Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was released from prison in May after an outcry by filmmakers from around the world, is still not free to travel.

The Atlantic Film Festival will open with Score: A Hockey Musical, Michael McGowan's light-hearted romp through Canada's national sport.

As produced by heavyweight Stephen Woolley (THE CRYING GAME) and headlined by Sally Hawkins (HAPPY-GO-LUCKY) and Bob Hoskins (THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY), this period docudrama brings to life a pivotal event from British history. In 1968, women's rights took a broad leap forward when workers at the Ford Dagenham automobile plant -- buckling beneath deplorable working conditions rightly perceived as gender discrimination -- suddenly stormed out into the streets and began to strike in protest of the unfair treatment levied at them. Little could they have foreseen the ramifications that this courageous and noble act would engender in successive years. Christopher Smith directs.

New York's Metropolitan Opera plans to bring 12 of its operas to cinema screens in 2010-11, including a production of Das Rheingold by Canada's Robert Lepage.

The life of Jesus, which has seen film adaptations by directors from Cecile B. Demille to Mel Gibson, is now to get the Bollywood treatment.

Earning $20 million US upfront for a movie is so 2007. These days studios are squeezing every cent they can out of actors, and that means many stars only earn the big bucks after the studio gets back its money.

People from across North America have donated enough money to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin to restore dresses Vivian Leigh wore as Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 movie Gone With the Wind.

The Venice Film Festival opens with its share of big-screen bound blockbuster potential, from Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, to Sofia Coppola's highly anticipated Somewhere and Ben Affleck's sophomore directorial effort, The Town.

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