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curq This Is It heads into weekend as international box office favourite
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Dir: Antonio Manetti. Marco Manetti. Italy. 2011 82minsThough it plays like a slightly over-extended episode of The Outer Limits, this Italian-language science fiction film 鈥?deceptively small-scale until major special effects are unleashed in the finale 鈥?has cult potential and might attract development interest for an English-language remake. It has to get past its bland title, and a late satirical plot turn which trades in ironic reversal might prove offensive to politically correct sensibilities. As a joke, the films punchline works; as editorial, its harder to take.The Manetti Bros, busy in genre cinema and pop video in Italy, have a savvy approach, saving their big guns f stanley cup or the finale.Unfolding almost in real-time, the plot hook is that Gaia Francesca Cuttica, very good , who works in Rome as a freelance translator, is offered an unusually large fee for a single evenings work, assisting in the interrogation of Wang, who speaks only Mandarin Chinese. Blindfolded and taken to stanley cup a secret location, Gaia is literally kept in the dark and haltingly establishes communication with the prisoner as overbearing official Curti Ennio Fantastichini applies hard interrogation techniques.Insisting the lights be turned on for the rest of the session, Gaia discovers that Wang Li Yong is a squidlike alien who claims to have come in peace 鈥?and rather naively has learned only the most stanley cup common language on Earth to communicate with the planets people.Curti assumes Wang is a War of the Worl Rctg Canada s Cineplex to offer National Theatre performances
The World Trade Organization WTO has rejected Chinas appeal against a ruling that it must stop forcing US content owners to use state-owned companies to distribute movies and books.The ruling effectively breaks the monopoly that China Film Group Corporation and Huaxia Film Distribution, which is part-owned by China Film, currently have on the distribution of foreign films in China. Under current rules, the US studios usually take around 17% of the box office of revenue-sharing films.However the WTO ruling, which was handed down in August and appealed by Chinas Ministry of Commerce the following m stanley cup onth, does not address Chinas import quota of 20 revenue-sharing foreign films a year. With todays rejection of Chinas appeal, the WTO has taken a major step forward in leveling the playi stanley mug ng field for Americas creative industries seeking to do business in China, said stanley uk Motion Picture Association chairman Dan Glickman pictured in a statement. In spite of all the restrictions we face, there is no shortage of US filmed entertainment in China. Unfortunately, far too much of it is pirated, Glickman said.China had argued in its appeal that it needed to impose controls on the market that are in line with the countrys stage of economic development, and to protect public morals.The WTO judges agreed that China has the right to ban foreign films and books that government censors deem objectionable.The ruling comes at a time when Chinas theatrical market is expanding rapidly 鈥?box office is e |
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