Last August, I passed along news from Nikki Finke about a dispute between Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Brothers about who actually had the rights to WB’s recently completed (and much anticipated in some quarters) Watchmen film. It all sounded ugly, but it was just business. Since it seemed pretty unlikely the film would be [...]

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Thavisouk and Orady Phrasavath in The Betrayal
In the waning years of the Vietnam War, covert US operations spilled over into the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia through which the North Vietnamese were routing supplies and staging attacks in the south. When the Americans withdrew in 1975, the thousands of locals they’d recruited to help [...]

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“One of the things I’ve figured out is that I’m not really a writer. I’ve written, but I’m not a writer. Not by my definition…I wrote by default. I wrote ’cause it was a way in. I’ve worked with real writers and I’m telling you I’m not a writer. It’s a different way of thinking and [...]

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As Sundance kicks off today, there’s still a lot of hand-wringing going on in the independent film business and plenty of uncertainty about the future. However, proving where there’s a good film there’s a way, some filmmakers are taking matters into their own hands.
Most recently of course Lance Hammer chose to self-release his festival favorite Ballast [...]

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Here are the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award nominations. With 11 nominations it turns out Slumdog Millionaire is as beloved overseas as it is here in the states, but it has some competition in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which also has 11 noms. The Dark Knight got 9 and Changeling [...]

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The unofficial Daniel Getahun Movie Off Season continues. If you live in San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas, Minneapolis, Chicago, DC, Philadelphia or Boston, then check out Steven Soderbergh’s Che. If you live in Los Angeles, check out The Betrayal (Nerakhoon). If you live somewhere else and you’re all caught up on the season’s slate of Oscar [...]

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