Carlos PenaVega and Alexa PenaVega of Spy Kids will headline their first movie for Great American Pure Flix.
In Mr. Manhattan, which begins streaming May 24, Mason Bradley (Carlos PenaVega) makes a promise to his brother and sister-in-law to be godfather to their newborn son (and future children). Mason has exciting news of his own: he’s just been accepted to Columbia Law School, which comes as a shock to his fiancé, Dani (Alexa PenaVega). Ten years on, Mason is surround by big city life and obsessed with becoming partner in his firm. He and Dani have broken up. Just when Mason feels personal success is at hand, he receives an unimaginable call. His brother and sister-in-law have tragically been killed in a car accident. Mason is now a single father with two children.
“Carlos and Alexa are audience favorites and so beloved for their commitment to family on and off the screen,...
In Mr. Manhattan, which begins streaming May 24, Mason Bradley (Carlos PenaVega) makes a promise to his brother and sister-in-law to be godfather to their newborn son (and future children). Mason has exciting news of his own: he’s just been accepted to Columbia Law School, which comes as a shock to his fiancé, Dani (Alexa PenaVega). Ten years on, Mason is surround by big city life and obsessed with becoming partner in his firm. He and Dani have broken up. Just when Mason feels personal success is at hand, he receives an unimaginable call. His brother and sister-in-law have tragically been killed in a car accident. Mason is now a single father with two children.
“Carlos and Alexa are audience favorites and so beloved for their commitment to family on and off the screen,...
- 4/11/2024
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Access Hollywood‘s Mario Lopez, together with his wife/Broadway star Courtney Lopez (A Chorus Line) are the latest actors to join Great American Family’s lineup of holiday movies.
The duo will headline My Grown-Up Christmas Wish, which follows Mario Lopez as the mayor of an idyllic community of Long Grove. While decorating for Christmas with the residents, Brian discovers his childhood Christmas wish list which magically begins to come true, reminding Brian about the spirit and joy of the holiday. Returning to town for Christmas is Brian’s childhood friend Nina Meyers (Courtney Lopez), and soon a connection becomes undeniable as she helps Brian face a new challenge for the town. As Brian’s wishes come true, he inspires the town to showcase its warm culture and values in order to stop the modern world from stifling the charm and heart of Long Grove.
Joining his famous...
The duo will headline My Grown-Up Christmas Wish, which follows Mario Lopez as the mayor of an idyllic community of Long Grove. While decorating for Christmas with the residents, Brian discovers his childhood Christmas wish list which magically begins to come true, reminding Brian about the spirit and joy of the holiday. Returning to town for Christmas is Brian’s childhood friend Nina Meyers (Courtney Lopez), and soon a connection becomes undeniable as she helps Brian face a new challenge for the town. As Brian’s wishes come true, he inspires the town to showcase its warm culture and values in order to stop the modern world from stifling the charm and heart of Long Grove.
Joining his famous...
- 4/4/2024
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
For more than two decades, Maria Menounos has been on TV. Whether it was interviewing celebrities on “Access Hollywood,” hosting a WWE special or a “Challenge” reunion or doing an arc on “One Tree Hill,” she’s been a staple on television. However, it wasn’t until this year that she landed the lead in her first film — and a TV Christmas movie was the ideal situation.
“I’ve never had to carry anything on my own,” says Menounos, who notes that both she and her husband, AfterBuzz TV creator Keven Undergaro, are “obsessed” with Christmas. “I have always wanted to be a part of the Christmas movie lineup. I put it on my vision board last year.”
The vision was brought to life. Last year, Ryan McPartland, who has appeared in a few holiday flicks over the years, brought it to her attention at the exact right time.
“It...
“I’ve never had to carry anything on my own,” says Menounos, who notes that both she and her husband, AfterBuzz TV creator Keven Undergaro, are “obsessed” with Christmas. “I have always wanted to be a part of the Christmas movie lineup. I put it on my vision board last year.”
The vision was brought to life. Last year, Ryan McPartland, who has appeared in a few holiday flicks over the years, brought it to her attention at the exact right time.
“It...
- 12/16/2022
- by Emily Longeretta
- Variety Film + TV
Sales talks ongoing at AFM this week.
Film Mode Entertainment has added worldwide rights excluding North America, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Iceland on heist comedy Three Day Millionaire starring Colm Meaney and to its AFM slate.
The film centres on a group of friends who plan a robbery to save their city from a greedy investor’s ambitions. Jack Spring directed the film and Jonas Armstrong, Robbie Gee, James Burrows and Lauren Foster are among the cast.
Giles Alderson, Lucinda Rhodes Thakrar and Spring served as producers and Andrew Pettit is the executive producer. Signature Films has set a November 25 release in the UK.
Film Mode Entertainment has added worldwide rights excluding North America, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Iceland on heist comedy Three Day Millionaire starring Colm Meaney and to its AFM slate.
The film centres on a group of friends who plan a robbery to save their city from a greedy investor’s ambitions. Jack Spring directed the film and Jonas Armstrong, Robbie Gee, James Burrows and Lauren Foster are among the cast.
Giles Alderson, Lucinda Rhodes Thakrar and Spring served as producers and Andrew Pettit is the executive producer. Signature Films has set a November 25 release in the UK.
- 11/4/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
While made-for-tv holiday movies have enjoyed an explosion in popularity in the past five years, they’re not a new phenomenon for Lifetime. The network has been making ripped-from-the-headlines films for three decades at this point and has the whole process down to a science: a few months for development and writing, 15 days for filming, a few weeks for post-production, and voila — a feel-good romance ready for air. In the case of “A Christmas Dance Reunion,” Covid-19 precautions meant that the production, which filmed in November 2020 at the height of the pandemic, had a little extra wiggle room. But not much.
“A Christmas Dance Reunion” reunites “High School Musical” stars Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman as a pair of childhood friends who rekindle their romance — and love for dance — when the hotel where they spent their childhood holidays announces it’s closing. Director and co-writer Brian Herzlinger, who has made several movies for Lifetime,...
“A Christmas Dance Reunion” reunites “High School Musical” stars Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman as a pair of childhood friends who rekindle their romance — and love for dance — when the hotel where they spent their childhood holidays announces it’s closing. Director and co-writer Brian Herzlinger, who has made several movies for Lifetime,...
- 12/2/2021
- by Jean Bentley
- Variety Film + TV
Lifetime is ramping up its holiday movie programming. The network has announced two new movies, A Christmas Dance Reunion, which reunites High School Musical alums Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman, and Blending Christmas, starring Haylie Duff and Aaron O’Connell. Directed by Marla Sokoloff, Blending Christmas also stars Beth Broderick, Telma Hopkins, Greg Evigan and former The Brady Bunch actors Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, Susan Olsen, Jennifer Elise Cox and Robbie Rist.
Official descriptions follow below:
In A Christmas Dance Reunion, successful attorney Lucy Mortimer (Coleman), along with her mother Virginia (Kim Roberts) return to the Winterleigh Resort to help celebrate the hotel’s final Christmas season before the resort closes its doors permanently. Once there, Lucy is reunited with the owner’s nephew and her childhood Christmas Dance partner, Barrett Brewster (Bleu). Though the resort has fallen on hard times and has stopped most holiday events, Lucy leads...
Official descriptions follow below:
In A Christmas Dance Reunion, successful attorney Lucy Mortimer (Coleman), along with her mother Virginia (Kim Roberts) return to the Winterleigh Resort to help celebrate the hotel’s final Christmas season before the resort closes its doors permanently. Once there, Lucy is reunited with the owner’s nephew and her childhood Christmas Dance partner, Barrett Brewster (Bleu). Though the resort has fallen on hard times and has stopped most holiday events, Lucy leads...
- 5/19/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Christmas might not be until December, but some networks are slapping on their mittens and gearing up for the holiday season as early as October.
