As good a reason as anyone else, credit filmmaker Michael Moore for snapping a four-week skid of slumping Hollywood box office revenues. Weekend estimates show a 2% increase from the same weekend last year with the top twelve movies, including Moore's healthcare documentary "Sicko," earning $146.7 m...
Read More »Filmmakers Joe Swanberg, Andrew Bujalski, The Duplass Brothers, Aaron Katz, and Frank V. Ross will be in the spootlight for two weeks later this summer during an IFC Center series dubbed, "The New Talkies: Generation DIY." Running August 22 - Septmber 4, the festival of Mumblecore filmmakers will include a one-week run for Swanberg's latest, "Hannah Takes The Stairs" (August 22 - 28), which debuted earlier this year at SXSW and was recently acquired by IFC First Take. Swanberg's "Kissing On The Mouth" (2005) will screen on August 24th, while season one of his Nerve.com series "Young American Bodies" will screen the next day and last year's "L...
Read More »His thirst for the limelight has driven him to launch a multilingual blog and issue a string of headline-grabbing statements. But Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was surprisingly camera-shy when his extrovert persona drew the attention of Hollywood, turning down a request by Oliver Stone, the...
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