Film Industry News
Weekend box office, July 11-13
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Here are the top 10 movies at the box office this weekend and their ratings on Rotten Tomatoes:
1. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - $34,539,115 – 88%, fresh
2. Hancock - $32,080,560 – 37%, rotten
3. Journey to the Center of the Earth - [...]
Independent Features Film Festival announces 2008 line-up
Independent Features reveals the official selections for the 2008 Independent Features Film Festival which includes twenty-three films from 7 countries. The festival, which occurs July 25 – 27, 2008 at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, is the only one in which a global public selects all of the films via a web-based competition.
Due to [...]
“I Love New York” short film competition - last call for submissions
Aspiring filmmakers 14 years old and above have one more chance to take advantage of the opportunity to tell the world why they love New York and have their work judged by a star-studded celebrity panel. Filmmakers — professional, student, and amateur — may submit their :60 second entries for Empire State Development’s “I LOVE [...]
Independent Television Festival announces official selections
The independent television movement is taking Hollywood by storm with high quality post sound companies and now celebrities, too, jumping on board. James Cromwell stars and Executive Produces Hitfactor; John Leguizamo and Nick Cannon both lend their talents to the hip-hop theater documentary Something Out of Nothing and Jodie Sweetin stars in the dark comedy [...]
Cyber-thriller WarGames returns to the big screen in celebration of its 25th anniversary
Revisit a time when cell phones and MP3 players were “futuristic” and geeky underachiever David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) accidentally starts the countdown to World War III when WarGames returns to select movie theatres in a one night special presentation on July 24th. The event will feature interviews with the cast and crew of WarGames, including [...]
The Dark Knight makes motion picture history in IMAX theatres on July 18th
IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that the studio’s highly anticipated and technologically unprecedented summer movie, The Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, and directed by Christopher Nolan, will open in a record 94 IMAX(R) theatres domestically on July 18th in conjunction with the film’s wide release. The film will also [...]
MGM picks up Whedon and Goddard’s Cabin in the Woods
MGM has greenlit a spec script from Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard called “The Cabin in the Woods,“ the Hollywood Reporter writes.
The film will be the directorial debut for Goddard, who had previously teamed up with Whedon on cult series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel and also written episodes for two J.J. [...]
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures launches “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” global first look on Disney platforms July 13, 2008
As fans anxiously await the big screen premiere of “High School Musical 3: Senior Year,” Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures revealed plans today to launch the film’s global first look July 13, 2008, on Disney Channels Worldwide. The worldwide online launch kicks off on Disney.com July 14 at 12:01 a.m. ET.
“We’re paying homage to the [...]
Weekend box office, July 4-6
Here are the top 10 movies at the box office this weekend and their ratings on Rotten Tomatoes:
1. Hancock - $62,603,879 – 35%, rotten
2. WALL-E - $32,509,203 – 96%, fresh
3. Wanted - $20,050,070 – 71%, fresh
4. Get Smart - $11,109,408 – 52%, rotten
5. Kung Fu Panda - $7,318,635 – 88%, fresh
6. The Incredible Hulk - $4,899,280 – 67%, fresh
7. Indiana Jones and [...]
A Christmas Story Ultimate Collector’s Edition on DVD & Blu-ray Hi-Def November 4
On November 4, Warner Home Video serves up an old-fashioned holiday treat with DVD and Blu-ray™ Hi-Def Ultimate Collector’s Editions of celebrated humorist Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story to commemorate the film’s 25th Anniversary.
Ingredients in the Two-Disc DVD version ($39.99 SRP) include five collectible cookie cutters in iconic Christmas Story shapes; a 48-page cook book [...]
