Breaking News: China's Film Distribution Market Set for Major Shake-up After years of monopoly control, China's film distribution landscape is poised for significant change with a second distributor expected to launch in the coming months. Industry insiders report that the new entity will begin operations by mid-year, creating the first real competition for China Film Group in distributing...

An estimated 183 million cinema admissions were recorded in France in 2001, a rise of about 10% and the strongest annual turnout since 1984, Gallic exhibitors reported Wednesday. The boost came overwhelmingly from French productions: 21 domestic films exceeded one million admissions apiece, up from just six such hits in 2000. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie led the pack with roughly...

The Windows 7 beta phase reveals a fundamental security gap in its User Account Control system through a surprisingly basic scripting method. This exploit leverages VBScript's SendKeys function to simulate human keyboard input at the system level effectively tricking UAC into accepting unauthorized commands. Microsoft's ongoing public testing period provides critical opportunity to address such...

Studios and filmmakers are lining up new literary and screen projects across Hollywood, from historical epics to small-screen capers. Twentieth Century Fox and James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment have secured an option on Steven Pressfield’s forthcoming novel Last of the Amazons, a tale of lethal female warriors who nearly conquer ancient Greece. The book, due from Doubleday in...

Distinct for every individual and unchanging over time, finger vein patterns offer superior biometric security. Sony introduces "mofiria" as its advanced solution, targeting improved reliability over traditional methods. An innovative sensor arrangement captures vein structure by diagonally reading scattered light within fingers. This enables detailed imaging on a single plane. Extracted vein...

Series Overview Journey to plague-ridden 1348 Florence in Netflix's audacious new series The Decameron. Far from a mere period piece, it injects modern chaos into a historical pandemic backdrop. Class warfare bubbles fiercely as privileged nobles and desperate servants collide within a secluded countryside villa. Their fragile sanctuary promises survival, yet breeds manipulation and raw...

German Cinema Achieves Unprecedented Success in 2001 Box office records shattered across Germany as moviegoer numbers surged to an impressive 163 million in 2001, marking a substantial 20% growth compared to the previous year according to ACNielsen EDI data. The remarkable success was largely fueled by two blockbuster releases in the final quarter - "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and...

Boy Band Scandal Netflix’s new three-part limited series peels back the sparkle of late-1990s pop stardom to expose a high-profile entertainment scandal. At the height of the Y2K music boom, coordinated choreography, glossy music videos and the early internet fused to create a global appetite for tightly packaged pop groups. Acts like the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC dominated radio and...

Bridgerton-Inspired Lifestyle Collections Transform mere admiration into perpetual Regency enchantment; Let not the Bridgerton allure fade after the credits roll. Embrace the corset's elegance; Savor endless lemonade; Why confine such fantasies to fleeting screen time? Netflix and Shondaland unveil an exquisite escape: A curated existence drenched in ton splendor—every single day....

VPN Guide for M4 Sport Streaming Streaming M4 Sport Abroad: Your Complete VPN Guide Are you a Hungarian sports enthusiast traveling outside your home country? Discovering that M4 Sport content is blocked can be frustrating when you're eager to catch the latest matches or events. This geographic restriction affects both live broadcasts and on-demand content, displaying an error message when...