, the "Black Freighter", contains. All this will someday appear on DVD. But the slightly shorter version of the cinema is a good thing, as it is and will also work.

blogs ONLINE: Alan Moore, author of the comic strip, has an early stage of each "Watchmen" adaptation dissociates. Did you during the shooting to contact him?

Snyder: No, unfortunately not. He has contacted every verbeten. Although I have a thing or two times tried to speak with him, but I had to bow to the realities. Fortunately we had with the illustrator Dave Gibbons, the other half of the "Watchmen" team in the boat. Dave was very generous with his time and has supported us, wherever he could. That was very cool.

blogs ONLINE: Nevertheless, you need as a fan but particularly from the withdrawal of love Alan Moore's suffering.

Snyder: It does indeed hurt! Maybe we have the movie so faithfully as possible. In order to compensate for his absence.

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blogs ONLINE: Or to him to prove that it is just yet? Moore has been the end of the eighties, said that his graphic novel for unverfilmbar holds. He started with "Watchmen" just want to show what the medium of comics to the cinema has provided.

Snyder: Movies can not afford what a comic, but conversely, it is just the same. A simple example: Dr. Manhattan is in the template just a vehicle for philosophical sayings, one never gets a proper wire to him. Thanks to the actor Billy Crudup in the film we see is pain and doubt in his face - so ultimately the people behind this same divine nature. So we have given the characters a bit, which is only really good movie, namely emotional depth.

ONLINE blogs: "Watchmen" is a very long, dark and political film about a gang of psychopaths and fetishists. The fans certainly do not scare, but how do you get a mass audience for your movie inspire?

Snyder: I am sure that they initially make no difference between Superman and Dr. Manhattan. That evening they go and say: Let us a superhero movie! And when I do so first lured into the cinema, then, zack!, They see "Watchmen". When I was the comic for the first time read, it was just me. I thought: Cool, a new superhero saga. And then I discovered that it was the exact opposite was - and was thrilled. In this effect, I also hope the mainstream audience. I want the whole subversiveness the template to the canvas transfer.

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Zack Snyder, 1966 in Green Bay, Wisconsin was born, is as a director, the comic book fans trust. His feature film debut of the celebrated former commercials with his visually stunning remake of the zombie classic "Dawn of the Dead" (2004). Since its idiosyncratic adaptation of the battle-comics "300" by Frank Miller at Blockbuster, and more than 500 million U.S. dollars followed it, Snyder is believed to be in Hollywood, impossible to perform. So he was allowed in 1986 by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created the cult comic book "Watchmen" almost as faithfully filming as he wanted. The supposedly up to 150 million U.S. dollars expensive film has been running since Thursday in the German cinemas.

blogs ONLINE: Among other things, is in "Watchmen" to see how limbs hacked off and how a pregnant woman is shot dead. Had to be so much brutality?

Snyder: If you knew how hard it was, all of the concerns makers of Warner Bros. vorbeizubekommen! But I wanted to go too far, I wanted these exaggerated violence. Nothing is worse than this everyday, aged 13 years and released in violent action films, in which nobody is really hurt and nobody dies. I find that dangerous, especially for the kids. But I want the audience to reach the point at which he presented himself to the enjoyment of the most terrifying scenes caught and asks if something is wrong with him. Then it becomes really interesting, then perhaps he is thinking about the whole other violence, which he in other movies just so consumed as entertainment.

ONLINE blogs: do you want the mainstream cinema with his own weapons. This is actually quite a subversive film, with an enormous marketing campaign and in the U.S. alone with 5000 copies starts.

Snyder: Yes, trippy, huh? But I think it is important to movies like "Watchmen" to make to the way current cinema is made a bit aufzumischen. I think the time is ripe and the audience is ready for an evolution towards more sophisticated material in the genre of comic book adaptations. We have to "Watchmen" is not love, but you should at least take the trouble and appreciate the effort, to create more than mass-produced like "Die Fantastischen Vier".

