The 75th Ann. iTunes make Elvis be yours!

Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight, iTunes makes the world’s easiest way to preview Elvis Presley’s magnificent world, there raise another wave to commemorate the most important figure in American 20th century, so, why does this occurred? Here we can get the answer.

When Elvis Presley died on 16th August, 1977, radio and television programs were overwhelmed by the news of his death, the streets were jammed with cars, and Elvis Presley films were shown on television, and his records were played on the radio all day, even President Carter was asked to declare a day of national mourning. Though Elvis left his fans, his music remains, it’s like the world never forget the” The Hillbilly Cat”.

Elvis lived a poor life in his early days, and little Elvis never had music lessons, but was surrounded by music from an early age. After Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel”, he soon became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances and chart-topping records. This Cat obtained national attention and transformed the field of popular music and had a huge effect on the broader scope of popular culture. Even today, Severing hip twist、famous outfit's eagle motif、sensational stage performance still fascinate a great mumble of people in the word, As if one Presley gone, lots of Presley rise .

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Clash of the Titans (2010)- Fight Between God and Human

Greece Myth, with distinctive characters and complicated story, is the source of western civilazation. Since it is a great source of making film, there are lots of film with Greece Myth theme. With the development of computer technology, lots of mysterious animal and things can be shown in front of people's eyes.

Different with Chinese Myth, there is hero besides God and human beings in Greece Myth who is the descendant of God and human being together. And the story is mainly narrating them. God in Greece Myth has the similar character with human being. They can be angry and jealous and show their emotion easily. The story about hero cannot seperate with God and human beings.



God has a lot of appearance in Greece Myth. Generally they have human being appearance with gorgeous beauty. As they also have emotion as human being, they can be easliy get involve of the fight with human being. In Olympic, they fight for right. There is no perfect God in Greece Myth which show live reality and its attraction. All the fight and adventure story comes from complicated relationship like soap opera.

Bastard- Zeus's son cannot be offended

There are lots of bastards in Greece Myth. For example, Zues is the greatest God who is called the Hammer of God for controlling lightening. He becomes the third generation God by killing his father Cronus assisting by his mother Rhea. He has lots of bastards as he has affairs with many goddess and human beings behind his wife.

In the legend, Acrisius, king of Argost is predicted to be killed by his grandson. He is afraid about that and builds a copper tower to lock his unmarried daugther Danae. Out of his expectation, Zeus has caught an eye on Danae and has relationship with her. After that, Danae gives birth to Perseus. Acrisius drops Perseus into the ocean to kill him but in vain. Perseus comes back to revenge after grown up and becomes a hero with help by Zeus.

Distrust between husband and wife

Different from Chinese Myth, God in Greece Myth would like to revenge even with great power. Zeus and Hera would be the outstanding couple for this event. Hera, who is Zeus' sister, is Zeus' seventh wife. She controls marriage and childbirth and protects women. She is also elegant and faithful to Zeus. However, she is very jealous. She always fights with Zeus for his dis-loyal but easy to make up by Zeus' sweet words.

In Clash of the Titans, Hera does not appears to be crazy revenging wife as Thetis, Goddess of Sea, sets lots of traps on Perseus' growing for revenging Zeus not forgiving sins of she and Zeus's son Kalibosi. That's why Hera steps back to let all the things go as it does.

Brothers' fight- rigth and wonmen

Brothers' fight would be a typical element of soap opera. In Greece Myth, replacement of God is not hereditary but fight to die before getting crown. The first king Uranus eats all his children as being afraid to be replaced by his children. Zeus has been saved by his mother for turning him into a stone. Finally, Zeus become the third king of God by overthrowing his father. After that, Zeus happens to fight with his brother Hades for getting Persephone. At last, Hades get Persephone.

Clash of the Titans also narrates fight between Zeus and Hades. And the final result will be determined by son the of Zeus, Perseus.

iTunes 9.1 Released, Check Some Details

iTunes 9.1 has released with several new features and improvements, including:

• Sync with iPad to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on the go
• Organize and sync books you've downloaded from iBooks on iPad or added to your iTunes library
• Rename, rearrange, or remove Genius Mixes

Besides those features, have you found some details in this update? Here is one you may not notice. Click right mouse on one song, there would be some selection changed. And you can find there is not selection for Create Ringtone and Create AAC Version. Where are those selection? Now this selection for creating ringtone is on the top menu of Store. As we all know, you need to pay $0.99 for creating ringtone in iTunes even if you own the song. If it put this selection on the right click menu, someone will think it is a free function. Now, we can clearly understand we need to pay in iTunes to create ringtone for our iPhone. Good news, we will not misunderstand from now on. Bad news, Apple never want to give us free ringtone creation from iTunes.

