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In a rather surprising development, Amazon plans to start selling fanfic. Really. The online retailer will let fanfic writers sell their Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars or Vampire Diaries-inspired stories and keep a portion of the sale. All three series are based on books brought to TV by Alloy Entertainment and Amazon says its working to get more properties into the mix. Now, anyone knows if they’ve banned crossovers? It would be fun to see how “A” and Gossip Girl would react to each other.
Andy Roddick will join Fox Sports Live, Fox Sports’ equivalent of SportsCenter, as a co-host.
Why aren’t there more hosting gigs that include moments of shirtlessness?
It’s taken nearly a year, but TLC has picked up the Bukudroos-produced celebrity genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are?. The new season will include episodes focusing on Zooey Deschanel, Chris O’Donnell and Christina Applegate. »
- Lyle Masaki
17 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Legendary bank-robbing couple Bonnie and Clyde are back, this time shooting up the small screen. Emile Hirsch ("Into the Wild") and Holliday Grainger ("The Borgias") will star as the 1930s lovers on the run in the upcoming two-night TV event "Bonnie and Clyde," from director Bruce Beresford and Executive Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. The all-star cast also includes Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Sarah Hyland, Elizabeth Reaser, and Dale Dickey. A&E has released three brand new photos from the mini-series, showing off the project's stars, guns, getaway cars and vintage fashions. "Bonnie and Clyde" will air on three cable networks simultaneously »
- Dave Lewis
21 May 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
It's like Christmas in May for Austin classic film fans. Last week the schedule for the summer classic film series at Paramount and Stateside was announced. Movies from various decades will screen in 35mm at Paramount and digital HD projection at the Stateside from late May through early September. The lineup this year is lighter on the screwball genre than I would prefer, but there is still oh-so-much to choose from. There's sure to be something for everyone.
Tickets for each film are $8 (this covers double features as well) online. If you expect to see many, buying Flix-Tix or becoming a Film Fan could be a worthwhile investment. [Pro tip from Jette: The higher-level Film Fan memberships include free garage parking during the movies.]
Here are some of the selections we Slackerwood contributors find noteworthy:
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) -- Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty rob banks in Arthur Penn's game-changing crime romp that blazes through north Texas [my Lone Star Cinema post]. (Wed 5/29 at 10 pm, Stateside)The Wild Bunch (1969) -- »
- Elizabeth Stoddard
19 May 2013 10:00 PM, PDT | IF.com.au | See recent IF.com.au news »
Screen Australia has committed almost $360,000 in funding to assist 15 filmmaking teams and three new internships.
The announcement, made earlier today, confirmed eight new projects will receive Screen Australia support while another seven teams will benefit from continued funding..
The new projects to receive support include I Am Jack, Confessions of a Super Man, Long Tan, Mulan, Common Foe, and Soundtrack..
Three internships, developed through Screen Australia.s Talent Escalator Project, will send Australian filmmakers overseas to further develop their chosen crafts..
Writer/director Alex Murawski will work alongside Bruce Beresford in Los Angeles for three months on Beresford.s latest production Bonnie and Clyde.
Natalie Lindwall will gain six months experience in the UK working with Ecosse Flims as a development producer, and producer Raquelle David will spend six months in Toronto working with Niv Fichman at Rhombus Media..
Also through the Talent Escalator Program, Screen Australia will assist directors Cris Jones, »
- Staff Writer
18 May 2013 12:12 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
This story comes courtesy of La Weekly
By Siran Babayan
"It seemed like something somebody would make up," author Nancy Jo Sales says on the phone from her New York home. "If you had pitched this as a movie, nobody would've bought it. It would've been too unbelievable." But the story of a bunch of young suburbanites who burglarized a string of celebrity homes in 2008 and '09 did happen. And somebody did buy it — director Sofia Coppola, whose upcoming film "The Bling Ring" (out June 14) is inspired by the Hollywood crime spree. It's also the subject of Sales' new book, likewise titled "The Bling Ring."
