Check out this Kick-Ass 11 year old female assassin
Empire has two new images from Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming “indie” teen super-hero movie Kick-Ass, and the magazine has posted one of them on their website. It features actress Chloe Moretz as Mindy aka Hit Girl, a young assassin who’s been trained by her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) since the age of four. Kick-Ass follows ….
First look at the Wolf Pack from New Moon
The Wolf Pack is ready to tussle with any vampire that steps up in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and here is our first look at the movie’s male stripper-inspired rogues. The New Moon Wolf Pack are shapeshifting Native Americans who live in the Indian community of La Push in Washington state, and get closer ….
First seven minutes of long-awaited Brothers Bloom online…legally
The first seven minutes of director Rian Johnson’s follow-up to the noir thriller Brick – The Brothers Bloom – is up on Hulu. The Brothers Bloom, which hits theaters on May 29th, is a story of a pair of con men who try to swindle a millionairess (played by Rachel Weisz) out of her cash. ….
62nd Festival de Cannes line-up filled with cult, arthouse favorites and veterans
Arthouse favorites Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee, Pedro Almodovar, Johnny To, Lee Daniels, Jane Campion, Lars Von Trier and Terry Gilliam are among the directors, whose projects will be screened at Cannes, when the festival kicks off next month. Festival co-chairmen Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux unveiled the entries at a press conference in Paris earlier ….
500,000 trees and counting to be planted so far with Earth movie tree-planting initiative
Moviegoers have already snapped up half a million tickets to catch the movie Earth and have a tree planted in their honor. Disneynature’s commitment to plant a tree for everyone who watches Earth between April 22-28 means that already 500,000 trees will be planted – and that number is still growing. Disney’s goal is to ….
Carmike Cinemas to present stand-up comedy series
Carmike Cinemas announced that it will partner with waggingtail entertainment and cinema advertising company Screenvision, to present Stand-Up 360 New York City Comedy at Carmike Cinemas theatres on May 4, 2009, which will deliver a series of feature-length stand-up comedy performances recorded live at the Broadway Comedy Club in the Big Apple. The Stand-Up 360 ….
Tapeless video workflow system announced at NAB confab
At The NAB Show this week, AJA Video Systems announced Ki Pro, a portable tapeless video device that records files to the Apple ProRes 422 codec directly from camera. Ki Pro provides a new way of connecting production and post with its extensive analog and digital connectivity; virtually any video and audio source can be ….
David Newman to receive Richard Kirk Award during BMI Film & TV Awards
Prolific composer David Newman will receive the Richard Kirk Award for outstanding career achievement at BMI’s annual Film & Television Awards on Wednesday, May 20 in Los Angeles. Staged at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, the black-tie, invitation-only dinner will also honor the composers of the past year’s top-grossing films, top-rated prime-time network television series and ….
MPEG Industry Forum to expand its activities during New World of Digital Television
During the MPEGIF Master Class titled The New World of Digital Television, the MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF) announced that it will expand its scope of activities. MPEGIF is an independent and platform neutral not-for-profit organisation facilitating and furthering the widespread adoption and deployment of MPEG and related standards in next generation digital media services. It ….
