Jumps from Fox Searchlight to become unit's VP of Corporate and Consumer Communications.By Lucas ShawAfter six years as VP of National Publicity at Fox Searchlight, James Finn is joining Fox Home Entertainment as Senior VP of Corporate and Consumer Communications. Finn, who succeeds Steve Feldstein, will make the move ...
"Napoleon Dynamite" actor will star in sitcom for cabler.By Wrap StaffComedy Central has ordered up a new, untitled sitcom starring Jon Heder ("Blades of Glory") from Gary Sanchez Prods. and Debmar-Mercury. Heder will star as an out of work computer IT specialist who leaves the big city and returns ...
Miyazaki, Zemeckis, Lasseter Will Present in San Diego.By Wrap Staff FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES’ COMIC-CON AGENDA IS FULL OF “FIRSTS”DIRECTORS ZEMECKIS, BURTON TO TAKE PART IN FIRST-EVER 3D PANEL;ANIMATION LEGENDS MIYAZAKI & LASSETER TO ANCHOR ANIMATION PANEL Studio to Showcase Key Titles—PONYO, TOY STORY & TOY STORY ...
I have always marveled at how Anthony Kaufman was able to maintain a freelance life. Tony and I met at film school years ago. We are in each others’ short films, either in front of or behind the camera. When school ended we both went on to journalism. One of ...
Michael Moore Unveils Title for New Film Oscar®-winning filmmaker’s October 2nd Release a “Love Story” About Capitalism (Beverly Hills, CA) July 8, 2009— Capitalism: A Love Story is the newly unveiled title of Oscar®-winner Michael Moore’s latest documentary feature. Overture Films will release the ...
"It's the perfect date movie," says Michael Moore as he announced the title to his follow-up to Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story. Overture will release the muckraking doc on October 2. For more info on Moore, check out MichaelMoore.com. As Bowling for Columbine examined America's love of violence, his ...
My friends at Power to the Pixel have launched their pitching contest for cross-media projects. From the website:The Pixel Pitch is Power to the Pixel’s ground-breaking new pitching forum for up to ten of the best UK and international cross-media film projects. We are looking for stories that can ...
Rooftop Films has already brought the ruckus in a major way this summer, but this weekend packs a particularly impressive one-two punch of special sneak previews, featuring two of the most celebrated new American documentaries of 2009. On Friday night, July 10th, Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly’s The Way We ...
Just as we’d prefer for Hollywood to remake bad films rather than beloved classics, we’d also like to see more TV adaptations of obscure and failed series — as long as there’s going to be such a giant void of creativity anyway, why not go for the forgotten titles and ...
District 9 could herald a new era in sociological science fiction, as long as it doesn't overcook its apartheid subject matterWith the slew of remakes, sequels and reboots that have populated Hollywood's science fiction output in recent years, it's been easy to get a little disenchanted with the genre. Duncan ...
Michael Moore says his latest documentary is just the ticket. With Lars von Trier's gyno-horror out in a fortnight, what are your top – and bottom – tips for a night of romance?There's a bit in Annie Hall when Woody Allen drags Diane Keaton to a screening of The Sorrow ...
The film doesn't challenge social prejudices – it is simply smutty public-school trashI've never felt more grateful for being working class than after watching Bruno. It's a puerile, penis-fixated freak-fest that reeks so high of suburban, middle-class repression that had Sacha Baron Cohen ever walked into his office, Freud would ...
You go away for a few weeks and two of your favorite hometown institutions come to an end. The Torontoist is reporting that BOTH Pages Bookstore and Cumberland Cinemas have met their end. Pages will close its doors in August (I won’t even get to say goodbye… though this Facebook ...
By Matthew PolandIf nothing else, There Will Be Blood has been a boon to the T-shirt industry; I can't pass a novelty shop without seeing “I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE” scrawled in Gothic script over oil-black cotton blends. The ubiquity of that phrase suggests the film has infiltrated the mainstream, ...
"The best French writer is Robbe-Grillet whom we met in Paris..."—VN, letter to Edmund Wilson, January 19, 1960"There is no question, as we have seen, of establishing a theory, a pre-existing mold into which to pour the books of the future. Each novelist, each novel must invent its own ...
- It's always fun to debate whether porn is a "leading indicator" for the way other media will go.... and this NY Times story will get you thinking. Given that much of the porn industry is abandoning narrative for short, "chunkified" content, is that the wave of the future? From ...
First GQ and EW, now Vanity Fair. If you were the editor of a major magazine, I think you'd want Twilight star Rob Pattinson for your cover, too. He's booked for Vanity Fair in the fall, around the November release of New Moon. On Twitter, Pattinson fans track his every ...
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte’s film, Soul Power, is opening this weekend in select cities. If you’re a fan of documentaries or pop music, this is must-see viewing. On Wednesday night, Sony Pictures Classics hosted the film’s New York pre-release event with a screening and after-party. It was my first time seeing the ...
“One ever feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”—W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk Like Wattstax, shot in 1972 at an L.A. Coliseum concert ...
A variation of the 20th Century Fox logo on a Los Angeles billboard appears at the beginning of Mel Brooks' triumphant experiment, Silent Movie, from 1976. There were some pretty far-out guesses (Aliens?) but most managed to work it out.I wrote a primer of sorts this week on the films ...
Well, now we know how this story played out over the next 28 years:
