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IBM Researchers and USC Moviemakers Unite
This Wednesday, April 30, a meeting of minds will be held at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The event will play host to IBM scientific researchers as well as screenwriters, studio executives, producers and USC film students and faculty. The purpose of the event, which is expected to begin with opening remarks by Dean Elizabeth Daley, is for scientists and moviemakers to share ideas, solve problems and inspire progress in their respective fields.
April 30th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Andrew Gnerre
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>Guillermo del Toro to direct The Hobbit
It’s official: Guillermo del Toro, director of the Oscar-winning, Spanish-language feature Pan’s Labyrinth, has signed on to direct two movies based on the legendary J.R.R. Tolkien book. For a while it looked as though the films weren’t going to be made. In February, the Tolkien family sued New Line Cinema, claiming that the company had not paid them their percentage of the mammoth grosses made by Peter Jackson’s movie versions of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The lawsuit has since been settled, and it looks like the project is back on track.
April 25th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Melissa Rose Kimbler
TVLand.com Launches Movie Database
There is something so satisfying about two hours worth of plot, action and dialogue crammed into three minutes of fast-paced delight. Yesterday, the channel that loves to reminisce launched a movie trailer database on its Website. TVLand.com’s collection of trailers features pop culture phenomena, sleeper hits and cult classics from the 1950s through the '90s.
April 24th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Melissa Rose Kimbler
Cannes Film Festival Announces the 2008 Lineup
Since 1946 the Cannes Film Festival has been rolling out the red carpet for some of the world’s most innovative moviemakers and anticipated movies. The 2008 event, the lineup of which was announced Wednesday, April 23, won’t be any different. With preview screenings of Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the festival proves it is still the first place moviemakers go to debut their latest releases.
April 23rd, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Mallory Potosky
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>Documentary Channel Honors John Huston
Everyone knows Oscar-winning director John Huston as the man behind such classic fiction films as The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but as cable network Documentary Channel (DOC) will show on Monday, April 21, Huston mastered the art of non-fiction as well. Shortly after being released in 1945 and 1946 respectively, The Battle of San Pietro and Let There Be Light, were confiscated by the War Department but in 2008, are once again ready for public viewing. As part of its tribute to war documentaries, the Documentary Channel programming starts off the night at 7 p.m. with the fourth episode of its original series “DocTalk,” followed by both banned Huston docs.
April 21st, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Melissa Rose Kimbler
Film Tax Incentives Symposium at the Tribeca Film Festival
Learn what qualifies you for film tax incentives and how to use them as part of production financing during the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. On April 23rd, Tax Credits, LLC will present a symposium featuring programs offered specifically on the East Coast.
April 17th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Melissa Rose Kimbler
Clearvision International, Inc. Opens Entertainment Division
For its 10th birthday Clearvision International, Inc., one of the world’s leading media placement companies, is getting a new entertainment branch. This new Entertainment Division is really a gift to independent moviemakers, though, as its top priority will be helping independent films get off the ground.
April 16th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Andrew Gnerre
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>The National Museum of the American Indian presents “A View from the Villages”
In a world dominated by film and television, stories that don’t appeal to a large demographic are often overlooked. Vídeo Nas Aldeis is striving to change that. A distribution network that has taught indigenous peoples to create their own video for over 20 years, the VNA helps in broadcasting the voices of these indigenous people to the world. From May 1 to May 4, 2008 the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has organized a four-day film festival to showcase the VNA’s achievements.
April 14th, 2008 | Category: | By Melissa Rose Kimbler
MGM and Relativity Media Land Rights to The Matarese Circle
MGM and financing and production company Relativity Media have secured the rights to the Robert Ludlum novel The Matarese Circle, an espionage thriller that sees two rival spies forced to team up to take down a ring of killers known as the Matarese. Set to star in the film is Academy Award winner and box office behemoth Denzel Washington, while Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (3:10 to Yuma) will pen the flick. Jeffrey Weiner (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Supremacy), Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers) and Nick Wechsler (North Country) will produce.
April 9th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Andrew Gnerre
Submit Your Own Cloverfield Footage to Win
The marketing team behind Cloverfield, that revolutionary 2008 monster movie from director Matt Reeves and producer J.J. Abrams, really knows how to employ the Internet. To promote the film’s April 22 DVD release, Paramount is holding a contest calling for fans to submit their own “footage” from the night the monster used New York City as its sandbox.
April 8th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Andrew Gnerre
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>Lifetime Networks Announces Every Woman’s Film Competition
A quick look at the facts that 86 women are currently in Congress, 48 women have traveled to space and still no woman has ever won a Best Director Oscar is proof enough of a gender bias in Hollywood. But Lifetime Networks, the network responsible for many a made-for-TV movie starring Tori Spelling, is hoping to change all that with its Every Woman’s Film Competition.
April 7th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Jennifer M. Wood
FilmAid International Hosts Power of Film Gala Fundraiser
FilmAid International will hold its second annual Power of Film Gala fundraising event on April 9th at Capitale in New York. The organization, which works to empower refugees around the world through film, will honor several prominent individuals making a difference in the philanthropic arena. Celebrity VIPs set to attend the gala include moviemaker Edward Burns and his wife, Christy Turlington.
April 3rd, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Carla Pisarro
Tim Robbins to Deliver Opening Keynote at NAB Show
At this year’s NAB Show, an annual exhibition of electronic media put on by the National Association of Broadcasters, Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins will deliver the opening keynote speech. The speech, which will take place on Monday, April 14, will touch on the shifting entertainment landscape and impact of new distribution and content creation possibilities. In other words, expect a lot of talk about Web 2.0 and digital distribution, injected with Robbins’ Oscar-caliber depth of emotion, pitch-perfect timing and understated humor.
April 3rd, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Andrew Gnerre
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>Vilcek Foundation Offers $25,000 Prize for Immigrant Moviemakers
The Vilcek Foundation, a New York nonprofit devoted to aiding and celebrating American immigrants, announced that it will award two annual $25,000 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise to young American immigrants making outstanding contributions to their fields, with one prize to be given in biomedical research and the other in one branch, selected annually, of the arts or humanities. This year’s category will be moviemaking.
April 2nd, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Carla Pisarro
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