Cannes just announced the members of this year's Steven Spielberg led jury for the festival and to say it is a high profile bunch would be an understatement. Joining the jury is Oscar winning actress Nicole Kidman, Japanese director and former Cannes competitor and winner Naomi Kawase, Indian actres...
Read More »Last week, it was announced that Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman would star in Lluis Quilez's "Out of the Dark," a supernatural thriller presented by Participant Media, the company known for producing films with a political bent, such as "An Inconvenient Truth" "Food, Inc," and "Lincoln." While Part...
Read More »Sundance Selects announced today that the company has acquired North American rights to Chiemi Karasawa’s directorial debut "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," a feature documentary about the stage and screen icon that made its world premiere last week at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival (check out Indiewire'...
Read More »Earlier this week, news broke that Guillermo Del Toro is working on adapting the manga series "Monster" into a potential HBO series. Today, FX announced that the busy filmmaker and producer has found a lead for the pilot of another TV series he has in the works.
Read More »Last year Twentieth Century Fox used its CinemaCon presentation to wow exhibitors with glorious footage from Ang Lee's "Life of Pi," and instantly established the 3-D epic as a major Oscar contender. This year, solo chairman Jim Gianopulos, no longer paired with now-departed Tom Rothman, introduced ...
Read More »Seven years in the making, and honestly not something many realistic pragmatists like us thought would ever come to pass, “Arrested Development” is returning in May on Netflix with all the 15 episodes at once, so you can binge through them all in one sitting, as is the norm for big TV digestion thes...
Read More »Patton Oswalt may have captured the hearts of many a “Star Wars” fan with his dream outline for the series' onslaught of new entries -- starting in 2015 with “Star Wars: Episode VII” -- but Kathleen Kennedy likely chuckled and kept to her airtight plan. The Lucasfilm President has been endlessly pre...
Read More »While we anxiously await the oddball awesomeness David O. Russell is cooking up with "American Hustle," let's take a victory lap with "Silver Linings Playbook." The screwball rom-com nabbed 8 Oscar nominations resulting in a Best Actress win for Jennifer Lawrence, who shined among a uniformly excell...
Read More »One of these years I'll attend the Marché du Film (the Cannes Film Market) in person. I browse the extensive catalog of films each year, which is usually quite long, but it would be nice to be there to witness the "marketing" happening, as projects are bought and sold, or packaged and laun...
Read More »"The Freebie" writer-director (and indie darling) Katie Aselton is back after her well-received debut with a film that couldn't be further from her winning romantic comedy. Boasting a screenplay by her husband and co-star on FX's hit series "The League," her second feature "Black Rock" centers on a ...
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