Coppola hired Sales as a consultant on the film after optioning her 2010 Vanity Fair article, "The Suspects Wore Louboutins." Realizing she had enough material on the case for a book, Sales started writing "The Bling Ring" last summer. It hits bookstores next week.
16 May 2013 5:57 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
The Bling Ring had already had a smattering of clandestine screenings before its Cannes premiere last night, in the presence of its cast and director, and the advance word was lukewarm on Sofia Coppola's latest. Though low-key (as ever), it is, however, deceptively smart, and possibly one of Coppola's most complete and intelligent films, perfectly capturing the bizarre madness of modern pop culture. Nominally starring Emma Watson, it's actually an ensemble piece that features some superb performances by virtual unknowns (notably Katie Chan and Israel Broussard) and, with its shimmering cinematography, makes great use of digital video to tell a very American story. Based on a Vanity Fair story about a group of wayward teenagers, it begins with Rebecca (Chang) and Marc (Broussard) becoming friends when the latter is transferred to a new school in La. Marc slots into Rebecca's social group, which includes Emma Watson's Nicki and Claire Julien's Chloe, »
14 May 2013 2:38 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Interview Duncan Bowles 15 May 2013 - 07:08
With her directorial debut Bringing Up Bobby out on DVD now, Famke Janssen chats to us about her acting career, her love of film and more...
Ever since her major breakthrough as infamous Bond villain Xenia Onatopp, Famke Janssen has remained a constant presence in the world of geekdom. Yet despite roles in such high profile blockbusters as the superb GoldenEye and the mostly great X-Men franchise, she’s managed to avoid typecasting and continues to mix mainstream movie hits with both TV and independent features.
While GoldenEye may rank among the best Bond movies of all time, it’s one of my absolute favourites. It put the great Famke Janssen firmly on my radar and I’ve remained a fan of her work ever since, through the underappreciated fun of schlock-fest Deep Rising, the duality of her Miss Burke in The Faculty, to »
- ryanlambie
9 May 2013 6:53 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Ben Wheatley
Written by Steve Oram, Alice Lowe & Ben Wheatley (with additional material from Amy Jump)
2012, UK
Either Ben Wheatley is a boiling pot of pent-up rage, or he is the complete opposite and thus finds perverse pleasure in humouring the rage fantasies and violent tendencies of the frustrated working-class white English male. Even last year’s grit-fest, Kill List, is not entirely void of something approximating humour, even at its bleakest, blackest moments. But with this his third narrative feature, humour takes centre stage and everything springs forth from and brings forth comedy: the gory violence, the psychotic romance, the meat-and-potatoes relationship drama, the deranged road trip through northern England with a caravan in tow.
Thirty-something Tina (Alice Lowe) lives with her possessive, borderline personality mother in a house filled with countless photographs and sketches of their beloved deceased terrier Poppy, whose death by knitting needle »
- Tope
6 May 2013 6:01 AM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Love is a funny thing, am I right? It makes us do crazy things, things we wouldn’t normally do like take risks, be adventurous, think outside the box, kill people – wait, what? Yes, Sightseers is an incredibly dark romantic comedy from director Ben Wheatley (Kill List), written by our lead actors Alice Lowe (Tina) and Steve Oram (Chris), which plays right into Wheatley’s horror wheelhouse. Sure, it’s not about an obvious hack and slash serial killer or evil monster, but there’s still plenty of horror surrounding this seemingly mundane road-trip vacation.
As I’d stated, Lisa and Chris are a new couple looking for a nice vacation away from their own lives. Lisa lives with her overbearing mother who smothers her every chance she gets and requires constant attention, and Chris claims he’s looking for inspiration regarding a novel he’s writing, but needs a sabbatical to clear his head. »
- Matt Donato
1 May 2013 11:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Penis imagery: Like love, it's all around us.
Really, though, in movies, it's everywhere. And most likely, depending on the director, it's completely intentional. Yes, most of the directors you casually enjoy are actually perverted creep shows. Like Bruce Hornsby once so eloquently put it, that's just the way it is, folks. You had to learn sometime.
