August 2009
49 articles
Disney to Acquire Marvel Entertainment
Burbank, CA and New York, NY, August 31, 2009 -Building on its strategy of delivering quality branded content to people around the world, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) has agreed to acquire...
Aug 31, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongFunny People (2009)
A sprawling, childish, overlong, unfocused, self-indulgent mess, “Funny People, ” is director Judd Apatow’s third effort at the helm. Funny thing is, in this particular case I’m not so sure all of...
Aug 30, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Men Who Stare at Goats Trailer
In this quirky dark comedy inspired by a real life story you will hardly believe is actually true, astonishing revelations about a top-secret wing of the U.S. military come to light when a reporter...
Aug 29, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #19 – Funny People, John Hughes
Judd Apatow’s latest venture into the world of comedy, “Funny People,” starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen goes under the TMA microscope. Is it a sign of maturation for the director? Or just a lot...
Aug 29, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongSpielberg to Adapt Crichton’s ‘Pirate Latitudes’
The same friendship and partnership that brought us “Jurassic Park,” “Twister,” and medical TV show, “ER,” will team up again for the pirate tale, “Pirate Latitudes.” USA Today reports that Steven...
Aug 28, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongA&E TV Networks to Acquire Lifetime Entertainment
New York/Burbank, August 27, 2009 – The Disney-ABC Television Group, Hearst Corporation and NBC Universal today announced an agreement for A&E Television Networks to acquire Lifetime Entertainment...
Aug 27, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA’s 25 Greatest Sports Movies of All Time
Sports and movies have much in common. They make us laugh, cry, shout for joy, and smash things uncontrollably (this only happens at really bad movies). So, it’s only natural that they overlap in...
Aug 26, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMegan Fox is Catwoman? Not So Fast
The Sun, a British tabloid, announced Wednesday that they had the scoop on a bit of casting news for Christopher Nolan’s followup to the unimaginably successful, “The Dark Knight,” for Warner Bros....
Aug 26, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongDisney Names New Exec. VP
BURBANK, Calif., August 24, 2009 – Jayne Parker has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), it was announced today by Robert A....
Aug 24, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongInception Trailer
Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated followup to his worldwide, critical and commercial success, “The Dark Knight,” “Inception” is “a contemporary science fiction tale set within the architecture...
Aug 24, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongAvatar Trailer!
Avatar takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. The...
Aug 22, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongOrphan (2009)
With protesting rapidly emerging as a new national pastime, it’s shocking that middle-aged housewives and adoption advocates aren’t lining the streets opposite Warner Bros. Studios shouting...
Aug 22, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Traces of the Trade’ Third Thursday Feature
WICHITA, KAN.—Wichita Association for the Motion Picture Arts and Tallgrass Film Festival will screen “Traces of the Trade: a Story of the Deep North,” for the September installment of the Tallgrass...
Aug 21, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Yellow Submarine’ Brought to You by Disney, Zemeckis
The Beatles’ seminal animated film and subsequent album, “Yellow Submarine,” is coming to the big screen once again thanks to Disney and Robert Zemeckis, according to Variety . George Dunning’s...
Aug 20, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongJimi Hendrix Biopic in the Works
Legendary Pictures is hoping to capitalize on the fanfare generated this year by the 40th anniversary of Woodstock with a feature film about guitar-god, Jimi Hendrix. Thomas Tull is attached to...
Aug 19, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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