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blogs ONLINE: Nevertheless, "Watchmen" is not "The Dark Knight." When you called Batman Nite Owl and potency problems. Is not that a bit more pop-cultural irony that you demand from the viewers?

Snyder: Oh, come! Even my mother knows that Superman a "fortress of solitude" in the Arctic has. Or ask anyone on the street, as Peter Parker to Spider-Man was, everyone knows that! Comics have long been part of the current zeitgeist, and much deeper into the mass popular culture rooted than you might think. The people have the reference system on it, they have enough pop-cultural education and political awareness in order to enjoy "Watchmen" to have, I am quite sure. Even if they only Vorblogsung under false pretenses to lure cinema needs.

blogs ONLINE: And what do you do if "Watchmen" still floppt cruel?

Snyder: When we did "300" made, I was sure that we have a pure niche film that only a few hardcore fans would be seen. No one suspected that there was a 500 million U.S. dollars would be harder blockbuster. But it was so. Who knows what happens? As for the comic book fans are concerned, is for me a lot at stake. If this goes wrong and the people hate the movie, I lost my bonus. Then I have for the rest of my life romantic comedies turn.

The interview was conducted by Andreas Borcholte

Oscar-winner Horton Foote died.

Nobody dealt so intensively with the dark side of life as he was Henry Foote for his screenplays and dramas with the highest awards the industry honored. Then died of the U.S. author in age of 92.

 

Los Angeles / Hamburg - sombreness was his trademark in over fifty screenplays and stage plays, the native Texan Henry Foote, the dark side of American life on the topic. Most of his pieces are complex everyday dramas, in which only at first sight, nothing happens. According to his daughter Hallie Foote, he died on Wednesday at the age of 92 years in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Scriptwriter Foote: died at the age of 92

For his screenplay for the movie classic "Who disturbs the nightingale" ( "To Kill a Mockingbird") 1963 Foote received his first Oscar. He was succeeded in 1984 an Academy Award for "Tender merci", and in 1985 the nomination for the screenplay of "The Trip to Bountiful." In 1995, the writer for the stage play "The Young from Atlanta," there is also a Pulitzerpreis awarded one of the highest awards of the literary industry.

His career began in the 1916-born son of a haberdashery retailer as an actor. First of all, therefore he left his Texas home town of Wharton to go to California. In the 1930s he joined a theater group in New York at. His first Broadway production of "Only the Heart" was set up in 1944 premiered.

The passion remained Foote to write into their advanced age. Even last autumn, his play "Dividing the Estate" on Broadway celebration. "I just can not stop writing," said the author a few years ago in an interview. "It's like an addiction."

The Supertöle.

The shocking trivial, but extremely clever family film "Marley & Me" tells the story of a nice couple, the 13 years from a naughty dog is accompanied through life.

 

This is a film where you with classic movie criticism is not far. From an artistic point of view, "Marley & I" a debris field. It is about a young couple and sympathetic journalists (Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston), which is in front of children for safety's sake wars erstmal a dog, respectively, of the next 13 years then an integral part of the life of the two and their growing family. The adorable Labrador retriever Marley is a bit naughty and wild, so it is at the beginning of a few little original, but amusing scenes with tattered furniture and a draconian dog trainer (Kathleen Turner) returns.

Many viewers will then be at a great dramatic conflict to wait for a climax, an indication of what this story so special. But there's nothing. "Marley & Me", after the success of autobiographical novel by John Grogan filmed by David Frankel ( "The Devil Wears Prada"), has no particular history. In fact only highly ranks Frankel professionally the scenes of a deeply ordinary marriage together. The two argue that sometimes a little bit, have mostly fond, children come there, he will be transported, they are on the job, she is somewhat frustrated, then not, they move around - just as what happened in 13 years of a relationship, except that all the time a dog runs through the picture.

A dramaturgical approach, there is not really how random the individual scenes are presented - as if they were cute little movie for themselves and not built for successive parts of a large ensemble. The result is less a movie than a splashing time - until the only truly important part of "Marley & Me": the big tearful finale, which is almost obscenely manipulative comes, but anyone who ever owned a dog or love won dry eye in the cinema hall is dismissed.

