Tag: Entertainment events
Tony tops Turin Film Festival
Tony Manero, an unlikely drama about a serial killer obsessed with John Travolta's character from Saturday Night Fever, was awarded the best film prize at the 26th Turin Film Festival.[MORE]
Festival crackdown: 51 drug arrests
New South Wales Police arrested 51 people on drugs charges at yesterday's Global Gathering music festival in Sydney's Moore Park.[MORE]
Watts film to open Berlin fest
The International, an action thriller starring Oz actress Naomi Watts, to kick-off Berlinale.[MORE]
Live Earth India concert cancelled
Live Earth India, a concert scheduled for December 7 in Mumbai, has been cancelled due to the terrorist attacks in the city.[MORE]
Delta head caroller in Sydney show
Delta Goodrem will headline Sydney's Christmas spectacular, Carols In The Domain.[MORE]
Aussie A-listers to be honoured at G'day USA fest
Australian A-listers Baz Luhrmann, Eric Bana, Rachel Griffiths and tennis legend Rod Laver will be honoured at next month's annual G'day USA: Australia Week festival, organisers say.[MORE]
Goa stakes claim to be 'Cannes of the East'
Goa's Chief Minister wants to rebrand India's most prestigious film festival along the lines of Cannes in southern France, but the pledge has set him on a collision course with organisers.[MORE]
De Niro to launch Doha film fest
Robert De Niro signed an agreement in Qatar on Sunday (local time) to launch a Doha international film festival linked to the Tribeca festival he founded in New York after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.[MORE]
Schoolies flock to Gold Coast celebrations
Schoolies festivities officially start today on the Gold Coast.[MORE]
Columbia pick up White House butler's story
Columbia Pictures has bought the rights to the life of Eugene Allen, a black man who served as a White House butler for 34 years.[MORE]
Aussie film to open Sundance
Australian Oscar winner Adam Elliot's new claymation feature film to open Sundance.[MORE]
Top jewels go unsold at Sotheby's sale
Nearly 150 jewels, including a huge blue diamond, failed to sell at Sotheby's in Geneva on Wednesday night (local time).[MORE]
Council rejects Speldour festival move criticism
The Byron Shire Council denies claims that it has ignored its own planning rules by moving the Splendour in the Grass music festival to a new inland site at Yelgun in northern New South Wales.[MORE]
Appeal lodged against Splendour festival
Conservationists have lodged an appeal in the New South Wales Land and Environment Court to try to stop the Splendour in the Grass music festival being moved from Byron Bay to a new inland site on the far north coast.[MORE]
Marrakesh film fest honours Weaver, Yeoh
Hollywood stars Sigourney Weaver and Michelle Yeoh will be honoured at this year's Marrakesh International Film Festival which starts today.[MORE]
Swinton to head Berlin Film Festival jury
Oscar-winning Scottish actress Tilda Swinton will lead the international jury at the 59th Berlin Film Festival, organisers said.[MORE]
Blanchett, Triffids get top billing at Perth festival
Cate Blanchett, The Triffids and a group of melodramatic mannequins will descend on the 2009 Perth International Arts Festival.[MORE]
Sydney Festival line-up unveiled
Musicians Nick Cave and Grace Jones lead line-up for the 2009 Sydney Festival.[MORE]
Gympie Cup blacked out
About 2,500 people at the Melbourne Cup race day meeting in the Queensland town of Gympie missed the event due to a blackout.[MORE]
LA plans festival during Ring cycle
Los Angeles will stage a city-wide cultural festival involving museums, theatres and movies to coincide with Los Angeles Opera's plans to stage the ambitious four opera Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner in 2010.[MORE]
Aussie's Easy Virtue favourite at Rome festival
Easy Virtue, a British comedy directed Australian Stephan Elliott, has emerged as a hot favourite to win tops honours at the Rome Film Festival, which winds up on Friday.[MORE]
Pacino honoured at Rome Film Festival
A lifetime achievement award for Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino kicked off the Rome Film Festival overnight. [MORE]
Caloundra festival a hit
The organiser of the Caloundra Music Festival says spectator numbers have tripled since last year's inaugural event.[MORE]
Harbour Bridge brekkie 'a yearly treat'
The Premier, Nathan Rees, has launched a major events calendar for New South Wales aimed at boosting tourism and business investment.[MORE]
Lynch's daughter's Surveillance wins film fest prize
Surveillance, a thriller by Jennifer Lynch, daughter of legendary filmmaker David Lynch, won the top prize at the 41st International Film Festival of Catalonia.[MORE]
