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Harry Grows Up Wins at L.A. Comedy Shorts Festival
Studies of really young love won top honors at two LA film events last month. At the LA Comedy Shorts Festival (LACSF) the Audience Award went to Harry Grows Up by Writer /Director Mark Nickelsburg,...
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New “Divergent” Still Reveals Theo James as the Perfect Dauntless
It is being touted as the next The Hunger Games, which wouldn’t be so wrong given both are dystopian stories. But Divergent is as far away from the Lionsgate’s other blockbuster as could be....
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Declined: New stills from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug featuring...
After the action-packed teaser trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hit the web yesterday, Warner Brothers released eight new stills from the second installment in The Hobbit Trilogy, based...
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LA Film Fest: When (Creative) Worlds Collide
On June 23, 2013, at the LA Film Fest worlds collided. This was no hokey sci-fi flick, but a discussion of the impact of new media on the movie industry and the art of storytelling. Hollywood and...
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Anthem Film Fest: Rand in the Desert
I started reading works by Ayn Rand in high school 50 years ago, and I’ve never been able to shake entirely free of her ideas. Now I go to the desert to contemplate those ideas. OK, it’s not quite as...
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Five-Year Bollywood Feud Comes to an End
Mumbai, July 22, 2013: The fierce five-year-old rivalry between Salman Khan and ShahRukh Khan finally ended with the superstars hugging each other at Baba Siddiqui’s Iftar party. Salman and ShahRukh...
View ArticleThe Duds of Comic-Con’s Hall H from Sony, Warner Brothers / Legendary, and...
Written by Steve Geise Every year, the movie studios trot out sci-fi-themed films to the captive Comic-Con Hall H audiences in the hopes of building momentum for their projects. Every year, many of...
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Memories of Karen Black
It was with a heavy heart that I heard of the passing of the ultra-idiosyncratic, independent-minded actor, singer and playwright Karen Black this week. From counterculture emblem to ’70s TV star and...
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Interview with Graphic Novelist Royden Lepp
Author Royden Lepp was kind enough to give us some of his time at this years C2E2 conference in Chicago. We spoke at the Archaia booth about his upcoming graphic novel, Rust Volume 3. Rust was...
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21st Hamptons International Film Festival Audience Award Winners
Guild Hall, the annual 21st Hamptons International Film Festival Will Forte and Bruce Dern (left to right) at the Q & A after the screening. Both star in Nebraska directed by Alexander Payne The...
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Chatting with Bill Corbett about Riffing: ‘Night of the Living Dead’
Thursday night, the RiffTrax guys will be back and in live simulcast at theaters all over the U.S. and Canada as Fathom Events presents a special Halloween treat: George Romero’s 1968 horror classic...
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Alameda Writers Group: Kickstarting Your Film
“What the suits want isn’t always the same as what the fans want,” explained screenwriter and author Marc Zicree at the October meeting of the Los Angeles based Alameda Writers Group (AWG). Zicree and...
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Hamptons International Film Festival: A Tribute to Working Title Films
21st Annual Hamptons International Film Festival, Working Title Film Tribute at Guild Hall The 21st Annual Hamptons Film Festival awarded UK’s Working Title Films the Golden Starfish Award for Lifetime...
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21st Hamptons International Film Festival: Winners to Watch for in the Coming...
2013 Hamptons International Film Festival Guild Hall where the winners were announced The Hamptons International Film Festival offered its Golden Starfish Awards to honor emerging directors from around...
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The Men of ‘The Best Man Holiday’ Discuss Hollywood with Arsenio Hall
The men of The Best Man Holiday—Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard, Morris Chestnut, and Harold Perrineau—discussed the serious and the silly on The Arsenio Hall Show last Thursday (November 14), the eve of...
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Journey Through The World of ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ With a...
In anticipation of the December 13th release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, a Google Chrome Experiment allows you to enter the enchanted world of Middle-Earth through a visually breathtaking...
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‘A Haunted House 2’ Teaser Trailer Scares Up Big Laughs
Earlier in 2013, writer-producer-actor Marlon Wayans scored a hit with A Haunted House, a horror-comedy that spoofed movies like Paranormal Activity. Produced for the relatively paltry sum of...
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The Jedi Mind Tricks of ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’
A long time ago, in a release date far, far away… The politics of Star Wars was a lot simpler in my Gen-X day. There was no Twitter universe to navigate for news on the latest and greatest tidbits on...
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Godzilla Remake Coming in May 2014
Will this be a smart Godzilla movie? Judging from the trailer, the remake will offer the obligatory level of eye candy, possibly surpassing fan expectations, but given the apparent focus of the trailer...
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The Nightmarish Interview Before Christmas: Chris Sarandon
Some of the most beloved films of the 1970s 1980s and 1990s have a common factor in Chris Sarandon. Starting in A Dog Days Afternoon as Leon, his role in popular culture only grew. As a voice actor,...
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