The Quiet American News

Convicted Internet hacker Alistair Peterson spent more than a year in jail because the Department of Correctional Services refused to recognise a plea agreement he had entered into with the now-defunct Scorpions.

Producers Arthur E. Friedman and Steven Jay Rubin are developing an Audie Murphy biopic, buying rights to Don Graham's biography "No Name on the Bullet." Murphy enlisted in 1942 as a 16-year-old and became one of America's most decorated combat veterans after seeing intense action in Italy and France.

Take-no-guff CIA agent Angelina Jolie is forced to become a rogue asset when she's falsely outed as a Russian spy in the new trailer for Phillip Noyce's Salt , also with Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

A Feature Film Studio 1 production, in association with Acrobates Films. Produced by Dang Tat Binh, Claire Lajoumard.

Vietnam's 1981 war classic Canh dong hoang won the top prize in Moscow International Film Festival 1981 Vietnam's film industry is escaping an obsession with war and earning international recognition with a flow of daily life and individualism-centered features.

The film Choi Voi will compete in the 66th Venice Film Festival in early September, the first Vietnamese film to compete in the world's oldest film festival.

The film Choi Voi will compete in the 66th Venice Film Festival in early September, the first Vietnamese film to compete in the world's oldest film festival.

Dark Horizons got a chance to talk to director Phillip Noyce about his new action-thriller Salt that was originally supposed to star Tom Cruise but was changed for Angelina Jolie to star in.

Australian director Phillip Noyce will take the helm of the thriller Mixed Blood, which has Samuel Jackson on board in a key role.

NOT a lot of people know this - but Sir Michael Caine has a body double from Suffolk.

I'm rather enjoying Michael Caine's late career. In this decade, he's done excellent work providing levity in dark films like Children of Men and the last two Batman movies.

Michael Caine plays The Amazing Clarence, a retired magician living in a family run nursing home.

Just because he plays "a geezer" in his new film, a cranky old performer on his last legs, don't read any autobiography into Michael Caine 's star turn in Is Anybody There? "When you're an actor and you do a movie about being old and dying, you think, 'This applies to other people, not me!'" Caine chortles.