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Citizen Kane, Cool Hand Luke, A Clockwork Orange, The Exorcist Part Of Cinemark’s Summer Classics Series
23 May 2012 8:46 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Cinemark Holdings, Inc., the world’s highest attended motion picture exhibitor, is pleased to announce that the “Summer Classics Series,” featuring eight legendary Hollywood movies, will take place in over 100 Cinemark theatres across the country. All of these digitally restored movies, from the Warner Bros. film catalogue, will be scheduled to play each Wednesday, during the months of June and July, at two separate show times, 2 pm and 7pm.
“Cinemark’s Classic Film Series presents a great opportunity for movie-lovers to revisit some of the greatest Hollywood films of all time,” states James Meredith, VP of Marketing & Communications for Cinemark. “Our customers can experience all of these celebrated movies as they were meant to be seen, on the big screen, with crystal clear digital projection and incredible surround sound.”
Cinemark has worked with Warner Bros. to select eight titles that were visionary films at their time of release, and still »
- Michelle McCue
Movies This Week: May 11-17, 2012
11 May 2012 12:00 PM, PDT | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
This week offers a curiously blockbuster-free list of new releases, giving film fans a chance to avoid the madding crowds and see less-hyped fare, or maybe even take Mom to an indie movie to celebrate her special day. (She'd probably like that more than flowers.) For example, Richard Linklater's Bernie (my review) expands to include the Arbor and Tinseltown North as well as Violet Crown.
Speaking of Mom, there are few worse maternal role models than Joan Crawford -- and therefore few more appropriate Mother's Day films than Mommie Dearest. As part of the Celluloid Handbag series, the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar is hosting a Mother's Day Mommie Dearest Brunch for you, Mom and anyone else who needs a stern reminder not to use wire hangers. (This being an Alamo event, everyone of course gets a free wire hanger.) Even if your mother drives you crazy sometimes, watching »
- Don Clinchy
Would You Buy Digital Copies of Scripts From Iconic Movies?
10 May 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Warners is hoping to start a beautiful friendship with movie fans by offering digital copies of classic scripts – complete with background information and scenes embedded amidst the dialogue and description. Their digital distribution arm has announced the “Inside The Script” program which makes available these beefed-up versions of the original screenplays for classics for iBookstore, Kindle and Nook. In addition to the script, a veritable book of production history, production notes, storyboard, pictures, posters and behind-the-scenes pictures are all included in the ten-dollar download (or $9.99 if you’re a stickler for exactitude). Right now, the program includes work from Casablanca, North By Northwest, An American in Paris and Ben-Hur with plans to add more shortly. This seems like a treasure trove of movie geek goodness, but it’ll be interesting to see if fans will shell out ten bucks for the privilege. What’s most interesting here is that this is the kind of material normally relegated »
- Cole Abaius
Our New Outdoor Movie Theater In Hollywood
8 May 2012 10:30 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Movie night just got a major upgrade.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just announced their new film venue just in time for summer: an outdoor theater and bi-weekly film series titled, "Oscars Outdoors."
Screenings will take place on Friday and Saturday nights, June 15 through August 18. "Casablanca," "The Princess Bride," "North By Northwest," "Back To The Future," and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," are just some of the titles being projected on the permanent 40 by 20 foot screen.
"I wish we could have built a drive-in theater," said AMPAS President Tom Sherak to ABC. "This is the closest we could get."
Expansive grounds provide ample space for lounging and City Councilman Eric Garcetti has even agreed to look into street closures in order to provide a more enjoyable movie-going experience, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Guests will be able to purchase $5 tickets (not bad!) online starting June 1. Amaps members »
- The Huffington Post
Oscars to showcase movies under the stars in outdoor screening series
7 May 2012 5:17 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Oscar would like to ask you out on a date.
While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may seem like a highly restrictive group — and it is, if you want to win one of those golden statuettes — the organization is expanding its outreach to regular moviegoers by announcing a summer-long series of outdoor movies.
