Variety continues LA and NYC screening series
Variety recently started its sixth annual Los Angeles Screening Series and the first-ever New York Screening Series. The L.A. Screening Series kicked off with a showing of Sony Pictures Classics Rachel Getting Married, followed by a Q&A with stars Anne Hathaway and Rosemarie Dewitt as well as writer Jenny Lumet. The New York Screening Series opened ….
Details on the John Malkovich film Drunkboat
The Seven Arts Pictures film Drunkboat, directed by Bob Meyer, and stars John Goodman and Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee John Malkovich, who is also producing the movie. The project follows a man making a difficult and tenuous return to family life in Chicago after many years of lonely self destruction. His nephew has ….
AniBoom animation contest accepting entries
AniBoom, the world’s first virtual studios, recently announced its Third Annual aniBoom Awards for submissions from independent animators of all types around the globe. Submissions are welcome through December 1, 2008, during which time the animations will be viewed and ranked by the community on aniBoom.com and by a select panel of entertainment industry luminaries. ….
SnagFilms to premiere doc Haze simultaneously with Hamptons Film Festival
SnagFilms CEO Rick Allen recently announced that Haze, a documentary film introduced by Robin Wright Penn, will premiere simultaneously on SnagFilms and at the Hamptons International Film Festival. With its focus on the death of a young Colorado University fraternity pledge, Gordie Bailey, due to alcohol poisoning, Haze is a documentary that explores a range ….