Families often find themselves gathered around the TV binging some of Hallmark or Lifetime’s latest Christmas-themed films, and this year is no exception. With people around the country encouraged to stay indoors and avoid crowded locations, Variety breaks down a list of feel-good Christmas movies to tune into this year.
As part of Lifetime’s “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” holiday movie slate, the channel will premiere 30 original TV movies beginning Oct. 23 and running through mid-December. In its efforts to diversify the stories it showcases, Lifetime said it worked with GLAAD and Cape (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) for its first-ever LGBTQ-led film “The Christmas Setup” and “A Sugar & Spice Holiday” centering on an Asian American family.
More films will be added to the list as networks announce them.
Families often find themselves gathered around the TV binging some of Hallmark or Lifetime’s latest Christmas-themed films, and this year is no exception. With people around the country encouraged to stay indoors and avoid crowded locations, Variety breaks down a list of feel-good Christmas movies to tune into this year.
As part of Lifetime’s “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” holiday movie slate, the channel will premiere 30 original TV movies beginning Oct. 23 and running through mid-December. In its efforts to diversify the stories it showcases, Lifetime said it worked with GLAAD and Cape (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) for its first-ever LGBTQ-led film “The Christmas Setup” and “A Sugar & Spice Holiday” centering on an Asian American family.
More films will be added to the list as networks announce them.
- 9/18/2020
- by Eli Countryman and Natalie Oganesyan
- Variety Film + TV
The SAG-AFTRA national board has reprimanded Los Angeles president Patricia Richardson over her refusal to remove actor Corey Feldman, who has been accused of sexual assault, from guild’s Los Angeles local sexual harassment committee.
Feldman has issued a strong denial of the allegations. Richardson responded by blasting the national board and accused it of employing a “smear tactic.”
The dust-up emerged Monday during the meeting of the national board and stemmed from Richardson’s refusal last month to remove Feldman from the Los Angeles local’s Sexual Harassment Committee after receiving “detailed complaints” from several women.
“If SAG-AFTRA does not respond appropriately to credible allegations of sexual harassment, abuse and assault such as those at issue, it will not retain the ability to act as a respected, proactive force combatting sexual harassment, abuse and assault in our Union and our industry,” the resolution said.
The resolution did not name Feldman.
Feldman has issued a strong denial of the allegations. Richardson responded by blasting the national board and accused it of employing a “smear tactic.”
The dust-up emerged Monday during the meeting of the national board and stemmed from Richardson’s refusal last month to remove Feldman from the Los Angeles local’s Sexual Harassment Committee after receiving “detailed complaints” from several women.
“If SAG-AFTRA does not respond appropriately to credible allegations of sexual harassment, abuse and assault such as those at issue, it will not retain the ability to act as a respected, proactive force combatting sexual harassment, abuse and assault in our Union and our industry,” the resolution said.
The resolution did not name Feldman.
- 7/21/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Corey Feldman says he will finally name his sexual abusers from when he was a child actor in a new documentary he’s releasing called “(My) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys.”
Feldman will use the real names of the people he says abused him when he was a young actor, something he did not do when he published his 2013 memoir and revealed that he had been abused. And Feldman will also reveal who he believes abused his frequent co-star Corey Haim, who died in 2010 of pneumonia.
“The last two years have been insurmountable, but I believe that with great risk comes great reward,” Feldman said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “And I believe the reward in all of this, if nothing else, will be that these guys are finally exposed. I’m hoping that what happened to [Harvey] Weinstein [will happen], that multiple victims will come forward. And as a result, these...
Feldman will use the real names of the people he says abused him when he was a young actor, something he did not do when he published his 2013 memoir and revealed that he had been abused. And Feldman will also reveal who he believes abused his frequent co-star Corey Haim, who died in 2010 of pneumonia.
“The last two years have been insurmountable, but I believe that with great risk comes great reward,” Feldman said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “And I believe the reward in all of this, if nothing else, will be that these guys are finally exposed. I’m hoping that what happened to [Harvey] Weinstein [will happen], that multiple victims will come forward. And as a result, these...
