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"Napoleon" Star Jon Heder Scores Roles In Six New Films

Only two years after "Napoleon Dynamite" premiered at Sundance Film Festival, the film's lanky, likable, but decidedly unconventional star, Jon Heder, already has six new films hitting the big screen. Heder, 28, will again play a high school geek in Dennis Dugan's upcoming "Benchwarmers." The film is set for release on April 7 by Sony Pictures and Revolution Studios. And in his first leading role since "Napoleon," Heder will star in "School for Scoundrels," a Weinstein company release by director Todd Phillips. Heder portrays an out-of-luck meter maid who takes a night-school class for losers that is taught by Billy Bob Thornton. Heder's othe...

Guantanamo's U.S. Release; 2006's Pre-Election Cinematic Attack?

Wintonock to be Honored Back Home in Canada

Documentarian Peter Wintonick is one of seven people being presented with the 2006 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts, this week. The prize recognizes distinguished career achievement in the visual and media arts by Canadian artists. Wintonick a producer, director, critic and editor ...

The Weinstein Company Adopts "Bobby" and "Miss Potter" for Release

The Weinstein Company has acquired rights to two films, including Emilio Estevez's "Bobby," and Chris Noonan's "Miss Potter," the company announced over the weekend. "Bobby," acquired from Michel Litvak's Bold Films (U.S. rights), is an ensemble political-culture drama starring Estevez, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood, William H. Macy, Helen Hunt, Christian Slater (and more) revisiting the night Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968, and focuses on how the lives of those at the hotel that evening intersected. The project was brought to TWC by Michelle Krumm, executive vice...

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Defending Day & Date

In her weekly 'Risky Business' column in The Hollywood Reporter, deputy film editor Anne Thompson looks at the mixed results seen in the early experiments with controversial day & date distribution. ...at this stage, no one is willing to risk any serious money. The most high-profile forays into altering the movie release paradigm are Cuban and Wagner's day-and-date January release of Steven Soderbergh's no-frills digital mystery "Bubble" in theaters, on cable channel HDNet and on DVD, and Google Video's January online streaming of Ben Rekhi's digital thriller "Waterborne" for free, followed by downloads at $3.99 a pop and a February DVD relea...

Amazing Grace: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's "L'Enfant"

If there is a point at which the craft of directing becomes so exquisite that it transcends and obviates criticism, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne might have reached it with the 2005 Palme d'Or winner "L'Enfant." Though weaned on documentary filmmaking, the Belgian brothers make narrative films that b...

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