“Oscars Outdoors” will showcase films on Fridays and Saturdays on a 40-by-20 foot screen in a park the organization built in the heart of Hollywood specifically for the sake of showing movies under the stars. The public is welcome, and the Academy is especially »
- Anthony Breznican
Academy Unveils Oscars® Outdoors Venue, Announces Slate of Summer, Fall Programming
7 May 2012 11:42 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak today unveiled the Academy.s new screening venue and announced its summer series, “Oscars Outdoors,” which will kick off on Friday, June 15 and run through Saturday, August 18. The open-air theater is part of the organization.s nearly 7.5 acre Academy Hollywood campus, which is also the site of the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, home to the Academy Film Archive, the Science and Technology Council and the Linwood Dunn Theater.
Concurrently, the Academy announced a slate of summer and fall 2012 public programs at its other theaters, including 50th anniversary celebrations of the James Bond franchise and the Oscar®-winning epic “Lawrence of Arabia.”
The “Oscars Outdoors” series will devote every Friday night to classics and contemporary favorites aimed at adult audiences, and every Saturday night to family-friendly fare. The final Friday night presentation, on August 17, will be an “Audience Choice” selection, »
- Michelle McCue
Academy to Host Summer Screening Series at New Open-Air Theater
7 May 2012 11:12 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Casablanca” and “North by Northwest” are just a few of titles the Academy will show as part of “Oscars Outdoors,” a new summer screening series set at its new open-air theater in Hollywood. Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, announced the screening series at the site of the theater, which opens May 19 with an invitation-only showing of "Field of Dreams." Sherak also announced a slate of public programs at its other theaters across the country. "We are very excited to expand »
- Lucas Shaw
News Shorts: May 3rd 2012
3 May 2012 11:37 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Stills for The Amazing Spider-Man, Looper, Brave, Chernobyl Diaries, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Peace Love and Misunderstanding, The Expendables 2, and Emma Watson dressed in character on the set of The Bling Ring.
Posters for Rush, Jayne Mansfield's Car, Lovelace, Snow White and the Huntsman, Men in Black 3, The Amazing Spider-Man, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Peace Love and Misunderstanding, Hotel Transylvania, Chernobyl Diaries, A Fantastic Fear of Everything and the fifth season of True Blood.
The "Prometheus" viral campaign continues with an audio clip which you can listen to here.
What if David Cronenberg had done "Total Recall" before Verhoeven's adaptation or the upcoming remake, what would that look like? Well now some concept art will give you an idea of what he had planned.
All the lengthy single take shots from Alfonso Cuaron's "Children of Men" have been assembled into one 31-minute video which can be found on Vimeo. »
- Garth Franklin
Warner Brothers Sells 'Ben Hur,' 'Casablanca' As E-Books
30 April 2012 12:15 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Classic movie fans, rejoice! If you've enjoyed watching Charlton Heston star in the nativity saga "Ben Hur," or sat on the edge of your seat as Cary Grant outran mysterious pursuers in "North by Northwest," you can now supplement your cinema experiences with eBook versions of the original movie scripts.
Warner Brothers' "Inside The Script" series will feature "Ben Hur," "North by Northwest," "Casablanca" and "An American In Paris." According to BBC News, the eBooks will include supplemental materials such as costume sketches and shooting journals from the film sets. They will cost $9.99 each and be available on the Kindle, Nook, and in the iBookstore.
"People love movies because of the stories they tell," said Thomas Gewecke, President of Warner Bros. Digital Distribution. "Now we can give fans rarely seen details of how these stories came together and take their enjoyment of films to a whole new level."
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- Madeleine Crum
Warner Bros. Announce Digital Script Download Service – ‘Inside the Script’
30 April 2012 2:56 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
This is a rather fantastic idea and it’s great to see one of the bigger studios embracing technology which is going to allow more people to see work they’ve produced. Warner Bros. have sent over the press release (see below) announcing a brand new download service which will allow you to read classic movie scripts on your Kindle, Apple iBook enabled device or Nook.