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"Marley & Me" may be no more valuable or important film, but he is without question well. The two main characters are so charming and relaxed being that they are the gracious couple from next door immediately decreases, whenever it might be boring, the director simply lets the dog broke anything, and at the end before we moved louder anyway almost forget previously that no significant happened. And in terms of David Frankel makes the crucial right: He takes the erwartbarerweise mostly from passionate dog friends existing audience seriously enough that he just a normal relationship between man and dog and point to the particular values explained - a film for an verschworene community, just can not understand who is not heard.

Cats fans better keep away.

The Old Man and the Rifle.

Dirty Harry in Detroit: In "Gran Torino," with Clint Eastwood as a retired locksmith car into battle against the gangs of his neighborhood. An ironic elegy from the orphaned heartland of America - the old master brings to his own myth for the route.

 

Is he just a bitter retired or he is the avenger of a declining industrial nation? If Walt Kowalski zusammengekniffenen with eyes and leveled shotgun "Down on my lawn!" towards unwelcome neighbor or teenager growls gangster, is in any case refrain from further discussions. The man knows how to make a banner decorated with star suburban porch of un-American machinations optics.

Once it was so was his neighborhood as the birthplace of the U.S. auto industry. Here slept there, the blue-collar army, the automobile factories of Detroit stopped running. But not only since the bosses of the American PS business with the new president go begging, Michigan is once prosperous suburb World an orphaned region. For many years looking at Kowalski, a veteran of the assembly line of Ford, now with more grouchy visage, as his neighborhood of gangs and immigrants will be conquered.

Later in his garage, a 1972 Ford Gran Torino, which he once screwed together at the factory has on his front lawn pollard equips the old culture to the fight. Black days thieves obstruct the way young women, young Hispanic criminals wave revolvers rum, Asian gang members terrorize their neighbors with Drive-by shooting attacks. The worst of the Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski, however, is that the grandmother of the Asian family next door, chewing his grantig ausgespuckten with a much grantiger brown ausgespuckten surge countered.

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Hart embodies the caricature of Clint Eastwood in "Gran Torino" a kind of highly compressed Rächerfigur: He greint, he growls, he attracts the eyes together, as if he wanted to in the role of Kowalski once every taciturn, but the more violent the gunslingers actor career unite . Harry Callahan from the Dirty Harry 'saga over Bill Munny from "The Unforgiven", to name the many lots of the early Italo-Western, he pulls all the registers. And do not forget, of course Boxtrainer his oscargekrönten Frankie Dunn in "Million Dollar Babe", with "Tough Is not Enough" a campaign slogan, has spent the Kowalski also on the door carefully kept his arms hanging cabinet might have.

All the more surprising because it is like this in just five weeks leichthändig Finish film, with all the irony and all the Selbstbeblogsung
Total artwork Clint Eastwood's gradually in depth and tragedy wins. This is naturally due to the fact that the director in his Detroit neighborhood ballad in precisely that American heartland vorgestoßen is where the economic crisis currently the most visible social disruption occurs. This is due to another but also because, as he almost any revolver rhetoric without the devastating effects of violence nachzeichnet.

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Because a proxy for all the avenger and Rechtsbeuger, the untouchables and merciless, in which he embodies his career has demonstrated Eastwood retired to his car screwdrivers that killing is never followed through. To be fair even Walt Kowalski also served on the veranda the Budweiser cans can fizzle - the veteran of Korea is driven by memories that he can share with anyone and wants. No wonder that the young priest, who always invites you to confession, blasphemous sayings virtuosically with the devil sends. The absolution, after which Kowalski longs, there is not for a couple of Our Father.

And yet the developed initially as mild suburb to a veritable portrait of guilt and expiation drama (Book: Nick Schenk). Indeed, as Walt Kowalski, misanthropic and racist as it is now time, a few young Asian gangsters away from his street, he unwillingly becomes a hero of the Asian community. The Hmong-Vietnamese next besiege him henceforth with delicacies and courtesies. Soon it is the xenophobic old bones from the daughter of the house in the strange customs import and advises the spiritual son in life issues.

