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Bowling Industry's Website for Promotions and Entertainment Reveals Top 5 List of Best Bowling Movies; Actor John Goodman "Strikes" it Big, Making the List for Lebowski and Flintstones ARLINGTON, Texas, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- White Russians for everyone! With the Lebowski Fest taking place this past weekend in New York City, GoBowling.com, the bowling industry's official website for consumer promotions and entertainment, teamed up with Strike Ten Entertainment to...

HD Miniseries Event Premieres Late Spring 2012 on National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo WILD WASHINGTON, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National Geographic Channels announced today that Academy Award-Nominated actor Josh Brolin will narrate Untamed Americas -- the four-hour high-definition miniseries event that reveals the grit and glory in the wilds of North America, Central America and South America. Premiering globally late this spring, Untamed Americas marks the...

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bowling, nihilists, a stolen rug and the occasional acid flashback have never been funnier when one of the most popular cult classics in history, The Big Lebowski Limited Edition, debuts on Blu-ray(TM) August 16, 2011 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. From the Oscar®-winning Coen Brothers (True Grit, Fargo) and starring Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges (True Grit, Crazy Heart), this acclaimed comedy has been newly...

LOS ANGELES, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, handed out top honors to Precious and Crazy Heart at this evening's 25th Spirit Awards. (500) Days of Summer, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, An Education, Humpday, The Messenger, and A Serious Man also received awards at the milestone ceremony, held at LA Live's event deck in downtown Los Angeles and broadcast live and uncut on IFC....

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- OVERVIEW: Loaded with originality and dark humor, A Serious Man is the new comedy from the brilliant minds of the Coen brothers, the Academy Award®-winning filmmakers responsible for The Big Lebowski, Fargo, No Country for Old Men and Burn After Reading. Praised as "Seriously awesome!" by Michael Hogan of Vanity Fair, this film imaginatively explores questions of faith, familial responsibility, delinquent behavior and mortality in one...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced nominations this morning for the 25th Film Independent Spirit Awards. Nominees for Best Feature include (500) Days Of Summer, Amreeka, Precious, Sin Nombre and The Last Station. Taraji P. Henson and Matt Dillon also announced finalists for the Acura Someone to Watch Award, the Truer Than Fiction Award, and the Piaget Producers...

Two of the organizers of a Minneapolis convention celebrating 1998 film The Big Lebowski said the event is also about bowling and friendship. Andy Sturdevant and Josh Doheny, both of Minneapolis, said the eighth Lebowski Fest, an annual event making its first stop in the hometown of filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, features a screening of the film Friday night at First Avenue nightclub and a bowling party Saturday at Memory Lanes, the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press reported Friday. The...

Oscar-winning fraternal filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen are planning a remake of the Hollywood classic True Grit, Variety.com said.John Wayne won an Academy Award for his portrayal of ornery U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 western based on Charles Portis' book.The Coen brothers' retelling of the story is expected to be more faithful to the novel than the original movie was, telling the tale from the point of view of the 14-year-old girl character who hires Cogburn to find the man who...

U.S. filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen have directed a commercial for an environmental coalition that claims the concept of clean coal is misleading. The Minnesota-born brothers previously collaborated on the movies Burn After Reading, No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski and Fargo. Their new TV spot for the Reality Coalition, which features the tag line, In reality, there's no such thing as clean coal, started airing last week on CNN, MSNBC and Comedy Central, as well as the Web site...

By Siobhan Synnot BURN AFTER READING (15) ** Directors: Ethan and Joel Coen Running time: 96 minutes AFTER a walk on the dark side with the Oscar-winning No Country For Old Men, filmmaking siblings Joel and Ethan Coen return to the screwball side of the street. The themes remain the same - greed and bad decisions - but it's understandable that, after the grimness of adapting the godless gothic of No Country For Old Men, this time they want to get playful. Things are set in motion...