- 3/4/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
The family feature is the German company’s first Us production.
On the eve of the European Film Market, Ksm, the German distributor taken over by Koch Films last summer, has revealed details of its first Us family entertainment feature: Lena And Snowball.
The new film, starring Robert Knepper and Wade Williams (who both featured in hit TV series Prison Break), is about the friendship between a teenage girl and a lion cub.
The company is in the final stages of post-production on the project, which it independently developed, produced and financed in the Us. Sales arm Ksm International is...
On the eve of the European Film Market, Ksm, the German distributor taken over by Koch Films last summer, has revealed details of its first Us family entertainment feature: Lena And Snowball.
The new film, starring Robert Knepper and Wade Williams (who both featured in hit TV series Prison Break), is about the friendship between a teenage girl and a lion cub.
The company is in the final stages of post-production on the project, which it independently developed, produced and financed in the Us. Sales arm Ksm International is...
- 2/10/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Tom Arnold (True Lies), Jennifer Tilly (Liar Liar), Shannyn Sossamon (Sinister 2), Robert Carradine (Justice), Asif Ali (Wrecked) and Oscar-winner Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show) are set to star in stoner comedy High Holiday, which Fortitude International will launch at the Cannes film market.
The film will follow the free-spirited daughter of a conservative politician who, in a bid to lighten up her uptight family’s Christmas, brings weed-infused salad dressing to their Christmas Eve dinner. Chaos ensues when everyone gets unknowingly high and a special guest arrives to reveal the family’s innermost secrets.
The picture, which is currently in production in Los Angeles, was written by Larry Postel and is directed by Brian Herzlinger (My Date With Drew). Lucas Jarach and Eric Brenner are producing.
Doug Kramer and Jim Jacobsen are executive producing through their respective companies Muddy Shoe Productions and Skyline Entertainment, which fully financed the picture.
The film will follow the free-spirited daughter of a conservative politician who, in a bid to lighten up her uptight family’s Christmas, brings weed-infused salad dressing to their Christmas Eve dinner. Chaos ensues when everyone gets unknowingly high and a special guest arrives to reveal the family’s innermost secrets.
The picture, which is currently in production in Los Angeles, was written by Larry Postel and is directed by Brian Herzlinger (My Date With Drew). Lucas Jarach and Eric Brenner are producing.
Doug Kramer and Jim Jacobsen are executive producing through their respective companies Muddy Shoe Productions and Skyline Entertainment, which fully financed the picture.
- 5/13/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Grease 2 has long unjustly suffered as a box office bomb and disappointing sequel. It’s actually even better than the classic Grease in many ways, at least when it comes to gender dynamics. Maxwell Caulfield plays Michael Carrington, a new student at Rydell high. He falls in love with Pink Lady Stephanie (Michelle Pfeiffer) who only dates T-Birds. So Michael creates a mysterious biker persona to woo her. Filmmaker Brian Herzlinger (My Date with Drew) assembled director Pat Birch and cast members Caulfield, Adrian Zmed, Leif Green, Christopher McDonald, Alison Price, Maureen Teefy, Liz Sagal and Jean Sagal for a […]
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- 4/12/2018
- by Fred Topel
- Monsters and Critics
Stand-up star Russell Peters will take a lead role in Three for the Road, a raunchy buddy road movie comedy from writer/director Brian Herzlinger (My Date With Drew). The Canadian comedian will play Jack, a 38-year-old geek whose fiancee dumps him during their Star Wars-themed wedding for being "too immature." Looking to pick up his spirits, Jack's best friend Ben invites him to join him on a cross-country road trip with his own fiancee (and Jack's nemesis) Kara. What was supposed to be a romantic trip for two becomes a battle for Ben's affection.
