The new Star Trek movie opens everywhere tomorrow
Chris Pine talking about his experiences making the movie. Enjoy!
Sir Michael Caine plays a magician in his latest film, IS ANYBODY THERE and wins another Lifetime Achievement award, his 5th so far this one at Showest in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was pleased about this because it was from exhibitors and he enjoys going to see films on the big screen too.
Sir Michael promises he has no plan for retirement.
We attended the Clio awards in Las Vegas at the Hard Rock Hotel. They are the Academy awards of the advertising industry. The event included three days of panels and a nightly award show honoring the best in all areas of advertising, including TV, print,billboards, web and interactive.Twitter was discussed by many panelists and the need to rethink and change the way the industry does everything.
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Barry Manilow accepts Honorary Clio award and plays some of his most famous and well known jingles.
Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN which includes new state of the art special effects should capture huge B.O. and many screens this summer.Some industry insiders believe that it may break major box office records during it's 5 day opening weekend on June 24.
Showest attendees were shown an exclsuive first clip of the new TRANSFORMERS film while Mr. Bay accepted an Excellence in Filmmaking Award. ...
We spoke with Marin Hinkle, who currently stars as Judith (Harper) on the number one comedy "Two and a Half Men" on CBS. She said this movie was one of the few good things that occurred during last year's WGA strike. The film was cast with such an amazing group of actors because friends were able to get together and make this movie during the strike. The film played to an enthusiastic and appreciative audi ...
Chatted with Jonathan Caouette whose debut feature TARNATION won critical praise several years ago. His new film takes on the British music scene with weekend festivals at Holiday Camps including scads of well-known bands. It plays next week at the John Ford Amphitheatre.
Last night a small feature screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival that delivered on its promise. It was the story of a young man's misadventures in Jamaica, the people he met on his journey and the music of the island. Not a perfect film but a solid independent effort that accomplishes it goals and shows skill and promise of what might come from these filmmakers in the future. While you are watching this poor soul ...
An impressive group of independent filmmakers are premiering their new films at the LA Film Festival.
Films as diverse as the labor struggle of banana workers in Nicaragua to ghosts haunting a family in upstate New York to a Mexican town without water or the fate of Pluto. The festival runs through next weekend.
The Michael Jackson memorial is on TV today, I am sitting here watching and thinking about the difference between a person's public image and what it means to be an icon. Michael was an icon in life and is even a bigger icon now in death. Gone are the questions of his personal legal problems, gone are his money problems, his music now dominates the sales charts after a 4 year slump. Now he is iconic legend. Be ...
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