As the home of suffragette Susan B. Anthony and headquarters for film company Eastman Kodak, it was only a matter of time before the two ideas came together to beget the High Falls Film Festival. Set upstate in Rochester, New York, the five year old festival is a celebration of women in film.
Read More »Prior to the release of Joe Wright's "Pride & Prejudice" in the U.K. two months ago, the film's producers, Working Title, decided to shorten the original romantic ending of the movie, apparently feeling it was a bit too sappy for British audiences. Focus Features on the other hand, which opened ...
Read More »Ten feature films have been selected to compete for one of the 3 nominations in the Best Animated Feature Film category for the 2005 Academy Awards. Eligible features this year are: " Chicken Little", " Gulliver's Travel", " Hoodwinked", " Howl's Moving Castle", " Madagascar", " Robots", " Steamboy"...
Read More »The Bahamas International Film Festival recently announced its line up for this year's festival, which will take place December 8 - 11. In its second year running, the festival will screen 70 films from around the world, with a special focus on the Caribbean. The opening night film will be Jim Jarmu...
Read More »IFC Films will offer the first 10 minutes of Lars von Trier's new film "Manderlay" for online download via Apple's iTunes. The clip, will be available for viewing on the new video iPod beginning Friday. The distributor set up the arrangement through Mammoth Advertising in New York to launch its promotional campaign leading up to the February 3, 2006 release of the movie. Viewers wishing to access thec clip can visit Apple's traliers section, as well as iTunes. In a statement, IFC President Jonathan Sehring said, "The industry continues to adapt, from collapsing windows, to day-and-date initiatives, both of which we are aggressively establishi...
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