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lifestyle WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 MUSIC & MOVIES Bhutanese monk s Prince delivers ‘Breakfast’ film to for his new song open Busan film -fes he artwork may have made of Dave Chappelle dressed as Prince people laugh, but Prince’s new - on YouTube. Prince has been rais- tival Tsong is no joke. The mercurial ing his profile lately with perform- superstar announced yesterday that ances worldwide with his new Bhutanese monk’s he’s released “Breakfast Can Wait.” It group, 3rdeyegirl. movie about a South caused a stir when Prince released He also recently started tweeting AIndian dance will the cover art for the song - a photo from the group’s account, surprising open the Busan some, given his negative comments International Film Festival about the Internet in the past. The next month. Officials say it’s In this March 2, 2007 file photo, song is being released through his the first time the conti- Prince accepts the award for new distribution deal with the inde- nent’s showcase film festi- outstanding male artist at the pendent Kobalt Label Services. He’s val has chosen a movie 38th NAACP Image Awards working on a new album that’s set to from Bhutan for the red car- in Los Angeles. —AP be titled, “Plectrum Electrum.” —AP pet event usually taken by a Chinese or Korean fea- ture. Festival director Lee Yong-kwan said yesterday that “Vara: A Blessing,” the dance drama about Bharatanatyam South In era of leaks, Toronto film Indian dance, will be shown Oct 3. The movie has inter- esting themes the festival wants to showcase, he said. Filmmaker Khyentse festival tackles transparency Norbu is a Buddhist monk and cannot attend the Lee Yong-kwan, director of the glitzy showing of his third s director Bill Condon was finishing Busan International Film Festival, feature film because of a up his film “The Fifth Estate” about speaks during a press conference in scheduling conflict with AJulian Assange and anti-secrecy Seoul, South Korea, yesterday. —AP religious training. The 10- website WikiLeaks, former spy agency day festival will end with contractor Edward Snowden started leak- “The Dinner,” a South Korean movie about an ordinary family’s ing US security documents, reigniting the misfortunes after screening 300 movies from 70 countries. public debate over secrecy, security and Among them are two movies from Mongolia and many from whistleblowing in the Internet era. “The Kazakhstan. There are three single-shot movies, while more than same lines were being used, the same 50 films are being premiered at Asia’s largest film festival. Other script was being recited, it was fascinat- highlights include Kim Ki-duk’s controversial “Moebius” and Bong ing,” said Condon. “And then Assange appeared and became part of the story.” “The Fifth Estate,” which will open the 38th annual Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, comes just months after Snowden leaked documents about spying at the U.S. National Security OSN gets a new look Agency with the support of Assange and WikiLeaks. The film boldly leads the way on a prevalent theme throughout this year’s lineup - transparency and secrets. “It’s the tension between transparency and privacy in the Internet age and how far each one goes and how those ideas butt up against each other,” said Condon, who directed “Dreamgirls” and won a screenwriting Oscar for “Gods and Monsters.” “The Fifth Estate” stars English actor Benedict Cumberbatch as Assange and is based on the book by Assange’s once trusted lieutenant Daniel Domscheit-Berg (From left) British actor and co-writer Steve Coogan, Scottish actress Sophie Kennedy Clark, British actress Judi Dench about events that led to the largest leak of and British director Stephen Frears arrives for the screening of ‘Philomena’ — AFP official secrets in American history in 2010. earned rave reviews after a surprise films like “The Armstrong Lie,” a documen- Audience is ‘secret sauce’ For Condon, Toronto is the best place to screening in the Colorado mountain town tary about disgraced cyclist Lance What sets Toronto apart from the other premiere his first foray into government of Telluride. “Gravity,” a space thriller by Armstrong, and “Trap Street,” a Chinese festivals, Bailey said, is the public audience, and politics: not only is it “a generous Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron and a film that looks at the disappearance of what he calls its “secret sauce.” “It’s why film- movie-loving audience, it is also a well- two-person cast of Sandra Bullock and people and places in the rush to modern- makers love to bring their films here, it’s informed one.” It is also a festival that has George Clooney, opened the Venice festi- ization in China. why