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Walton Goggins on The Shield Finale and His New Show AMC Show Rectified
20 December 2009 6:00 PM, PST
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A few days ago, on the set of Predators, I got to speak with Walton Goggins along with a number of other online journalists. While we are embargoed to write anything Predators related, we were given permission to cover things unrelated to the movie. So if you’re a fan of The Shield and curious what Goggins thought of the finale, his thoughts are after the jump.
Also, Goggins revealed to us that he’s developing a show at AMC called Rectified and it’s “about a guy who spends 21 years on death row, oddly enough. And it’s about the day that he gets out of jail based on DNA evidence and he’s this monk-like character who’s lived in isolation for 21 years. And it’s the way that he sees the 21st century that we live in today. I’m going to play the lead, so that’s hopefully going in March.
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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Antoine Fuqua, Spike Lee Together on 'Miss'
18 November 2009 11:10 PM, PST
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Who says there’s better living through crime? Antoine Fuqua and Spike Lee, that’s who.
Fuqua, who has directed films ranging from the crime thriller Training Day to the adventure saga King Arthur, will be directing an adaptation of "Miss: Better Living Through Crime", a French graphic novel. The book revolves around a poor white girl and a black pimp — named Nola and Slim, respectively — who partner up as killers-for-hire in early 1900’s New York.
Spike Lee, the groundbreaking director of such films as Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever and He Got Game, will serve as executive producer, Variety reports. Lee’s most recent film was the 2008 war movie Miracle at St. Anna.
Fuqua’s latest, Brooklyn’s Finest starring Richard Gere, Don Cheadle and Ethan Hawke, will be released next March.
Miss will be produced through Vigilante Entertainment, and John Ridley, who wrote the upcoming World War
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Celebrate Veteran’s Day with a War Movie Overload
11 November 2009 2:33 PM, PST
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Instead of doing a cheesy list for Veteran's Day, we here at Fsr decided just to give a run down of all the war-type movies that we've covered over the years (the good, the bad, and the boots on the ground). Some of these you'll be able to pick up at the rental store on your way back home from work, but hopefully your employer was nice enough to give you the day off so you could sit back with a beer, some BBQ and a swelling fervor in remembrance of the monumental jobs done by the bravest members of our society.
And since we're overloading here, we went ahead and included just about any flicks that involve soldiers and wartime. We even included some featuring those limey Brits! Look how far we've come since 1776.
As an added challenge, why not watch all of them?
The General (1927)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
To Hell and Back (1955)
Operation Petticoat
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- Dr. Cole Abaius
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NBC Posts New ‘Trauma’ Video: ‘Cameron Boone’
28 September 2009 2:15 PM, PDT
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We’ve been pretty excited for NBC’s newest field/hospital drama Trauma, about a group of first responders in San Francisco, and the heroic feats they go through on a daily basis. Last week, we brought you a special sneak peak at the show’s pilot, and now there’s a brand new video podcast showing off Cameron Boone, one of the main characters of the show (played by Miracle at St. Anna’s Derek Luke).
The video podcast is a brief narrative in the voice of Cameron in which he talks about the things that go on for both him and the victims of a trauma. NBC has been on promotions overload with this new program, with the first four minutes of the premiere up on NBC.com. Also, they have stepped up the social networking of Trauma with both Facebook and Twitter pages for fans.
Along with Derek Luke,
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- Matt Raub
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Indie security alert level: Severe
25 September 2009 7:21 AM, PDT
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Every year good films show at the Toronto Film festival that never open anywhere near you. This year some good films played that may never open anywhere, even if you live in Toronto--or New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin or upstairs over a Landmark Theater multiplex. Toronto is traditionally a lively marketplace for the purchase of film rights for new non-studio product: Indies, docs, foreign films. This year Harvey Weinstein paid $1 million for "A Single Man," and that was that. One sale, one movie, one million -- probably as little as Harvey has paid for a movie in some time.
Stands at yellow, rising toward orange
The makers of independent films don't have to send to learn for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for them. The bottom fell out of the market. That doesn't mean there were no other offers, but it means there were none that
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- Roger Ebert
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Lee and De Niro Team for Showtime Drama
17 September 2009 2:58 PM, PDT
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Robert De Niro and Spike Lee have teamed with Showtime to develop a drama series about Manhattan's Alphabet City, report the trades. The project, titled Alphaville, will be written by John Ridley (Red Tails, Three Kings), with Lee on board to direct the potential pilot.