Before:

Now from iTunes 9.1 :

In order to save a lot of $0.99 for each ringtone, the better way is to use a software to finish this task. Here you can check some useful software such as Ringer, Aimersoft iPhone Ringtone Maker. For more convenience, iSkysoft iPhone Ringtone Maker can help you skip iTunes to transfer ringtone to iPhone. So it would be a great choice to make ringtone.

There would be more detailed changes for iTunes 9.1, let's keep an eye on it and give all of you more details later.

Fairy Tale with Deep Emotion- How to Train Your Dragon

Not matter what you raise, you need to pay for affection. It would be simple to become a great friend with your cat or your dog you raised, but how about raising an ET or dragon?

How to Train Your Dragon is a great appreciated film in 2010. DreamWorks do not take a violate action to make this film as to Shrek but give us deep emotion this time.

This 3D animation is edited according to Children fiction from English writer Cressida Cowell. The story happens in Pirate Country in North Europe and fire dragon world and narrates a group pirates lives on hunting fire dragons and is proud in fighting and killing fire dragons. A great chief has a son who is very week and imaginative named Hiccup. His work is just making weapons for warriors with his teachers in a room. However, Hiccup believes he can do some great thing and try to make a plan to become famous. The more his father distrusts him, the more he try to get approve from his father. He make a big slingshot and shot the strongest dragon Night Fury in the fighting. Night Fury has great speed and strong destruction power. But nobody see its face before. And this time Hiccup tie it with his slingshot.


Hiccup try to kill Night Fury but giving up and release it finally. And this make a rare story of human and dragon. As Night Fury lost a wing, it cannot fly in balance and is trapped on a lake surrounded by stones. In order to solve the trouble, Hiccup give Night Fury a artificial wing to make it be able to fly again. And they become great friend after that. Hiccup named Night Fury a funny name- Toothless.

However, Hiccup has being sent to training class for killing dragon. Warriors is planning on attacking dragons nestles. As time goes by, Hiccup realize that it is fault relationship between human and dragon now. They can establish friendship without fighting and attacking.

From here, the stroy is like he human and dragon version Avatar, Pocahontas, Sauvez Willy or ET the Extra-Terrestrial. Some critics said that this story combines mystrial culture of Kung Fu Panda, driving dragon action of Avatar and deep spirit of Lilo & Stitch together. The concept of communication and understanding to contribute harmony living of different races has been told thousands of times. Drama is just put the prototype in different scene.

And why How to Train Your Dragon is fantastic? Because it is with smooth and compact plot, suitable but not over-active humor, funny design, grand fly and fighting screen and touching emotion as pure communication and trust between human and animal. Expectance, dispointment, forgiveness, encouragement and regain relationship between father and son in this film turn to be deep and thoughtful. DreamWork make a main-stream film. Compare with How to Train Your Dragon, Alice in Wonderland just has visual special efficacy without raising sympathy from audience.

There is also love and friendship in this film. It is romantic when young adventure take his loving girl driving dragon flying to the sky. It is a dream to human to fly in the sky freely just like that.

Movie Overview
Movie Details:
Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Kids/Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Animation and Adaptation
Running Time: 1 hr. 30 min.
Release Date: March 26th, 2010 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG for sequences of intense action and some scary images, and brief mild language.
Distributors: Paramount Pictures
Production Co.: Mad Hatter Entertainment
Studios: DreamWorks Animation
U.S. Box Office: $43,300,000
Produced in: United States

Lost of Fairy Tale-- Alice in Wonderland

It is not a long time after saying goodbye with the Amazing Avatar to welcome Alice in Wonderland, which is not like Avatar to let every existence to be biological and every event to be logical. According to Tim Burton, create a colorful and odd time zone would be more important.



Special Efficacy——the only Attraction
Original story is a well-known story edited to various artistic works from graduation performance of kindergarden to film showing around the world. And the printed story is also going on and on. All those edited versions is still be faith to the original story. Now this new film also try to find a emotional touch spot for not only considering the audience and market but also emotional clue to the heroin to revisit the wonderland. Of course it is not a noval action, however, it is sincere. But this film seems a little absence-minded for all the key plots is too considerable to let the story go naturally. So the attraction of the story can only be special efficacy.