people who are selling their movies for come to be known as the starting block in val to widespread acclaim. The documentary lineup also reflects a distribution like to bring their films here to the race for Oscars six months down the “Philomena,” starring Judi Dench as an trend of filmmakers shedding light on the see how they play in front of the Toronto road. The coveted People’s Choice Award elderly Irish woman searching for a child big news topics of the times. “The Square” audience,” Bailey said. propelled the fortunes of “Slumdog she was forced to give up for adoption, is a chronicles Egypt’s revolution in Cairo’s It is also a place where a young director Millionaire,” and “The King’s Speech,” which favorite to win Venice’s top award, the Tahrir Square, while Oscar-winning docu- like Ned Benson can get a career-making both went on to win the Academy Award Golden Lion. mentarian Errol Morris conducts an inter- bounce. Benson is premiering his feature for best picture. Some 366 films, including 146 world view with former US Defense Secretary debut “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: premieres, will screen at the Toronto Donald Rumsfeld in an exploration of Him and Her,” starring Jessica Chastain and Oscar buzz abounds International Film Festival over 11 days. post-9/11 American policy. James McAvoy as a couple whose relation- The Toronto winner could also emerge World premieres of note in Toronto “It seems to be something that a lot of ship is told from his and her perspectives. from a number of films that already pre- include “August: Osage County” starring filmmakers in many parts of the world are He is looking for a buyer. “The taste and the miered at the Venice and Telluride festivals Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts in a drama dealing with and trying to understand: curation of the festival make it a fantastic in the last week, stealing a bit of Toronto’s of a dysfunctional family, and “Dallas what this new world means when some- place,” said Benson. “I remember when thunder and picking up early Oscar buzz. Buyers Club,” in which Matthew times governments, or corporations, or ‘American Beauty’ premiered there ... com- “12 Years a Slave,” the story of a free black McConaughey plays an AIDS activist who different sources of power have so much ing out of nowhere and becoming best pic- man who is kidnapped and sold into slav- smuggles treatment drugs from Mexico. control over information,” said festival ture (Oscar). It just has a way of being a plat- ery, by British director Steve McQueen, The theme of transparency crops up in artistic director Cameron Bailey. form into the rest of the year.” — Reuters Big in Japan: American DUBAI: OSN, the region’s leading the region’s broadcast sector.” pay-TV network has refreshed its Bethany Bunnell, OSN’s on-air brand identity further Creative Marketing Director Chris Hart finds J-pop home strengthening the network’s added: “We know that our brand In this Sunday, position as an iconic and premi- is a key source of differentiation eaving San Francisco, singer Chris Hart has made him- Music companies are getting creative,” said Tomonobu Feb 13, 2011 file um brand that is relevant to and that guides our customers’ pur- self at home in “J-pop.” His album of cover versions of Yonai, a spokesman for the recording industry group. resonates with its viewers. chase decisions. Our brand Japanese pop tunes is rising on the charts. And the Hart’s career took off with an appearance in a popular photo, Jennifer L Lopez arrives at Now live, the modern and refresh is designed to ensure crooner is scoring on this nation’s equivalent of “American Japanese TV show called “Nodojiman The! World,” in March unifying on-air brand identity that our brand promise and val- Idol,” being billed as a genius who understands the musical 2012, where foreigners compete in karaoke. the 53rd annual creates more synergy between ues come through in everything soul of Japan. His success highlights a music industry that’s Hart blew away the judges, mostly singers and celebri- Grammy Awards the OSN brand, its channels, gen- we do from programming and still booming, and increasingly eager to internationalize. ties who not only praised his technique but also his under- in Los res and services at the same time technology to the customer It’s even ready to eclipse the US music standing of the lyrics and the emotions Angeles. —AP reinforcing and highlighting experience. world, where CD sales have plunged with of the tunes. He was crowned “the OSN’s key differentiators - con- “There’s no other pay-TV the arrival of digital technology. world’s best foreign J-pop singer.” tent, technology and world-class brand quite like OSN and we Hart, 29, says he is living his dream.