GRAN TORINO (USA, 2008)

Director: Clint Eastwood
Screenplay: Nick Schenk
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Ahney Her, Bee Vang
Distributor: Warner
Production Company: Double Nickel Entertainment
Running time: 116 minutes
Start: 5 March 2009

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And when a gear hunting on neighboring boys makes equips Kowalski, apparently some people on his conscience, for the last battle. As a moral compensation business, this plot twist arg exaggerated, but undermines the finals all expectations. While the struggle behängt Greis Kowalski here again with cartridge belts and hand guns, it is true as a whole continued to conquer. Alone, he is not a single shot from.

It is as Eastwood disassembled with the passive resistance, he can afford his protagonists, all action heroes are, he has previously embodied. How could the avenger-elegy "Gran Torino," in the U.S. went better than any Eastwood film before, actually the last gig of the 78-year-old as an actor, as is always rumored.

Dirty Harry at the Showdown in Suburbia: Here is a myth itself on track. The blood debt is finally settled.

Film fans will seduce readers.

In the U.S., a flop in Germany successful: Schlink adaptation "The readers' profits in the German cinema charts of Oscar hype. U.S. cinema-goers, however, refuse to follow the Jonas Brothers - the Teen Band floppte with their concert film.

 

Los Angeles / Hamburg - How successful resistance thriller "Operation Valkyrie" in American Kinogängern was so modest it can run in the USA for the
Adaptation of Bernhard Schlink bestseller "The readers'. Since its launch in early December was Stephen Daldrys opulently equipped, brilliant film played only 27 million U.S. dollars to implement. Since the first indexed Oscar nominations nothing, and Kate Winslet triumph at the Academy Awards were a bit too late for the U.S. audience.

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Scene from "The readers' with Kate Winslet, David Kross: In bed with the past

Quite different in Germany, where the last Thursday not only better for the Oscar-winning film launch had agreed, but naturally also closer to the issue of Holocaust guilt and repression is. Thus ended "the lecture" easily on the top of the German cinema charts and brought the Berlin Independent Senator hire a magnificent result: According to "Focus on Film" lured in 363 cinemas movie launched over the weekend more than 350,000 visitors. Senator for the best start since "The Miracle of Berne" in front of five and a half years, with 383,302 visitors.

In second place was the "Witch Lilli - The Dragon and the Magic Book" with 240,000 viewers, followed by Jim Carrey as "The Yes-Sager" with 160,000 viewers. In fourth place followed by "Murder is my business, I love" another restart. From Warner Bros. in 408 cinemas and 150,000 visitors started, the mystery-comedy with Nora Tschirner a solid start. The newly launched third part of the Vampirsaga "Underworld: Revolt of the Lykaner" made it with 299 copies and 125,000 viewers to rank five. The previous film, "Underworld: Evolution" was three years ago, with 232,015 visitors at the launch weekend is almost twice as good start, but then played even Kate Beckinsale the lead role, a much better actress Rhona Mitra as the successor.

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New in the German charts is also the U.S. comedy "Role Models?" ( "Role Models"), which in 348 cinemas with around 110,000 Kinogängern started. At the Oscars, unfortunately, empty out
"The Wrestler" with Mickey Rourke in the lead, started only in 98 cinemas and attracted at least 35,000 visitors to. Altogether, some 2.1 million tickets, a durable solid results.

In the United States had particularly popular with teenagers Jonas Brothers a medium heavy defeat suffered: Your concert film "Jonas Brothers - The ultimate 3D concert experience," made it last weekend, the Leaders' Madea Goes to Jail "to oust. To the amazement of experts, because Disney's TV show by pop-bred creatures, including Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana is one subject since the success of the concert spectacle "Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour" last year as potential blockbusters.