They’re calling the device ‘Inside the Script’ and not only will the text be viewable on these devices, but it’ll also show you real cuttings from the original scripts as you read along. On top of that, you’ll also be linked through to clips from the movies using hyper-links located throughout much of the script that you’re reading at the time. It really is a wonderfully interactive experience and like i said, it’s great to see such a big »
- David Sztypuljak
‘Inside the Script’ Lets Fans Dig Deeper Into Favorite Movies
29 April 2012 10:30 PM, PDT | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
Warner Bros. A screenshot from the e-book of “Casablanca”
Warner Bros. Digital Distribution said Sunday it would start making the screenplays to four of the studio’s more iconic movies available for sale as e-books. As part of the studio’s “Inside the Script” digital publishing initiative, fans can now buy e-book versions of “Casablanca,” “Ben-Hur,” “An American in Paris” and “North by Northwest” for their iPads, Kindles and Nooks.
The studio hopes to establish a market for digital screenplays, »
- Michelle Kung
10 Of Saul Bass' Greatest Title Sequences
25 April 2012 9:22 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
The art of movie titles is becoming an increasingly lost one: aside from a few films (the Bond movies) and directors (Steven Spielberg, David Fincher and Jason Reitman always pay particular attention to their credit sequences), it feels like relatively little care is taken over such things, with many movies dumping them altogether. And it's hard not to put that down to the fact that we don't have guys like Saul Bass around anymore.
Bass was a graphic designer from the Bronx who went out West in the 1940s and started working on film ads. After being noticed by Otto Preminger, who would become his collaborator for the next twenty years starting with "Carmen Jones" in 1954, Bass went on to design some of cinema's most iconic title sequences and posters for world-class filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese, often in an instantly recognizable style that remains influential »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Five things Alfred Hitchcock's films taught me | Anne Billson
23 April 2012 3:10 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hitchcock has been proposed for the national curriculum. Here are a few life lessons children might learn from watching his films
Never mind that cinema is the most popular storytelling medium of our time, and that if Bill Shakespeare were alive today, he would be writing screenplays, not stage plays; some people still think that, as an artform, it's automatically inferior to literature or theatre. So Heather Stewart, creative director of the BFI, caused a stir last week when she said: "The idea of popular cinema somehow being capable of great art at the same time as being entertaining is still a problem for some people. Shakespeare is on the national curriculum, Hitchcock is not."
One should never underestimate the educational value of films – and not just the worthy literary adaptations or bracing social documents our nannies imagine would be good for us. Adolescent exposure to The Charge of the Light Brigade, »
- Anne Billson
In praise of … Alfred Hitchcock | Editorial
18 April 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
He was that rare thing – a hugely successful director who learned from the avant garde
Further proof of how badly the Academy Awards can get it wrong surely lies in this fact: Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar for best director. Yet he has won an even higher public accolade: he's become synonymous with a style. Ask even the most casual of film-goers to define "Hitchcockian", and you'll hear about the stabbing strings in Psycho; the escalation of panic in The Birds; the icy blondes and the MacGuffins. Hitchcock was that rare thing: a hugely successful director who learned from the avant garde – and so helped set the standards for all subsequent cinema. Born in the last days of Queen Victoria, Hitchcock gained his technical mastery and economy making silent movies – so full marks to the British Film Institute for restoring nine of those early works. The line between his 1926 debut, »
The BFI celebrates the films of Alfred Hitchcock
18 April 2012 12:26 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The British Film Institute is hosting a celebration of filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock this summer. "The Genius of Hitchcock: Celebrating Cinema's Master of Suspense" will include screenings of nine of his newly restored silent movies - the culmination of a three-year project. The BFI's creative director said that they wanted to get out the “big guns” during Olympic year.
The films, with new scores by composers including Nitin Sawhney, Neil Brand, Daniel Patrick Cohen and Soweto Kinch, will be shown during the London 2012 Festival. Hitchcock’s first film The Pleasure Garden will be shown at Wilton's Music Hall, an open-air screening of Blackmail will be staged outside the British Museum, and boxing drama The Ring will be shown at the Hackney Empire.
The three-month long season will see a retrospective of his 58 films, with Psycho, North by Northwest, Vertigo, Rear Window and The Birds all being screened. Actors Tippi Hedren (The Birds »
- flickeringmyth
Tjff 2012: ‘Oss 117: Lost in Rio’; from the 60’s with love
15 April 2012 7:58 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
Written by Jean François Halin
France, 2009
Before Michel Hazanavicius and Jean Dujardin were Oscar-winning artists, they collaborated on the spy spoof comedy, Oss 117: Lost in Rio, the sequel to Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies. Although Hazanavicius’ love for the genre is quite evident, he nevertheless fails in making you love Lost in Rio in the same way.
