Sundance Buzz: Filmmaker Mark Webber’s ‘The End of Love’
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by Ben Scuglia.
The 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah kicked off this week and one filmmaker is already making waves. Mark Webber’s achingly poignant drama “The End of Love” headlines Michael Cera and Amanda Seyfried opposite Webber himself, who also serves as writer and director. It’s about a single father wrestling with tragedy as he [...]
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The Comedic Take On ‘Titanic’ Is A Hit On Chicago Stage
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by Henry-K.
James Cameron’s Titanic launches into theatres this April in 3-D. We caught up with another Titanic taking place in Chicago right now that has been generating an incredible amount of internet buzz. Cock and Bull Theatre produces experimental plays in the Windy City and we caught up with Artistic Director Chris Garcia Peak. So this [...]
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UPDATE: ”If a Tree Falls” filmmakers Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman are among the five nominees for Best Documentary Feature announced today by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Winners to be revealed Sunday, February 26, on ABC. CLICK HERE for the full list of nominees. For more details about their film, read [...]
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Feast on this: a 300 Lbs. life-size Stormtrooper cake. The 6′ 4″ galactic gateau, created by the Boston-based Amanda Oakleaf Cakes took two weeks to complete and arrived at the Arisia science fiction and fantasy convention. It fed more than 600 hungry sci-fi fanatics. Baking couple Amanda and Tiler Oakleaf used 208 eggs, 140lb of [...]
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He’s one of Hollywood’s best and brightest young actors, with a string of critically acclaimed roles under his belt, lots of celebrity buzz, as well as the mentorship of Hollywood’s top filmmakers. Anthony Mackie was a scene-stealer in the Oscar-winning “The Hurt Locker” and now he’s a “Man on a Ledge.” Technically, it is costar [...]
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Check out this celebrity buzz: Lindsay Lohan is competing with Megan Fox to play Elizabeth Taylor in a “Lifetime” channel movie of the star’s life called “Liz and Dick.” Because of Lindsay’s Sapphic ways, this could mark the first time that Lindsay was associated with “Dick.” This also marks the greatest case of miscasting since [...]
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Last night’s Golden Globes winners confirmed that frustrated movie lovers should not stop advocating for quality filmmaking and serious, entertaining stories for grown-ups. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association handed out chunks of hardware to “The Descendants,” a story of a distant father fighting to reconnect with his children and keep the family going after a [...]
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Dominic Cooper 101: Taking a bite out of Hollywood
Posted on 15. Jan, 2012 by Harrison Cheung.
British actor Dominic Cooper‘s breakthrough role was on the London and Broadway stage in a production of THE HISTORY BOYS, a popular play about 8 teenage boys coached to get into Cambridge. The popularity of the play resulted in an acclaimed 2006 film adaptation, for which Cooper was nominated Most Promising Newcomer by the British Independent [...]
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First-Time Director Uses a Smartphone to Crack Hollywood
Posted on 11. Jan, 2012 by Ben Scuglia.
Most people who suffer through a tumultuous period of personal turmoil decide to kick back, take it easy and just pull back from the rat race. Not writer-director Hooman Khalili, who dreamed up the idea for his feature film “Olive” only two years ago this month. The independently produced and financed project was shot for less [...]
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