Date: Aug. 17, 2011 Location: Telephone interview Player(s): Steven Weintraub, editor and founder of Collider.com Backstory: In our continuing series where we chat with the editors of the Web’s top, solo-run entertainment sites we speak to Steven Weintraub, the editor and founder of Collider.com. Better known as “Frosty” on the site, Weintraub launched Collider.com in [...]
Date: Aug. 9, 2011 Location: Telephone interview Players: Kellvin Chavez, editor and founder of LatinoReview.com Backstory: In part two of Audiohollywood’s interview series with the people who helped shape some of today’s biggest entertainment Web sites, I am featuring Kellvin Chavez, the editor and founder of LatinoReview.com. It may surprise fans of LatinoReview.com to learn that [...]
Date: Aug. 9, 2011 Location: Telephone interview Players: Wilson Morales, editor of BlackFilm.com Backstory: This is the first of a four-part series of interviews that were conducted in August 2011 with some of the entertainment writers and founders of the leading movie Web sites today including DarkHorizons.com, Collider.com, LatinoReview.com and BlackFilm.com. It may surprise some [...]
By Sandra Kraisirideja Author Dinah Bucholz first began baking at 9 years old and said she is happiest when she’s puttering around the kitchen. After she got married she dreamed of becoming a pastry chef, but having four small children made it difficult to make that dream a reality, she said. Luckily Bucholhz found an alternative [...]
By Sandra Kraisirideja Documentary filmmaker Andrew Rossi infiltrates the legendary newsroom in his latest feature, “Page One: Inside the New York Times.” Fate worked in Rossi’s favor during shooting in 2010 and the emergence of WikiLeaks proved the perfect example of how new media was eroding print journalism. It also illustrated the issues and questions [...]
By Sandra Kraisirideja Broken bones are an integral part of stunt coordinator Jack Gill’s job description, and the more he has only proves how long he’s been in the industry. (His first stunt was in the 1979 cult classic “Rock n Roll HIgh School”) His latest film, “Fast Five,” includes a scene where stars Vin [...]
Audiohhollywood: “Hemingway’s Garden of Eden” has a complex story with dark undertones, how did you deconstruct the story for yourself in order to understand the character? Mena Suvari: I spent a great deal of time scouring through the book and read it several times to really understand the psychology of Catherine and understand exactly where [...]
Date: April 15, 2010 Location: Telephone one-on-one Player(s): Allen Wolf, writer-director Backstory: Plenty of filmmakers max out credit cards to raise money for their film projects, but not many launch a board game company, like Allen Wolf did, to get the financing they need. Wolf, the writer-director of “In My Sleep,” spent five years raising [...]
Date: March 26, 2010 Location: Telephone one-on-one. Click HERE to listen. Player(s): Casey Anderson, naturalist and host of “Expedition Wild” on Nat Geo WILD Backstory: National Geographic launches a new network today called Nat Geo WILD with the debut of “Expedition Wild” with Casey Anderson. The premiere episode takes a multipart look at North America’s [...]
Date: Feb. 26, 2010 Player(s): Ciaran Hinds Back-story: At the moment Ciaran Hinds is relatively unknown to American audiences, even though he’s been working as a professional actor for nearly 30 years. That will soon change once Hinds stars as Aberforth Dumbledore in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” this summer. For now the actor [...]
