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Independent Television Festival announces official selections

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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 about suicide, Small Bits of Happiness. Even Jason Priestley, Emily Procter (CSI Miami), and French Stewart show off their independent [Read more...]

Edinburgh Film Festival 2008 closes

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The 62nd annual Edinburgh International Film Festival closed over the weekend. 130 films were screened over the 12 days that the fest lasted and Shane Meadows took home the main prize. Here is the list of the winners: Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film sponsored by the UK Film Council Somers Town, drector Shane Meadows PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film Robert Carlyle, Summer Standard Life Audience Award Man on Wire, director James [Read more...]

Cannes Film Festival 2008 – the winners

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The 61st annual Cannes Film Festival closed on Sunday, when the jury, with Sean Penn presiding, announced the winners. Here they are: PALME D’OR FOR BEST FILM The Class (Entre les murs), directed by Laurent Cantet In The Class, Cantet portrays a Paris junior high school teacher and his students over the period of one year. Starring François Bégaudeau as the teacher, the two-hour classroom drama is based on an autobiographical work by Bégaudeau, who plays himself in the film. Cantet [Read more...]

MTV Movie Awards nominees announced

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The nominees for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards have been announced. Here they are: BEST MOVIE Juno Transformers Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End I Am Legend Superbad National Treasure: Book of Secrets BEST MALE PERFORMANCE Will Smith -- I Am Legend Shia LaBeouf -- Transformers Denzel Washington -- American Gangster Matt Damon -- The Bourne Ultimatum Michael Cera -- Juno BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE Ellen Page -- Juno Keira Knightley -- Pirates of the Caribbean: At [Read more...]

Esai Morales and Paula Malcomson cast as leads on Caprica

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Jericho star Esai Morales is the leading man on the upcoming Caprica pilot, a prequel to the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series and hopefully a beginning of another successful sci fi saga. The pilot is scheduled to start filming in the summer. Morales has been cast as Joseph Adama, a successful and influential lawyer introduced in the Galactica series as father of Admiral William Adama (played by Edward James Olmos) and Apollo's grandfather. The early spoilers and script reviews of the [Read more...]