Accordingly, the Jonas Brothers with stately 1271 copies - this is a lot for a concert film - started, but the expectations of 30 or 40 million U.S. dollars on the first weekend sales were disappointing. Just 12.7 million U.S. dollars, the brave boy band played one. "Madea Goes to Jail," the meanwhile even fourth film from the Madea series of self-made man Tyler Perry, claimed that despite 60 percent revenue loss compared to the previous week with 16.5 million U.S. dollars to square one. After ten days, the comedy has already recorded 64.9 million U.S. dollars.

The real success story of the weekend, however, "Slumdog Millionaire."
The Oscar-winner had a sales increase of 45 percent, that's according to "Focus on Film" the biggest profit jump an Oscar winner for "Titanic" in 1997. Since at least 16 weeks is Danny Boyle India drama in the U.S., now in cinemas, and 2943 with a total profit of 115.1 million U.S. dollars, around 12 of them come from the last weekend alone. The thriller "Taken/96 Hours started with a turnover of 10.0 million dollars to 100-million-dollar barrier, and the comedy" It is simply not for you "decide the top five with 5.8 million U.S. dollars turnover (total : 78.5 million).

Loser of the weekend is the martial arts film "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li": The only video game adaptation set to 4.7 million U.S. dollars.

Iran demands apology from Hollywood.

Iran's government is a delegation from Hollywood to the sights. Actually, the guests including Actrice Annette Bening, seminars about filmmaking hold - but the government wants an apology first. Movies like "300" and "The Wrestler" offended the Iranian people.

 

Tehran - Actually they were come to talk to knowledge, to build relationships. A delegation of nine representatives of the U.S. film industry is currently in Iran, to seminars on topics such as writing scripts, about directing, acting, film production and marketing and other issues to consider. But really welcome the group, whose most prominent members of the actress Annette Bening ( "American Beauty") and the President of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Sid Ganis, are not in Tehran.

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Annette Bening in Tehran: "I hope that we have an open dialogue between the two countries can achieve"

Hollywood should only once for "insults and accusations against the Iranian nation" excuse, called Javad Shamaqdari, adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He demanded that the families of the Iranian film industry, not with the guests to meet, should not ask forgiveness, for alleged misconduct in Hollywood "in the past 30 years."

Javad Shamaqdari filmmakers is, of course, Ahmadinejad also advises on cultural issues. The Iranian people and the Muslim revolution in his country had been "repeatedly and unjustifiably attacked were from Hollywood," said Shamaqdari, why would representatives of the film industry in the country only after an apology "the right to a formal meeting with the filmmakers from Hollywood."

Shamaqdari cited as examples of the 18-year-old film "Not Without My Daughter" in which Sally Field plays a mother, whose child wants to flee from Iran, which
Comic adaptation "300" and the current film
"The Wrestler" with Mickey Rourke.

"Hollywood declares war to Iran"

"300" attracted the Iranian public after the premiere in March 2007. The Persians, the Iranian people today consider as their ancestors, it does not come off too well - they are as bloodthirsty and sexually dissipated presented.

Even then appeared to Shamaqdari word. The comic adaptation, based on the eponymous graphic novel by Frank Miller is based, called it "psychological warfare". The film "plundering Iran's historic past and insulting its culture," was the cultural and censorship seem to Ahmadinejad's advisor at the time. An Iranian newspaper headline "Hollywood declares war to Iran."

Mickey Rourke ripping an Iranian flag

"The Wrestler" is now under criticism, because Mickey Rourke is against an Iranian fighter called "The Ayatollah" compete. In a scene torn Rourke an Iranian flag.

The fact that in Iran many people excited about this - a petition against "300" was still around a few thousand signatories - is actually quite surprising: None of these films was then in the cinemas. To find out about the evil U.S. cultural imperialism angry, you had to give Iranians have pirated copies.

Hollywood has responded to the repeated criticism is always with the same defense responds: It is in its products to fiction, not representations of reality.

Annette Bening in any event, the hope for a friendly exchange with Iranian colleagues have not give up. "I hope that we have an open dialogue between the two countries can achieve," said the actress, in a traditional black robe and a scarf wrapped, reporters in Tehran.