Don't believe us? Here are 20 not-so-subtle examples of phallic movie stills that will have you saying to yourself, "Wow, I didn't realize that Jean-Claude Van Damme with a Jheri curl could get any creepier."
'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' (2013)
'Full Metal Jacket' (1987)
'Hard Target' (1993)
'The Expendables' (2010)
'Planet Terror' (2007)
'Bonnie and Clyde' (1967)
'Conan the Barbarian' (1982)
'Machete' (2010)
'Green Lantern' (2011)
'Skyfall' (2012)
'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' (1977)
'Jaws' (1975)
'King Kong' (1933)
'Tron: Legacy' (2010)
'The Amazing Spider Man' »
- Nick Blake
1 May 2013 7:30 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Multiplexes and chain cinemas get a pretty bad rap from basically all but your most casual of film goers, thanks to everything from their role to encouraging 3D to their block booking of the latest Transformers film in favour of that micro-budget indie film you and your friends have been dying to see ever since it entered development years prior.
However, one of our biggest chains, Vue, is eschewing this image of uncaring monolith to get back to its roots and give cineastes a real treat that even the smaller-screened art house theatres would struggle to provide. Throughout April, Ma,y and June, Vue is putting on a veritable feast of cinematic treats as part of their Back In Vue season.
The seven cult classics being screened are: Little Shop of Horrors, Evil Dead (aptly chosen with the remake currently occupying screens across the country), Labyrinth, Stand by Me, Bonnie and Clyde, »
- Matt Clough
29 April 2013 4:10 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Last Friday at the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood, I conducted an in-depth interview with the legendary writer-director Robert Benton, a three-time Oscar winner whose first film credit was for co-writing, with David Newman, the now-classic Bonnie and Clyde (1967). In light of the recent gun rampages at a political gathering Tucson, Ariz., a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., and an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., and the fact that some have blamed them, in part, on the depiction of guns in the movies, I asked Benton whether he felt that films like Bonnie and
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- Scott Feinberg
25 April 2013 4:12 PM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
A host of classic cult films spanning the past 50 years will be making a special comeback at Vue Cinemas throughout April, May and June thanks to the 'Back in Vue' strand. The season will run for eight weeks and includes hallowed fan favourites The Evil Dead, Labyrinth, Stand By Me, Trainspotting, A Clockwork Orange and the digital cinema premiere of Bonnie and Clyde. In honour of the season, we have a pair of tickets to give away to a cult film screening of your choice. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
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- CineVue UK
22 April 2013 11:43 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Mad Men, Season 6, Episode 4: “To Have and To Hold”
Written by Erin Levy
Directed by Michael Uppendahl
Airs Sundays at 10pm Et on AMC
There is a shot in the middle of “To Have and To Hold” that recalls the towering heights of Mad Men’s fifth season, when form seemed to outweigh all other concerns. A slow, swooping take begins with two silhouettes imposed on a hypnogogic background of swirling color as Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot’s “Bonnie and Clyde” provides a fitting accompaniment. The camera comes down to reveal Joan’s friend Kate underneath the man she met at the soda fountain, while Joan sits idly by. A friend of the man approaches and joins Joan on the sofa. Expressing a bemused indifference, she begins to make out with him as the camera continues moving and returns its focus to the psychedelic background.
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- Justin Wier
19 April 2013 2:03 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon star in the upcoming dramatic thriller Mud from Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols. Already a favorite on the festival circuit, this edgy adventure follows two teenage boys, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), who discover a fugitive from the law named Mud (McConaughey) hiding out on a small island in the Mississippi. Mud mesmerizes the youngsters with his fantastic yarn about the man he killed in Texas, and the bounty hunters that are now hot on his trail. The two boys soon learn that Mud plans to meet with his former lover, Juniper (Witherspoon), and escape into the sunset. While skeptical, Ellis and Neckbone decide to help the killer meet up with Juniper, only to find themselves trapped in a dangerous and deadly struggle for survival. In the end, its love that saves the day.
