Archive for June, 2007

DVD NEW RELEASES - Tuesday, June 26 »

BLACK SNAKE MOAN - WIDESCREEN

Special Features:

Commentary by Writer/Director Craig Brewer

Conflicted: The Making of Black Snake Moan

Rooted in the Blues

The Black Snake Moan

Deleted Scenes

PRIDE - WIDESCREEN

Special Features:

Director Commentary

Deleted and Extended Scenes

Music Montages

SHOOTER - WIDESCREEN

Special Features:

7 Deleted Scenes

Survival of the Fittest: The Making of Shooter

Audio Commentary by director Antoine Fuqua

Featurette: Independence Hall

The go-to writers for Hollywood’s mega movies »

 
WHEN they befriended each other in a high school class on French New Wave cinema, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci vowed that some day they would write intimate, character-driven films in the style of Jean-Luc Godard. “We were totally gung-ho to make really revolutionary independent movies,” Mr. Kurtzman said in a recent conversation. “We wanted [...]

HBO’s ‘John From Cincinnati’ confounds and fascinates »

 

When you work on a show like HBO’s John From Cincinnati (Sundays at 9 pm/ET), it can screw with your head. Recently, Austin Nichols, who plays the enigmatic John, was memorizing lines for a scene when he had a premonition. “I knew in my heart that I should scream, ‘Stare me down!’” he says. “The [...]

PROFILE: Producer John Davis »

Producer John A. Davis is the most unlikely casting choice to play Hollywood’s Most Regular Guy. Yet he’s so perfectly pedestrian — in a Bel Air sort of way — that it makes him remarkable.
(Source: Variety)

BEHIND THE SCENES TV: Trailer for ‘Into the Wild’ starring Emile Hirsch and directed by Sean Penn »

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Why Hollywood loves Stephen King »

 

Stephen King knows it’s the little things that frighten the most. 
So it’s fitting that the best-selling novelist, who has had more film adaptations from his work than any modern author, finds his short stories capturing Hollywood’s attention these days. 
Among them are the sinister hotel-room thriller 1408, opening Friday, the creatures-in-the-fog story The Mist, coming [...]

Newsweek assembles list of great and bad movie endings »

Say what you will about how “The Sopranos” ended—and people are still giving us an earful—it got us thinking about what makes a good ending to a story … and a bad ending. So in the time it takes to say “happily ever after,” we began assembling lists of good endings for movies, television series [...]

‘Citizen Kane’ still undisputed greatest film of all time »

 

The years have been kind to “Citizen Kane,” including the last decade. The 1941 Orson Welles classic — the story of a wealthy young idealist transformed by scandal and vice into a regretful old recluse — was again rated the best movie ever Wednesday by the American Film Institute. 
In the CBS special “AFI’s 100 Years … [...]

INTERVIEW: Director John Dahl and actress Tea Leoni on making ‘You Kill Me’ »

Did you hear the one about the Polish hit man (Sir Ben Kingsley) who gets sent from Buffalo to San Francisco to sober up? That’s the nutshell plot of John Dahl’s You Kill Me, a return to the off-kilter crime tales of his earlier independents The Last Seduction and Red Rock West. Téa Leoni doesn’t [...]

Using deleted scenes to promote a movie »

 

The accidental-pregnancy comedy “Knocked Up” owes some of its box-office success to scenes that didn’t even make it into the movie.

In recent weeks, Universal Pictures has posted several deleted scenes from the comedy online, advertising “restricted clips” in Web ads and the bonus material on television, too. Since then, the clips have racked up more [...]