According to visual feeling, Alice in Wonderland is better than the 3D Avatar accoding to some audience. But when looking back to the original story, we can find it hardly to express more than the setting plots and clues. The strange feeling between Heroin and Mad Hatter make things confusing. Moreover, adding some purposes such as touching story style to the film makes it more than just odd.

Besides Capital, is Preference
Tim Burton give us a great visual enjoyment with his Gothic style. He has the gift to create odd film. But this film will more some audience feel a little uncomfortable as Tim Burton is not good at telling story but designing a setting and making imagination fullfil. So Tim Burton is a work artist. He shows us unique and unimaginable industry design in his great experiement and let us know how important is freedom to him.

So this film has preference as all of us to have preference to director, editor, actor, etc. It is not a good thing, but we can understand. That is why Cheshire cat will come out again and again.

Last but not Least
It is no fair to critize this film lost of creation for the setting story. So let's talk about special efficacy again. Cameron and his Avatar have a great distribution to the 3D technology and development of film tech. And animation can be move back to lines after Miyazaki Hayao's expression. And now human's acting can only use voice or not use anything at all in a near future. Computer technology let us see the special efficacy. Virtual character becomes real and adorable. Actors only longer need pretty face which can handled by staffs, such as Red Queen.

That may be just a direction for the development of film. And main stream is still the simple story narrating simple man, according to my understanding. Alice in Wonderland is just like a gossip news to original story. As fairy tale, it does not bring surprise to us but some imaginable character. Time continues to pass and 3D is just a hot spot for a while. When the real live becomes more si-fi, all those 3D films will come to an end.

Overview

Director: Tim Burton
Plot: 19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.
Cast:
Mia Wasikowska ... Alice
Johnny Depp ... Mad Hatter
Helena Bonham Carter ... Red Queen
Anne Hathaway ... White Queen
Crispin Glover ... Stayne
Matt Lucas ... Tweedledee / Tweedledum

PS: Burn Alice in Wonderland Videos to DVD on Mac for yearning the happy life of childhood.

2010 Oscar Winner List

In case you missed it, here is the full list of Oscar winners from the show...for the full scoop, red carpet pics and lots more good stuff, check out our Awards Watch!

Best Motion Picture of the Year
The Hurt Locker

Achievement in Directing
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Mo'Nique, Precious

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Up

Original Screenplay
The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal

Adapted Screenplay
Precious, Geoffrey Fletcher

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)

Original Score
Michael Giacchino, Up

Original Song
"The Weary Kind," Music & Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)

Achievement in Art Direction
Avatar

Achievement in Cinematography
Avatar

Achievement in Costume Design
The Young Victoria

Best Documentary Feature
The Cove

Best Documentary Short Subject
Music by Prudence

Achievement in Film Editing
The Hurt Locker

Achievement in Makeup
Star Trek

Best Animated Short Film
Logorama

Best Live Action Short Film
The New Tenants

Achievement in Sound Editing
The Hurt Locker

Achievement in Sound Mixing
The Hurt Locker

Achievement in Visual Effects
Avatar

Razzie 2010 Awards list of winners

Golden Raspberry Award list of winners:

Worst Picture:

‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’

Worst Director:

Michael Bay, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’

Worst Actor:

All three Jonas Brothers, ‘Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience’

Worst Actress:

Sandra Bullock, ‘All About Steve’

Worst Supporting Actor:

Billy Ray Cyrus, ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’

Worst Supporting Actress:

Sienna Miller, ‘G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra’

Worst Screen Couple:

Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper, ‘All About Steve’

Worst Remake/Rip-off/Sequel:

‘Land of the Lost’

Worst Picture of the Decade:

‘Battlefield Earth’

Worst Actor of the Decade:

Eddie Murphy

Worst Actress of the Decade:

Paris Hilton

Razzie 2010 Awards Nominees

One of the least anticipated awards shows in Hollywood, (especially by those who've been nominated) the Razzie Awards have been dishonoring the very worst to come out of Hollywood year after year since 1980.

This year, nominees will be announced on the morning of February 1, 2010, followed by the awards ceremony scheduled on the traditional night before the Oscars — on Saturday, March 6, 2010.

Here is the Nominees of this year:
Worst Picture
All About Steve
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Land of The Lost
Old Dogs
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen

Worst Actor
All Three Jonas Brothers, Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience
Will Ferrell, Land Of The Lost
Steve Martin, Pink Panther 2
Eddie Murphy, Imagine That
John Travolta. Old Dogs

Worst Actress
Beyonce. Obsessed
Sandra Bullock. All About Steve
Mylie Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie
Megan Fox, Jennifer's Body And Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Sarah Jessica Parker, Did You Hear About The Morgans?

