Line Up for 2006 Hamptons Film Festival
This year’s Hamptons International Film Festival promises to be a star studded event, filled with great screenings, helpful panel discusions, parties and other events. The festival has released it’s complete slate of screenings, premieres and activities. The 2006 Hamptons International Film Festival takes place from October 18th through 22nd, 2006, in East Hampton, New York, ….
Gold Bracelet Kicks Off Connecticut Film Fest
Next week, independent film lovers throughout Connecticut will welcome the debut of the first statewide film festival. The Connecticut Film Festival kicks off October 3 at the Garden Cinema in Norwalk with the feature The Gold Bracelet, and continues through October 8. The Gold Bracelet, a film by director Kavi Raz, chronicles how the events of 9/11 disrupt the happy ….
Robert Downey Jr. to Play Iron Man
Marvel Entertainment announced today that Academy Award Nominee Robert Downey Jr. will take on the role of one of Marvel’s greatest Super Heroes, signing on as the title character for Marvel Studios’ highly-anticipated Iron Man. This project, the first feature film to be produced independently by Marvel Entertainment, will launch into theaters May 2, 2008. The film is being ….
Gears of War and Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Premiere Together
New Line Cinema announced earlier that horror film aficionados will get their first chance to see The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning on Wednesday, Oct. 4 as well as play Epic Games’ upcoming Gears of War RPG in four major cities, marking the first time in entertainment history that a major motion picture and video game have been previewed ….
New Southwest Studio Opens
A new studio has opened on the location formerly known as Southwest Marine shipyard, home to hundreds of movie and television shoots. The facility has reopened its doors as Southwest Marine Studio, with 13 acres, waterfront location, and 10 unique styles of warehouse and office buildings for production. Parking is also available for crew and ….
Fangoria Horror Hits Jersey This Weekend
Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors descends upon the New York area September 29 thru October 1 with a thrilling line-up of top terror talent from both film and television. This fright-filled event takes place at the Crowne Plaza Meadowlands Hotel, 2 Harmon Plaza, with show hours Friday, NOON – 7 PM and Saturday and Sunday, 11:00 ….
Grind House, Hitcher Remake, White Noise 2, Resident Evil 3, More Trailers
Those of you in the New York area, looking to get some extended previews of upcoming genre films, can do so this weekend. Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors is taking place in Secaucus, NJ, and attendees will be able to see previews from the upcoming flicks Saw III, Pan’s Labyrinth, Ghost Rider, Grind House, Skinwalkers, Black Christmas, Wind Chill, ….
U.K. Indie Film Spotlight
Jag Mundhra announced that he has launched his film production company, Cine Boutique Entertainment U.K. To start his next film project Shoot On Sight. The film Shoot on Sight is a suspense drama dealing with the current terrorism attacks in UK through a London Metropolitan Police Officer of Muslim heritage who must display courage and persevere in his duties in ….
Home of the Brave Trailer
Jessica Biel even looks great in army fatigues. And Home of the Brave looks touching and very relevant. The film tells the story of an American Army unit nearing the end of their tours of duty in Iraq, but are sent on one final humanitarian mission to bring medical supplies to a remote village. The unit is ambushed ….
Blood Diamond International Trailer
From Edward Zwick, director of The Last Samurai, comes Blood Diamond, a film set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990s Sierra Leone. Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), a South African mercenary, and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in ….
Frank Miller’s 300 Trailer 1 (Not a Teaser or a Journal)
In 480 B.C., Spartan King Leonidas and his royal guard of 300 readied themselves for battle against the mightiest Persian army ever assembled. The Spartans were outnumbered one hundred thousand to one, but sometimes choosing where to fight makes all the difference in the world. This early trailer is surprising complete, convincing and kick-ass. It also reveals ….
More Rush Hour 3 Casting News (Including Yao Ming)
Thats right, according to a story read on Worst Previews, Rush Hour 3’s cast will include basketball giant Yao Ming. Of course, the film again stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, who this time, track a villain to the City of Light… Paris. The story quoted director Brett Ratner as saying “In the first movie Jackie was a fish out of water (in L.A), then Chris ….
The Good Shepherd Exclusive Trailer Premiere
What do you get when you put Academy Award Winner Robert DeNiro behind the camera of a spy thriller, starring himself, along with other Academy Award Winners Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, William Hurt, Joe Pesci and Academy Award Nominee Alec Baldwin, and super-duper actors Billy Crudup, Michael Gambonand John Turturro? You get The Good Shepherd. What else are movie theaters made for? If not quality like ….
Flags of Our Fathers Trailer
Academy Award-winner Clint Eastwood adapts James Bradley and Ron Powers’ book Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima for this tale about a man who discovers that his father was one of the six men who raised the American flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima. With a screenplay by William Broyles Jr., who wrote Jarhead, The Polar Express, and Entrapment) andPaul Haggis, writer and director of Crash (and yes, a ….
Brad Pitt to Star in Next Mission Impossible?
According to The Post Chronicle Newspaper’s online edition, Brad Pitt has been tapped to REINVENT theMission: Impossible franchise’s fortunes by replacing Tom Cruise in the fourth installment. Cruise, who played agent Ethan Hunt in the action films, was axed by Paramount last month, on August 6, following Mission: Impossible III’s less-than-stellar box office and his “unacceptable conduct” off screen. Now Pitt, action ….
