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Check These Out: TCM's Summer Under the Stars Posters
14 July 2009 10:54 PM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news
The always wonderful Turner Classic Movies is launching their new summer movie series called Summer Under the Stars. This marathon will include 42 films that will be making their premiere on TCM. Each and every day, from August 1st to August 31st, they will run a daily marathon of films featuring one classic actor, including Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Harold Lloyd, Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, and Clark Gable (you can download the full schedule here). In honor of their upcoming series, TCM has debuted a few special posters created for some of the classics that will be making their premiere on TCM. The Magnificent Seven Dr. Strangelove To Catch a Thief Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Letter Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Thanks to Rope of Silicon for first featuring these beautiful posters. Click that link to see a lot more of these, including great contemporary posters for Grapes of Wrath,
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Alex Billington
TCM Gives Classic Movies The Teaser Poster Treatment
14 July 2009 6:23 AM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news
Yeah, yeah, Cinema Blend is a site largely dedicated to new movies, but sometimes you have to take a step back and re-appreciate the classics. That's certainly the effect had on me after seeing the phenomenal redesigned posters that Turner Classic Movies cooked up for their "Summer Under the Stars" series in August. To promote their programming schedule for that month, which honors a different star along the lines of Cary Grant or Sidney Poitier each day, the network created new posters for some of the best films in history. Sure, the original Grapes of Wrath poster was appropriate for the time, but the new one captures so much more of that movie's bleakness and sense of the open American road. Check out a few of my favorites below, and see them all either at TCM's website or Rope of Silicon, where they've assembled the images in a slightly easier
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Great Poster Redesigns for TCM Summer Series
14 July 2009 1:03 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news
We found this at Rope of Silicon, so we'll gladly give them the credit for steering us to TCM's Summer Under the Stars movie series. TCM is the best movie network around, and in August, every day is devoted to a different star, from Cary Grant to Peter Sellers and from Sinatra to Elvis.
The series will also introduce over three dozen new films to the TCM family, classics that are getting their debut on the network in August. To find out which ones, and to get a full schedule, download this Pdf. And with no new network shoes and only a handful of cable series up and running in August, it's a great time to revisit some of these films or see them for the first time.
The highlight of the Summer Under the Stars series is this collection of redesigned posters, which includes that gorgeous new take on Jailhouse Rock featured above.
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Colin Boyd
TCM's 'Summer Under the Stars' Posters are Phenomenal
13 July 2009 3:22 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
Photo: Turner Classic Movies In August, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will be celebrating their "Summer Under the Stars" marathon for the seventh year and in celebration of the event they have released a series of twelve posters and there are some real beauties in this gallery. First off, for those that may be interested, here is how the series breaks down: August 1 - Henry Fonda August 2 - James Mason August 3 - Marion Davies August 4 - James Coburn August 5 - Harold Lloyd August 6 - Judy Garlan August 7 - Glenn Ford August 8 - Bette Davis August 9 - Cary Grant August 10 - Dirk Bogarde August 11 - Audrey Hepburn August 12 - Clark Gable August 13 - Gloria Grahame August 14 - Sidney Portier August 15 - Deborah Kerr August 16 - Elvis Presley August 17 - Jennifer Jones August 18 - John Wayne August 19 - Red Skelton August 20 - Miriam Hopkins August 21 - Gene Hackman August 22 - Sterling Hayden August
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Brad Brevet
Michael Bay's whiny 'Transformer' stars Fox and Labeouf
3 July 2009 9:21 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news
It used to be that great, glamorous stars, like Cary Grant, came out in films and were snapped going to premieres. They never granted many interviews to the press, as they were whisked into private parties, letting their publicists pick and choose where the sound bites landed. Now, actors in big films, like Megan Fox, who was an unknown before director Michael Bay got hold of her, talk and talk, and sadly, keep talking. There's a portion of the male audience truly fascinated by Fox on a purely superficial level of looks, but Michael Bay, the "Transformers" franchise director, has had about enough of her incessant rambling. Michael Bay reacted to Fox's "Entertainment Weekly" interview. "She says some
April MacIntyre
Great Films: Bringing Up Baby
29 June 2009 12:14 PM, PDT | From SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news
Taken out of context, it seems like Bringing Up Baby should have been a blockbuster in its day. It had all of the necessary elements: big name stars playing unique characters, a wacky plot, hilarious dialogue and a large handful of plot twists - but when the movie premiered in 1938, it bombed. Director Howard Hawks was fired from his next film and leading lady Katharine Hepburn was forced to buy out her contract. Hawks has reportedly said that the failure was due to too many zany characters without any straight men or women to ground them, but most critics agree that this screwball comedy was the first of its kind, and too sophisticated for its 1930’s audience. The film continues to build revenue for Hepburn’s estate and is regarded as one of Hawks’ best films. The story takes many twists and turns, but it essentially revolves around three individuals: Dr.
