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Pop Up Screens Returns For A Summer of Cinematic Fun
30 May 2012 6:54 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
After the roaring success of its inaugural weekend last summer, Pop Up Screens is finally back with a fantastic line up of outdoor, open-air weekend screenings throughout the summer around London.
Last May saw Ravenscourt Park in Hammersmith play host to three nights of pure cinematic gold, all screened to huge crowds in the park. On Friday Ron Burgundy and his boys held court over the park as audiences quoted their way through Anchorman. Saturday we braved the elements to watch The Dude try and solve the mystery of the missing Bunny Lebowski. The Big Lebowski’s tipple – The White Russian – was also on sale at the bar. While on Sunday we feasted on Twinkies as a warm, starless night provided the perfect atmosphere for Ghostbusters.
This year, however, Pop Up has upped the ante and are putting on 7 weekends of film fun. Watching films on a giant inflatable screen »
- Adam Rayner
Hulu to Premiere Kevin Smith’s ‘Spoilers’ & Richard Linklater’s ‘Up to Speed’
22 May 2012 7:43 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Apparently following in the footsteps of Netflix, the online streaming service Hulu is scheduled to release a variety of original and exclusive programming available only through the site, as well as the Hulu Plus subscription service. The plethora of new shows run the gamut from reality to sci-fi, and include two particularly promising upcoming premieres: Spoilers, a discussion forum focusing on new films, hosted by director Kevin Smith (Red State), and Up To Speed, a travel series created by director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused).
Smith, long a contender for the unofficial title of “ultimate fanboy,” has spent his career championing all things pop-culture. In recent years, the filmmaker has parlayed his status as a comic book and cinema aficionado into a Click to continue reading Hulu to Premiere Kevin Smith’s ‘Spoilers’ & Richard Linklater’s ‘Up to Speed’
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- Andrew Contrada
Kevin Smith Heads To Hulu With 'Spoilers'
21 May 2012 2:28 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Kevin Smith is getting hyped for this season's blockbusters.
Looking to capitalize on the summer, Hulu has revealed its programming for the season, which will feature the new original movie-centric series "Spoilers" with Smith, as well as two other original series and seven Hulu exclusive shows. The programs range from comedy to sci-fi, travel to reality and magic to drama.
"I have always wanted to do a show that provides an open forum for real fans to discuss real movies in real time and that's what 'Spoilers' is about. As a filmmaker and lover of movies, I understand that ultimately it's the fans who make the film. So in this show, we do not review movies, we revere them," Smith said in a statement.
"Spoilers" can be seen on Hulu on Mondays beginning June 4.
Find out more about the rest of Hulu's summer series below.
The Original Shows:
"Spoilers" is »
- Libby Coleman
Kevin Smith Heads To Hulu With 'Spoilers'
21 May 2012 2:26 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Kevin Smith is getting hyped for this season's blockbusters.
Looking to capitalize on the summer, Hulu has revealed its programming for the season, which will feature the new original movie-centric series "Spoilers" with Smith, as well as two other original series and seven Hulu exclusive shows. The programs range from comedy to sci-fi, travel to reality and magic to drama.
"I have always wanted to do a show that provides an open forum for real fans to discuss real movies in real time and that's what 'Spoilers' is about. As a filmmaker and lover of movies, I understand that ultimately it's the fans who make the film. So in this show, we do not review movies, we revere them," Smith said in a statement.
"Spoilers" can be seen on Hulu on Mondays beginning June 4.
Find out more about the rest of Hulu's summer series below.
The Original Shows:
"Spoilers" is »
- Libby Coleman
TV News: Hulu Announces Ambitious Slate of Original Programming
21 May 2012 12:40 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Hulu, in addition to being a most enjoyable word to say while jumping out of a plane (Huluuuuuu!) is also one of the most popular websites on the internet for streaming video from television’s biggest channels. Featuring content from Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS and a litany of other networks, Hulu.com has essentially replaced the re-run in eyes of the American lexicon.
Hulu, it appears, is not content with this. Hot on the heels of previous new-content initiatives such as the political drama “Battleground” and British cooking dramedy “Whites,” the powers that be behind Hulu recently announced a huge slate of new shows (and big names!) coming to the digital network.
The most interesting appears to be Richard Linklater’s Travel Show: “Up To Speed.” It’s a cross-country journey featuring some of America’s best attractions you’ve never heard of. Keeping in mind this is a »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Kevin Smith, Richard Linklater Join Hulu Summer Slate
21 May 2012 10:23 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Hulu unveiled a summer slate of 10 shows Monday, including the Kevin Smith movie show "Spoilers" and a Richard Linklater travel show called "Up to Speed." "Spoilers," a half-hour movie "revue" with fearure the "Clerks" and "Red State" director talking movies. It launches on Hulu and Hulu Plus on June 4th. "Up to Speed," from the "Dazed and Confused" and "School of Rock" director, stars Speed Levitch ("The Cruise"). It debuts in August. The basketball comedy "We Got Next, "co-created by Kenya Barris (“America’s Next Top Model”) and Hale Rothstein (“The Game”) will »
- Tim Molloy
Hulu Unveils Summer Slate Of Original And Exclusive Shows
21 May 2012 4:24 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Los Angeles (May 20, 2012) – Proving that summer doesn’t have to mean the start of rerun season, Hulu today announced a full slate of new original and exclusive TV shows that begin premiering on June 4th on Hulu and the Hulu Plus subscription service. Hulu’s summer lineup offers new TV shows for all kinds of entertainment fans, from comedy, sci-fi, travel, reality and even a little magic. For a preview of the upcoming programming, visit www.hulu.com/hulu-summer-series. The summer slate announcement kicks off with “Spoilers,” a half-hour movie “revue” for movie lovers hosted by beloved filmmaker and podcasting maven Kevin Smith (“Clerks,” “Red State”). “Spoilers” launches on Hulu and Hulu Plus on June 4th. “I have always wanted to do a show that provides an open forum for real fans to discuss real movies in real time and that’s what ‘Spoilers’ is about. As a filmmaker and lover of movies, »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
Film Review: Tour de Force for Jack Black in Fact-Based ‘Bernie’
18 May 2012 3:34 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Jack Black is a smart and interesting actor. Not content to ride on the modern day John Belushi-type roles that might have pigeonholed him, Black portrays “Bernie,” a convincing conniver in Texas, based on a true story. Veterans Matthew McConaughhey and Shirley MacLaine add spice to the brew.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Proving again that truth is stranger than fiction, director Richard Linklater (“Me and Orson Welles,” “Dazed and Confused”) goes back to his native Texas and creates a dark comedy based on the memorable personalities that are involved in this true story of a rich widow and her caretaker named Bernie. Jack Black establishes the Bernie character early, and precisely delivers all of the permutations that makes the circumstance so unbelievable. The story is driven by Black, and he makes the character both sympathetic and clearly off-kilter.
Bernie (Jack Black) is a mortician, looking for a new town in Texas to ply his trade. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Matthew McConaughey's Boozy Night Out Kickstarted Movie Career
15 May 2012 9:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Matthew McConaughey has credited a boozy night out with launching his movie career, as it led to him landing his breakthrough role in 1993's Dazed And Confused.
The Lincoln Lawyer star was out drinking when he bumped into the casting director for the cult coming-of-age movie, and they hit it off so much McConaughey signed on to play charismatic character David Wooderson.
He tells Total Film, "I sat down and introduced myself. And a few hours later, we got kicked out for re-enacting holes on golf courses we had both played. At the end of the night he said, 'Have you ever done any acting?' I was in a beer commercial for about half a second. And he goes, 'Well, you might be right for this part for this movie...'" »
question of the day: Why is 1990s nostalgia being ignored by filmmakers?