Worst Supporting Actor
Billy Ray Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie
Hugh Hefner (As Himself), Miss March
Robert Pattinson, Twilight Saga: New Moon
Jorma Taccone (As Cha-Ka), Land Of The Lost
Marlon Wayans, G.I. Joe

Worst Supporting Actress
Candice Bergen, Bride Wars
Ali Larter, Obsessed
Sienna Miller, G.I. Joe
Kelly Preston, Old Dogs
Julie White, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

Worst Screen Couple
Any Two (Or More) Jonas Brothers, The Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Experience
Sandra Bullock & Bradley Cooper, All About Steve
Will Ferrell & Any Co-Star, Creature Or "Comic Riff", Land Of The Lost
Shia Labeouf & Either Megan Fox Or Any Transformer,
Kristen Stewart & Either Robert Pattinson Or Taylor Whatz-His-Fang

Worst Prequel, Sequel, Remake Or Rip-Off
G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra
Land Of The Lost
Pink Panther 2 (A Rip-Off Of A Sequel To A Remake)
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Twilight Saga: New Moon

Worst Director
Michael Bay, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Walt Becker, Old Dogs
Brad Silberling, Land Of The Lost
Stephen Sommers, G.I. Joe
Phil Traill, All About Steve

Worst Screenplay
All About Steve
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Land of The Lost
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen
Twilight Saga: New Moon

Worst Movie of the Decade
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
Gigli (2003)
I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
Swept Away (2002)

Worst Actor of the Decade
Ben Affleck
Eddie Murphy
Mike Myers
Rob Schneider
John Travolta

Worst Actress of the Decade
Mariah Carey
Paris Hilton
Lindsay Lohan
Jennifer Lopez
Madonna

District 9——Black Horse for Office Box

District 9 must be the greatest black horse for last summer since it would be easily ignored for its low cost and out-of-date style. If you have been attracted by "Peter Jackson Production", you will not feel dispoint this fresh director Neil Blomakamp, the former assistant and student of Peter Jackson, has not only gotten his teacher's imagination ability of creating weird monstar role and odd story but also made use of the visual effect in an appropriate way. He makes this film become the most revolutional and noval sci-fi movie. District 9 is also the most creative and real ET movie in these few years.

District 9 is the ET version The Blair Witch Project. If you have watched The Blair Witch Project before, you must remember it using actual event shooting way to narrate a ghost story and making it so real to make you easily believe. District 9 is also used hand camera to create this ET sotry and make real enough for you to believe it happening before. Such kind of story narration way has been used in Cloverfield and got great feedback, however, District 9 is more like Cult cinema without avoiding disgusting scene. It is not the mass taste film, but it can really let the ET movie lover be grateful.

Generally, ET movie attracts audiences with its special efficacy, mystery and future feeling. However, this story just set in our current living place which is dirty and real. Moreover, the former ET movies will descripe ET as invader, enemy and villain, but in District 9, ET is good guys, a group of refugee who unfortunately are trapped in District 9, totured and killed by human beings.

A huge space ship stops by on South Africa sky. Millions of ET live in refugee camp like rubbish. Movie is full of coarse, chao scenes. Besides, there would be a lot of bloody and disgusting scenes, such as war between ET and human beings. Movie also get a hero named Sharlto Copley who transfers into ET with virus affect. He has been lackey for human being but help ET to defend after knowing the cruel event done by human beings. He is not a typical hero but a wicked and snobbish man who can never be a hero without all those events. On the key moment, he shows the purest side of human personality. All his turn-around is convincing and agreeable. It is a interesting and anti-tranditional tragic hero.

In fact, District 9 expresses a theme for accusing goverment dictatorship, unfair treatment toward refugee and racial discrimination.

