Tag: film
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Casting Out Satan With Satan: A Review of ‘300: Rise of an Empire’
from catholicworldreport.com: The anti-war song “War Pigs” by the heavy metal band Black Sabbath plays over the closing credits to 300: Rise of an Empire. It is also featured in a trailer for the movie. It is odd to hear this song’s denunciation of the demonic evils of war paired together with the film’s nauseating…
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Will Ferrell Launches Female-Focused Film and TV Production Company
from hollywoodreporter.com: Gary Sanchez Productions, the 7-year-old film and television production company formed by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy, has formed a new female-driven division. Dubbed Gloria Sanchez Productions, the venture will focus on creating female-led film and TV projects and will be headed up by Jessica Elbaum, a longtime production executive at…
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Legendary Screen Darling Shirley Temple Dies at 85
from nytimes.com: Shirley Temple Black, who as a dimpled, precocious and determined little girl in the 1930s sang and tap-danced her way to a height of Hollywood stardom and worldwide fame that no other child has reached, died on Monday night at her home in Woodside, Calif. She was 85… Mrs. Black returned to the…
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Deadline Live: Jack Blood on Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll
Media Monarchy joins old friend Jack Blood for a wild and woolly take on actor overdoses, director abuses and ‘this day in history’ on Deadline Live! Download/Subscribe
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Video: Stupor Bowl Ad for Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’
from deadline.com: Russell Crowe stars as the biblical hero in Darren Aronofsky‘s Noah, which will make an appearance during the Super Bowl nearly two months before it hits theaters. Word is the pic from the Black Swan helmer isn’t your grandpa’s kind of Bible study (or even Mark Burnett’s) but a dark, existential take on…
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#Parody Trailer Perfectly Skewers Indie #Film Clichés of #Sundance
from adweek.com: Ever get the feeling that if you’ve seen one piece of schlocky Sundance festival fodder, you’ve seen them all? If so, you’re going to appreciate the many tired tropes folded into the faux trailer for “Not Another Sundance Movie.” Even if you don’t consider yourself an indie film aficionado, you’ll quickly see the…
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Atom Egoyan Talks ‘Devil’s Knot’ and Memphis Three Justice
from news.moviefone.com: The story of the Memphis Three is both heartbreaking and infuriating — in this modern day and age, we still have immense difficulty figuring out who’s guilty and who’s innocent. Canadian director Atom Egoyan’s latest movie, “Devil’s Knot,” (which premiered at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival), looks at the famous case from a…
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End of Film: Paramount First Studio to Stop Distributing Film Prints
from latimes.com: In a historic step for Hollywood, Paramount Pictures has become the first major studio to stop releasing movies on film in the United States. Paramount recently notified theater owners that the Will Ferrell comedy “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,” which opened in December, would be the last movie that would it would release…
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#Oscar Nominations 2014: The Complete List
from latimes.com: “12 Years a Slave,” “American Hustle,” “Captain Phillips,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Gravity,” “Her,” “Nebraska,” “Philomena” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” received top honors as the nominees for best picture when Oscar nominations were announced Thursday morning. “American Hustle” and “Gravity” led the field with 10 nominations each, with both films also earning…
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‘Devil’s Due’ Baby Prank Scares the Hell Out of New York
from thewrap.com: New Yorkers weren’t only victims of extreme cold earlier this month, they were the victims of a terrifying promotional prank for the upcoming found-footage horror movie “Devil’s Due.” “Devil Baby Attack,” a new video that launched on Tuesday, features an animatronic spawn of Satan rampaging through the snow-covered streets of NYC via a…
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Diane Keaton’s Golden Globes speech spotlights Woody Allen’s complicated history with women
from salon.com: “One hundred seventy-nine of the world’s most captivating actresses have appeared in Woody Allen’s films,” Diane Keaton said last night while accepting the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. But at least one of those actresses wasn’t watching. Mia Farrow, Allen’s longtime partner in life and in love, tweeted last…
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‘Lone Survivor’ Cast, Director Worked With Navy SEALs On Set
Every War Movie Is a Pro-War Movie from articles.latimes.com: “Lone Survivor” writer-director Peter Berg is a man who values accuracy. In adapting former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell’s nonfiction account of a disastrous military mission in Afghanistan, Berg enlisted a group of the elite force as technical advisors and granted them an uncommon degree of authority…
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Meryl Streep Calls Out Walt Disney As Sexist, Anti-Semitic
from latimes.com: One of moviedom’s modern icons called out one of Hollywood’s historic heroes Tuesday, as Meryl Streep delivered a sharp rebuke to Walt Disney for alleged sexist and anti-Semitic views at the National Board of Review awards gala in New York. Streep was on hand to present an acting award to Emma Thompson for…
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How The Media Failed Women In 2013
from huffingtonpost.com: It’s been quite the year for women in the media. Some things, like the popularity of “Orange Is The New Black” and Sweden’s new film rating system are worth celebrating — but let’s not forget all of the outrageously sexist media moments from 2013. The suggestion that women should pay more for health…
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#Santorum Says #Satan Controls #Hollywood
from lafiga.firedoglake.com: Rick Santorum spat a frothy mouthful on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, plugging his first foray into film production, The Christmas Candle, due out this holiday season. The movie, from EchoLight Studio, is a period piece set in a Thomas Kinkade-esque village and tackles modernity vs (Christian) tradition as electricity and progressive thinking threaten…