Archive for the 'biopic' Category

From Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing look into the uncanny life of national treasure and gonzo journalism inventor Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. A fast moving, wildly entertaining documentary with an iconic soundtrack, the film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson’s life—his intense and ill fated relationship with the Hell’s […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | Jun 10th


Here’s a good look at 13 movies that took a chance with a new direction and broke a few (unofficial) rules in the process. From GliPress.blogspot.com:
For all the creativity and innovation that goes into making (some) Hollywood films, there are also a lot of ideas that get recycled time and time again. I’m not referring […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | May 13th


Paramount Pictures will become the first major studio to make thousands of movie clips available for use on the internet, launching its VooZoo application Monday on Facebook.
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“The short clips for a movie that you’ve already seen before helps you relive the moment,” said Derek Broes, Paramount’s senior vice-president of entertainment.
Users of the popular social […]

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Posted By: stephanie | Mar 11th


 
We are pleased to present 3 new thrill-packed clips from THE BANK JOB, starring Jason Statham. Inspired by an extraordinary true event, THE BANK JOB is a highly-charged thriller filled with intrigue, danger and scandal set in early ‘70s London.
Please see the link below to access the new clips from the film:
CLIP 1:
Scoping the Bank
CLIP […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | Feb 26th


“The movie that’s moving audiences to tears.” – Rolling Stone 

“You’ll feel like you’re literally seeing the world through [Cobain’s] eyes.” —Washington Post
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — Not since the late 1960s and early 1970s has there been a musical artist who so completely spoke for an entire generation.  After the breakup of the Beatles and the […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | Jan 29th


 
On behalf of Lionsgate, we are pleased to present the official trailer & poster for THE BANK JOB, starring Jason Statham. Inspired by an extraordinary true event, THE BANK JOB is a highly-charged thriller filled with intrigue, danger and scandal in early ‘70s London.
In September 1971, thieves tunneled into the vault of a bank in […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | Jan 17th


Two of todays best living actors and a great director tackling the Dillinger crime era can only equal good things.  Read more about Christian Bale and Johnny Depp’s upcoming movie HERE from /Film.com

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Posted By: jackhammer | Jan 11th


James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty’s “The Singing Revolution” tells the moving story of how the Estonian people peacefully regained their freedom–and helped topple an empire along the way.
 

Synopsis:
 
“Patience is a weapon. Caution a virtue.”
It is said, in Estonia, heroes are those who wait, watch and act only when the time is
right.
In 1991, after nearly […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | Nov 30th


Here’s a link to check out a first look at the trailer for “The Other Boleyn Girl”.  Oh ya, Eric Bana is in it as well:
The Other Boleyn Girl

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Posted By: jackhammer | Nov 21st


Oscar® winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team up with director Ridley Scott in the new Universal Pictures crime drama to tell the true juggernaut success story of a cult hero from the streets of 1970s Harlem in American Gangster… In theaters November 2nd, check out the trailer below:

The official American Gangster website has just […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | Oct 4th