Alphaville is an ensemble drama chronicling Alphabet City's gritty and tumultuous past before it became the gentrified East Village. Set during the 1980s, it will re-create the neighborhood's eclectic mix of struggling artists and musicians living alongside Puerto Rican and black families.
Along with its growing bohemian and celebrity population that also included graffiti artists, break-dancers, rappers and DJs, the neighborhood was plagued by illegal drug activity and violent crime. Local tensions culminated in the Tompkins Square Park riot of 1988, in which police clashed with anarchists and homeless activists.
The 1980s Alphabet City was the setting for the musical Rent. The neighborhood also served as
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- James Cook
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The Laz Alonzo Issue- Hollywood's Newest Top Dog!
18 July 2009 3:01 PM, PDT
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This issue we interview actor Laz Alonso most notably known as the actor from This Christmas who Regina King had an "issue with", but also starred in Fast & Furious, Miracle At St. Anna's, and the new Avatar from Director James Cameron. Plus we give you an inside look at Bet Awards Weekend, and there is a tribute to the King Of Pop, Michael Jackson. We have even more new features inside that you are not gonna want to miss! Check it out now by Clicking The Cover On The Far Right To Open Up New Issue!
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- noreply@blogger.com (The Humor Mill Magazine)
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Starz features 'Miracle at St. Anna' Saturday, July 4
30 June 2009 8:20 PM, PDT
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This fourth of July sees Starz at night, featuring Spike Lee's movie, "Miracle at St. Anna." The film stars Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Matteo Sciabordi, John Leguizamo, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Valentina Cervi, Pierfrancesco Favino, John Turturro, Kerry Washington, D.B. Sweeney, Robert John Burke, Omari Hardwick, Omero Antonutti and Sergio Albelli. Directed by Spike Lee, this action war drama is about how a seemingly senseless crime in 1983 reveals the long-forgotten story of four African-American soldiers deep behind enemy lines in World War II Italy, and their struggle with the challenges of fighting in a segregated army. USA - 2008 - R
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- April MacIntyre
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[DVD Review] Miracle at St. Anna
15 February 2009 8:11 PM, PST
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Plainly speaking: I'm not a fan of Miracle at St. Anna. While I believe that Spike Lee's self-described "untold story of courage and brotherhood" deserves to be told - I don't think Spike Lee should have been the one to tell it. He shouldn't have been let anywhere near it. If you trust the dialogue spoken by the characters within, James McBride's source material was racially polarized before Spike got anywhere near it. Allowing Spike Lee to emboss it even further with his own brand just makes the film all the more intolerable to watch - ironic really, considering how forcefully Lee and McBride hammered the film's message of intolerance into our skulls with each and every frame.
Spike Lee still hasn't learned that you don't win support or - as Lee was aiming for - regret by preaching at the audience.
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- Lex Walker
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Blu-Ray Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ Disappoints in Every Way
11 February 2009 12:23 PM, PST
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Blu-Ray Rating: 1.0/5.0
Chicago – There is a great film to be made about the African-American experience during World War II. Spike Lee’s “Miracle at St. Anna” is not that film and the below average Blu-Ray of it should make this once highly-anticipated epic one of the more easily forgettable releases of the month.
Spike Lee is one of the more intriguing filmmakers alive. He’s missed the mark a few times but the man who made “Do the Right Thing,” “Malcolm X,” “Clockers,” “Get on the Bus,” “4 Little Girls,” “The Original Kings of Comedy,” “25th Hour,” “Inside Man,” and “When the Levees Broke” should be paid attention to every single time he gets in the director’s chair. Some of those are among the best films of the last twenty years, and even his previous failures felt like a director shooting for something unique and misfiring.
(L To R) Matteo Sciabordi,
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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DVD Review: Miracle at St. Anna
9 February 2009 11:38 PM, PST
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The first time I tried to watch the DVD for director Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna I fell asleep. Was I tired? Could it have been because I had already seen it? Second attempt -- disc in, hit play, fell right to sleep; fell asleep so fast, actually, I can't even remember the last scene I watched before it happened. The third attempt proved to be the winner, that is to say I made it all the way through. Unfortunately everything was coming back to me. Not only does this movie not really have a point, it is so long and self-important watching it was like listening to a dull collegiate professor lecturing on the intricacies of the Dewey Decimal System. This film has to be one of 2008's biggest, most frustrating disappointments, and the DVD hammers that home with all the subtlety of a jackhammer.
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- Sara Michelle Fetters
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Actress Gibbs To Be Honoured At Pan African Film & Arts Festival
2 February 2009 11:05 AM, PST
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Veteran actress Marla Gibbs will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the 17th annual Pan African Film and Arts Festival (Paff) later this month.