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60th Berlinale Prizes Released

Prizes of the International Jury:
Golden Bear for the Best Film: Bal (Honey) by Semih Kaplanoğlu (Turkey)
Jury Grand Prix- Sliver Bear: Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle) by Florin Şerban (Romania)
Sliver Bear for Best Director: Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer (France, Germany and United Kingdom)
Sliver Bear for Best Actress: Shinobu Terajima in Caterpillar by Kōji Wakamatsu (Japan)
Sliver Bear for Best Actor: Grigori Dobrygin ex aequo Sergei Puskepalis for Kak ya provyol etim letom by Alexei Popogrebski (Russia)
Sliver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Achievement in the Category Camera: Pavel Kostomarov for the camera in Kak ya provyol etim letom by Alexei Popogrebski (Russia)
Silver Bear for the Best Script: Wang Quan'an and Na Jin for Apart Together (Tuan Yuan) by Wang Quan'an (China)
Alfred Bauer Prize, awarded in memory of the Festival founder, for a work of particular innovation: Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle) by Florin Şerban (Romania)

Best First Feature Jury:
Best First Feature Award, endowed with 50,000 Euros founded by GWFFSebbe by Babak Najafi

Prizes of the International Short Film Jury:
Golden Bear: Händelse Vid Bank (Incident by a Bank) by Ruben Ostlund
The Jury Prize- Sliver Bear: Hayerida (The Desent) by Shai Miedzinski
Berlinale Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010: Venus vs Me by Nathelie Teirlinck
DAAD Short Film Award: Colivia (The Cage) by Adrian Sitaru

James Cameron announces DVD/Blu-ray date for 'Avatar'

Director James Cameron has announced that his epic blockbuster hit Avatar will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in April, although the first version released will not be in 3D.

The original Cameron quote is as follows: "It's all right on schedule. We'll do the Blu-ray and the standard def DVD April 22nd, that's our plan as of right now, and that'll be pretty much bare bones. And then we'll do a value-added DVD and a 3-D Blu-ray in I think November sometime."

Fox however, has stated that the 3D version is not coming out in November. Says the spokesperson: "3-D is in the conceptual stage and 'Avatar' will not be out on 3-D Blu-ray in November."

'Avatar,' released in December, has quickly become the highest-grossing film of all-time (not adjusted for ticket inflation), and is the highest-grossing film in U.S., Chinese, Russian, Spanish, U.K history.

Source from: Afterdawn

Apart Together (Tuan Yuan) - 60th Berlinale Opening Film

—— Diretor Wang Quan'an Talked about Apart Together "Life is more than edited things"

Chian Director Wang Quan'an always try to make a simple yet profound flim. It seems his new film Apart Together let him realize his dream. In the 60th Berlinale, this opening film got a very great response.

This is a very simple story, an old man came back to Shanghai after leaving the army in Taiwan, hoping to find his lost wife and bring her back to Taiwan to live together. After many years, his wife has already remarried and lived a peaceful life with her current husband. His coming back broke their peaceful life. Finally, her current husband agree the wife to go back to Taiwan with the old man while he was sufferring for such reality. And the wife also involved in the complication emotions between love and familial affection. A history, two compassions, three old men delibrated sometimes peaceful sometimes passionate emotional journey.

"It happened to occure me to create this film after getting a news for a soldier looked for his wife in Shanghai from Taiwan. It seems to be just a marriage relationship in the surface, however, it contains our covered pain in the last century." The director said.

" Chinese especially concerns family unit which always contains happiness and worry. Sometimes together would not the same as we imagined since we cannot surpass wall bulit with passing time. However, we still pursue such concept with eager. That is the main meaning I try to convey in this movie." said Wang Quan'an, "This movie uses Chinese specific emotional expressed way to convey Chinese emotion through several conversation and dinner."

In fact, Wang Quan'an thought Simple but sincere descriptive way can more like his style, "Besides reflecting ture world, I cannot imagine what else we can creat. Life is more than edited things. And my job is to discover life. I hope to stick in this road and continue to go deeper, which is my main interests. Everyone has different understanding for creation, I want to try a depth with going through one direction ability. That would be possible more valuable than the surface trial."

60th Berlinale and Competition Flim List

The 60th Berlinale is held from 11st Feb. to 21st Feb. with 26 flims in competition while there are 6 films being only on screen and not competiting for the Golden Bear Prize.

Within 26 flims on competition, there are 7 flims from Germany or flimes shot by Geramany and other countries together while 6 flims from US or from US and other country together. There are 2 films from China, Japan and Danmark seperately. Other flims are from British, France, India, Norway, Argentina, Russia, etc.