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- 11/8/2013
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Last week, scientists released the results of a study that suggests inhibiting a compound called "nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer" that's produced by the hypothalamus dramatically slows the aging process in laboratory mice. That's great news! On the other hand, thanks to the hearty expression of that protein complex inside the hypothalamus of a certain early-1980s Saturday Night Live alum, the shouting, emphatic "Sports Guy" character from "Weekend Update" has given way to the craggy and surprisingly soulful Joe Piscopo who stars in How Sweet It Is, an extraordinarily undistinguished comedy from director Brian Herzlinger. Piscopo plays a washed-up, alcoholic musical-theater director with the showbizzy name Jack Cosmo who owes several hundred thousand dollars to a...
- 5/9/2013
- Village Voice
Aspiring New Jersey film-maker Brian Herzlinger gave himself one month and a budget of $1,100 to persuade actress Drew Barrymore to accompany him on a date. Smitten with the star since she appeared in Et, 27-year-old Herzlinger embarks on a campaign of gentle harassment as he tries to persuade Drew to hook up with him for one night while everything it captured by his film school buddies on camera.
- 10/1/2012
- Sky Movies
We have added a new set of pictures from the event "Stone Markers Premiere".Brian Herzlinger attending the premier of "Stone Markers" at AMC Universal City Walk.Photo copyright by T. Urban / PR Photos. Mindy Robinson attending the premier of "Stone Markers" at AMC Universal City Walk.Photo copyright by T. Urban / PR Photos. Winsor Harmon attending the premier of "Stone Markers" at AMC Universal City Walk.Photo copyright by T. Urban / PR Photos. Heather Fogarty attending the premier of "Stone Markers" at AMC Universal City Walk.Photo copyright by T. Urban / PR Photos. Mindy Robinson attending the premier of "Stone Markers" at AMC Universal City Walk.Photo copyright by T. Urban / PR Photos. Katherine Bailess attending the premier of "Stone...
- 7/30/2012
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Some TV casting news you can use... First, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Jaiden Kaine, and Della Reese, will join Teri Polo in the cast of a TV movie titled Christmas Angel, an indie project directed by Brian Herzlinger. The story centers on Melinda Mead (Polo), a single mother raising her daughter in a small town. Mowry-Housley and Kaine will play Melinda's bosses; no word on what Della Reese's role will be. Second, Jon Michael Hill (Detroit 187) has been cast in a recurring role on the new CBS drama Elementary - a contemporary take on Sherlock Holmes which stars Jonny Lee Miller as Holmes, and Lucy Liu as his...
- 6/22/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Detroit 187 alum Jon Michael Hill has landed a recurring role on new CBS drama Elementary, a contemporary take on Sherlock Holmes starring Jonny Lee Miller as the British sleuth who is helping NYPD and Lucy Liu as his sidekick. Hill, repped by Sdb Partners and Cornerstone Agency, will play a detective. Meet The Parents star Teri Polo leads the cast of Christmas Angel, an independently-produced TV movie directed by Brian Herzlinger. She will play Melinda Mead, a single mom raising her daughter alone in a quaint small town. Also cast in the movie, centered on an old house that seems to be fulfilling wishes, are Tamera Mowry-Housley and Jaiden Kaine as Melinda’s bosses, Della Reese, Kevin Sorbo and Izabela Vidovic. Polo is with Gersh and McGowan Management, Mowry with TalentWorks and Main Title.
- 6/22/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
More found footage induced frights are headed your way, this time from veteran producer Suzanne DeLaurentiis and Clay Sharman. Read on for all of the current details surrounding the infamous Stone Marker.
Dale Fabrigar (Tape 407, Soul Fire Rising) and Tony Canonico (Mulberry Park) are slated to direct with Jeff DeMeo as executive producer and Ivan Kavalsky co-producing. The story was developed by Clay Sharman, and the screenplay was written by Brian Herzlinger and Jay Black.
