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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.

2010 Oscar Nomination List Has Been Released, Avatar Got Nine Nominations

2nd Feb, 2010 The 82nd Oscar Nomination list has been released in CA. This year, Avatar and The Hurt Locker both got nine nominations while Inglourious Basterds got eight. Up in The Air also got six nomination to be the Fourth. The ceremony will be held on 7th Mar. 2010 in LA.

The following is the full nomination list:

Best Picture
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
George Clooney (Up in the Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

Actress in a Leading Role
Snadra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)

Actor in a Supporting Role
Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

Actress in a Supporting Role
Penelope Curz (Nine)
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
Mo'Nique (Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire)

Animated Feature Film
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

Art Direction
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Cinematography
Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria

Directing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
Up in the Air

Documentary Feature
Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

Documentary Short
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence
Rabbit a la Berlin

Film Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

Foreign Language Film
Ajami
El Secreto de Sus Ojos
The Milk of Sorrow
Un Prophete
The White Ribbon

Makeup
II Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Music (Original Score)
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up

Music (Original Song)
The Princess and the Frog (Almost There)
The Princess and the Frog (Down in New Orleans)
Paris 36 (Lion de Paname)
Nine (Take It All)
Crazy Heart (The Weary Kind)

Short Film (Animated)
French Roast
Granny O' Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Short Film (Live Action)
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants

Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Sound Mixing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
District 9
An Education
In the Loop
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
Up in the Air

Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Up