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Summit Boards ‘The Cold Light of Day’
Summit Entertainment has agreed to co-finance “The Cold Light of Day,” a thriller, with Intrepid Pictures. Variety reports that Trevor Macy and Marc D. Evans of Intrepid will produce the flick, which...
Nov 10, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongEminem to Star in 3D Horror Spectacle, ‘Shady Talez’
Rapper Eminem will star in his first feature film in seven years, reports Screen Daily . The 3D horror extravaganza entitled, “Shady Talez,” will be the controversial performer’s first starring role...
Nov 7, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongSundance Film Fest Coming to a Theater Near You
In 2010, the Sundance Film Festival is adding a feature called Sundance Film Festival USA that will broaden the festivities to eight cities around the country. The Sundance Institute’s official...
Nov 5, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTurner Classic Movies to Launch Film Festival
Turner Classic Movies, the popular commercial-free movie channel run by Turner Broadcasting Systems (a Time-Warner company) has announced the launch of its own film festival. The inaugural TCM...
Nov 5, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongAvatar Trailer #2
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...
Nov 4, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMichael Jackson’s This Is It (2009)
Death is the great arbiter of a person’s legacy. Michael Jackson’s untimely death this June not only solidified his unequaled stature in the world of pop music but effectively disintegrated the...
Nov 4, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongDisney Commits to Protecting Forests in Amazon, Congo, US
Burbank, Ca., Nov. 3—The Walt Disney Company announced today a $7 million investment in forest projects that will build on its long history of conservation and environmental stewardship. The projects...
Nov 3, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Invention of Lying (2009)
Who wants to have fat kids with snub noses? Jennifer Garner sure doesn’t, and if you’re being honest, you probably don’t either. The difference between our world and the one Garner and Ricky Gervais...
Oct 31, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongZombieland (2009)
Suspicion of intellectualism and academia have been the unfortunate byproducts of the rise of the big dumb Hollywood movie. Film critics, once a respected and authoritative source of reasoned...
Oct 28, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongStallone Thinking About ‘Rocky 7’
Sylvester Stallone has made a career out of rehashing a single beloved performance and storyline over and over and over and over and over again. And who can blame him? Wouldn’t you if you had the...
Oct 25, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongCharlize Theron the New Mad Max?
Charlize Theron to replace raving mad Mel Gibson’s iconic Mad Max? Maybe. E! News Online is reporting on information from “multiple sources” that say that the Oscar-winning sexpot is the front runner...
Oct 22, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Precious’ Director to Helm ‘Saigon’; Wagner to Produce
Lee Daniels, the much lauded director of festival darling and his second feature, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” may very well direct a film version of “Miss Saigon” with former...
Oct 21, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRidley Scott, Angelina Jolie Join Forces for ‘Gucci’
Ridley Scott is after Angelina Jolie to play the role of Patrizia Reggiano, the femme fatale sentenced to 29 years in prison for orchestrating the murder of her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci in “Gucci,”...
Oct 20, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘The Wiz’: From Broadway to Bust
Part of being a filmmaker is accepting the fact that you’re mental masterpiece may turn into a cinematic failure. Many failed films don’t succeed due to a variety of reasons including low budget,...
Oct 17, 2009 / Greg KitaThe New Captain Kirk is the New Jack Ryan
Chris Pine, the talented young man who took on the daunting task of replacing William Shatner as the famed Captain Kirk in J.J. Abrams’ reboot of “Star Trek” earlier this year, will likely assume...
Oct 14, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
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- 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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