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First Run Grabs Docu Filled with Nightmares: Tales From the Script
14 December 2009 7:03 PM, PST
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If you ever wanted to find an irritable bunch of people working in Hollywood, you wouldn't have to go much further than the names in the screenwriter's directory. First Run Features have picked up the rights to Peter Hanson’s talking heads docu about the horror stories of those of who lived to tell the tale: contemporary screenwriters who got stung in their careers as scribes and consider themselves lucky, managed to see one of their works turn into a final product and retain some shards of its former self. - If you ever wanted to find an irritable bunch of people working in Hollywood, you wouldn't have to go much further than the names in the screenwriter's directory. First Run Features have picked up the rights to Peter Hanson’s talking heads docu about the horror stories of those of who lived to tell the tale: contemporary screenwriters
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Marvin Hamlisch Talks 'The Informant' and his Return to Film Scoring with Variety
17 November 2009 10:47 AM, PST
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Marvin Hamlisch, composer extraordinaire of A Chorus Line fame, first achieved success composing for the big screen, winning Oscars for his work in The Way We Were and The Sting back in the 1970's. For the first time in over a decade, he has returned to cinematic roots, composing the score for Steven Soderbergh's The Informant, starring Matt Damon, in a big splashy way.
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AFI Fest 2009: Something’S Gonna Live, North By Northwest
26 October 2009 12:41 AM, PDT
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Cary Grant in North by Northwest
Among the highlights of AFI Fest 2009 is the Nov. 2 screening of AFI Conservatory Alumnus Daniel Raim’s documentary Something’s Gonna Live, which profiles several behind-the-scenes Hollywood veterans — most of whom have already passed away — including production designers Robert Boyle (who turned 100 this past Oct. 10), Henry Bumstead (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting), Harold Michelson (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Mommie Dearest, Dick Tracy), and Albert Nozaki (When Worlds Collide, The War of the Worlds, The Ten Commandments), in addition to cinematographers Conrad L. Hall (In Cold Blood, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Road to Perdition) and Haskell Wexler (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, In the Heat of [...]
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- Andre Soares
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Robert Pattinson, Brad Pitt And More Overnight Sex Symbols
29 September 2009 2:52 AM, PDT
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'Twilight' has catapulted RPattz into the stratosphere where he joins some other beefcake breakout stars.
By Larry Carroll
Robert Pattinson
Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage
Every now and then, a movie comes out that transforms a male actor into someone to be desired, adored and often watched for decades to come. We're experiencing such a phenomenon now with Robert Pattinson, who has essentially starred in one wide-release movie and had "Twilight" transform him from "Who's that?" to "Hottest Man Alive" overnight.
But where does RPattz go from here? Will he launch a decades-long career? Work with directors like Spielberg and Scorsese? Or will he become another Hollywood cautionary tale? Below are a handful of beefcake breakouts transformed by one major role, whose careers could perhaps give guidance to the Sparkly One.
James Dean
Arguably the greatest male cinematic sex symbol of all time, actors like Pattinson and James Franco continue to
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The Informant! Giveaway - Who Wants Free Stuff?
18 September 2009 9:44 AM, PDT
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While it’s been kind of quiet on the giveaway front of late, I’ve got some cool stuff to giveaway to help promote the release of Steven Soderbergh’s “The Informant!” So if you’re interested in getting a free t-shirt, a video camera pen, caps, mugs, coasters and more, hit the jump to see pictures and how you can enter. Also, if you were debating seeing “The Informant!” this weekend, here’s Matt’s review which tells you why you should go.
So you’re probably asking how you can win. Here’s what you need to do….
Email thecollidermailbox@gmail.com
In the headline say The Informant! Giveaway
In the body of the email please provide your name and address and if you win, you’ll get an email from me and soon after you’ll get something in the mail. The giveaway ends September 30th at
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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Movie Review - 'The Informant!'
18 September 2009 1:44 AM, PDT
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The Informant!
Starring Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, and Melanie Lynskey
Directed by Stephen Soderbergh
Rated R
Mark Whitacre had a selective guilty conscience. The biotech executive a Archer Daniels Midland, then one of the biggest food additive companies in the world, couldn't let his company and its competition around the world continue gouging the unsuspecting consumer with their unfettered price fixing. The solution was to tape conversations for and work directly with the FBI in order to catch Adm red-handed.
Of course, Whitacre didn't feel nearly as guilty about some criminal activities in which he engaged on the side.
