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Originally Published: March 7, 2005 Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro and Amazon.com head Jeff Bezos announced last week that the giant online retailer is hosting a short-film competition in connection with the fest. The announcement reads that Amazon and the Tribeca Film Festival invite you to premiere your short film to an audience ….

Originally Published: June 5, 2005 My friends over at Scribble Bibble have worked long and hard to get their first feature, So Fresh, So Clean, on shelves. Well, Waner Brothers Lightyear will be releasing the comedy on June 28. So Fresh, So Clean…a down and dirty comedy is a day-in-the-hood, slice of urban life story ….

Originally Published: December 3, 2004 Apple Computer has a profile of the surprise hit Napoleon Dynamite on its website. Twenty Five year old Jeremy Coon made Napoleon fresh out of school on a $400,000 budget. Jeremy also edited the film in his apartment using a $6,000 editing system, that included Final Cut Pro running on ….

Originally Published: March 28, 2005 Filming has begun in Vancouver on Revolution Studios’ The Fog, a remake of the classic 1981 horror/thriller of the same name. Directed by Rupert Wainwright, the film is based on The Fog, written by John Carpenter and the late Debra Hill. The film will be released by Columbia Pictures on ….

Originally Published: December 3, 2004 I guess you could call this an early Christmas gift. I have links to trailers, photos and web sites for more Sony films, including Are We There Yet?, starring Ice Cube, Spanglish, starring Adam Sandler and Man of the House starring Tommy Lee Jones. All of the following material can ….

Originally Published: December 3, 2004 I have been reading a lot about Spike Lee’s newest joint Sucker Free City. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival a few months ago. It got great reviews, but a few people seemed to be turned off by the violence (it’s a gang film, violence is a part of ….

Originally Published: July 6, 2005 Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, Appian Way, will develop and produce a feature film based on Kurt Vonnegut’s classic sci-fi novel Cat’s Cradle in partnership with producer Hillard Elkins’ Elkins Entertainment, Variety reported. James V. Hart (who wrote Sahara) and his son, Jake Hart, will write the script, based on Vonnegut’s ….

Originally Published: December 17, 2004 In a rare personal appearance, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Antoine Fuqua will be holding a live Q&A at ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood on December 20th to mark Buena Vista Home Entertainment’s December 21 DVD release of the KING ARTHUR Director’s Cut as part of the prestigious Hollywood’s Master Storytellers series, ….

Originally Published: December 17, 2004 The Slamdance Film Festival, set for January 21-28, 2005 in Park City, Utah, will present a record 23 world and U.S. independent feature premieres, which include works-in-progress. The festival will open with Amy Sewell’s documentary Mad Hot Ballroom, a look at New York kids training for a ballroom dancing contest, ….

Originally Published: June 8, 2005 As an exclusive to film site webmasters, Decca Records and Paramount have provided us with the first samples from the Official Soundtrack to the War of the Worlds. We also have a screenshot of the CD art work and a link to order the soundtrack. Here is the soundtrack listing ….

Originally Published: December 21 , 2004 One of the Marvel Universe’s oldest superheroes is coming to the big screen (FINALLY), courtesy of Universal Pictures and director/ producer Chris Columbus. The Submariner movie will be produced by Marvel Studios’ Avi Arad, Misher Films banner and Columbus, who is working under his 1492 Production banner. The Submariner’s ….

Originally Published: December 21, 2004 Working Title has picked up the script by Christopher Dean Johnston called Suicide Squad. It’s a comedy centering on an ex-con who gets a jobs at a suicide crisis hotline. Looking for a quick payday, he decides to hold-up a race track, and recruits a group of suicidal outcasts to ….

Originally Published: December 21, 2004 I have an update on the Usher film projects that are being prepped. Lion’s Gate Films has signed the music star to appear in Dying for Dolly, while MGM is in negotiations to line up another film for him, entitled Step in the Name of Love. Emmanuelle Chriqui is the ….

Originally Published: December 21, 2004 Check out the new trailers for some of Warner Brothers upcoming projects! Batman Begins Quicktime: low medium high Real Player: low medium high broadband Windows Media Player: low medium high broadband Constantine Quicktime: low medium high Real Player: low medium high broadband Windows Media Player: low medium high broadband Charlie ….

Originally Published: December 22, 2004 DreamWorks Go Fish distribution arm, has landed the domestic distribution rights to the Japanese science fiction action hit Casshern, which it will release under the banner of its specialty film division, Go Fish Pictures. Casshern marked the feature film directorial debut of acclaimed Japanese music video director Kazuaki Kiriya, who ….