Following its acclaimed world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Focus Features has acquired domestic and select international rights (the U.K., Germany, and South Africa) to Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right. Focus Features CEO James Schamus made the announcement today.
In the movie, two teenaged children conceived by artificial insemination get the notion [...]
Through a unique collaboration between Marvel Studios and Columbia Records, AC/DC’s music will be featured in Marvel Studios’ “IRON MAN 2,” the sequel to the 2008 blockbuster film. In addition, Columbia Records will release the album AC/DC: Iron Man 2 on Monday, April 19, 2010. ”AC/DC: Iron Man 2,” features 15 classic AC/DC songs selected [...]
Multiple Grammy Award® winner Mariah Carey, currently garnering acclaim for her moving performance in Precious, stars with Adam Rothenberg (Mad Money) and Ethan Peck (TV’s “10 Things I Hate About You”) in Director Aaron Woodley’s (Rhinoceros Eyes) thought-provoking road film “Tennessee”, debuting on DVD Jan. 26 from Vivendi Entertainment.
Featuring Carey’s hit single, “Right to Dream,” [...]
Now is the time to ask your questions for Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, director of “CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY” which will have its world premiere at Sundance in only a few days!! Participant Media will be collecting questions on Twitter from now until Jan. 24 at 6 pm and a [...]
“Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief,” today announced its lineup of superstar musical performances. The global telethon will feature performances by Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Shakira, and Sting in New York City; Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift [...]
The Wagner/Cuban Companies’ Magnolia Pictures announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to “Ondine,” the latest from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Neil Jordan who wrote, directed and produced. Starring Colin Farrell, Stephen Rea, and beautiful newcomer Alicja Bachleda in the title role, the film was also produced by Ben Browning and James Flynn for Wayfare [...]
At a politically correct prep school in Washington, DC two girls – one black, one white – go toe to toe. Jesse (Louisa Krause) is a privileged but troubled white girl whose slutty tendencies pull her towards self-destructive behavior. Tosha (Sonequa Martin) is a fiercely determined African-American from Anacostia, one of DC’s most impoverished areas. [...]
FX’s award-winning legal thriller series returns to DVD when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment releases “Damages: The Complete Second Season” on Jan 19. Two-time Emmy® winner Glenn Close leads an all-star cast that includes Ted Danson (TV’s “Becker”), Rose Byrne (Marie Antoinette), Tate Donovan (Good Night & Good Luck), and Academy Award winner William Hurt (Kiss [...]
By Sandra Kraisirideja
Commercials for “The Lovely Bones” are promoting the movie as a supernatural murder-mystery where a teenage girl who is killed helps her father solve the crime from the after life. It’s understandable why Paramount and DreamWorks SKG decided to market the movie, based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Alice [...]
On Monday, Jan. 18, Discovery Channel viewers will be treated to an all-day marathon of the Emmy®-nominated MYTHBUSTERS, the series that aims to uncover the truth behind popular myths and legends by mixing scientific method with gleeful inquisitiveness and plain old-fashioned ingenuity to create their own signature style of experimentation. During the marathon, the [...]
