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Hands-On Film Workshops At Cine Gear Expo
Wanna get your hands on some 35mm film? Planning to be in Los Angeles on June 20 and/or 21st for Cine Gear Expo at the Universal Studios Backlot? Then toggle your computer screen over to http://www.kodak.com/go/stopbyshootfilm and pre-register for one of their Stop By Shoot Film workshops, taking place Friday and Saturday, June 20th and 21st, at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Classes will be offered in the 35mm format on KODAK VISION3 color negative.
“Stop By Shoot Film workshops provide an opportunity for filmmakers at all stages of their careers to experiment with the latest film tools and analyze what they created,” says Kodak’s Judy Doherty.
June 4th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Jennifer M. Wood
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Hits Cannes
The immensely entertaining Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull gives you the same sort of pleasurable rush—a potent mix of nostalgia-fueled glee and in-the-moment excitement—that you can get from a really great concert by a favorite band that first started charting in the 1980s. That is, provided it’s a concert where (a) the original players are obviously and unashamedly older, but still at the top of the their form, (b) they play both the oldies and the new stuff with the same full-out, rock-the-house energy, (c) the new members of the group fit in seamlessly because they’ve got the same beat, and (d) a bandmate who left the group a few albums back makes a welcome return midway through the performance.
May 19th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Joe Leydon
Jaman Launches “Movie Channel for the World”
Jaman.com announced the availability of instantly streamed, HD-quality movies—for free.
With nothing more than a simple click, cineastes can watch one of 100 ad-supported titles from the online distributor's collection of more than 3,000 films at no cost. Alternatively, those viewers who are less inclined to "pay" for the free films by watching the ads can pay just $1.99 to watch them commercial-dree. “By offering a free streaming media service along with our current rental and ownership download options, we are anticipating the future of digital cinema," says Jaman founder and CEO, Gaurav Dhillon. "With streaming, we provide our community with a quality viewing experience that is free and for our advertisers, we deliver a unique audience and premium and targeted placement opportunities.”
May 15th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Jennifer M. Wood
Kodak at Cannes
Since 1987 Kodak has been the official partner of the Cannes Film Festival, sponsoring the Camera d’Or prize that is awarded yearly to the best feature film by a first-time director. The tradition continues in 2008 when, for the fifth consecutive year, the festival will also hand out the Kodak Discovery Prize for Best Short Film.
“Cannes draws a huge number of filmmakers from all over the world every year, which gives Kodak a great opportunity to host our customers and show them how committed we are to the industry and to motion picture innovation,” says Kim Snyder, Kodak’s president and general manager of the Entertainment Imaging Division.
May 8th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Mallory Potosky
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>Who’s Your Favorite Indy Sidekick?
After 27 years and what will soon be four movies in the franchise, Indiana Jones has introduced audiences to his fair share of sidekicks. Which of Indy's co-stars has scored the biggest response from audiences? The folks at MovieTickets.com asked that very question of site visitors--and determined that 37 percent of them preferred Short Round, Jonathan Ke Quan's character in the franchise's second entry, 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Sean Connery took a quarter of the votes for his portrayal of the elder Jones, Professor Henry Jones, Sr., in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
May 7th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Jennifer M. Wood
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
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
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>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
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
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>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
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
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>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
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
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>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
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
Actors Hold Charity eBay Auction for Actress Babz Chula
Babz Chula is an award-winning Canadian actress and crucial presence in Vancouver’s independent film scene. She is also a cancer survivor who recently discovered that her breast cancer, that was thought to have been defeated, has traveled to her liver. In the face of increasing medical bills, a group of Canadian actors have formed the Babz Chula Lifeline for Artists Society.
March 31st, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Andrew Gnerre
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>Popular Mechanics Names 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Movies
Still mourning the passing of sci-fi great Arthur C. Clarke, our friends over at PopularMechanics.com have assembled a list of the 10 most prophetic sci-fi movies of all time—those films that are the "most eerily predictive, prescient films of the future," according to Erik Sofge. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Short Circuit, Sofge's list certainly runs the gamut.
March 28th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Jennifer M. Wood
Body of War Joins the Ranks of Iraq War Documentaries
The wave of recent films devoted to exploring the Iraq War continues in 2008 with the new documentary, Body of War, to be released nationwide this spring. The film, directed by talk show veteran Phil Donahue and award-winning documentarian Ellen Spiro, is the story of Tomas Young, an American soldier paralyzed after taking a bullet to his spine one week into his tour of duty in Iraq. As Young adjusts to his condition, he begins to question the U.S. government's rationale for going to war, eventually becoming an anti-war activist himself. Body of War, currently being screened on the festival circuit with a recent stop at SXSW, debuted to great acclaim in 2007, picking up the National Board of Review's prize for Best Documentary.
March 28th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Carla Pisarro
A&E to “Spotlight” the Palm Beach International Film Festival
For the first installment of the new “A&E IndieFilms Spotlight” campaign, the cable network has chosen to feature the Palm Beach International Film Festival (PBIFF). During the upcoming festival, which runs from April 10 - 17, A&E will run brief segments highlighting several yet-to-be-determined PBIFF films on both their cable network and Website. Eventually, and more importantly, one film from the festival will be selected and televised nationally on A&E.
March 27th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Andrew Gnerre
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>Starz Airs Grindhouse March 31 As It Was Meant to Be Seen
Grindhouse, last spring’s double bill from directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, may have disappeared faster than expected from theaters after surprisingly meager box office returns. But fans will have the chance to watch the anthology film as the directors intended it to be seen, as Starz plans to air Grindhouse in its all schlocky, exploitation glory on March 31st at 9 p.m.
March 26th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Carla Pisarro
Canadian Film Centre Sends Moviemakers to Tribeca Film Festival
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) will send two Canadian production teams to New York next month to participate in Tribeca All Access (TAA), a six-day event hosted by the Tribeca Film Festival. This year will be the first that TAA has included international delegates in the event, with representatives from the UK Film Council and the Australian Film Commission to attend in addition to the CFC’s participants.
TAA, to take place this year from April 21-26, provides workshops and networking opportunities for moviemakers from traditionally underrepresented communities. With 37 new projects showing, this year’s TAA showcase will be the festival’s largest ever.
March 25th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Carla Pisarro
Meet the Browns Charity Auction Raises Funds for Pediatric AIDS
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns opens today with a special charitable opportunity for fans of the movie’s cast: Lionsgate is auctioning posters signed by the film’s stars on eBay. The posters feature autographs from Perry along with stars Angela Bassett, Rick Fox, Sofia Vergara, Jennifer Lewis, David Mann, Tamela Mann and Lance Gross. Proceeds from the auction will go towards the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, a pioneer in raising funds for pediatric AIDS research.
March 21st, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Carla Pisarro
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