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Independent filmmakers must get creative with financing
Wanted: 1,700 brave investors each willing to shell out $30 for a credit as a co-executive producer on an independent movie about New York's illegal graffiti street-art scene. The reward: striking a "blow for artistic freedom."
That's the pitch...Tags: Arts, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Spike Lee, Film Festivals, Wanted (movie)
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Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' comes to the screen
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHE FATHER and son struggling to stay alive in "The Road" understand that everything they know is coming to an end. Ext. ROAD -- DAY In the burnt, barren landscape, through swirls of soft ash and smoggy air the MAN appears dressed as if homeless, a...Tags: No Country for Old Men (movie), Cormac McCarthy, Film Festivals, Television, Pennsylvania
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Hollywood's endangered entrepreneurs
THE BIG PICTUREIT'S hard to imagine New Line Cinema without Bob Shaye, its prickly paterfamilias. The company is being absorbed into Time Warner's Warner Bros. film division, with Shaye and most of the employees being cast adrift. Long after he'd sold his company in...Tags: Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey, MySpace, Brett Ratner, Viacom Inc.
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Oscar nominations: The complete list
Complete list of the 79th Annual Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif.: 1. Best Picture: "Babel," "The Departed," "Letters From Iwo Jima," "Little Miss Sunshine," "The...Tags: Superman, Meryl Streep, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Guillermo Del Toro, Paul Greengrass
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'Open Window' Is Director's Open Book
Zap2It.comIn making her feature-directing debut, a film editor wanted to get the story of a rape victim right. Mainly because it was her own story. After cutting such popular movies as "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "The Big Easy," Mia Goldman called the shots on...Tags: Shirley Knight, Personal Service, Lawrence Kasdan, Cybill Shepherd, Movies
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Fast-Paised Oscar preview
Good news: For once, Best Picture is the most wide-open race at the Oscars. Bad news: Predicting who will win the top prize is pretty much a big fat guess. Several categories at this year's Academy Awards appear to have already crowned their winners, but...Tags: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Meryl Streep, Paul Greengrass, Alfonso Cuaron, Film Festivals
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Academy rule riles producers
Times Staff WriterIf "Little Miss Sunshine" wins the Oscar for best picture, it will represent a phenomenal underdog victory for a raucous road-trip comedy that cost barely $7 million to make, was turned down by studios everywhere and was directed by a husband-and-wife...Tags: Alexander Payne, Steven Soderbergh, Music, Mark Johnson, Counting Crows
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Screen presence
The EnvelopeConventional wisdom holds that "The Departed," by winning four Oscars, including best picture and director, was the big winner Sunday night at the Academy Awards. But for my money, the evening's truly triumphant were the screenwriters. Going beyond even...Tags: Tom Hanks, Robert Bolt, Bill Condon, William Goldman, Ben Affleck
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'Amityville' Director Dies at 79
Zap2It.comStuart Rosenberg, the director of the original "Amityvill Horror" and "Cool Hand Luke," has died at the age 79. The director of films and series television died of a heart attack Thursday, March 15 in his Beverly Hills home, report news sources....Tags: Death and Dying, Diseases, Labor Disputes, New York University, Alfred Hitchcock
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San Fran Scribes Embrace 'Little Children'
Zap2It.comBreaking away from the established pack, the San Francisco Film Critics Circle has given its best picture prize to Todd Field's "Little Children." This was the first major win of the critics award season for "Little Children," which was also recognized...Tags: Celebrity, Los Angeles, Paul Greengrass, Movies, Reviews
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Golden Globes Toast Mobsters and 'Dreamgirls'
Zap2It.comThe Hollywood Foreign Press heaped love upon Oscar favorites "The Departed" and "Dreamgirls" on Thursday (Dec. 14) morning, but it was the ensemble drama "Babel" that led the field with seven nominations. In the best dramatic picture category, "Babel"...Tags: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Zach Braff, Jack Nicholson, Physiology, Edie Falco
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Surprising snubs
MOVIES
Best picture
"Blood Diamond": nominated by the Broadcast Film Critics Assn.
"United 93": winner, New York Film Critics Circle award.
"Children of Men": The dark drama had generated plenty of early buzz for its star, Clive Owen, and director...Tags: Denis Leary, Bill Condon, Children, Mariska Hargitay, Cinema Industry
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