9 May 2012 4:35 AM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
Today’s question comes from reader Patrick, who writes: It was only in 1973 when George Lucas released American Graffiti, a film that celebrated the bygone days of the late 50s/early 60s. It was a nine or ten year window between the release of that film and the time that that film takes place. In the decades that followed we’d get major releases like Dazed and Confused looking back on the 70s in a bittersweet fashion (à la Graffiti) or American Psycho looking at the 80s through the darkest prism imaginable. But what about the 90s? Where’s the major cinematic meditation about the post cold war/pre-9/11 decade? And it’s not just movies! It’s like the 2000s was a watershed for 80s nostalgia, and now in the 2010s... they still want to bring up more of the 80s! Is the era of Kurt Cobain and Bill Clinton »
- MaryAnn Johanson
A Good Day To Die Hard Adds Cole Hauser In Supporting, Villainous Role
8 May 2012 2:26 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
The biggest non-Bruce-Willis role in A Good Day To Die Hard has been cast, with Jai Courtney signing on to play John McClane's son Jack, and immediately after both father and son posing for a family portrait that seems distinctly McClane-esque. That was back in February, and though we've heard since then that the film had added two villains, word has been mighty quiet- strange for a production that had been set for April. Now Deadline is reporting another tiny bit of casting that suggests some forward motion-- Cole Hauser, the character actor with roles in everything from 2 Fast 2 Furious to Good WIll Hunting to Dazed and Confused, has signed on in the supporting role of Collins, a villain who presumably will work in cahoots with the the previously cast bad guys. Hauser has been in two other Willis films, Tears of the Sun and Hart's War, though it's unclear »
Bernie
2 May 2012 2:51 PM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Let’s talk about Richard Linklater, the man who just doesn’t seem to care what you think. Or, to be more specific, what his critics think. And that’s a good thing. How else could an unknown director make a film like 1991’s Slacker (a radical experiment in form, with crazily eclectic subject matter), parlay it into the high school comedy Dazed and Confused (a much more conventional structure, though still concerned primarily with dialogue) and then tackle a beautifully sweet and sensitive love story in Before Sunrise (an audacious narrowing of focus to two people and one night)? The pattern in »
The Films Of Richard Linklater: A Retrospective
2 May 2012 9:37 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Given that he's one of the more diverse and prolific filmmakers out there, it's been a disappointingly long four years without a new movie from Richard Linklater ("Me and Orson Welles" premiered at Tiff in 2008). Fortunately, the Austin, Texas-based filmmaker is back with "Bernie," a dark comedy which reunites him with two of his most memorable leads, Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey, that has picked up strong reviews and, opening in limited release last Friday, has been performing surprisingly well at the box office.
With "Bernie" expanding wider this weekend (read our review), it seemed like the perfect time to look over Linklater's diverse and eclectic career. He'd already made his mark by founding the Austin Film Society in 1985 (which has gone on to be the center of the industy in the Texas city), but since his debut with an ultra-low-budget student film in 1988, Linklater's tackled everything from romance to »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Matthew McConaughey Auctions Football Tickets
2 May 2012 9:06 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Matthew McConaughey is auctioning the chance to join him as he cheers on his favourite American football team at an upcoming game.
The Dazed and Confused star is raising money for charity by donating an invitation to join him and his pals in his personal suite as he roots for his beloved Texas Longhorns of the University of Texas.
The highest bidder at the Charity Buzz auction will also win an extra ticket to bring a guest to the party.
The lot is expected to raise as much as $10,000 (£6,250) to benefit the actor's j.k. livin Foundation, which works with schools to develop fitness programs. »
We celebrate May Day with five of our favorite May-centric pop culture references
1 May 2012 1:00 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
How best to celebrate the arrival of the fifth month, PopWatchers? Lacking a May pole in EW’s office, I decided to turn to pop culture. Though I considered expanding the net to include non-traditional picks like bunkin’ cousin Maeby Fünke from Arrested Development and Ghost’s Oda Mae Brown (“Molly, you in danger, girl!”), there was plenty of May love to go around without getting Fünke with it. Below, five of my favorite May touchstones.
