140602 [shanghaidaily] Oscar winners to grace Shanghais film festival Oscar-winning actresses Nicole Kidman and Natalie Portman will attend the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival, to be held from June 14 to 22, officials said yesterday. Kidman will walk the red carpet at the opening ceremony, and her latest offering Grace of Monaco will be screened. Portman, on her first visit to Shanghai, will attend the festivals Golden Goblet awards ceremony on June 22. Other international stars taking part in the festival include Britains Hugh Grant and Hayden Christensen from Canada. Grant will bring his new romantic film The Rewrite while Christensen will be promoting the wartime epic Outcast. The Sino-US co-production also stars Nicolas Cage. South Korean heartthrobs Rain, Song Seung-heon and actresses Son Tae-young and Park Shin-hye will also attend the festivals major events. The organizing committee said the steady growth of annual box office receipts has made China the worlds second-largest film market and that is what is attracting many international filmmakers to promote and debut their new productions in Shanghai. source shanghaidaily/metro/Oscar-winners-to-grace-Shanghais-film-festival/shdaily.shtml
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:56:15 +0000
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