The Times of Harvey Milk
This November, 16 years after producers Craig Zadan and Neil Maron (Chicago, Hairspray) began trying to get The Mayor of Castro Street made, the story of Harvey Milk is finally coming to the big screen. Unfortunately for Zadan and Maron, Milk, the Gus Van Sant directed film starring Sean Penn as [...]
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Yeah, I know “box office” is a dirty word around here, but just because it’s an over-emphasized subject doesn’t mean it isn’t occasionally important.
In this case, while we’re all sitting here chatting so enjoyably, Sex and the City is raking in some serious coin at the cinemas. Most estimates had Indiana Jones and the Whatchamacallit [...]
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Family Day: Westwood Village of the Damned?
Though the closing night film, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, screens on Saturday June 28 after the narrative and documentary competition awards are handed out, the Los Angeles Film Festival technically continues on Sunday the 29th with Family Day.
The daylong event includes all manner of free outdoor activities for [...]
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Danny R. McBride in The Foot Fist Way
The self-proclaimed “King of the Demo,” Fred Simmons teaches Taekwondo to little kids, old ladies and awkward teens at a second rate strip mall dojo in Concord, North Carolina. That he isn’t very good at what he does is irrelevant because there isn’t anyone around who seems to [...]
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For a guy who didn’t set out to be an actor, who’s never been to an audition and who doesn’t have a head shot, Danny McBride is doing pretty well for himself lately.
He stars in The Foot Fist Way which opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday. Before that he was in David Gordon Green’s [...]
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Due to an LiC Level 7 Coen Brothers News Blackout, I can neither confirm nor deny that this is a trailer for the alleged upcoming Coen film Burn After Reading. The movie is purportedly about some people doing some stuff played by some movie stars.
In theory, the rumored film might be scheduled to open September 12, [...]
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Though I remember him best cracking up on The Carol Burnett Show on television for 10 seasons, comedian Harvey Korman earned his place in cinema history for his role as Hedley Lamarr in Mel Brooks’ classic Blazing Saddles, a film I just finished re-watching earlier in the week (“That’s Hedley!”).
According to an AP report, he [...]
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Besides all the other things that have irritated so many people about the new Indiana Jones movie, has anyone noticed the sound dropping out at random during your screening?
Joel brought this Boing Boing post to my attention where a movie theater posted a sign apologizing for sound drop outs during Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal [...]
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Days after Sharon Stone wondered aloud whether the devastating May 12 earthquake that killed 70,000 people and counting was some kind of karmic payback for China’s controversial dealings with Tibet and the Dalai Lama, organizers of the Shanghai International Film Festival have banned the actress for life.
Despite subsequently saying she was “deeply sorry” for her [...]
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Forget about Brett Ratner, the disturbing angle on news that the long-rumored Beverly Hills Cop sequel may finally be making some headway is that for every note of justified skepticism, there’s someone who actually thinks it’s a good idea.
Why do the studios keep churning out sequels and remakes? Because there are always enough dumbasses who can’t let [...]
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