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Erika Leonard
John Lithgow: The Hollywood Interview
23 June 2009 2:51 PM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news
Actor John Lithgow
John Lithgow: Confessions of a Actorholic
By Ben Braddock
Veteran performer John Lithgow is a member of the impressive cast of Confessions of a Shopaolic. The zany comedy revolves around shopping crazy Becky Bloomwood(Isla Fisher), who can’t resist temptation when it comes to shopping. Whether it’s dresses or accessories, this irrepressible young woman has no self-control and will get out her credit card at every possible opportunity. She cannot pass a shop window without walking in and buying something.
Hoping to get a job on a leading fashion magazine – she ends up instead landing a job on a financial publication and actually becomes successful – helping readers to sort out their money problems, even though she cannot stick to a budget herself. Hugh Dancy plays the magazine editor; John Lithgow is the powerful boss. Witty and charismatic, the actor hits just the right notes in the film,
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The Hollywood Interview.com
Interview: 'Warehouse 13'
17 June 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | From CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news
In July, Sci Fi Channel, which by then will be called by its new moniker, Syfy, debuts a new series, Warehouse 13. Starring Joanne Kelly (Vanished, Jeremiah), Eddie McClintock (Bones, Desperate Housewives), and Saul Rubinek (Frasier, Leverage), the paranormal themed show is set in South Dakota, where the U.S. government maintains a warehouse that houses “strange artifacts, mysterious relics, fantastical objects and supernatural souvenirs”.
Kelly and McClintock are two Secret Service agents who, after saving the life of a president, are transferred to the South Dakota facility, where they meet the caretaker, Artie Nielsen, played by Rubinek.
McClintock’s Pete Lattimer sees the assignment as a reward, but Kelly’s Myka Bering can’t help but feel like she’s being punished. Regardless, their new responsibility is to chase down new objects that belong in the warehouse.
Warehouse 13 is lensed largely on location in and around Toronto. The
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Best Films Of Films' Best Year
15 June 2009 12:09 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news
The movie-studio system reached its peak in 1939, the year most historians and buffs alike regard as the greatest year in Hollywood history.
The 70th anniversary of that storied year is being celebrated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a series that includes all of Oscar's Best Picture nominees -- back when there were 10 of them.
This was such a rich year that the series kicks off tonight with a classic that wasn't nominated -- George Stevens' rousing Colonial-era India adventure "Gunga Din" starring Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Victor McLaglen.
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By LOU LUMENICK
Eastwood at PGA event: 'Material is the Nucleus'
7 June 2009 6:28 PM, PDT | From The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news
Shares thoughts on selling, producers' roles and his upcoming Nelson Mandela project.
By Carolyn Giardina
The star power of Clint Eastwood highlighted the second and final day of the PGA’s Produced By Conference on the Sony lot.
Eastwood appeared with his Malpaso production company partner, Rob Lorenz, and was greeted to enthusiastic standing ovation as he joined a full house in the Cary Grant theater.
During the session, he emphasized that successful work starts and ends with a good story. “Material is the nucleus. Without the material, you are lost.” he said, as he and Lorenz discussed their work, known for a disciplined budget and c...
