Eight oscars for Slumdog film

The cast and crew of widely acclaimed Slumdog Millionaire (photo, from bbc.co.uk) left Los Angelel with eight awards, including best picture and best director.

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Dutch anti-Islam MP to be prosecuted

Dutch politician and film-maker Geert Wilders (photo, from aljazeera.net), is to be prosecuted for inciting racial hatred against Muslims.

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Egyptian film director dies at 82

Youssef Chahine (photo, from lepoint.fr), 82, Egyptian film director and one of Arab cinema’s most admired figures, has died in Cairo, four weeks after suffering a brain haemorrhage.

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Record on Dark Knight opening night

By taking $66.4m, Batman film, The Dark Knight, has set a single-day box office record on its opening night, said distributor Warner Bros.
The studio added that the movie, which debuted on Friday in the US, and has surpassed the previous record of $59.8m, set last year by Spider-Man 3.

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Tribute to Ledger in The Dark Knight

In an on-screen tribune in his final film, The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger (photo), the Australian actor who died of a drug overdose in January, will be remembered.

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Film director Sydney Pollack dies

The director of films such as “Tootsie” and Oscar-winning with “Out of Africa”, Sydney Pollack has died of cancer, said his agent.

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“Fitna” makes Indonesia angry

Jakarta has seen the anger provoked by Geert Wilders’s film, Fitna, as dozens of Indonesians have demonstrated outside the Dutch embassy on Monday.

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Website ’shut’ over hate language

Geert Wilders, a Dutch right-wing politician, won’t be able to release his film on the website he picked, because it’s been shut.
Network Solutions, the US hosting service that Mr Wilders has been using to promote the film, said it was investigating complaints it received that said it may have breached guidelines on hate language.

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Israeli troops left Gaza but it’s “not over”

Hamas claimed victory over Israeli forces after most of them left northern Gaza.
In a few days of fighting more than 100 people have been killed, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas broke the talks, and the international community started to protest against the Israeli operation.

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The oscars 2008

If you wanna see a full list of the winners of the Oscars 2008,  it’s here…

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