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Home : Features : News : Ang Lee will direct 'Life of Pi' Ang Lee will direct 'Life of Pi' 2-Nov-2009 Written by: Rachel Kolb 'Brokeback Mountain' director Ang Lee will direct the film adaptation of the award-winning book 'Life of Pi.' The film adaptation of Yann Martel's 'Life of Pi' will be directed by Ang Lee.

From Milk's Oscar campaign to homegrown hit I Killed My Mother, queer cinema has most certainly registered on the pop culture radar this past year.

Home : Features : News : Jake Gyllenhaal 'Prince of Persia' And Action Hero Jake Gyllenhaal 'Prince of Persia' And Action Hero 3-Nov-2009 Written by: Marjorie Quinn Disney has released the trailer for 'Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time' which stars Jake Gyllenhaal and looks like it may be a summer blockbuster.

As she turns four, the actor's nearest and dearest are drawing comfort from watching her blossom Photo: © Rex Her father Heath Ledger would be bursting with pride.

NEW YORK - A celebrated chronicler of rural life, E. Annie Proulx, has found a literary home in the big city.

Filmmaker Arthur Dong stood in a gallery at the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles carefully checking each piece of movie memorabilia on display.

Ang Lee was not the most likely director to create a film about Woodstock, and his authentic-looking LSD scene is from imagination not experience, he tells James Mottram Ang Lee was not the most likely director to create a film about Woodstock enlarge Rather like Bruce Banner, the Marvel Comics character he once wrestled with in Hulk, there lurks ...

Heath Ledger made the three-and-a-half minute film for London-born rap act No Fixed Abode, his close childhood friend Photo: GETTY The Australian actor, who died in January 2008 following an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, directed the video Cause An Effect shortly before starring in The Dark Knight.

Reviewed by Paul Byrnes WELCOME to the imaginarium of Terry Gilliam. It's many things: a Baroque morality play with Dickensian and Gothic overtones, a little bit of Heath Robinson madness and, as you will have heard, the final performance of Heath Ledger.

Good morning. Today is the 296th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of Johnny Carson, famed TV talk-show host.

Samuel Maoz picked the wrong month to give up smoking. His first feature film, Lebanon , based on his experiences in the First Lebanon War, was the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in September - the first time an Israeli film has been awarded this honor.

Director Ed Zwick sets up a shot on the set of "Love and Other Drugs" in Pittsburgh.

Actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, did not appear Monday at their arraignment on burglary and other charges in Santa Barbara, Calif., officials said.

Too good for his own good ... death may have spared Heath Ledger from typecasting as the Joker.

A scene from Noriben, playing at this year's Hawaii International Film Festival .

There is no escaping the uncomfortable truth that audiences will flock to witness the final performance of Oscar-nominated actor Ledger before his accidental drug overdose.

FILM OF THE WEEK: Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus is an interesting curio for Ledger's fans, but not much more By Sophie Taylor F IRST P OSTED O CTOBER 15, 2009 T erry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus was always going to be known as the film where Heath Ledger died during shooting.

How would the late actor's career have developed after The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus? Wednesday, 14 October 2009 Heath Ledger, in his final role as the mysterious outsider Tony in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, will probably be kept from strict considerations of acting genius by the traditional frolic and froth of a Terry Gilliam ...

Heath Ledger's last film is not just a fond memory of the actor, but a tribute to the imagination of the director that allowed it to reach the screen REVIEW The patchwork carriage clatters headlong past the iconic landmarks of London to Blackfriars Bridge, bumbling forward like a Punch and Judy stage stuffed into a wheeled trouser-press. Then the ...

Star actors Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law are reportedly coming to Vancouver to take the place of Heath Ledger in the film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus .