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Red Carpet Lineup
8 August 2009 2:28 PM, PDT
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A random sampling of people hitting the red carpet the past... uh... couple of weeks (Yes, I'm on time delay) Girls and boys for a change and some random thoughts regarding them.
Penélope Cruz. is having a rather extended bout of premieres for Broken Embraces and by the time that winds down she'll be starting it all over again to promote the musical Nine. Too much of a good thing: Nine and Broken Embraces premiere in the Us within five days of each other in November. It'll be all Penélope all the time and if the baby Bardem rumors are true, she'll be 7 months preggers when those hotly anticipated titles arrive.
Diane Kruger confuses me. I normally love these androgynous outfits on women but it doesn't work for her. Maybe because the body is too emaciated / boyish to offset the masculine attire with femininity? You'd think working on Inglourious Basterds
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- NATHANIEL R
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Traci Lords to star in horror film 'Go Straight To Hell'
7 August 2009 3:33 PM, PDT
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Underaged sex queen of the 1980's turned indie-actress and witty self-commentator Traci Lords has accepted the lead role as 'The Guide' in Go Straight to Hell, a horror anthology written by Scott C. Sanford and Ron R. Anand, and to be produced and directed by Edward G. Norris (Death Defying Acts, Coup de Grace) for Pristine Pictures. Yes, there is singing involved...
The film's eclectic cast also includes Karen Black, Amanda Plummer, Courtney Gains, and James DeBello. Filming begins in Los Angeles for an early 2010 release.
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- Superheidi
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Summit to Expose Houdini’s Secret Life
3 June 2009 7:48 AM, PDT
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That Harry Houdini. He was quite the character. Or at least, according to the biography of the fame magician by William Kalush and Larry Sloman, titled “The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero”. Summit Entertainment, the folks behind the “Twilight” movies, liked the theories posited in the book so much that they are planning to adapt it into a movie with an eye towards franchising the character, ala what Guy Ritchie is doing with his version of Sherlock Holmes. To that end, Summit has tapped scribe Jeff Nathanson (the “Rush Hour” movies) to write and direct the adaptation.
According to THR, the bio, whch was published in 2006 by Atria Books, counts among some of its claims that Houdini was a spy for Britain, and at one point was asked to be an adviser to Czar Nicholas II’s court in pre-revolutionary Russia. And as with
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- Nix
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Scribe nominees announced; DeCandido gets Iamtw GrandMaster
30 March 2009 12:27 PM, PDT
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The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers is pleased to announce this year's nominees for the 2009 Scribe Awards, which honor excellence in licensed tie-in writing—novels based on TV shows, movies, comics, and games. In addition, Keith R.A. DeCandido, whose Farscape series for Boom! has just gone to third printings on the first two issues and a second printing on #3, will be awarded the Iamtw Grandmaster Award at the awards ceremony at the San Diego Comic-Con-- assuming he can get a hotel room.
The nominees for this year's awards are:
Best General Fiction Original
Burn Notice: The Fix by Tod Goldberg
Criminal Minds: Finishing School by Max Allan Collins
CSI: Headhunter by Greg Cox
Best General Fiction Adapted
Death Defying Acts by Greg Cox
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull by James Rollins
The Tudors: King Takes Queen by Elizabeth Massie
The Wackness by Dale C.
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- Glenn Hauman
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Irish Film and Television Awards Winners Announced
19 February 2009 7:16 AM, PST
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The winners of the 6th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards have been announced at a gala ceremony held in Dublin's Burlington Hotel tonight, 14th of February 2009. Hunger was named Best Film, also picking up IFTAs for Actor in a Lead Role Film Michael Fassbender, Actor in a Supporting Role Film Liam Cunningham, Original Score David Holmes, Production Design Tom McCullagh and Sound Ronan Hill and Mervyn Moore. 'Hunger' actor Michael Fassbender was also presented with the Irish Film Board Rising Star Award. 'The Tudors' won Best Drama Series / Soap, in addition to Director Film Ciaran Donnelly, Actor in a Supporting Role Television Peter O'Toole, Actress in a Supporting Role Television Maria Doyle Kennedy, Costume Design Joan Bergin and Makeup and Hair Sharon Doyle and Dee Corcoran. Kisses director Lance Daly picked up the Director Film Ifta while Martin McDonagh received the Best Script Film Award for 'In Bruges'.
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Ifb and Ifta Reveal 2009 Rising Star Nominations
20 January 2009 5:40 AM, PST
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Actors Sarah Bolger, Michael Fassbender, director Lance Daly, and scriptwriter Enda Walsh have been announced by Bord Scannan na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (Ifb) and the Irish Film and Television Academy (Ifta) as the nominees for the Rising Star Award 2009 - the winner of which will be announced at the Irish Film and Television Awards Ceremony on February 14th.
Selected by a special jury and sponsored by the Ifb, the Rising Star Award aims to highlight exceptional new talent working in all areas of the Irish film industry.
The 2008 Rising Star Award was won by actress Saoirse Ronan following her breakthrough and Oscar nominated performance in 'Atonement'. This year Ronan is nominated for two Ifta Awards for her roles in 'City of Ember' and 'Death Defying Acts', and most recently she has starred in Peter Jackson's 'The Lovely Bones'.
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Myriad Pictures Adapting Studio 407's The Night Projectionist
2 January 2009 10:00 AM, PST
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Here's another classic case of a great concept but potentially bad execution. Myriad Pictures has picked up the rights to Studio 407's comic series The Night Projectionist. The story takes place on Halloween Eve in a small-town movie theater, where an all-night Draculathon draws crowds of moviegoers who suddenly find themselves locked inside the theater, which is slowly filling with vampires. That sounds like an awesome B-horror movie that someone like Quentin Tarantino should be bringing us. But based on Myriad's past films, that doesn't sound like it's what we'll be seeing in the slightest. Who knows?
Myriad's past credits include Death Defying Acts, which wasn't that good, Kinsey from 2004, and horror films like Jeepers Creepers 2. They've also got an adaptation of Studio 407's comic Hybrid in the works, too. I know I shouldn't be judging this before we even have a director or writer, but I guess
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- Alex Billington
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The Night Projectionist Gets Adapted
1 January 2009 11:15 PM, PST
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Myriad Pictures and comic book publisher Studio 407 are joining forces to bring the upcoming horror miniseries, The Night Projectionist, to the big screen.
Projectionist takes place on Halloween Eve. It’s the last night of the condemned town theater, which is closing with an all night Draculathon. But the small group of moviegoers suddenly find themselves trapped inside when the theater is surrounded by a horde of vampires. A deadly siege begins, and the moviegoers soon make the terrifying discovery that the night projectionist is also a member of the coven. Is he friend or foe?
The project marks the second title produced under Studio 407's first-look deal with Myriad -- the first being the comic book Hybrid, which is tentatively scheduled to begin production later this year.
Myriad's previous credits include Van Wilder, Jeepers Creepers II, Kinsey and more recently Death Defying Acts, the Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce film about magician Harry Houdini.
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- James Cook
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