The year is 1967. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka Oss 117, (aka Jean Dujardin) is France’s most prolific spy. After a successful mission in Gstaad, Switzerland, Hubert is sent to Rio de Janeiro, where he dons the persona of Noël Flantier in order to track down a high-ranking Nazi exile.
The most complimentary thing you can say about Hazanavicius is something everyone acknowledged after his Oscar-winning 21st century silent film, The Artist – Hazanavicius knows his cinema.
In making a spy film set in the 1960’s, »
- Justin Li
Art Directors Guild Celebrates 75th Anniversary
13 April 2012 9:30 AM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
HollywoodNews.com: The Art Directors Guild (Adg, Iatse Local 800) is celebrating its 75th anniversary with numerous high-profile special events planned throughout the year. These events will include exhibitions, screenings, receptions, panel discussions, proclamations and celebrations to be announced. The Guild was established in 1937. The 2,000 members of the Adg and special guests will be invited to all celebratory events.
The year’s celebrations open with the Guild’s participation in the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival to be held at the Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio April 21-22. The Guild will have a “store-front” on the ranch’s Main Street with an exhibition titled “The Artistry of Making a Cowboy Movie,” featuring members’ work from classic motion picture and television westerns including Silverado, The Lone Ranger, Deadwood, Wild Bill and Gunsmoke. For more information: Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival
A reception celebrating the publication of the coffee table book M-g-m: Hollywood’s Greatest »
- Josh Abraham
'CSI' Star Wallace Langham To Play Legendary Designer Saul Bass In 'Alfred Hitchcock And The Making of Psycho'
9 April 2012 2:14 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
This is one of the few times we'll ever be excited about the role of a graphic designer getting cast in a movie, but when it comes to Saul Bass, there are are exceptions to every rule...
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" star Wallace Langham has landed the role of the legendary Saul Bass in Sacha Gervasi's star-studded "Alfred Hitchcock And The Making of Psycho." Bass rubbed shoulders with some titans of filmmaking including Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder and more, creating title sequences and poster art that to this day, remains hugely influential (indeed, Google Saul Bass and you'll get countless homages to his work). However, some of his most iconic efforts were done for Hitchcock, who he worked with on "Vertigo," "North By Northwest" and "Psycho" -- but their creative clashes would mark this film as the last time they would collaborate.
Bass handled the storyboards and title sequence for the film, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Guillermo del Toro to Teach Master Class on Alfred Hitchcock in May (Plus Find Out How to Get Involved)
9 April 2012 10:35 AM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
Guillermo del Toro — also known as the man who never sleeps (have you seen his filmography lately, or just ever?) — will be leading a four-night master class on the maestro of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. The Toronto-based presentation is part of the city's International Film Festival Bell Lightbox's upcoming spring program, and the monster-savvy director's appearance will be the highlight of the series. The Pan's Labyrinth filmmaker will be screening one film per night, including Frenzy, Shadow of a Doubt, North by Northwest, and Notorious. Each class will sport a one-hour introduction and one-hour post-screening lecture for each film. The series happens in May (7, 8, 15, and 16), and you can visit the website for more...
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- Alison Nastasi
Some Alfred Hitchcock Films Get 8-Bit Nintendo Video Game Covers
5 April 2012 3:15 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Not too long ago we featured a small batch of posters using 8-bit characters in scenes from movies like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and The Matrix. And just this week we highlighted a fantastic piece of work that took the events of the Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window and composed them into one single 20-minute shot. Now Hitchcock and 8-bit video games combine as a graphic artist going by Joebot has taken a few of Hitchcock's classic films like North by Northwest and Psycho and imagined what it would have been like if they were adapted into video games for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Here are Joe Spiotto's 8-bit Nes video game covers for Alfred Hitchcock films, from Joebot via Geekologie: Joebot says, "In the 80's Nintendo was a dominant force to be reckoned with. Had Hitchcock been just a few years behind I'm almost certain »
- Ethan Anderton
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