Month: March 2006

Tribeca Underground Festival

TRIBECA UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL is celebrating its third year. Over the course of five nights about 50 short films from around the world. will be screened including narratives, documentaries, experimental, animation and specs. Screenings will be held from May 2nd to May 6th at the well known SOHO HOUSE NY with a kick off Opening ….

78th Academy Awards Wrap Up

The theme of last night’s Oscars was a return to glamour, but the real theme of this year’s Oscars should have been Surprise! Or Social Commentary. While I loved all the films nominated, I feel some films may have been overlooked, as a result. Films like King Kong, All the King’s Men and The New World, to name a few. Below is a ….

Chrysler Film Competition

The Chrysler Film Competition seeks emerging independent filmmakers looking to compete for the opportunity to receive a feature film production deal. Inspired filmmakers can submit any short film that they have directed along with a screenplay for a movie that they wish to direct. A panel of IFP judges will determine five finalists, each of ….

Travolta and Latifah to Headline Hairspray

John Travolta and Queen Latifah have signed on to star in New Line Cinema’s upcoming feature film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical“Hairspray,” it was announced today by Toby Emmerich, New Line’s President of Production. Travolta will play Edna Turnblad and Queen Latifah will play Motormouth Maybelle in the film, which is being directed by Adam Shankman (“The Pacifier,” “Bringing Down the ….

Will Tippin Talks Alias’s 100th Episode

About.com has an interview with Alias’ Will Tippin (Bradley Cooper), which sheds some light on plans for the show’s finally. Among other things, he talks about why he’s always being abducted and tortured on the show (which happens again in Ep. 100), his relationship with Sidney (Jennifer Garner), and how he fits into the series finale. Cooper will next be seen ….

Net Users Ready for Search Engine Video Services

As popular Internet search giants Google and Yahoo! expand into the television content arena, they’ll find welcome fans among America’s consumers. According to new research from Points North Group and Horowitz Associates, Inc., one-third of Internet users are interested in Google Video and 41% are interested in Yahoo! Go, both of which are new video-oriented ….

Gay Porn Version of Da Vinci Code?

The Book Standard reports that PZP Productions has announced plans to release its gay-sex film The DaVinci Load on May 19, the same day Ron Howard’s The Da Vinci Code, the film it parodies, is scheduled to hit theaters. PZP head Peter Zaragoza told Gay Video News, “The DaVinci Load is our most ambitious and expensive film to date. The star, new discovery Sebastian ….

Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel in ‘Next’ Philip K. Dick

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jessica Biel has signed on to co-star in Lee Tamahori’s sci-fi thriller Next. Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore are toplining the film, based on a Philip K. Dick short story titled The Golden Man. Gary Goldman wrote the screenplay about a man (played by Cage) with the unique ability to see future events and affect their outcome. Pursued by the FBI, which is ….

The Anime Event List

The Anime Network has launched an event lounge, where Anime and Manga lovers can find out any Anime related event in the U.S. The Anime Network web site has always been a great place for trailers, upcoming news and more, related to the artform. This just rounds things out. Check out the calendar RIGHT HERE

Saw 3 by Halloween 2006

Twisted Pictures and Lions Gate Films have announced the theatrical release date of Saw 3. The film is set to cut into theaters on October 27 and will be directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, who helmed part 2 of the franchise, with story again by Leigh Whannell and James Wan. The Saw franchise, about a psychotic genius that puts his victims in death traps in ….

Weinsteins Get The Shivers

The Weinstein Company announced that its Dimension Films unit has bought the script “Shiver,” written by Mikey Wigart. Michael*Cuesta is set to produce and direct the thriller for the company. “Shiver” is based on a true story about a group of New*Year’s Eve revelers who get in a car wreck and are stranded in a Minnesota*snowstorm when they stumble upon a ….

Logan’s Run and Wonder Woman Updates

Producer Joel Silver (V for Vendetta) recently talked to SCI FI Wire about several of his high-profile genre films that are in various stages of development.  “The next one up is The Reaping, with Hilary Swank and directed by Stephen Hopkins, which is a supernatural thriller,” Silver said in an interview. Silver previously tapped Hopkins to direct Predator 2 and several episodes of TV’s Tales From ….

The Return of Alias

ABC ended speculation about the fate of its spy drama Alias on Feb. 28 by announcing that it would return to the prime-time schedule on April 19 with a two-hour episode, starting at 8 p.m. ABC also released spoilers about the special episode, which will feature the birth of Sydney’s (Jennifer Garner) baby and the reappearance of Michael Vaughn (Michael ….