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Eric Bana Set for John Crowleyâs Suspense Thriller Movie
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"Blackbird" with Olivia Wilde. He is also attached to "Elvis & Nixon" as the executive producer and portrays the role of Elvis Presley in the movie as well as Robert Luketic's thriller "Brilliant." Rebecca Hall's "Lay the Favorite" with Bruce Willis and...
Interview: Ice-T talks Lil Wayne, reality TV and making-of 'Something from Nothing'
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Ice-T and "Something from Nothing" co-director Andy Baybutt wanted to "keep everything unique," the rapper told me during an interview at the Sundance Film Festival this January. The doc made its bow there. "If I’m making a film, I wanna shoot...
Celeb of the Day: Tracy Morgan
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Earlier this week, the star of 30 Rock was honored at the Creative Coalition Spotlight Awards in Park City, Utah during the Sundance Film Festival. However, after his speech at the awards show, Morgan had to be rushed to the hospital to receive medical...
Oscars 2012: Nominees' diary
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The film's director Grant Orchard and producer Sue Goffe, of Studio AKA in London, will be walking up the red carpet in Hollywood on Oscars night. They are already celebrating the film's recent wins at the Baftas and the Sundance Film Festival. This is...
Inupiaq film opens to a packed house in Fairbanks, New York City
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Sunday, two days after it debuted with a sold-out show at Lincoln Center in New York. It’s a promising start for a low-budget film that touts itself as “the first Inupiaq feature film with an all-Inuit cast.” The film evolved from “Sikumi,” a short film...
Jon Heder's 'Dynamite' success
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In between the two "Napoleons," it's been an exciting ride. Heder has appeared on "Late Night with David Letterman" and hosted "Saturday Night Live." He's starred in six films, the most recent is "For Ellen," which just opened at the Sundance Film...
Local filmmaker Trevor Anderson wins award
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The film’s songs were composed by Anderson and Edmonton ex-pat and cabaret piano player Bryce Kulak, who plays Jimmy. David O’Reilly, one of three filmmakers who judged the shorts, lauded the “eccentric film” for using music and choreography “to create...
Local director wins in Berlin
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The film’s songs were composed by Anderson and Edmonton ex-pat and cabaret piano player Bryce Kulak, who plays Jimmy. David O’Reilly, one of three filmmakers who judged the shorts, lauded the “eccentric film” for using music and choreography “to create...
Remixing the Black Power Mixtape
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Traveling the indie film route, few have had the chance to see the film, which recently debuted on public television as part of PBS’s long-running series, Independent Lens. If Black Power could be thought of as a brand, there are few brands that have...
A sprinkling of magic Gatineau-born filmmakers headed for the Oscars
3 days ago

Lucky Charms were never more magically delicious. Gatineau-born filmmakers Philippe Falardeau and Luc Déry were at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah a few weeks ago, and up early to watch the announcement of Oscar nominees, held at 5:30 a.m. in Los...
IFC Films Takes North American Rights To Sundance’s ‘Predisposed’
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When Penny plans to enter rehab on the day of Eli’s audition for a prestigious music program, a glitch in the system forces them to enlist the help of an unlikely ally: her drug dealer (Tracy Morgan). Philip Dorling and Ron Nyswaner directed the film,...
Watch The First 12 Minutes Of Cult Mystery Sound Of My Voice
3 days ago

Batmanglijs cult drama Sound of My Voice was the hit of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, leaving many to wonder why the film has yet to receive a proper release. Now that the pictures planning to drop in April, Fox Searchlight is testing the marketing...
Comedian Jim Gaffigan to independently release new stand-up special for $5
3 days ago

Jim Gaffigan of the film "Salvation Boulevard" poses for a portrait during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 in Park City, Utah. SALT LAKE CITY -- A social experiment turned into a highly profitable success for comedian Louis CK,...
'Pariah' - A Review: Bright Colors for a Coming of Age
3 days ago

The movie is beautifully shot by Bradford Young (who also lensed 2009's somewhat similar "Mississippi Damned"), and it won the Cinematography Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered. No doubt festival jurors were impressed with the...
Surrogates can be sexual healers
4 days ago

“The Surrogate” chronicles the true story of a relationship between a surrogate partner (played by Helen Hunt) and her client (John Hawkes), a poet who is stricken with polio and seeks to lose his virginity before he dies. When we hear the term...
New Kurt Loder for 02/17/2012
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But it feels over-compressed, and one wonders what the director — indie vet Jill Sprecher, who wrote the script with her sister, Karen Sprecher — initially had in mind. Under its original title, "The Convincer," the movie was received enthusiastically...
Happy Birthday Elizabeth Olsen!
4 days ago

Chase Olsen was born on February 16, 1989. Lizzie shares the same last name as Mary-Kate and Ashley, and for good reason, she's their youngest sibling! But aside from sharing a last name and some facial features, Lizzie is in a class all her own! 2. ...
!f Istanbul opens with a documentary on nature
4 days ago

The film was nominated for the 2012 Oscars in the category of Best Documentary. In 2011 it won the Documentary Film Editing Award at Sundance Film Festival, Environmental Film Award at Santa Cruz Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature Award at...
Film with novice Eskimo actors debuts in theaters
4 days ago

Seattle and San Francisco.The film is the work of New York-based director and screenwriter Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, who is part Inupiat and spent much of his youth in Barrow. tool goes here "On the Ice" was filmed in Barrow in 2010 with novice Inupiat...
Film starring Emma Roberts to shoot several scenes on SU campus
4 days ago

Saturday, Feb. 18, Hollywood comes to SU as crews for the independent film “Adult World” arrive on campus for a day of production shoots. The PG-13 film, produced by Syracuse native Justin Nappi, is expected to premiere at a future Sundance Film...

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The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks alongside the Cannes, Moscow, Venice, Berlin, and Toronto festivals as one of the most prestigious in the world. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the U.S. Held annually in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, Utah as well as at the Sundance Resort, the... Full Article

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