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65-year-old Avi Arad, who has produced many superhero blockbuster hits, is in China hoping to create a Chinese Marvel for the world.
The world premiere of Mexican film director Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity", starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, will open the 70th Venice International Film Festival.
Here is a look at the Venice film festival, the world's oldest, that promises two documentaries among the 20 titles competing for the top Golden Lion prize.
Films act as a portal through which you can peek into or even enter other worlds. One of those worlds is opera, often considered the pinnacle of performing arts. 
Raymond Zhou: Montreal Journal, August 26
The 70th Venice Film Festival is to start on Wednesday on the Lido island of Venice celebrating, in an era of challenges, the first time in history has a film festival has achieved this venerable age.
A number of Chinese-language films promise to have relevant visibility as the Venice film festival prepares to start its venerable 70th edition on Wednesday reinventing itself with increasing competitions.
China's CCTV has struck a deal with BBC Worldwide, to buy the largest package of natural history programming that it has acquired this year.
US President Barack Obama says he teared up watching a movie about an African-American man who served for 34 years at the White House during the tumultuous time of the civil rights movement.
'The Butler' premieres in NY
Chinese actress Ning Jing attends a news conference for her upcoming TV series "The Qin Empire," which is to air on CCTV, in Beijing on August 27, 2013.
Retired Olympic diving champion Guo Jingjing has given birth to her first baby with Kenneth Fok Kai-kong, the eldest son of tycoon Timothy Fok, in Hong Kong.
Shortly before the Gatsby premiere in China, a local film franchise of Tiny Times has stirred a heated discussion on its costumes.
When I ran into Yang Yazhou this morning at the buffet breakfast, it was like meeting an old acquaintance.Raymond Zhou: Montreal Journal, August 25
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