US director Brian de Palma's new film, The Black Dahlia, will get its world premiere when it opens the Venice International Film Festival next month, the organizers announced this week.
The film, starring Josh Hartnett, Hilary Swank and Scarlett Johansson, is adapted from a novel by James Ellroy.
Set in the 1940s, Ellroy's novel is based on a true story and follows two detectives hunting for the killer of fledgling actress Elizabeth Short.
The full program for the 63rd Venice festival will be announced over the coming week.
The festival opens at the Venice Lido on Aug. 30 and runs to Sept. 9.
California's record-breaking heat wave claimed a movie star victim when Lindsay Lohan was forced to check into a hospital after becoming dehydrated on the set of her newest film, a celebrity Web site said Wednesday.
Lohan, 20, “got overheated and dehydrated” Tuesday while on the set of Georgia Rule and had to be taken to a hospital for treatment, her agent Leslie Sloane-Zelnick told TMZ.com.
The movie was being filmed in temperatures around 40oC.
World Trade Center, Oliver Stone's movie about the rescue of two police officers from the towers on Sept. 11, will donate 10 percent of its opening weekend box office receipts to a ground zero memorial and three other Sept. 11-related charities.
The Paramount Pictures film, starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena as two police officers for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who are trapped for hours in the rubble, opens Aug. 9 at more than 2,000 theaters in the US.
Five percent of the box office proceeds from Aug. 9 through Aug. 13 will be donated to the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, which is raising money to build a US$510 million memorial to the 2001 terrorist attacks at the trade center site.
An additional 5 percent will be split equally between three charities: Tuesday's Children, a services organization for children who lost a parent on Sept. 11; The Tribute WTC Visitor Center, created by a Sept. 11 family group and set to open this summer across the street from ground zero; and the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund.
Bruce Lee's family plans to produce a new film on the late martial arts star — the first such movie it has actively supervised, the Chinese company making the motion picture said Sunday.
The film, which will be jointly made by the Lee family and the Beijing Jian Yongjia film company, will be based on an upcoming biography of the late actor by Lee's brother, Lee Chun-fai, Beijing Jian Yongjia said in a statement.
“Bruce Lee died young, but stories about him haven't stopped surfacing for 30 years. A lot of them were rumors fed by rumors and exaggerated. Bruce Lee's family didn't make its opinions known because they understood people's passion about Bruce Lee,” the statement said.
“As the members of the Lee family enter old age, to let people know the true story about Bruce Lee, Lee Chun-fai assumed responsibility and carefully organized materials kept by the family, writing the biography Bruce Lee, a real and little-known true story,” it said.
The book will debut on Nov. 25, Bruce Lee's birthday, and Beijing Jian Yongjia will produce a series of films, TV shows and documentaries based on it, including a movie titled “Bruce Lee,” it said.
It wasn't immediately clear who would be cast in the movie and how much would be budgeted for the project.
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