Synopsis
Slated for a fall release, this movie/television series follows the adventures of the Sherman brothers, two 15-year-old fraternal twins who have discovered a strange stone marker in the woods. While attempting to uncover information about the mysterious object, the boys and four of their misfit friends discover it is linked to the disappearance of seven children over thirty years ago. As the pieces begin to fall into place, they find themselves at...
Dale Fabrigar (Tape 407, Soul Fire Rising) and Tony Canonico (Mulberry Park) are slated to direct with Jeff DeMeo as executive producer and Ivan Kavalsky co-producing. The story was developed by Clay Sharman, and the screenplay was written by Brian Herzlinger and Jay Black.
Synopsis
Slated for a fall release, this movie/television series follows the adventures of the Sherman brothers, two 15-year-old fraternal twins who have discovered a strange stone marker in the woods. While attempting to uncover information about the mysterious object, the boys and four of their misfit friends discover it is linked to the disappearance of seven children over thirty years ago. As the pieces begin to fall into place, they find themselves at...
- 2/24/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The course of true love never did run smooth, as demonstrated in many of the Valentine's-inspired selections to Indiewire's latest curation of Hulu's Documentaries page. While not all of the featured films paint a negative picture of love and relationships, they all must contend with some difficulties, if not outright tragedies, along the way. Hapless romantic Brian Herzlinger decides to follow through on his nearly lifelong crush on Drew Barrymore by tracking down the Hollywood star and getting her to agree to go out on a date. "My Date With Drew" is the entertaining and likeable result of what can happen when you take on an if not impossible, at least improbable, dream. Another improbable love story is found in a most unlikely place in Jon Nealon's "Goodbye Hungaria." A Palestinian refugee and an American volunteer meet at a Hungarian refugee camp, and while wading through the quagmire of international politics,...
- 2/14/2012
- Indiewire
What would you do to get a first date with your celebrity crush? How about make a movie? Meet Albert Sam Nunez (usually goes by Sam), he’s 21 years-old and has never been on a date before. About a year ago he was inspired to make a documentary film after watching My Date with Drew, a 2004 documentary starring Brian Herzlinger who set out to get a date with his childhood crush Drew Barrymore. So Sam and his co-director Wayne T. Williams took it upon themselves to follow in Herzlinger’s footsteps, and started a project called My First Date. The goal is to try and get Sam a night out with the girl of his dreams, Emma Watson. Herzlinger eventually got his date, but Sam patiently awaits an answer and is hoping that through word of mouth, Ms. Watson may finally respond. There’s no question that My First Date,...
- 4/17/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
There are the documentaries that delve into great tragedy and triumph. There are the documentaries that dig into deeply personal tales. And then there are the documentaries that ... aren't so epic. My Date with Drew wasn't the sort of movie that would ever take the festival circuit by storm, burrowing into the public consciousness, but with earnestness and excitement it still wins a spot on the should-watch pile of films.
Director and star Brian Herzlinger is the typical struggling Hollywood hanger-on. He moved to the big city, trying to find his big break, but the farthest that he got was winning $1,100 on a pilot game show. The answer that won him the cash -- "Drew Barrymore." Taa-daa! Fate! Kismet! See, he's been in love with Drew for years, so he cooks up a scheme to try and get a date with the famous actress, and films his journey to the Barrymore,...
Director and star Brian Herzlinger is the typical struggling Hollywood hanger-on. He moved to the big city, trying to find his big break, but the farthest that he got was winning $1,100 on a pilot game show. The answer that won him the cash -- "Drew Barrymore." Taa-daa! Fate! Kismet! See, he's been in love with Drew for years, so he cooks up a scheme to try and get a date with the famous actress, and films his journey to the Barrymore,...
- 6/22/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
In Hollywood, a magic 8-ball used to just be a vial of cocaine that allowed producers to think they're flying. But now it's also going to be a movie about an oversize billiard ball with a blue liquid-immersed 20-sided die inside it that enables indecisive people to make important life choices. For example, some exec at Paramount asked one, "should we make a movie based on the Magic 8-Ball novelty toy?" And it answered, "My reply is no." So the studio exec put the greenlight on it faster than he could snort a line.
