Movies

- Movie Adaptation Of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin In The Sun," Starring The Award-Winning Broadway Cast And Produced By Sony Pictures Television, Will Air As An "ABC Premiere Event," February 25, 2008, The Night After The Network's Live Telecast Of 80th Annual Academy Awards
- Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald, Sanaa Lathan and John Stamos Also Headline the Stellar Cast

Michael Imperioli, Ellen Burstyn Star in Television Event Motion Picture on ABC

Thursday, August 16, 2007 -- Emmy Award(r)-winning actor Michael Imperioli ("The Sopranos") and Academy Award(r)-winning actress Ellen Burstyn ("The Fountain," "The Exorcist") star in the two-hour television event motion picture "Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day," premiering SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. The production, which wrapped this week, was shot primarily on location in Connecticut.    » read more »

August 14, 2007 -- A film that wins critical acclaim is likely to be an R-rated drama, adapted from a prize-winning play or book and based on a true story, with the original author or director involved in writing the screenplay. It is unlikely to be a sequel or remake, a comedy or musical, a summer release, a big-budget project, have a PG-13 rating, open on numerous screens or do a big box office on the first weekend. It probably has an excellent score, but it may not have an award-winning song.

But box-office hits may have entirely different profiles.    » read more »

14 August 2007 -- The Arctic is in danger. The world's north polar ice cap is melting. Over the last three decades, the area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice at summer's end has shrunk significantly. Some forecasts predict that if the trend continues there will be no summer sea ice by as early as 2040.

A new film documents the impact of warming conditions on this historically ice-bound world and the animals that live there.    » read more »

Romany Malco and Verne Troyer Also Added to Cast of Comedy That Begins Shooting This September in Toronto

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 9 -- Paramount Pictures, which has scheduled Mike Myers' new comedy "The Love Guru" -- his first original character since Austin Powers -- in a prime summer tentpole position on June 20, 2008, has announced major casting for the film, which begins production in September in Toronto, Canada.    » read more »

August 07, 2007 -- Chris Carlisle, formerly head of marketing for FOX Broadcasting and the FX television network, has joined New Line Cinema as its new President of Domestic Theatrical Marketing, it was announced today by New Line Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne.

He will report directly to Rolf Mittweg, New Line's President and COO of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution. Carlisle will co-report to Toby Emmerich, New Line's President of Production, on creative materials.    » read more »

8/6/2007 5:02:00 PM GLENDALE, Calif., Aug 06, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NYSE: DWA) announced today that DW Investment II, Inc.("DWI II"), an entity controlled by Paul Allen, will sell approximately 10 million shares of the Company's Class A common stock in a registered public offering underwritten by Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.    » read more »

Almost 6 Million Viewers Tune into the Highest-Rated Nick TV Movie Ever Among Tweens and Total Viewers

31 July 2007 (By VOA News) -- Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni has died at the age of 94.

Antonioni died at his home Monday night. He is best known for the Oscar-nominated film, Blowup, and L'Aventura (The Adventure).

Antonioni made his major movies in the 1960s and 1970s, but his career spanned six decades.

Antonioni's 1975 work, The Passenger, starred Jack Nicholson.

Many of the director's films examined the subject of alienation in modern society.

(Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.)

Source: VOANews.com

Washington, 30 July 2007 (By Ray McDonald) -- A yellow man with bulging eyes and an insatiable appetite for donuts rules the U.S. box office. Homer Simpson and his cartoon clan pulled in $71.9 million over the weekend, propelling The Simpsons Movie to number one.

The Simpsons Movie sent last week's champ I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry sinking to second place at $19 million, a 44 percent drop.    » read more »

30 July 2007 (By VOA News) -- Award-winning Swedish film and stage director Ingmar Bergman has died. He was 89.

Swedish media reports Monday quote his daughter, Eva, as saying Bergman died peacefully at his home on the Baltic island of Faro. He spent the last few years of his life there.

Bergman made more than 50 films, and he is considered one of the most influential directors of the 20th century. He is perhaps best known for the Oscar-winning Fanny and Alexander, and The Seventh Seal, which won prizes at the Cannes Film Festival.    » read more »

“After 18 years, it’s good to finally welcome the Simpsons home. Vermonters love The Simpsons.

“We’re glad for the honor, and today we’re all from Springfield. As much as we Vermonters prize our privacy, we also welcome this attention to our beautiful state. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie will look great on that yellow carpet with the Green Mountains as a backdrop.”

Source: Senator Patrick Leahy

July 10, 2007 -- "I want to congratulate Springfield and its partners for winning the opportunity to host the world premiere of The Simpsons Movie.

The community spirit and enthusiasm that was key to Springfield’s improbable victory is precisely why Vermont is such a special place—and a fun place—to live, work and raise a family.

Fourteen Springfields across the country competed in the online election—sponsored by the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation—to host the premiere of the much-anticipated movie.

Springfield, Vermont’s success is a true Cinderella story.    » read more »