WHEN Hong Kong-based Imagi Studios announced that it was making a movie version of legendary Japanese animator Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy, many were sceptical about the outcome.
RAHOVEC (Kosovo) - GIDDY over the joy of freedom, the owners of the Stone Castle winery raised toasts to independence from Serbia last year, putting out of mind the fact that they had just lost one of their key clients.
Winemaking in the rolling hills of Kosovo is one area that has been badly hit after Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February 2008.
LONDON - THE Michael Jackson concert movie This Is It topped Britain's box office over the weekend, according to Screen International on Tuesday, knocking Disney's Up off the No. 1 spot after three weeks.
The footage of Jackson's rehearsals for a planned series of 50 shows in London took 4.87 million pounds (S$11 million). Worldwide, the movie has made US$103.9 million (S$145 million), according to figures from its studio, Columbia pictures.
LONDON - FORMER Stone Roses singer Ian Brown has been arrested in London on suspicion of assaulting his Mexican wife, model and actress Fabiola Quiroz.
Police said they were called to a residential address - which media reports said was thought to be the couple's home - in West Kensington just after 8am on Monday after neighbours reported a disturbance.
