April, 2012 Archives

I must admit that this is a bit of a surprise; I wouldn’t have expected Gimme The Loot to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, but it looks like it’s most certainly going to. We’ve covered the film on SA; Vanessa and I saw it at the SXSW Film Festival in March, but neither of us [...]

Continue Reading Cannes Adds 7 More Titles To 2012 Official Selection ("Gimme The Loot" Made The Cut)

Tags: cannes film festival, dir, lfi, Loot, rgy, sxsw film festival, trailer, us france, wayne blair

Independent Film Week (September 16-20, 2012) is the oldest and largest forum in the U.S. for the discovery of new projects in development and new voices on the independent film scene. The Project Forum is a meetings-driven forum connecting filmmakers with producers, funders, distributors, broadcasters, sales agents, festival programmers, and more.  Now accepting applications for: Emerging [...]

Continue Reading IFP’s Independent Film Week Seeks Screenplays, Docs & WiPs. Apply now!

Tags: earth liberation front, erin greenwell, gun hill road, independent film scene, lauren greenfield, putty hill

Since it opens this week, with plenty of strong buzz leading up to it (read my review HERE), here’s another look at our Avengers press day experience from A to Z. The number one job of any artist is that of problem solver. How do you create or coordinate something interesting or great out of [...]

Continue Reading Full Shadow And Act Report From Marvel’s "The Avengers" Press Junket

Tags: chris hemsworth, e watchmen, film, hollywood blockbuster, idea, jeremy renner, Man, press junket, robert downey jr

In the so-called “specialty box office” category for this weekend… 2 films of note, one new, the other 3 weekends old. First, the new: AFFRM’s 3rd release, Andrew Dosunmu’s Restless City. The Sundance 2011 selection grossed $8,106 on 3 screens (in New York, LA and Atlanta), with a per-screen average of $2,702. It expands further [...]

Continue Reading Opening Weekend Figures For AFFRM’s "Restless City" + "Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day" Expands

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The inspirational 54-min documentary Healing Neen, directed by Laura Cain and produced by Cain and Thom Stromer, the latter who serves as the film’s editor, will be screening at the United Film Festival in New York on May 12, 2012. Neen won the Director’s Award at the Hearts and Minds Film Festival in Wilmington, DE [...]

Continue Reading Watch Now: Affecting Doc On Triumph Over Trauma & Drug Addiction "Healing Neen"

Tags: annapolis maryland, childhood memories, Doc, film, haunting childhood, Healing, hearts and minds film festival, hope film, joyous spirit

For the second weekend in a row Think Like A Man was No.1 at the box office beating all comers inclduing The Five Year Engagement which was predicted to be No. 1 this weekend, but didn’t fare any better than fifth place (Actually a very amusing film, but with a turn off title that no [...]

Continue Reading Weekend B.O. April 27-29 ("Man" Does It Again)

Tags: 21 jump street, amusing film, cabin in the woods, film, fox 5, lgf, Man, office, three stooges

We always like to keep our readers aware of inde films of note currently in production and here’s another one for you. It’s entitled Hogtown by Chicago area writer/director Daniel Nearing who previously made the 2009 critically acclimed drama Chicago Heights Currently halfway through in production, the film, which is being shot in black and [...]

Continue Reading "Hogtown"

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In this week’s “it’s the end of the week so what are going to write about?” news, Lionsgate has just released Terry Crews’ very own special poster for the upcoming Expendables 2 coming out August 17. All 12 of the major stars in the movie (well make that 11 stars – I still don’t know who that [...]

Continue Reading Terry Crews Gets His Own Poster For "Expendables 2"

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The new Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia opened last Thursday on Michigan’s Ferris State University’s library basement. Dr. David Pilgrim, an African American collector of racist memorabilia, founded the museum. Pilgrim, who grew up in Mobile, Alabama, bought a saltshaker in the shape of a mammy at a flea market when he was 12 [...]

Continue Reading Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia Now Open

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As we all know by now, announced earlier this week, Spike Lee’s hotly-debated independently-produced and financed Red Hook Summer will be released this summer, August 10th, courtesy of privately held, full service theatrical distribution and consulting company, Variance Films. After that announcement was made just 2 days ago, I had the opportunity to ask Variance [...]

Continue Reading Exclusive: Variance Films Chief Talks "Red Hook Summer" & Its Upcoming Release (Expect A "Tighter" Film)

Tags: definite interest, knee jerk, marchetti, Red, red hook, Spike, spike lee, theatrical distribution, time