Michael Speier
Katharine Hepburn Theater Exhibition Opens 6/10 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
4 June 2009 12:19 AM, PDT | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news
The personal theatrical papers of Katharine Hepburn, which were acquired by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in 2007, will be on view for the first time in the new library exhibition, Katharine Hepburn: In Her Own Files, opening Wednesday, June 10. Her long and rich theater career is documented through typescripts (some, like the script for Coco, annotated in Hepburn?s hand), hundreds of photographs (publicity shots and formal portraits, as well as informal snapshots and rehearsal candids), scrapbooks, promotional ephemera, and sixty years of correspondence (fan mail, congratulatory notes, and general letters from such notable friends and admirers as Judy Garland, Richard Burton, John Ford, Vivien Leigh, Peter O?Toole, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, and Jeremy Irons, among scores of others. She saved telegrams from her friends and from stage crews and even the cards that come with flower bouquets, including many signed ?Pot,? Hepburn?s
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Edgy, Raven-Haired Rose McGowan’s Secret Crush Is … Zac Efron?
29 May 2009 3:05 PM, PDT | From MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news
By Kathleen Newman-Bremang
If you know anything about Rose McGowan, it’s probably that the actress used to date over-the-top rocker Marilyn Manson or that she’s notorious for bad-girl, vixen-esque acting roles.
So when we ran into the star at the Burberry event celebrating the opening of the British company’s new headquarters in New York and asked her who her Hollywood crush is, we kind of expected McGowan to say something that made more sense — like Johnny Depp. Or Adam Lambert even — someone with at least a little bit of edge or controversy. But no.
Instead, we got an answer no one was expecting: Cary Grant (also random) and — wait for it — Zac Efron.
Yes, Disney’s boy wonder and generally squeaky-clean teen heartthrob is Rose McGowan’s celebrity crush.
Say what? Aside from being 14 years her junior — not that he has a problem with older women — Zac
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Cinematical Seven: Summer Movies Before Jaws
26 May 2009 8:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Most historians agree that Jaws was the first "summer movie." It was the first time that studios made the connection that summer = summer vacation = kids home from school with disposable allowances. It was also a movie that actually took place during the summer and on the beach. It was also a brilliantly simple film that could be advertised almost exclusively by word of mouth and by a great poster. Hence, it practically invented the term "blockbuster." But just because the studios officially established the summer movie season from then on doesn't mean that people didn't go to the movies during the summer before that. Here's my list of seven great summer releases from the days before the hype. 1. North by Northwest
Released July 17, 1959
Hitchcock released quite a few of his great films in the summer -- including Strangers on a Train, Rear Window and Psycho -- but I like to think that this big,
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Jeffrey M. Anderson
Meeting Mr. or Ms. Wrong
26 May 2009 7:23 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
IFC.com's newest web series "Like So Many Things..." premieres today, and co-creators Marin Gazzaniga and Anslem Richardson offer up their thoughts on the best films about romances that are anything but easy.
"Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments."
-- "Bringing Up Baby"
Meeting Mr./Ms. Wrong movies come in many varieties. There are the star-crossed lovers who are kept apart by outside forces ("Romeo and Juliet"). Or the couple whose hate for each other is only masking the sparks of true passion (just about any Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy movie). Then there's the man or woman who's certain that someone is their one and only, but has to spend the course of the film convincing that person that it's true ("Bringing Up Baby"). Why is
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Marin Gazzaniga
Let Cary Grant Teach You How ‘To Catch a Thief’
24 May 2009 2:23 PM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news
Every week, Film School Rejects presents a movie that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents: To Catch a Thief (1955) If there was one thing I had to work at avoiding with covering movies from before 1960, it was featuring a Hitchcock film every single week. What some might call an unhealthy obsession with the man's work, I call a totally normal need to watch one of his films every hour on the hour and make cross-country trips to check out the filming sites. However, my passion for all things Hitch aside, To Catch a Thief is probably one of his most popular films, and if not his best, it's definitely the most accessible. In the picture, Cary Grant plays John Robie - a famous cat burglar inventively nicknamed The Cat - who has to run from police when thefts baring his signature style start
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Cole Abaius
Legendary Press Agent Solters Dead At 89
19 May 2009 2:22 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news
Lee Solters, an old-school publicist who represented many of the most celebrated personalities in movies and popular music of the last half century, died in his sleep Monday in West Hollywood, CA at age 89. His clients included Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, and Paul McCartney.
