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July 30th, 2010 | 
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SHANGHAI, CHINA–(Marketwire - July 29, 2010) - MOQIZONE HOLDING CORPORATION (OTCBB: MOQZ), a leading digital entertainment delivery platform company that delivers last mile gaming connectivity to internet cafés across China via its proprietary MoqiZone Network, today announced that it entered into agreements with Sichuan Zhongxin Century Net Technology (a China Telecom affiliate company) and Chengdu Guo Tao Cultural, pursuant to which MoqiZone granted the two companies rights to jointly operate MoqiZone’s first movie game Flirting Scholar 2, which was launched for close-beta testing on July 9, 2010. Sichuan Zhongxin is an online game company operating a game platform on the Sichuan China Telecom broadband subscribers. Chengdu Guo Tao is a licensed broadband connecting company as well as a telecom value added service provider in Sichuan.
British star says airbrushed pictures make her look like “Barbie”.
Toy Story 3, the latest offering from Disney Pixar, has apparently been making
grown men cry in the cinema more than ever before. Here are a few other
masculine weepies.
Our regularly-updated review of celebrity photos and paparazzi snaps.
Barney’s Version, the movie based on Mordecai Richler’s acclaimed novel, is among the high-profile titles making their world debuts at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Dir: Joe Carnahan; Starring: Liam Neeson; Sharlto Copley; Jessica Biel;
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Eric Elmosnino delivers an uncanny lead performance as dissolute Casanova,
Serge Gainsbourg.
Dir: Ben Wheatley; Starring: Julia Deakin, Sara Dee, Robert Hill; Rating: * *
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Dir: Oliver Stone
Kristen Stewart on Twilight, playing Joan Jett and her alleged romance with
Robert Pattinson.
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire - July 30, 2010) - As part of our diversity initiative, ACTRA Toronto is forwarding this special casting call announcement on behalf of NBC Universal. Talent representatives from the Los Angeles based media company will be in Toronto to meet ethnically diverse actors and performers with disabilities for non-specific roles.
The fact that Miramax, the “little company that could”, has shut up shop
reflects wider financial woes in Hollywood, says Tim Robey.
Disney has sold Miramax Films, the arthouse movie maker that discovered
Quentin Tarantino. We take a look at some of their best releases in the last
20 years.
Notorious celeb photographer, Ron Galella, gets his 15 minutes in a documentary about his ballsy career. [Rated PG-13]
Punk expert, Alan G. Parker, questions if Sid Vicious was vicious enough to kill his girlfriend in a documentary about the infamous murder. [Not Rated]
A documentary uncovers the democratic roots of the conservative state. [Not Rated]
Pop icons of the 20th century weigh in on the extraordinary, and oftentimes, controversial life of the pajama-wearing bunny lover. [Rated PG-13]
Robert Duvall is a hermit who decides it’s about high time he should be dying and enlists Bill Murray to help him plan his funeral. [Rated PG-13]
Kevin Klein is a gentleman escort who befriends a young dreamer with “extra man” potential. [Rated R]
A haunted soldier struggles to find peace before it destroys his relationship. [Rated R]
An alcoholic custodian hijacks a musical performance to revive his career as a conductor. [Rated PG-13]
Zac Efron is a young man who must choose between falling in love and teaching his dead brother how to play ball. [Rated PG-13]
Cats and dogs put aside their differences to save the world from the evil Kitty Galore (voiced by Bette Midler). [Rated PG]
In order to get a promotion, Tim (Paul Rudd) must bring a very, um, special guest to dinner (Steve Carell). [Rated PG-13]
A mash-up of the trailers of Toy Story 3 and Inception has already received
more than 700,000 hits on YouTube.
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire - July 30, 2010) - ole, the 2009 Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Publishing Company of the Year, has been nominated for the fourth consecutive time in the category in which it has prevailed for the past three years. The company, which is one of the world’s largest independent music publishers, was honoured as CCMA Music Publisher of the Year for 2007, the first time in 15 years that an independent music publisher had won the category; 2008 and 2009.
The Walt Disney Co. says it has agreed to sell its Miramax Films to an investor group for about $660 million US, ending a 17-year association with the studio and a six-month bidding process.
The First in a Series of New Modeling Contests Launched at MyStudio HD Recording Studios
Walt Disney has sold Miramax, the studio behind films such as Pulp Fiction, to
a consortium of investors for more than $660m (£423m).
Hollywood’s legions of sound effects artists, who bring films to life with an
unlikely range of props including celery, polystyrene and soap, could be
made redundant by a new generation of synthesized sound.
Walt Disney Co. agrees to sell Miramax Films for $660M; deal ends six-month bidding process
Popular video-sharing website YouTube says it is ready to increase the limit it places on video uploads to 15 minutes, from the current 10 minutes.