Black History Month programming and events
Below is a comprehensive list of programming that will be broadcast during Black History Month. ABC ABC is planning to air a series of public-service announcements directed by Spike Lee. Feb. 5 at 1 p.m.: “A Passion to Lead: A Celebration of the African-American Athlete.” NBC Feb. 20 at 9 p.m.: “Little Richard.” NBC original ….
IMAX to Get V for Vendetta
IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that V For Vendetta, a thrilling action- adventure from the creators of The Matrix trilogy, will be simultaneously released to IMAX and conventional theatres on March 17, 2006. Produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski Brothers, directed by James McTeigue and starring Natalie Portman, V For Vendetta ….
Cannes Film Festival Looking for Hip Hop Films
The Cannes Film Festival’s International Critics’ Week (SIC – Semaine Internationale de la Critique) has joined forces with Hip-Hop multimedia communications company, Punch Media to ensure a greater influx of diverse films for potential 2006 jury selection. In order to better meet its goals of diversity in selection, particularly from the U.S. market, SIC is ….
FilmFetish in the news
MovieMaker Magazine article 2005. Download complete article in PDF
Zathura movie clips here
Here are 11 movie clips from Zathura, which opens on November 11, 2005: Clip 1 – “2 Favorite People” http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip1_high.asx http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip1_low.asx http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip1_high.ram http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip1_low.ram Clip 2 – “Meteor Shower” http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip2_high.asx http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip2_low.asx http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip2_high.ram http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip2_low.ram Clip 3 – “Sleep Chamber” http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip3_high.asx http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip3_low.asx http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip3_high.ram http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip3_low.ram Clip 4 – “Zathura Awaits” http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip4_high.asx http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip4_low.asx http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip4_high.ram http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip4_low.ram Clip 5 – “Defective Robot” ….
G opens in theaters on October 28th
This is part of an open call to drum up support for “G,” a new movie which opens around the country on Friday October 28th. “G” is a contemporary African-American romance inspired by the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald story The Great Gatsby. This film was produced independently because Hollywood Studios chose to pass on it based on their ….
Firefly voted best sci-fi series ever?
Sci-fi buffs from around the world have voted cult TV series, “Firefly,” the world’s best space science fiction work ever in an international poll conducted by NewScientistSpace.com, the space news website from New Scientist magazine. Incredibly, the TV series which is set 500 years in the future was pulled off the air early. However, it ….
Hannibal is back
Here is a brief synopsis of Young Hannibal, a.k.a. Behind the Mask, a.k.a. Hannibal 4, a.k.a. The Lecter Variation: The Story of Young Hannibal Lecter: Based on Thomas Harris’ upcoming book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lechter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ….
Kung Fu High School coming to theaters
The film rights for Ryan Gattis’s Kung Fu High School were bought by Harvey and Bob Weinstein’s newly established production outfit, The Weinstein Company, The Hollywood Reporter says. Kung Fu High School, Gattis’s first novel, delves into a grim world in which a high school is run by the drug-dealing, single-named menace Ridley, who controls ….
Jon Favreau directing John Carter of Mars
Jon “Elf” Favreau is directing John Carter of Mars for Paramount. The film is now in pre-production, and is set for a 2006 release. The sci-fi fantasy is a about Civil War veteran John Carter, who is mysteriously transplanted to Mars. There he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall ….
Van Allsberg classic The Widow’s Broom coming to theaters
The classic children’s book The Widow’s Broom, by Chris Van Allsburg, is about a widow named Minna Shaw, who finds an extraordinary broom which was left behind by a witch who fell into her garden. When the broom comes to life, it helps the grieving family heal, as it sweeps away their obnoxious neighbors and ….
The Weinsteins are at it again
The Weinstein Company was created in March of 2005 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the brothers who founded Miramax Films Corp. in 1979. Here are some of the pics the team is working on bringing to the screen: Decameron, The Libertine, Last Legion, Young Hannibal, Hoodwinked!, Transamerica, Nomad, Outlander, Stormbreaker, Lucky Number Slevin, and Master ….
My Bookie for Warner Brothers
In what proves to be another industry first, online gaming company MyBookie.com has signed an exclusive product placement agreement with Warner Brothers for the upcoming film Lucky You starring Drew Barrymore. The MyBookie.com website will be prominently featured in the film, as well as within the storyline. The movie features a college student who hits ….
Read Chapter 7 of the Poseidon Journals
Next year Wolfgang Peterson will unleash his new action-adventure feature, Poseidon. Until then, you can learn more about the movie and it’s cast by checking out the on-set journals. Chapter 7 is now available online at: www.darkhorizons.com/news05/poseidonj.php
Spike TV to get the Sith
Variety has reported that Spike TV has engineered the biggest movie purchase in the net’s 22-year history, ponying up between $65 million and $70 million for a six-year exclusive deal covering all six of Lucasfilm’s Star Wars movies. NBC Universal’s USA Network and Sci Fi Channel and Turner Broadcasting’s TBS and TNT were in the ….