Five Movies That Are Just As Blasphemous As ‘Angels & Demons’
15 May 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news
by John Constantine
Dan Brown’s “Angels & Demons” is a gripping tale in which a Harvard professor works to derail an Illuminati plot to blow up the Vatican. No problems with that, right Pope? Not blowing up is a good thing, even if Professor Langdon (Tom Hanks) wants to fling open some of your more skeleton-filled closets in the process!
Well… no. That’s actually sort of a big problem, the whole hidden secrets being brought to light angle. Enough of a problem to have earned the film adaptation of “Angels” an official ban from the highest church. Which isn’t to say that this is the only example out there of blasphemous filmmaking. Check out these Hell-bound gems of the silver screen.
“Bruce Almighty”/”Evan Almighty”
If there’s one thing the Vatican hates, it’s imitators. “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image” and all that jazz.
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Adam Rosenberg
Scenes We Love: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
7 May 2009 4:15 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Shirley Temple was the biggest box-office star during the Great Depression, tap-dancing, pouting and mugging through a staggering number of films and shorts -- IMdB has 11 listings for the curly-headed moppet in 1933 alone. One can only imagine that Dakota Fanning's agents wish they could have worked her that hard, too. Damn these modern child labor laws!
But like most kid stars, Temple worked less as she got older. She was still doing roughly a picture a year during her teen years, but for a star of her caliber under studio contract, she might as well not have been working at all. Temple retired in 1949 at the age of 21 (the same year that she divorced actor John Agar, whom she married when she was 16) and went on to an impressive career in public service.
But what if she had continued acting? For a glimpse of what might have been, check
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Dawn Taylor
War Of Words Over Julia Roberts
5 May 2009 2:47 PM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
Reader Michele Rice takes issue with Lee Pfeiffer's recent article criticizing Julia Roberts for using foul language at the Lincoln Center tribute to Tom Hanks:
Without making any comment on the acceptance of crass language at an Lincoln Center Event, I just want to quote the wonderful man & legendary talk show host Mike Douglas who said, "The color of a woman's speech isn't what makes her a lady. It's how she lives her life and what she stands for." He was talking about "a lady named Carole Lombard".
He continues: "Everybody I've ever spoken to who knew her agrees she was a great comedienne. But I also gathered that there were many who would not call an actress with a working vocabulary like Carole's, a 'lady'. She could have given a language course in Advanced Obscenity to the crew of the ship that bore her name. The color
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nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Culture Warrior: The ‘Limits’ of Directorial Self-Indulgence
4 May 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news
If you watch the trailer for Jim Jarmusch’s new film, The Limits of Control, there’s one point where Tilda Swinton—donning a snow-white wig, cowboy hat, and trenchcoat accompanied by a clear plastic umbrella on a sunny day for seemingly no other reason than the wardrobe’s photogenic appeal, like Swinton herself—states the following over footage from various parts of the film: “It’s like a game…deception…[loud whisper] suspicion!” When one hears these words in the trailer, they are likely misled into thinking Swinton is referring to whatever “game” the unnamed hitman protagonist (Isaach de Bankolé) is involved in that makes up the plot of the film. However, Swinton is instead referring to Suspicion (1941), the Hitchcock film starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. This discrepancy between the film’s marketing and what the film actually is—its placement over extra-textual, self-reflexive cinematic winking over a plot sustaining itself on its own terms—accurately sums
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Landon Palmer
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