Posted by editor@vimooz.com on June 29, 2009 under Foreign Film, Industry, LGBT | 
- About Elly
Here Media announced today the launch of Here Films, the new acquisition and distribution division of Here Media, Inc. All current staff of Regent Releasing will be folded into the newly formed parent company Here Media effective immediately. Here Films staff will oversee all remaining Regent releases through 2009 with all new films being released through the Here Films banner. Here Films recently acquired several high profile films including Cannes Directors’ Fortnight winner “I Killed My Mother” (J’ai tué ma mère), Berlin Silver Bear Winner “About Elly” (Darbareye Elly), and the Kenneth Branagh made for cinema opera “The Magic Flute.” Here Films will distribute all these pictures in select U.S. theaters, on DVD and via here! Networks in 2010.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on June 26, 2009 under Coming Soon, drama |
Ryan Reynolds will star in the independent film, Buried. In Buried, Reynolds will play a civilian contractor who’s kidnapped in Iraq and awakens buried in a coffin in the desert, armed only with a cell phone, a candle and a knife. Rodrigo Cortes will be directing and production begins next month in Barcelona.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on June 25, 2009 under Academy award |
The 82nd Academy Awards, which will be presented on March 7, 2010, will have 10 feature films vying in the Best Picture category, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis announced yesterday (June 24) at a press conference in Beverly Hills.
“After more than six decades, the Academy is returning to some of its earlier roots, when a wider field competed for the top award of the year,” said Ganis. “The final outcome, of course, will be the same – one Best Picture winner – but the race to the finish line will feature 10, not just five, great movies from 2009.”
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under R.I.P. |
Actress Farrah Fawcett died at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., of cancer at the age of 62.
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Posted by harsh.patel@vimooz.com on June 24, 2009 under Comedy, Foreign Film |
Harsh Patel of VIMOOZ, recently conducted an interview with Jonathan Gershfield, the director of Deal is a Deal. Deal is a Deal is a 2008 British comedy film that revolves around Paul Callow (Mackenzie Crook) who accidentally runs a man over with his underground train, after the man is pulled on to the tracks by his dog. After a week off he kills a second passenger who falls on to the tracks after having a heart attack. Before taking time off for the second accident his colleagues tell him about a little known ‘rule’ at London Underground that no-one talks about: three ‘under’ within a month, and you lose your job – earning yourself ten years’ salary in one lump sum. But being off for the next week means that Paul needs to find someone willing to kill themselves by the following Monday.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on June 19, 2009 under Documentary |
- The Last Beekeeper by director Jeremy Simmons
Planet Green, Discovery Communication’s channel and multiplatform destination devoted to the environment, today announced “Reel Impact”, a powerful weekly two-hour block of documentary programming. Set to launch September 12th, the new block will air 8 p.m.-10 p.m. ET Saturdays and will repeat Thursdays at 11 p.m.-1 a.m. ET. It kicks off with the television debut of documentary feature The Last Beekeeper by director Jeremy Simmons. “Reel Impact” will feature an eclectic slate of high-profile films including some world and U.S. premieres such as “No Impact Man” by Laura Gabbert and Eden Wurmfeld, Barbara Ettinger’s film A Sea Change and Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez by Robert Cornellier. The strand will also present highly-praised classic films like Leonardo DiCaprio’s The 11th Hour, An Inconvenient Truth and Who Killed the Electric Car?
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under Documentary, R.I.P. |
Allan King, the veteran documentary-filmmaker, has died aged 79 years old following a battle with brain cancer. Read more …
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under People |
Lindsay Lohan recently landed a role in the independent movie, “The Other Side,” and told producer Kent Harper she would be “serious” and “committed” to the project, which starts filming in October. So what does a bored Lindsay do in the meantime? The actress, 22, sent out a topless picture of herself with long, blonde extensions strategically covering her chest on Twitter.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under Adventure |
Warner Home Video is “shell-ebrating” 25 years of turtle-mania by introducing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition on Blu-rayTM and DVD August 11.
Both the Blu-ray and DVD options include all four feature films, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (the highest-grossing independent film of all time when it was released and the fifth highest-grossing film worldwide of 1990), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (the #1 film at the box office for three consecutive weeks), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles in Time and the 2007 CGI hit, TMNT (the #1 film in the U.S. on its opening weekend).
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