In The Informant!, director Steven Soderbergh recounts a story so strange it has to be true. And, well, it is. But Soderbergh's stylistic approach adds some artifice. For example, probably 50% of the speaking parts go to recognizable comedians, though not one of them ever says anything that's supposed to be funny.
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- Colin Boyd
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Contest: Win Huge Prizes from The Informant!
9 September 2009 12:42 PM, PDT
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The Informant! is a hilarious new film from Steven Soderbergh that stars Matt Damon as real-life whistle blower Mark Whitacre. If you've been wishing to follow in Whitacre's footsteps and become a turncoat yourself, then, boy, do we have a contest for you! To celebrate this unbelievable story, we are giving away a bunch of excellent items that will help push you on your quest for that prized work promotion. It's the early stool pigeon that gets the worm, so hurry and enter our exciting The Informant! contest today! Before someone turns you in!
We're giving away the following prizes to various winners:
- Video Camera Pen
- The Informant! Soft Briefcase/Laptop Bag
- The Informant! Tee
- The Informant! Yellow Cap
- "0014" Mug - Arv $8
- The Informant! Plastic Whistle on White Rope
- Set of 4 Coasters
Tons of winners! Tons of prizes! Enter today!
What was Mark Whitacre thinking?
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Obituary: Us character actor John Quade dead at 71
14 August 2009 10:15 AM, PDT
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Washington - The Us actor John Quade, who played mean and nasty characters in movies including several Clint Eastwood films, died at age 71, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. His best known roles were in Papillon, with Steve McQueen; The Sting, with Robert Redford; and Eastwood's High Plains Drifter. Quade's wife, Gwen Saunders, told the Times that her husband was a gentle soul 'but he looked mean and nasty.' 'He looked like he could do murder and mayhem at any moment, but he was a big teddy bear - the kind that he just loved little kids, but they were always afraid of him,' she was quoted as saying. She said Eastwood 'hired him
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TNT Exerts More 'Leverage' for Season 2
30 July 2009 10:45 PM, PDT
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With style and smarts to spare, the first two episodes of Leverage’s sophomore season make for entertaining summer viewing. Like a small screen version of Ocean’s Eleven or The Italian Job, the show focuses on a multitalented group of thieves who use their skills to steal from the rich. But rather than (only) having themselves in mind, the team on Leverage aims to help poor victims and bilk money-making companies for all that they’re worth.
It’s a timely premise in the current economic climate, when most people are rooting against greedy corporations and cheering on the little guy. The season premiere, "The Beantown Bailout Job", is especially pertinent to these times when government bailouts of big businesses — and the way those companies spend the money — tend to irk most taxpayers.
This episode finds the crew scattered after last year’s finale. Ex-insurance investigator Nate Ford (Timothy Hutton
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Movies We Love: The Sting
29 July 2009 4:30 PM, PDT
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The Sting (1973)
I put it all on Lucky Dan. Half a million dollars to win!
Synopsis
Conman Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) joins forces with the master of the game, Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman), in order to get revenge for his murdered friend resulting in a ridiculously complex con and a lot of Scott Joplin music.
Why We Love It
The Sting represents the second pairing of Redford with Newman after they worked together on Butch Cassidy, and if there was any doubt that the two make a brilliant team, this movie cements it as fact. What a fantastic film. That kind of chemistry between two leading actors is incredibly rare, and when you place it firmly in a clever, very fun story, it creates a film that will be remembered for as long as the medium exists. It also garners a few Oscar wins if you're into that sort of thing.
For
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- Dr. Cole Abaius
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Frances Ethel Gumm at 87
10 June 2009 2:30 PM, PDT
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Had Judy Garland not died tragically at 47 of an accidental overdose she would be turning 87 years-old today. Okay, so she might have died by now but we would have had much more of her work to enjoy. To give you an idea of how young that is for a world class entertainer, consider people who outlived her.
Had Frank Sinatra died at 47 his career would have ended with The Manchurian Candidate. He'd have never recorded his signature song "My Way" or any of his live records. Had Shirley Maclaine died at 47, she would never have sent up Debbie Reynolds in Postcards from the Edge or made Terms of Endearment which was arguably her greatest screen triumph. Had her co-star Jack Nicholson died at 47, Terms... would have been his last film: no Prizzi's Honor, Witches of Eastwick, Ironweed, The Departed, About Schmidt. Had Paul Newman, only three years Judy's junior,
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Julia Roberts Among the Stars for Paul Newman's Charity Fundraiser
9 June 2009 11:50 AM, PDT
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Julia Roberts, Jerry Seinfeld, Robert Redford, Bill Clinton, Harry Connick Jr. and Kristin Chenoweth helped deliver some serious star power to Monday's Lincoln Center gala in New York on behalf of Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Camps and honor the beloved, late founder of the charity benefiting children with life-threatening medical conditions.