Is the idea of a Magic 8-Ball movie surprising? To be honest, I thought this project had already been announced back when everyone was foretelling what other games and toys would follow Monopoly, Battleship, Ouija Board, Stretch Armstrong, etc., into multiplexes. Now it just seems like everyone's unveiling the appropriate 8-ball-related snark they've been working on...
Is the idea of a Magic 8-Ball movie surprising? To be honest, I thought this project had already been announced back when everyone was foretelling what other games and toys would follow Monopoly, Battleship, Ouija Board, Stretch Armstrong, etc., into multiplexes. Now it just seems like everyone's unveiling the appropriate 8-ball-related snark they've been working on...
- 4/29/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
On the nonfiction side of cinema this week, you've got portraits of a famous banjo player, an infamous boxer and, er, nature, while the fiction side delves into a dystopic, mutant-infested future, a bedraggled small town in Korea and Bret Easton Ellis' decadent '80s Los Angeles.
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"Earth"
The Mouse House launches its brand new nature documentary arm Disneynature with an Earth Day premiere of this year-in-the-life-of-our-planet feature. The bad news is that "Earth" recycles a lot of the footage from the BBC series "Planet Earth," which anyone who feels the least bit smug about their TV already owns. The good news is that "Planet Earth" is pretty sick, and seeing it on the big screen is bound to be an improvement over even the glossiest home HD experience.. Patrick Stewart narrated the U.
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"Earth"
The Mouse House launches its brand new nature documentary arm Disneynature with an Earth Day premiere of this year-in-the-life-of-our-planet feature. The bad news is that "Earth" recycles a lot of the footage from the BBC series "Planet Earth," which anyone who feels the least bit smug about their TV already owns. The good news is that "Planet Earth" is pretty sick, and seeing it on the big screen is bound to be an improvement over even the glossiest home HD experience.. Patrick Stewart narrated the U.
- 4/20/2009
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
After a killer week, an on-going screening of the dramas and torments of the North and South miniseries, and thoughts of pacifist guntoters, I needed a break. No, scratch that -- I needed a "Cool Rider."
While many girls squee'd over Olivia Newton John and Grease, I always thought Grease 2 was so much cooler. (Age brought a better appreciation for the original, but nostalgia never dies! ... especially when the Pink Lady leader got an awesome reversible jacket to quell that terrible pink!) And for years, I was convinced I was the only one in love with 2 until a little film called My Date with Drew. Oh yes, there were die-hard Grease 2 fans out there, and they included Ms. Barrymore herself. Filmmaker Brian Herzlinger loved it so much he divided the world into two categories -- those who loved the sequel, and those who didn't.
The thing that really got my heart,...
While many girls squee'd over Olivia Newton John and Grease, I always thought Grease 2 was so much cooler. (Age brought a better appreciation for the original, but nostalgia never dies! ... especially when the Pink Lady leader got an awesome reversible jacket to quell that terrible pink!) And for years, I was convinced I was the only one in love with 2 until a little film called My Date with Drew. Oh yes, there were die-hard Grease 2 fans out there, and they included Ms. Barrymore herself. Filmmaker Brian Herzlinger loved it so much he divided the world into two categories -- those who loved the sequel, and those who didn't.
The thing that really got my heart,...
- 3/21/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
TORONTO -- Montreal's Just for Laughs comedy festival said Tuesday that its Comedia movie showcase will kick off with a screening of New Line Cinema's Wedding Crashers, a comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as divorce mediators who crash weddings to pick up women. Comedia has booked a number of American comedies, including Philip Zlotorynski's My Big Fat Independent Movie, which spoofs indie hits such as Memento and Pulp Fiction; Brian Herzlinger's My Date With Drew, a documentary about a digital filmmaker looking to date Drew Barrymore; and Jeffrey Ross' Patriot Act, a documentary about Drew Carey leading a platoon of comics into Iraq to entertain U.S. troops.
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