The five-time Emmy and Golden Globe nominated star, best known for her long-running role in U.S. sitcom The Jeffersons, will be present with the prize at the 10-day event - which promotes racial tolerance through the film and arts industries.
Miracle at St. Anna star Omar Benson Miller will receive the Paff's Canada Lee Award, while filmmaker Anthony Fabian will present his film Skin, starring Sophie Okenedo, during Paff's opening night at the Directors Guild of America on 6 February.
In Treatment actor Blair Underwood will host the festival, held at the Culver Plaza Theatres in Los Angeles from 5 to 16 February.
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Lee And Perry Land Image Award Nods
27 January 2009 11:40 PM, PST
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Spike Lee and Tyler Perry are among the directors nominated at the upcoming NAACP Image Awards.
The civil rights organisation announced the nominations in three directing categories on Tuesday, with Lee and Tyler leading the pack.
Lee received a nod for best motion picture director with Miracle of St. Anna and will compete against Perry (The Family That Preys), Darnell Martin (Cadillac Records), Gina Prince Bythewood (The Secret Life of Bees) and Patrik Ian Polk (Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom).
In the TV comedy category, Kevin Sullivan was nominated for his work on hit series 30 Rock, and will go up against Ali LeRoi (Everybody Hates Chris), Ken Whittingham (Entourage), Tracee Ellis Ross (Girlfriends) and Victor Nelli, Jr. (Ugly Betty).
While Heroes director Anthony Hemingway leads the TV drama shortlist. He will battle it out with Eriq Lasalle (Law & Order: Svu), Ernest Dickerson, (Lincoln Heights), Paris Barclay (In Treatment) and Seth Mann (The Wire).
The winner will be announced at the 40th NAACP Image Awards, which celebrates diversity in the arts, in Los Angeles on 12 February.
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The Naacp Image Awards Nominations
7 January 2009 2:06 PM, PST
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The Naacp has announced it's 40th Annual Image Awards nominations. In the film category, Cadillac Records, The Secret Life of Bees, Miracle at St. Anna, Seven Pounds and Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys" have been nominated.
The TV network with the most nominations? ABC with 24 total!
The awards night will be televised on Fox, Feb. 12 from the Shrine Auditorium.
Click Read More to see the complete list of nominees:
Television Categories
Comedy Series
"30 Rock" (NBC)
"Everybody Hates Chris" (CW)
"The Game" (CW)
"Tyler Perry.s House of Payne" (TBS)
"Ugly Betty" (ABC)
Actor in a Comedy Series
Donald Faison - "Scrubs" (NBC)
Lavan Davis - "Tyler Perry.s House of Payne" (TBS)
Paul James - "Greek" (ABC Family)
Terry Crews - "Everybody Hates Chris" (CW)
Tyler James Williams - "Everybody Hates Chris" (CW)
Actress in a Comedy Series
America Ferrera -
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- Manny
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Disney Unveils Snippets of Its 2009 Blu-ray Release Slate
7 January 2009 11:55 AM, PST
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment just sent over a brief press release listing 21 of their 2009 Blu-ray releases. These, of course, will be on top of what I expect to be several day-and-date DVD releases and they have also announced they will be continuing their "future proof" plan of releasing DVD copies of their films with select Blu-ray releases, such as they did with the Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray in October of 2008.
Below is the list of titles included in the press releases along with release dates where applicable. Once more information is known about each title they will be added to the database. For all the upcoming DVD and Blu-ray news and release dates you could need click here.
Swing Vote (January 13)
Space Buddies (February 3)
Pretty Woman (February 10)
Miracle At St. Anna (February 10)
High School Musical Remix Edition (February 17)
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (February 17)
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (March 3)
Pinocchio:
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- Brad Brevet
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Knowles, Hudson And Keys Land Double Nods At Image Awards
7 January 2009 11:00 AM, PST
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Singer/actresses Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys are leading the way at the 2009 NAACP Image Awards with two nominations each.
The three beauties will compete for Outstanding Female Music Artist and Best Music Video, while they are also up for Best Supporting Actress for their big-screen outings - Keys and Hudson for The Secret Life of Bees, and Knowles for Cadillac Records.
In addition, The Secret Life of Bees and Cadillac Records, which also stars Adrien Brody, Gabrielle Union and Mos Def, are shortlisted for the Best Picture award. The two movies will fight it out with Will Smith's Seven Pounds, director Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna, and Tyler Perry's the Family That Preys.
The winners of the NAACP Image Awards, which celebrates diversity in the arts, will be announced on 12 February.
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