Dec 17, 2009

A FREE SCREENING of the WINNING VIDEOS in the Metropolis Art Prize 2009 will take place in TIMES SQUARE, New York from 7 to 8pm tonight, December 17.

Dec 15, 2009

Reggie Ponder, "The Reel Critic", gives his opinion of the Golden Globes nominations.

Dec 15, 2009

The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) has named “Precious” as the Best Picture of 2009. Directed by Lee Daniels, "Precious" captured a majority vote by the organization, which is comprised of African-American media professionals from across the nation, including members who edit and contribute to TheBlackBoxOffice.com. Founded in 2003, AAFCA presented this year’s honors at its first live event on Monday, at the historic Ebony Repertory Theatre in Los Angeles.

Oct 5, 2009

Tweet Image via Wikipedia LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Ending a complete lack of suspense, director Michael Bay said Thursday that he will shoot a third “Transformers” film, whose release date has been brought forward by exactly one year to July 1, 2011. Stars Shia LaBeouf and Megan...

Sep 18, 2009

Tweet John Travolta is back, but bigger, bald, and bad ass in this movie coming in February from Lionsgate. “From Paris WIth Love” is about a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador in Paris who hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city. Okay, we’re...

Sep 3, 2009

Tweet Los Angeles Lakers star-turned-actor Rick Fox, who has appeared on “One Tree Hill”, “The Game”, and “Ugly Betty”, has joined the cast of “Melrose Place,” when he steps into a recurring role on the new CW series. Fox will play the owner of the restaurant where...

Aug 18, 2009

Tweet 20th Century Fox gave those interested an opportunity to see some scenes from the upcoming “Avatar” film. All you had to do was log onto Avatarmovie.com, click on the “Tickets & Showtimes button…wait…then wait…then restart your browser…then go to the main site...

Tweet As a child, Jamie Lesser watched ‘Strictly Ballroom’ ninety-seven times a day and dreamed of becoming a salsa dancer. But in ‘real life’, his social awkwardness, failed love life and severe near-sightedness got in his way. After insurmountable disappointments, he turns to his estranged sister, Lianne,...

Tweet Chef! is a British sitcom starring comedian Lenny Henry (and based on an idea he had) that aired as twenty episodes over three series from 1993 to 1996 on the BBC. The show was created and primarily written by Peter Tilbury and produced for the BBC by Henry’s production company Crucial Films. Henry...

Tweet (NEW DELHI) The trend in the West where a sitcom runs for only a few months a year – ‘season’ in media parlance – is yet to catch on in India, where constantly running saas-bahu soaps and reality shows continue to rule the roost. According to Rajesh Kamat, CEO, Colors, the...

Tweet Wax images of Beyonce and Jamie Foxx will be among the first exhibits at Madame Tussauds Hollywood, set to open later this year. Construction is under way on the $55 million project, part of the U.S. division of Merlin Entertainments Group. Los Angeles architect Michael Rotondi was tapped to design the...

Feb 25, 2009

Tweet MUMBAI – The two main child actors from “Slumdog Millionaire” are to receive new homes from the Indian authorities after the small-budget movie swept the Oscars, winning eight Academy Awards. The Mumbai homes will go to Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, who played the young roles of the...

Tweet Kevin James, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and David Spade are in negotiations to star in an untitled comedy for Columbia Pictures. Dennis Dugan, who directed “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan” is set to direct, Adam Sandler is writing the script with Fred Wolf (who wrote “Dickie...

Tweet Faith Filmworks is an independent motion picture production company established in 1997, to develop and produce memorable stories with emotional and moral resonance. It is home to writer-director Christine Swanson and producer Michael Swanson, the multiple award-winning husband and wife filmmaking team. All...

Tweet Here’s the official box office estimate for the weekend! 1 He’s Just Not That Into You – WB (New Line) $27,465,000 2 Taken – Fox – $20,300,000 3 Coraline – Focus Features - $16,335,000 4 The Pink Panther 2 – Sony $12,000,000 5 Paul Blart: Mall Cop ...

Feb 6, 2009

Tweet Buy tickets now and enter Fandango’s contest to win a trip to Hong Kong! Enter here to win: A 5 day/4 night trip to Hong Kong, China including: Round-trip airfare for 2 to Hong Kong, China 4 nights hotel accommodations...

Jan 28, 2009

Tweet Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer had an idea for a project involving car culture. Imagine and Universal Pictures sought out a writer. They found long respected journalist Cheo Hodari Coker, who has written for Vibe, Premiere, and Rolling Stone before crossing over to screenwriting. He has most...

Tweet A quick word on this — all day the blogs have been buzzing with stories that Angelina Jolie is being replaced in the Tomb Raider series with “Transformers” star Megan Fox. According to Megan’s people (and io9.com) : “She’s not involved in the movie at all.” Guess that

Tweet Here are the nominations for this years Academy Awards in the major categories. You can see the winners on February 22 at 8pm EST on ABC. Best Actor The Visitor – Richard Jenkins Frost/Nixon – Frank Langella Milk- Sean Penn The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Brad Pitt The Wrestler –...

Jan 19, 2009

Tweet (PARK CITY, Utah) — Sony Pictures has been making deals since before movies even started being shown. Senator Distribution has bought one of the hottest pictures at the festival. Nickelodeon refuses to be upstaged. They sent in the big guns today. That’s right. Nick sent Tom Kenny and Bill...

Jan 18, 2009

Tweet “Thriller In Manila” is a new documentary that  is focused on Boxing legends Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier racial politics and what is generally considered the greatest fight of all time. Folks in the UK have seen this already on DVD and on TV (More4),  but it’s never been shown in the...

Tweet “Transformers” director Michael Bay couldn’t resist getting in a bit of a dig at his upcoming summer competition. In a recent blog post, Bay makes a thinly veiled reference to “Terminator Salvation’s” giant, robotic Harvesters unveiled in the film’s most recent...

Tweet If you’ve ever seen “Shootout” on AMC, you’ve seen Peter Bart. He’s a well respected critic, author, and editor-in-chief at Variety. There’s no new “Spider-Man” or “Iron Man” on the immediate horizon, but the superhero genre is alive and well. As...

Jan 8, 2009

Tweet (NEW YORK) – VH1 is looking for an ethnically diverse ensemble of inspirational and innovative individuals to feature in their upcoming BLACK HISTORY MONTH Campaign. We need eloquent and passionate people, who are both insightful and comfortable speaking about the future goals and aspirations for Black...