Here is the List for the flims selected in competition for the Golden Bear award:
Apart Together (Tuan Yuan) by Wang Quan'an (China)
Bal by Semih Kaplanoğlu (Turkey)
Caterpillar by Kōji Wakamatsu (Japan)
Der Räuber by Benjamin Heisenberg (Germany)
En Familie by Pernille Fischer Christensen (Denmark)
En ganske snill mann by Hans Petter Moland (Norway)
Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier by Florin Şerban (Romania)
Greenberg by Noah Baumbach (United States)
Howl by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (United States)
Kak ya provyol etim letom by Alexei Popogrebski (Russia)
Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen by Oskar Roehler (Austria/Germany)
Mammuth by Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern (France)
Na putu by Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Germany and Croatia) Rompecabezas by Natalia Smirnoff (Argentina and France)
San qiang pai an jing qi by Zhang Yimou (China)
Shahada by Burhan Qurbani (Germany)
Shutter Island by Martin Scorsese (United States)
Shekarchi by Rafi Pitts (Iran, Germany)
Submarino by Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)
The Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski (France, Germany and United Kingdom)
The Killer Inside Me by Michael Winterbottom (United States)

The following films will make their international debut by screening out of competition at the festival:
About Her Brother (Otouto) by Yoji Yamada (Japan)
Exit Through the Gift Shop by Banksy (United Kingdom)
My Name Is Khan by Karan Johar (India)
Please Give by Nicole Holofcener (United States)
The Kids are All Right by Lisa Cholodenko (United States)

Berlin International Film Festival - General Introduction

Berlin International Film Festival, which also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading flim festival and most reputable media events held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1987 and considered the largest publicly-attended film festival wordlwide. There are up to 400 films are shown in several sections to represent a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films is competing for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears.

The Golden Bear, which includes Best Motion Picture and Lifetime Achievement prize, is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. There are eight prizes for Silver Bear including Jury Grand Prix, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Film Music, Extraordinary achievement by a single artist and Grand Prize of the Jury. There are also some other prizes to award other items. For example, Berlinale Camera is a special award for services to the Festival while Shooting Stars Award is for young European acting talent.

Avatar Turn down Titanic to Rule Global Box Office

Avatar has only used six weeks to get the Global box office crown and broke Titanic twelve years' record. And its director James Cameron is destined to written down in film history.

Within twelve years, there are many great movies, such as The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, however, they did not come over or even get closer to the record held by Titanic. Now this record has been rewritten by Cameron himself. Avatar becomes the myth of box office.

In the global box office list, Cameron's films take the top 2 position while The Lord of the Rings III is No. 3 with 1.11 billion box office, 0.7 billion lesser than Titanic. Moreover, Avatar has been over 2 billion box office and keeping increasing now.

Avatar not only rules the global box office but also get the great praise both from film critics and film fans. The only question mark remained now would be if Cameron can get the Oscar this year after twelve years with Titanic. We will all keep an eye on this!

Tracing back box office miracle:

18th Dec. 2009: Avatar was on North Aimerca market and reached 2.7 million box office in the first day, which is the tatol amount of box office income for Titanic in the first three days.

21st Dec. 2009: Avatar ruled weekend box office in North Aimera with 73 million in 3452 cinemas and got 2320 million income around the world.

23rd Dec. 2009: Avatar launched in Japan with 400 million Yen in the first day. 283 out from 831 screen are 3D screen which become the large scale record of 3D movies in Japn.

28th Dec. 2009: Avatar has gotten 1.3 billion box office in Japan within five days. It also turned down Transformer II to rule the 2009 annual box office in Hong Kong.

3rd Jan. 2010: Avatar have gotten 352 million in North America and over 1 billion around the world within 15 days which is faster than Titanic.

4th Jan. 2010: Avatar reached China and pulled in 4 million for midnight play.

5th Jan. 2010: Avatar pulled in 35 million for the first day in China. Only for 20 days, Avatar turned down The Lord of the Rings to become the secord largest box office income in the world. From then on, the top two global box office belong to James Cameron.

11st Jan. 2010: Avatar easily broke Transformer II's weeky and first week box office record in June last year and wrote a record to get the greatest score amount all the movies imported to China.

12nd Jan. 2010: Avatar used only 26 days to pull in 0.1billion HK USD.

15th Jan. 2010: IMAX box office reached 68 million in North America and 33.3 million overseas, easily breaking IMAX box office of The Polar Express.

18th Jan. 2010: Avatar ruled the North Aimerican box office for five weeks and got 1.6 billion box office around the world.

25th Jan. 2010: Avatar easily turned down The Dark Knight with 550 million to become top 2 in North Aimerica after keeping crown for 6 weeks. Meanwhile, it also broke the overseas box office record kept by Titanic for 12 years with 1.28 billion.