Rooftop Films has announced the lineup for their 15th annual summer series. Starting May 13 and runnning through August 20, Rooftop will screen features every weekend with more than 50 shows in all. The program includes 23 feature films (including two world premieres) and 183 short films, shown in t...
Read More »The Cohen Media Group has announced that it has acquired all US rights to Jeff Prosserman's "Chasing Madoff." E1 is handling the film in Canada.
Read More »The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has lined up their competition for the 2011 Student Academy Awards, now in its 38th year. 52 entries from 32 countries, along with 523 films from students representing 136 U.S. colleges make up this year's slate.
Read More »After six days at the ArcLight Hollywood, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, which brings films from the robust Indian film industry to Los Angeles, announced their 2011 winners. The awards ceremony included a special tribute to Industry Leadership Award winners Andy Kaplan, President of Sony...
Read More »Jan Kidawa-Blonski's "Little Rose" was the big winner at this year's Tiburon International Film Festival, snagging Best Film at the event which wrapped on April 15 in Tiburon, California. Below find the full list of winners:
Read More »Web-based indie distributor and retailer IndiePix has entered the VOD market with IndiePix Unlimited, a subscription-based VOD store with 200 films on offer. That number is expected to grow to 500 by early summer, according to the site.
Read More »The lineup for the 50th anniversary of the Critics' Week program at the Cannes Film Festival has been announced. The oldest of the parallel sections at Cannes, Critics' Week will have 7 feature films comprising the main selection, as well as 4 special feature film screenings and 10 short films. Jef...
Read More »Rocky Mountain Pictures released "Atlas Shrugged, Part I" on 299 screens this weekend, receiving a fair but not overwhelming response from audiences. The tepidly reviewed film is based on Ayn Rand's final novel, which details a dystopian United States that collapses as government asserts control. It...
Read More »Radu Muntean's "Tuesday After Christmas" received the Narrative Feature jury prize, while "Better This World" by director Katie Galloway was the Documentary Jury Prize winner at the 2011 Sarasota Film Festival. "Without" by director Mark Jackson won the festival's juried award for Independent Vision...
Read More »Just before noon Friday, when "Atlas Shrugged Part I" was screening for the first time in 300 theaters across America, the film had a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 6% -- and "Atlas Shrugged" was the nation's number-one Google Trends keyword. ("Ayn Rand" held the no. 11 spot.)
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