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5 December 2012 12:59 PM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

The "Beasts of the Southern Wild" effect continues. The Louisiana International Film Festival will hold its inaugural event April 18-21 in Baton Rouge and New Orleans to celebrate indigenous and international films. Filmmaker Dan Ireland ("The Whole Wide World") and producer Jeff Dowd ("Zebrahead"), famously the inspiration for the Dude in the Coen Bros.' "The Big Lebowski," have been named co-artistic directors of the new fest. The first submission deadline is January 7 through WithoutABox.com. Liff also involves a mentorship program and will present a special photo and multimedia exhibition by civil rights movement photojournalist and author Bob Adelman. The launch comes at a time when Shreveport has become one of the highest-profile locations for outside-of-Hollywood film production. "We founded the Louisiana International Film Festival and Mentorship Program to act as a conduit for our state's »

- Jay A. Fernandez

27 June 2012 9:20 AM, PDT | ChannelGuideMag | See recent ChannelGuideMag news »

Is it just me, Dance Moms Nation, or was this the feel-bad episode of the year? So much so that I changed my mind about what this blog should be called about 18 times in the first ten minutes alone. Abb-niss Eats The Children. Everyone’s Replaceable. Bully For You — whoops did that one already. Hush, Little Leslie, Don’t Say A Word. Go For The Silver (Anniversary). It’S The Largest Competition In The Whole Wide World! And given the various horrors of last week’s trip to Michigan, I expected Abby to spend at least the whole time I decided what to call [...] »

- Lori Acken

9 March 2012 11:51 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

In almost every single film that Will Ferrell has appeared, he's sang some sort of song. Whether it's Afternoon Delight from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Por Ti Volare from Step Brothers, The Whole Wide World in Stranger Than Fiction or Baby It's Cold Outside with Zooey Deschanel in Elf, he's sang a lot. Now he's doing something we've never seen him do before: singing in Spanish. Funny or Die has just premiered a new music video for the song Yo No Se (or I Don't Know), on the soundtrack for Casa de mi Padre, the Spanish language comedy in theaters next weekend, and it's pretty damn great. Watch it! Here's the music video of Will Ferrell singing Yo No Se from Casa de mi Padre via Funny or Die: Casa de Mi Padre, or The House of My Father in Spanish, is directed by Matt Piedmont, a former »

- Ethan Anderton

3 items from 2012