Ethan Hawke will star in The Jimmy Show, an independent picture
about a failed New Jersey inventor who sets out on the amateur-comedy
circuit as a standup comedian. The film marks the second directorial
venture for Frank Whaley, who also stars in the film and adapted
the screenplay from a play by Jonathan Mark Sherman. Originally
called Veins and Thumbtacks, the play was first directed
by Hawke with ...
DreamWorks studios is looking to line up Robert Redford and Mark
Wahlberg in The Castle, to be helmed by film-critic-turned-director
Rod Lurie. Redford would play a five-star general convicted of a
capital crime. While final negotiations have begun with Redford,
insiders say that Wahlberg's schedule may impede his participation
in the film, which is slated for a mid-March shooting start. Wahlberg
is a...
As the auditorium filled up for the Luminaries Awards Gala, we got in a few words with two of the night's honorees: Peter Falk and George Sidney.
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An annual event at the Fort Lauderdale Festival, the Luminaries honor motion picture stars, directors and producers. For the year 2000 event, the winner of the Robert Wise Director of Distinction Award was veteran director George Sidney, who has directed over 50 films. Howard Keel, another veteran from the golden age of the Hollywood musical was honored for his Lifetime Achievement in Musical Cinema. The Spirit of Independents Award was given to actor-turned-director Rob Morrow, whose first dire...
Familiar to television audiences for his lead role in Northen Exposure and for his role in Robert Redfords’s Quiz Show, Maze marks his directorial debut. Set in downtown New York, Maze is an uncommon love story starring Rob Morrow, Laura Linney and Craig Sheffer. Rob took a moment to present his film to us
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This UK director, coming from a music video background, presented his first feature, Sexy Beast, at a Gala Screening in Toronto. The film is a thriller where action takes second place to a good old-fashioned battle of two immovable wills: Oscar-award winning actor Ben Kingsley and British stalwart Ray Winstone. Jonathan talks openly about working with Ben Kingsley and a number of projects in the works....
Arriving for the Gala Screening of Sexy Beast, Kingsley related how he had to « find the Demon within » for his role as Gary in this psychological thriller....
This Australian director brings to the screen an immensely funny spin on the events surrounding man’s first steps on the moon on July 20, 1969. Rob believes that we have much to learn from this monumental event and the film is based on a true story focusing on the scientists who struggled to make the historic broadcast possible....
The 2000 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony was held
in Washington, D.C. this weekend. Rewarding five of
the world's top performing artists from the worlds of
dance, film, music and theater, the two-day ceremony
attracted big names from Hollywood and politics such
as President Clinton. Actress Angela Lansbury and actor-director
Clint ...
The Pope of Trash can now be called Master of Ceremonies; John Waters
has been selected to host the Independent Film Awards, scheduled
for March 24. Who better than the Baltimore-born director whose
toilet-bowl humor and unorthodox approach have made him the one
of the most individual directors not in Hollywood!...
Tim Burton is suing the man who allegedly stole a box containing
the director's personal artwork. Burton, who studied animation at
the California Institute of the Arts, claims that he received a
letter last June in which David Botempo admits to having stolen
a box of original sketches and paintings from the community storage
area of their apartment building in 1991. The director says that
Botempo mad...
Director Amos Kollek can't get enough of a good thing. For the fourth
time, he'll direct Anna Thomson as a lonely woman in search of a
man - only this time the male element is her lost son. Though their
last film together, Fast
Food Fast Women, was a comedy, their new venture, Beirut,
will hark back to the dark humor characteristic of their earlier
films. Shooting begins this January. ...
Nov 23 - 30 (Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
The main prize was a tie between French director Claude
Miller's La
Chambre Des Magiciennes and The Land Of Truth
Love And Freedom, the directorial debut from Serbian
Milutin Petrovic....
The 18th annual Money-Making Star Award, from
the Japan Association of Motion Picture Producers, was
awarded to Japan's box office hit Whiteout. ...
At
the second annual awards ceremony of the Irish Film
and Television Academy, Angela’s Ashes won the
best feature award, as well as awards for craft achievement award and for costume design. ...
Not known for giving interviews abundantly, Bertolucci was delightfully open and revealing before the sea of reporters and cameras. Since no recent film was presented, the questions turned towards his past seeking new insight into this master's works featured in a retrospective at San Sebastian....
The seaside town of Deauville is spicing up for this year's 26th Festival. Organizers of the event have confirmed the appearance of celebrities ranging from Clint Eastwood to Carmen Electra. This year's sidebar festival Panorama will feature 11 films, 2 films will make world premieres, accompanied by a lineup of world-famous directors in attendance....
Present at Fort Lauderdale, this huband & wife team explained the life of UK
soccer player George Best, a biopic film entitled Best. As the director,
Mary researched extensively creating the biggest compilation on the soccer
hero's life and a genuine 60's decor. John played George Best in the film
and won the Best Actor award at the Festival.
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On a boat travelling the canals of the Venice-like Fort Lauderdale,
filmfestivals.com spoke with Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi about A Time
for Drunken Horses that won the Audience Award at the Festival. Clearly a
film well-received by the public, with after-film Q & A going on for an hour
an a half. The voice you will hear is that of the man next to Ghobadi,
Jamsheed Akrami, another Iranian director who also presented his film -
Friendly Persuasion - at the Festival and acted as interpr...
November 17 - 25 (Italy)
Twenty-five-year-old director David
Gordon Greene took the top prize for his drama George Washington....
Banned upon release in France earlier this year, the French film
Baise-moi
is now creating a stir in Canada. Several filmmakers there are enraged
by the Ontario Film Review Board's decision to ban the picture because
it contains a brutal and explicit rape scene. Canadian director
Atom Egoyan wrote a letter to the Toronto Star in which he
basically asked that filmgoers be allowed to see and judge the ...
Jim Sheridan, the Oscar-winning producer/director of My Left
Foot fame, is hoping to match Ewan McGregor and Kate Winslet
on his next project, East of Harlem. The two would play an
Irish couple who looks for a new life in New York City. ...
According to rumors reported on ifilm.com, screen star Julia Roberts
is in negotiations to buy the rights to 80s TV show "Bewitched"
so that she can play the role of the beautiful blonde witch, Samantha
Stevens, originally played by Elizabeth Montgomery. Another boob-tube
program that may soon hit the big screen is "The Incredible
Hulk" with Universal Pictures. Gossip has it that Chris
...
Already huge in terms of sales, blood and gore, Gladiator
will take on mammoth proportions when the film is projected on Imax
screens throughout the US starting this week. DreamWorks pictures
announced plans Monday to re-release Gladiator,
which earned some $186 million in the US during its general domestic
release, in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and other
cities. It is not known ho...
Fans of the comedy TV show "In Living Color" will be delighted
to know that the show will soon be honored at the 2001 US Comedy
Arts Festival. The early-90s sketch program was created by the Keenen
Ivory Wayans and launched the careers of siblings Damon, Kim, Marlon,
and Shawn, as well as Jennifer Lopez (who was one of the sexy "Fly-girl"
dancers). Cast members will reunite at the festival in Asp...
