René Carson

Rooftop Films presents the short film screening series Where You Live this Saturday in Harlem

This Saturday, Rooftop Films and Verizon Fios present Where You Live, featuring short films that show us where you live and how you live. From the harshest African deserts to the fertile Irish countryside, from rapidly growing guesthouses in Hong Kong to the slowly fading inner city of Detroit, these fascinating documentaries invite you into ….

Short film screening series and open bar after-party this Friday in Brooklyn, New York

This Friday, Rooftop Films and Verizon Fios present Home Movies, featuring short films and videos about moments in time, capturing and imagining what it felt like to be there. There will be an open bar after-party following the screenings, exclusively for all attendees. This event is presented in partnership with Cinereach, New York magazine, City ….

Hurt Locker director headed for a Triple Frontier with new crime thriller

Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow (Blue Steel, Point Break) has struck a deal with Paramount Pictures to direct a new film titled Triple Frontier according to various reports on the net, which may have originated at Variety. Few plot details about the new film have been released, except that it’s described as an adventure set ….

Wolfgang Petersen developing live-action version of the anime Paprika

Wolfgang Petersen (Troy, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm) developing a live-action feature film version of the book and anime film Paprika, according to Moviehole. According to the report, the director is hard at work to bring the acclaimed novel to the big screen. The original 1993 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, tells the story of ….

Win one of two copies of the new Deluxe Edition of How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days on DVD

On August 18th, Paramount Home Entertainment will release the romantic comedy How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Deluxe Edition on DVD and Blu-ray. To celebrate the brand new edition’s release, FilmFetish is giving away two copies of the Deluxe Edition DVD to readers. PLEASE NOTE: To be considered to win this and all ….

Major film studios bidding for the right to Kick-Ass

Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass is close to securing a distributor, according to THR’s Risky Business blog. Three studios, including Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal, are currently eyeing the brutal comic-book adaptation. According to the report, the winner will have to pony up a high seven-figure sum, plus back-end residuals. Heavy interest was apparently sparked after the film’s ….

Kubrick’s family seeks to have his Holocaust film The Aryan Papers finally made

Director Stanley Kubrick‘s family recently expressed a desire to see one of the director’s final in-development projects, The Aryan Papers, finally realized, according to the London paper The Times. The movie was to be based on a novel by Louis Begley (writer of About Schmidt) titled Wartime Lies, about a fleeing Polish Jew named Tania ….

Hugh Jackman heading to Japan for next Wolverine, which will be based on Frank Miller origin tale

Hugh Jackman revealed to MTV at the Teen Choice Awards over the weekend that development on the follow-up to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was critically blasted but financially successful, is now well underway. The actor/producer also confirmed previously rumored intentions to have the next film set largely in Japan, and that the story-line will be ….

District 9 midnight screenings expanded nationwide

Sci-Fi Wire reports that the Peter Jackson-produced, Neill Blomkamp-directed sci-fi action thriller District 9 will open at midnight this Thursday in advance of its Friday premiere date of August 14th. District 9 follows the story of extraterrestrial refugees in a sort of reservation in modern-day South Africa. It’s been 28 years since the aliens made ….