The Weinstein Co. has released a trailer for Julian Schnabel's Miral, starring Slumdog Millionaire actress Freida Pinto. The film covers five decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with Pinto playing a young woman who falls for a political activist (Omar Metwally, Munich) and becomes involved in the Palestine liberation movement. Watch the trailer after the jump.…
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Miral, the new film from Julian Schnabel, was picked up recently by The Weinstein Company, who will release the picture in December. That's far enough out that there isn't a domestic trailer yet available. But a French trailer has arrived, and you can get a very good idea of the film by checking it out.…
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Quentin Tarantino has led the jury at Cannes, in 2004, but his experience at the Venice Film Festival has been limited to programming a couple of sidebars in '04 and '07. That changes this year, as the fest has named Tarantino head of the 2010 competition jury for the festival which will run from September…
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Update: Robin Hood has now been confirmed as the opening night film in an official statement. The Cannes Film Festival is set to kick-off on May 12th, just two days ahead of Ridley Scott's Robin Hood being unleashed in several countries, including the US and UK. It would be perfect timing, then, to have the…
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