In theaters April 26, we've culled together 11 awesome movies that »
- MovieWeb
11 April 2013 7:59 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
A towering figure departed the scene last week: said their long goodbye, dropped into the big sleep. No, we don't mean Margaret Thatcher, though her decease prompted ruminations about her cinematic era and the effect it's had since. Roger Ebert, the avuncular critic of the Chicago Sun Times – famous for all that two-thumbs up stuff, but also a lucid, always-readable reviewer of the highest calibre – died aged 70, shortly after announcing a "leave of presence". The great and good – all the way up to President Obama – paid tribute, while our own critic Peter Bradshaw offered the respect of a direct peer to his critical abilities.
Meryl Streep praises Margaret Thatcher as 'figure of awe'
Oliver Stone meets Julian Assange and criticises new Wikileaks films
Liam Neeson and Woody Harrelson on tail of Bonnie and Clyde »
11 April 2013 7:00 AM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Liam Neeson and Woody Harrelson are looking to star in a new film called Highwaymen. They will play the two Texas Rangers that hunted and killed the popular Depression Era bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde.
John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) is set to directed the film from a script written by John Fusco (Hidalgo, Young Guns). The drama "focuses on legendary lawman Frank Hamer, who was coaxed by a consortium of banks to assemble a posse and end the robbery reign of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in the 1930s." Hamer was an old-school Texas Ranger that killed 52 people and survived over 100 gunfights. He set his sights on Bonnie and Clyde after their gang organized a jail break and killed a guard.
This sounds like it will be a very cool movie, and Frank Hamer is sure to make a fantastic character on the big screen. I've always been »
- Joey Paur
11 April 2013 6:40 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Liam Neeson and Woody Harrelson are in line to star in upcoming drama Highwaymen.
Deadline reports that the film will centre on the Texas Rangers that hunted down infamous bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde.
The Blind Side's John Lee Hancock will direct Highwaymen, which was scripted by John Fusco.
The story will focus on lawman Frank Hamer, who was appointed to lead a posse tasked with bringing down Bonnie, Clyde and their notorious Barrow Gang.
Neeson will next be seen playing an air marshal in the Joel Silver-produced Non-Stop, while Harrelson stars in Louis Leterrier's thriller Now You See Me.
Watch Liam Neeson speaking to Digital Spy about Taken 2 and his action movie career below: »
11 April 2013 3:56 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Pair in talks for frontier drama, Highwaymen, about Texas rangers who pursued and killed the notorious duo
Liam Neeson and Woody Harrelson are being courted for a new drama about the Texas rangers who killed Bonnie and Clyde, reports Deadline.
Highwaymen, which is due to be directed by The Blind Side's John Lee Hancock, centres on law enforcer Frank Hamer. A ranger who had brought peace to dozens of frontier towns during a long career in which he reputedly survived more than 100 gunfights, Hamer was appointed to head a posse charged with hunting down the notorious Barrow gang in 1934.
Hamer started hunting Bonnie and Clyde after the pair broke several inmates out of Eastham prison farm in Houston County – where Clyde Barrow himself had once been incarcerated – and killed a guard. Hamer was employed to end the gang's reign of terror, which had ranged across at least half a dozen Us states. »
- Ben Child
10 April 2013 11:00 PM, PDT | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
The Bonnie and Clyde story is a well known one in American culture, but Universal is reportedly cueing up a new take on the story that will focus upon their killers. Highwaymen will follow the exploits of the pair of Texas Rangers who tracked down the famous lawbreakers and gunned them down in that iconic shootout. The Blind Side’s John Lee Hancock is apparently in the saddle to direct, and he is reportedly courting Liam Neeson and Woody Harrelson to play the two lawmen in question. Talks are thought to have begun with the two...
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- George Wales
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