“The Lusty Month of May,” Camelot
If this number from Lerner and Loewe’s hit 1960 musical doesn’t, ahem, get you in the mood for a new month, »
- Lanford Beard
Bernie Director Richard Linklater Talks Finally Making His East Texas Movie
29 April 2012 9:33 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
As explained in director Richard Linklater.s new movie Bernie, the state of Texas is actually made up of multiple cultural regions. But while movies have done a great job putting areas like Austin and West Texas on the big screen, the Dazed and Confused filmmaker has always wanted to make a movie about where he grew up in East Texas. The story of Bernie Tiede and the murder of Marjorie Nugent has allowed him to do just that. With Bernie in theaters this weekend, I recently had the chance to sit down with Linklater one-on-one to discuss not only his desire to make an East Texas film, but working with Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey again, how he discovered the story of the famed killing, and the choice to use the documentary format to tell the story. Check it out! Where did you actually discover the story of Bernie »
Jack Black and Shirley MaClaine Talk Bernie, Favorite Movies, and More
27 April 2012 11:07 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Opening this weekend, in limited release, is director Richard Linklater’s (Dazed and Confused, School of Rock, Before Sunrise) new film Bernie. The dark comedy is based on a true story and stars Jack Black as an assistant funeral director of a small Texas town who wooed and then murdered a cantankerous, affluent widow. Black is surrounded by a terrific supporting cast that includes Shirley MacLaine as said widow and Matthew McConaughey as the one person in town who suspects Bernie of wrongdoing. While I’ve been less than impressed with Black’s recent film choices, I thought his work in Bernie was incredible and it’ll remind you that when he has the right material, he’s a great actor. For more on the film, here’s seven clips. Last week I got to sit down with Black and MaClaine. They talked about their favorite movies, were they shocked »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Richard Linklater Talks Bernie, a Third Before Sunrise, Woody Allen, Favorite Movies, and More
25 April 2012 11:00 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Opening this weekend, in limited release, is director Richard Linklater’s (Dazed and Confused, School of Rock, Before Sunrise) new film Bernie. The dark comedy is based on a true story and stars Jack Black as an assistant funeral director of a small Texas town who wooed and then murdered a cantankerous, affluent widow. Black is surrounded by a terrific supporting cast that includes Shirley MacLaine as said widow and Matthew McConaughey as the one person in town who suspects Bernie of wrongdoing. While I’ve been less than impressed with Black’s recent film choices, I thought his work in Bernie was incredible and it’ll remind you that when he has the right material, he’s a great actor. For more on the film, here's seven clips. Last week I got to sit down with Richard Linklater for an extended video interview. We talked about putting Bernie together, »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Director Richard Linklater on "Bernie," Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey's Mom
25 April 2012 8:30 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Bernie director Richard Linklater (left) with Jack Black
photo: Getty
Richard Linklater's latest film, Bernie, has been making its festival rounds and has been getting plenty of attention -- but it isn't necessarily cut from the same cloth as other Linklater favorites such as School of Rock or Dazed and Confused.
The dark comedy is based on a Texas Monthly article about the real-life relationship between Bernie Tiede and Marjorie Nugent in the rural town of Carthage, Texas. Bernie was one of the town's most beloved residents while Marjorie was a rich widow that everyone despised. Although complete opposites, the two were basically best friends. After years of friendship, the people of Carthage noticed that they hadn't seen Marjorie in a while. It turns out that she had been dead for months, and Bernie was charged with the murder.
We recently had the opportunity to talk with director Richard Linklater »
- Dino-Ray
Sfiff: Richard Linklater Talks Making 'Bernie,' Bringing True Stories To Life & The Films He Has Brewing In The Background
25 April 2012 7:57 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Richard Linklater’s “Bernie” is hitting New York and Los Angeles theaters later this week and we caught up with him at the San Francisco International Film Festival to talk about the film.
The film tells the real-life story of Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), a much-loved funeral director who forms a relationship with Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), a cold and insanely rich recently widowed woman. After several years of under-appreciated service and company, Bernie loses it and puts several bullets in Marjorie’s back, killing her. During the following nine months, Bernie is able to keep his crime a secret as he goes about spending her fortune buying gifts for the people in the town of Carthage and saving struggling businesses sort of like a dark Robin Hood.
Spattered throughout the film are a series of documentary-style interviews with the citizens of Carthage expressing their views on Bernie and his violent act. »
- Sean Gillane
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