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LOS ANGELES, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruby 8 Films, a production company dedicated to creating documentaries that raise public awareness, announces the Company is entering the funding stage for THE AMERICAN DREAM, a political documentary that examines the historical role the Federal Reserve System has played in creating financial instability and how it directly relates to America's present financial crisis. The Company is slated to begin shooting January 2009. Ruby 8 Films is finalizing an...
By Geoffrey Macnab Starting today, 'The Independent' is giving away free films online. Geoffrey Macnab looks at how the web is shaking up Hollywood IS THE Hollywood blockbuster finally eating itself? As cult movies attract a new audience who download more obscure films from the internet, so the marketing machine of the major studios is being called into question. Every weekend in summer, multi-million-dollar would-be smashes go head to head. But by Monday morning, when the box-office...
Independent Film Development Corporation (IFDC) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of 299 million shares of the common stock of portfolio company, Not By Sight Entertainment, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AECS). Not By Sight is a production company focused on creating family-friendly entertainment, including, but not limited to, producing high-quality feature films, live theatrical stage events as well as producing and promoting new musical talent. Not By...
NEW YORK, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Film Life's 12th annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF) will take place August 7-10, 2008, in Los Angeles, CA, with Exploring Black Romance and Sexuality in American Cinema as its theme. "The majority of American films, from PG to R have romance and sexuality either prominently featured or as the subtext. Black romance and sexuality are rarely part of the storyline in these films and realistic portrayals of how and whom we love are few and far between....
By Blake Hannon, St. Joseph News-Press, Mo. Jun. 27--As comedian Dane Cook pointed out in his stand-up comedy, "who doesn't love cinematic adventures?" But a lot of the time, the mainstream movies aren't necessarily what I'm looking for. Sometimes, my inner cinemaphile would like to catch a much-buzzed-about indie flick. There also are times when I would like to eat something in a movie theater besides popcorn and drink something a little "heavier" than soft drinks. This has led me to...
By Story by Maria Puente, USA TODAY L ast year, the crowd-pleaser movies were about pregnant women -- Knocked Up with Katherine Heigl -- and pregnant teens, as in Juno. This year, Hollywood, that town famous for flash marriages and ugly breakups, is throwing rice (and divorce stats) to the winds and serving up a slew of films about weddings. So what's that about? Industry observers say in a summer beset by rising food and gas prices and ongoing wars overseas, Tinseltown is returning...
By Andrew Shain, The State, Columbia, S.C. Jun. 26--"Nailed" has finished filming in Columbia for good, but will anyone get to see the Jake Gyllenhaal political satire on the big screen? The two-month shoot never resumed after a weekend walk-off by movie crews who said they were not getting paid. Filming was two days short of completion. It's unclear if producers have the funding to get the independent movie into theaters. Published reports have suggested the film backers, Capitol...
By Galenson, David W Kotin, Joshua Abstract. Why have some movie directors made important films early in their careers but subsequently failed to match their initial successes, whereas other directors have begun much more modestly but have made great movies late in life? The authors demonstrate that the answer lies in the directors' motivations and in the nature of their films. Conceptual directors, who use their films to express ideas or emotions, mature early; thus, such great conceptual...
By Kirk Honeycutt LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - News of Glenn Ford's passing Wednesday rekindled my deep regret that the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. never bestowed its Career Achievement Award on the popular star. Nearly every year during the 1980s and into the '90s, the late KPFK-FM critic Dean Cohen and I would make our pitch for Ford. And every year someone else, equally as worthy to be sure, won the prize. I could never put my finger on why. Ford made more than 80 films in...
By Mike Collett-White VENICE (Reuters) - The Venice Film Festival opens on Wednesday with the world premiere of "The Black Dahlia," a sepia-tinted throwback to 1940s Hollywood based on a grisly real-life murder that remains unsolved to this day. Starring Scarlett Johansson, two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank and Josh Hartnett, Brian de Palma's heavily stylized adaptation of a James Ellroy novel kicks off 11 days of movies, stars and parties along the fashionable Lido beach front. The...
