Aside from actors walking the red carpet at the upfront, the extra attention from USA’s new corporate parent hasn’t yet trickled down to individual shows. “On a day-to-day basis,” says Mr. Nix, the creator of “Burn Notice” and its lead character Michael Westen, “whether Michael breaks through a wall or a ceiling is a much bigger part of our daily life than Comcast.”
Nice expose on the USA Network. Say what you will about their shows (if you hate them), you can’t argue with success.
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“It’s definitely helpful to have a director who is also an actor, as long as he’s a good director, too, and Ken is a good director,” Skarsgård said. “You work with some directors who are afraid of actors. They don’t what to use them for really, all they are is bodies moving around in their images. Ken is very different. He knows when an actor is uncomfortable… His take on this kind of movie is he wants to bring authentic psychology to the characters so they become three-dimensional human beings in this big fantasy film.”
I’m excited to see Thor, especially because of Branagh’s directing. One of my friends worked on the film as his assistant and she said the entire thing looks amazing.
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A Hong Kong movie billed as the world’s first 3D porn film has broken the city’s first-day box office record previously set by Hollywood blockbuster Avatar.
Only thing that will beat this is 3D Avatar porn!
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Although the crackdown is being driven by the Hollywood entertainment industry, it has the strong support of authors, photographers, book publishers, the sports industry, labor unions and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Crackdown supporters cited estimates that online piracy costs the U.S. economy more than $100 billion a year. And as more commerce moves online, the threat to the legitimate economy grows, they said.
It’s good to see the government finally acting on this, but it won’t really stop piracy because, as stated in the article, most sites are based out of the country. So unless this starts a chain reaction on a global level, it really won’t do much.
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After years of delays, the century-old movie exhibition business is finally embracing digital technology. Equipment suppliers can barely keep up with the demand. About 800 to 900 digital screens are being added each month to theaters large and small nationwide, allowing them to screen 3-D movies, beam live sporting and music events and deliver sharper, scratch free images to audiences.
But hundreds of small theater operators such as the Kims have yet to get with the digital program — and may be left out if they don’t act soon.
This is sad to hear about these smaller theaters, but I think there’s a silver lining. At a theater in LA, they play older movies from their original prints. I loved watching Indian Jones on the big screen, and it was hilarious to see the original coming attractions that played in front of them. So maybe these one screen theaters should take this approach.
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She’s moved easily between big studio projects and smaller films throughout her career, but “Water for Elephants” is something of a hybrid. It’s a roughly $40-million adult drama — a genre that’s had a hard time making it at the box office in recent years — but it’s based on a bestselling novel by Sara Gruen and costars one of the hottest properties in town in Pattinson.
I haven’t been a big fan of Reese Witherspoon in recent years, but this could change that. I’ve not read the book, but the trailer looks great. Check it out here.
I also hope it helps Pattinson get out of the crappy Twilight sphere. He is the only one in those movies who can actually act (though not in the movie).
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Unlike Hollywood’s fascination with disposable pop-culture names — say, “Transformers,” or the upcoming “Footloose” — fairy-tale movies toy with the sacred. In paying tribute to (and deriving marketing benefits from) these classic texts, Hollywood executives are, in a sense, hoping to have their gingerbread and eat it too. They want reinvention, but they also know they need tradition.
I’ve read a lot of these new fairy tale scripts and they are awful. I was a huge champion of the Alice in Wonderland remake from Tim Burton (I’ve thought so ever since I revisited the animated movie 15 years ago) and thought he did a great job, but that is because of Burton, not the fairy tale.
I am actually very interested to see how Hansel and Gretel works out because I loved the director’s previous work, Dead Snow. It’s a stupid movie, but it’s fun and memorable. Let’s see how this new Hollywood trend plays out.
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Tweens, comedy lovers and fanboys may be considered the most prized constituencies in moviedom, but none of them turn out like an animated film’s core audience.
I think animated movies dominate because so much time is spent on them that they have to perfect it. You cannot work on a project for 2-4 years and not notice a huge plot hole and lack of character development. Someone, somewhere along the way has to point out the crap and fix it.
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“We saw all these blockbusters getting made with co-promotion and wondered if we could make a ‘doc-buster,’ using a similar approach,” he said. “You want people to be reminded about this movie that’s ‘coming soon to a theater near you,’ so whether that was a place where you got a cup of coffee or a place where you got something to eat or a place where you bought a shirt or you name it, a hotel, an airline, you’re going to be exposed to this film.”
Gotta love Morgan Spurlock, he’s a genius with some of his documentaries. I want to see this one, but no way I’m gonna shell out $10+ for a ticket. Netflix it is!
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“Larry validated us by thinking we were talented,” said the director Ti West, whose first feature, “The Roost,” was among ScareFlix’s initial offerings and brought Mr. West a cult following of his own. “The movies have done well, but mainly I really enjoy having Larry as a part of my life.”
It’s nice to know that there are still people in the entertainment industry who seek to mentor others. This is a great look indie the micro-budget indie world.
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