August 2009
49 articles
Legendary Actor, Seymour Cassel, to be Awarded Tallgrass’s Ad Astra Award
Wichita, KAN.—Wichita Association for the Motion Picture Arts today announced that the 2009 Tallgrass Film Festival Ad Astra Award recipient will be legendary independent film actor Seymour Cassel....
Aug 18, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #18 – The Ugly Truth, Cut From Home
This week’s show is a study in contrast as we review and compare Hollywood’s painfully formulaic and offensive offering, “The Ugly Truth,” and the stubbornly independent, shoe-string budgeted, almost...
Aug 18, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Kick-Ass’ Finds Distribution
Lionsgate has snatched up the stateside rights to Matthew Vaughn’s action-comedy, “Kick-Ass,” reports Variety . The movie, which won overwhelming fanboy approval at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con,...
Aug 17, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Oobermind’ Signs Ferrell, Pitt, and Jonah Hill
“Oobermind,” the new animated comedy from DreamWorks Animation, has signed three new voices; Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, and Jonah Hill. Robert Downey Jr. was originally attached to play the title role...
Aug 17, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongFirst Official ‘Avatar’ Photo Released
Sam Worthington in "Avatar" Geeks rejoice. James Cameron’s long-awaited sci-fi epic is coming. Yes, it sounds too good to be true, but it will get released. In fact, Fox just released the first...
Aug 16, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRobert Downey Jr. to Play Lestat in ‘Vampire Chronicles’
Sick of vampires yet? Well get ready for more, this time with Iron Man himself as the lead bloodsucker. Bloody Disgusting has just learned that Universal Pictures is looking to reinvigorate Anne...
Aug 15, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongBryan Singer to Helm ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Movie
Bryan Singer will direct and produce a feature-length film based on the ABC and Sci-Fi television series, “Battlestar Galactica,” for Universal Pictures. The series first aired on ABC in 1978 and ran...
Aug 14, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Wolverine’ Sequel Gets Writer
Despite the intense fan and critical lampooning of 20th Century Fox’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” the studio has wasted no time in moving forward with a sequel. Variety reports that Christopher...
Aug 14, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongDavid Mamet to Adapt ‘Diary of Anne Frank’
Director, author, playwright, essayist, and producer, David Mamet, will write and direct a new version of “The Diary of Anne Frank” for Disney. Variety reports that Mamet, with Andrew Braunsberg,...
Aug 13, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongGodzilla Isn’t Done Terrorizing Us Yet
Godzilla, the giant Japanese dinosaur-monster that has terrorized Tokyo dozens of times in nearly 30 movies over the last 50 years isn’t done yet. Making his debut in 1954’s “Gojira” from the Toho...
Aug 13, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMe and Orson Welles Trailer
Set in 1937 New York, the story centers on a high school student (Efron) who happens upon the yet-to-open Mercury Theatre and is noticed by its mercurial founder, Orson Welles. The man lands a part...
Aug 13, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongNatalie Portman Gets ‘Booksmart’
Natalie Portman will add another project to her already full plate with Fox’s high school comedy, “Booksmart.” Variety reports that Portman will produce that juvenile comedy concerning “two...
Aug 13, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongCut From Home (2009)
As the first decade of the 21st century dissolves into history, cinéastes and cinephiles find themselves in a time of uncommon ambivalence. Hollywood’s insatiable appetite for banality and bromidic...
Aug 12, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongLegos Build Their Way to the Bigscreen
Apparently Hollywood feels toys are a more ripe source material for films than actual source material these days. After Paramount’s intensely lucrative endeavors into the action figure world with the...
Aug 12, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongNew Additions to ‘Red Dawn’ Remake
Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas, Connor Cruise and Edwin Hodge have just signed on to help the Wolverines fight, presumably either the Chinese or the Russians, or both, in MGM/UA’s remake of the...
Aug 10, 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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