Local news the way you want it: FLINT, Michigan--Tonight will mark the beginning of the weekend-long Mountainfilm in Telluride Film Festival at the Flint Institute of Arts. The festival will show three documentaries, all dealing with different subject, b

Patricia Sheridan's Breakfast With ... Tom Shadyac After a bike accident in Virginia, film director and producer Tom Shadyac suffered debilitating concussion symptoms. When he had recovered, he wrote and directed the documentary "I Am" about our consumer

Synopsis: Director Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Bruce Almighty) reveals how his near-fatal cycling accident forever altered his perception of the Hollywood rat race, and inspired him to make some profound personal changes in a bid to create a

FLINT, Michigan -- An upcoming film festival at the Flint Institute of Arts is about more than just watching movies. “It’s an important event we’re having. It is an event that’s more student oriented ... because the education aspect I think is really imp

You saw him this past weekend in a Super Bowl commercial, mocking the heroes of the civil rights movement by turning a firehose on a guy singing a bad version of a bad Maroon 5 song. Howard Stern is a beloved broadcaster, the self-proclaimed King of All

FLINT, Michigan--The Flint Institute of Arts will play host to the Mountainfilm in Telluride film festival tour this month, showing three documentaries over the course of three days. Mountainfilm in Telluride is a touring festival founded in 1979 "which

Guess who's a big fan of I Am? Rosie! Check out what Rosie had to say about Tom Shadyac's documentary in an interview with comedian and Ultimate Fighting Championship commentator Joe Rogan. "I Am" tells acclaimed Director Tom Shadyac's story: a multimill

Former Hyde Park International president Mimi Steinbauer has formed a new international sales company, Radiant Films International, which will debut next month with a slate of titles at the European Film Market in Berlin. Former Hyde Park sales exec Aska

Former Hyde Park exec Mimi Steinbauer is launching international sales banner Radiant Films Intl. , which will debut at next month's European Film Market in Berlin with a trio of titles for sale. Steinbauer, who's logged two decades in foreign sales, is p

Arnada — A dozen local businesses on Upper Main Street and in downtown Vancouver helped Occupy Vancouver sponsor the free showing of the movie “I Am” at Kiggins Theater on Jan. 16 and 17. The film, written and directed by Tom Shadyac, was one man’s journ

The film at this point is in the very earliest of stages of development, with director Tom Shadyac not attached to direct this project. Personally, I despised the first film so this project has absolutely no stock in my eyes. The film is beyond deplora

Jim Carrey has spent plenty of time playing God in the past decade in the fight against vaccines with now ex-girlfriend Jenny McCarthy, but it seems like he's finally ready to keep the God complex where it belongs: on screen. In the first film, which too

The original film saw Bruce Nolan as a down-on-his-luck news anchor lacking any faith in God until the creator himself, played by Morgan Freeman, bestows upon him all of God's powers. At this point it's not clear if Freeman, or even love interest Jennife

You may want to rush out and get a flu shot after seeing this medical disaster film. The world health community races to find a cure to a deadly airborne virus that is wiping out hundreds and then thousands of people. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, the 2

Today in “Sequels No One Asked For” news, Universal is apparently keen on a follow-up to 2003’s Bruce Almighty. The original film, starring Jim Carrey , was a box office smash grossing almost $500 million worldwide. The studio unsuccessfully tried to sp

You would have to go back to 2008's "Yes Man" for the last bona fide Jim Carrey hit. Since then he's starred in the underrated "I Love You Phillip Morris" (which nobody saw anyway), that ill-advised version of "A Christmas Carol" (which did good business

The 2003 film Bruce Almighty was one of Jim Carrey ‘s last bona-fide hits, and also a movie that went just about as literal as possible with the idea that Morgan Freeman is God. Bruce was big enough that spinning the story off into a semi-sequel, Evan Al

I spoke to Tom Shadyac last March about shifting from big Hollywood films like “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” and “The Nutty Professor II” to a small and very personal documentary about just about everything called “I Am.” Shadyac was one of the most suc

Hollywood comedy director Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective) gets contemplative in this documentary, which finds him conversing with prominent philosophers and spiritual leaders about what ails our world and how we can improve it. All donations wi