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Two champions divided the spoils over the weekend as How to Train Your Dragon 2 and 22 Jump Street managed to hit their respective target demographics with aplomb, and avoided stepping on each others tails. Both films did exceptionally well given their budgets and ambition but with its $60 million domestic haul 22 Jump Street was, in the end, the stronger contender.

Ale Abreu’s The Boy and the World won the top awards at the 38th Annecy International Animation Film Festival that concluded Sunday in France. Considered the Cannes of the Animation Industry the two awards bestowed upon the Brazilian toon only underlines the strength of that country’s animation industry.

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It’s hard to believe Australian actor Heath Ledger has been gone six years but his legacy lives on with scholarship in his name that is given annually by Australians in Film. The sixth annual Australians in Film Heath Ledger Scholarship was awarded June 12th to Cody Fern.

Well the World Cup is finally under way in Brazil and with it the world’s biggest sports tournament. An estimated 2.

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Teenage darling Shailene Woodley found the chink in Tom Cruise’s armor, as her new release The Fault in Our Stars beat out the veteran leading man’s Edge of Tomorrow in this weekend’s domestic box office race. The Fox 2000 tearjerker about the ill-fated love between two cancer plagued high school students, Ms.

Film can be and invaluable tool to capture the mood of a country and an entire culture. It’s no surprise then that Greek cinema has been informed by the deep crisis that has hit Greece in the last years.

Angelina Jolie bewitched audiences around the world in this weekend’s number one hit Maleficent. The live action Sleeping Beauty re-imagining, from Avatar’s Academy Award winning art-director Robert Stromberg in his directorial debut, took home $171.

The HFPA Attends the Seattle Film Festival A delegation of the HFPA joined the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) at the celebration of its 40th anniversary. SIFF is one of the top film festivals in North America.