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17 March 2012 5:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Jason Solomons on all the gossip from Tilda Swinton's Film on the Rocks festival in Thailand

Realm of the Six Senses

Film festivals come in all themes and sizes and give prizes from Golden Bears to Audience Awards – but if there were an award for the world's most exclusive, it would surely go to Film on the Rocks, inaugurated and curated by Tilda Swinton and Palme d'Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul last week at the blissful Six Senses resort on Koh Yao Noi, a tiny island off Phuket in Thailand. I'm not really sure what it was I just attended in the line of journalistic duty – "Castaways," Swinton called the assembled guests. "Not quite a festival but a mind orgy," preferred Apichatpong (a national hero following his 2010 win at Cannes with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives). A diverse selection of guests included British director Joanna Hogg (if »

- Jason Solomons

4 March 2012 10:44 AM, PST | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »

By Scott Mendelson

HollywoodNews.com: The full weekend chart Here. See this is what happens when you have just two major cartoon during the Winter/Spring season instead of six. Last year, February, March, and April saw an onslaught on high-profile animated features, five of which opened just in March and April. Gnomeo and Juliet ($25 million opening/$99 million domestic total), Rango ($38 million/$123 million) Hop ($37 million/$103 million), and Rio ($39 million/$143 million) all did well, but were burdened by directly competing with each other. Mars Needs Moms ($6.9 million/$21 million) was one of the biggest box office bombs in modern history while the never-had-a-chance Hoodwinked: Hood vs. Evil ($4 million/$10 million) was Doa. This time around, it’s The Lorax or nothing (that second cartoon I mentioned doesn’t open until April 27th), which coupled with the absolute lack of truly new kid-friendly product and the relative disinterest in domestic audiences in Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked »

- Scott Mendelson

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