Among what they had to say about Newman, who died last year, was:
• "We've done a lot of these galas," Julia Roberts said, after doing a dancing kick line with kids who have attended the camps. "And I've never stood up without my buddy Paul Newman.
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- Jeffrey Slonim
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Newman inducted to state Hall Of Fame
17 April 2009 9:34 PM, PDT
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Paul Newman has been posthumously inducted into the Hall Of Fame of the American state where he spent most of his life. The Sting actor, who died in September aged 83, joins Katherine Hepburn in the Connecticut roll of honour and was recognised for both his onscreen work and charitable deeds. The award was accepted by the president and CEO of Newman's Own Foundation, Robert Forrester, who praised the state as the "soil (more)
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Spring Preview: Rian Johnson on The Festival of Fakery
23 February 2009 5:52 AM, PST
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When Rian Johnson attended USC in the '90s, he had a certain criteria that needed to be met when choosing an apartment. "It was walking distance from the New Beverly," says Johnson, who's been living in the same place near the venerable Los Angeles revival house ever since. Thanks to a collision of fate, whimsy and just a little bit of conniving reminiscent of his latest film, the thoroughly delightful conman caper "The Brothers Bloom," Johnson will take over programming duties at the theater starting tonight in what's being billed as "Rian Johnson's Festival of Fakery, a week of films regarding frauds, fakers, charlatans, hoaxters, huxters and other unsavory sorts." Johnson follows other recent guest programmers at the theater that include Edgar Wright, Diablo Cody and Peter Bogdanovich, and will be onhand every night of the festival to give introductions to the films. Fortunately, if you're not in L.
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- Stephen Saito
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Fan Rant: For The Love of the Game -- Leave 'Slap Shot' Alone!
3 February 2009 9:02 AM, PST
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We say it all the time -- "That's a film that should never be remade!" 95% of the time, its true. The latest to go through the remake treatment is the hockey classic Slap Shot -- and it's apparently been buzzed and bitched about since last summer, when Peter Steinfeld took the writing job. But now Variety announces that Dean Parisot will be directing, which means that it will take an act of God or Gordie Howe to stop this atrocity from happening.
First, it ought to be illegal to remake anything that starred Paul Newman. It's as simple as that. He's off limits from Fort Apache the Bronx to The Sting, and everything in between. Secondly, Slap Shot is just one of those perfect pieces of Americana -- one of those grungy comedies that could only be made in the 1970s. It's old time hockey as it doesn't exist anymore
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- Elisabeth Rappe
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McVey & Ronnolfson Join Hamlisch for Rodgers 'My Favorite Things' with Milwaukee Symphony 1/30 -2/1
27 January 2009 3:10 PM, PST
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Marvin Hamlisch returns to the Milwaukee Symphony with a program called "My Favorite Things." It refers to both the song of that name and to the entire output of the man who composed it, Richard Rodgers. Hamlisch, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and guest vocalists J. Mark McVey and Ann Ronnolfson will survey songs from some of Rodgers' biggest Broadway and Hollywood hits: "Carousel," "The King and I," "Oklahoma!" "The Sound of Music," "South Pacific" and "State Fair." As composer, Hamlisch has won virtually every major entertainment award that exists: three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony and three Golden Globe awards; his groundbreaking show, A Chorus Line, received the Pulitzer Prize. He is the composer of more than forty motion picture scores including his Oscar-winning score and song for The Way We Were and his adaptation of Scott Joplin's music for The Sting, for which he received a third Oscar.
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Hamlisch And Thompson Highlight Arsht Concert Season
21 January 2009 8:44 AM, PST
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As composer, Hamlisch has won virtually every major entertainment award that exists: three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony and three Golden Globe awards; his groundbreaking show, A Chorus Line, received the Pulitzer Prize. He is the composer of more than forty motion picture scores including his Oscar-winning score and song for The Way We Were and his adaptation of Scott Joplin's music for The Sting, for which he received a third Oscar.
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