Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 17, 2009 under Coming Soon | Comments are off for this article
Casablanca Studios Entertainment Inc. is shooting the independent film, “Shakespeare’s Cat” in Coachella Valley, Desert Hot Springs, California, bringing some help to the local economy reports The Daily Sun.
The $500,000 digital film tells the story of Elizabethan English-speaking cats who inherit millions of dollars from lumber baroness Amelia Carson, as the California town she made her fortune in slips into a state of decline. While the cats work through their fate in the once robust town of Eureka, they tell a tale of how the “smallest flash” can change the world.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 15, 2009 under Coming Soon | Comments are off for this article
New independent film company Galileo Films is embarking on its first feature film, “Ben and Jake’s Big Deal.” The film is scheduled for release in Hollywood summer 2010.
“Ben and Jake’s Big Deal” is a partially improvisational piece that follows the adventures of two teenage pals as they dodge their boss, Ben’s parents and stepbrother as well as anyone to whom they owe money, including the mob. All of the other characters are obsessed with profiting from the duo’s revolutionary computer program, except for Ben’s mother who is preoccupied with keeping her new maid from potentially fleeing the chaos. But the maid is not who she appears to be.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on June 26, 2009 under Coming Soon, drama | Comments are off for this article
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 May 29, 2009 under Coming Soon, People | Comments are off for this article
Lucy Punch has replaced actress Nicole Kidman in the new Woody Allen film. The British actress, a relative unknown, who starred on the CBS series “The Class” and had roles in “Hot Fuzz” and “Ella Enchanted,” reportedly wowed the writer-director with a screen test. Punch joins Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin and Anthony Hopkins in the untitled project.
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Jim Granato’s “D tour” makes clear: if you haven’t signed up to be an organ donor, do so after you’ve finished reading this article. Google your state’s name and “organ donation,” download the short form to fill out, and mail it to your state’s DMV.
Granato’s documentary is the story of friend Pat Spurgeon, the talented multi-instrument musician from Bloomington, Indiana who plays drums for Rogue Wave, a band on the rise. In the film, Pat discovers that a degenerative kidney disease is threatening to take him away from the grand stage that he has finally gained access to, and that he has dreamed of playing on ever since graduating college over two decades ago.
“D tour” invites viewers into the world of Spurgeon and his tight-knit, affable bandmates. It reminds viewers of the need for both organ donors and a more sympathetic American healthcare system, of the power of love and friendship, and of the fragility of life and the dreams we find in it before death’s sure but unpredictable arrival.
“D tour” won “Best Documentary” last month at the San Francisco Film Festival, and Vimooz had the chance to discuss the film with its maker Jim Granato.
Q: How did you first meet Pat? What has been your relationship over the years?
JG: I used to see Pat play in a couple of bands in our hometown of Bloomington, Indiana back in the early 90’s. We didn’t know each other back then, but he was something of a well known musician in our little college town scene. It was years later just after I moved to San Francisco in 1996 that I ran into Pat at a local bar. He had just landed there too and after introductions and acknowledging many mutual friends together we became fast friends.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 26, 2009 under Coming Soon | Comments are off for this article
Nicole Kidman in “Margot At The Wedding”
Woody Allen’s next film project doesn’t even have a name yet but he is lining up quite an impressive international cast. Australian Nicole Kidman is joining Spaniard Antonio Banderas, India’s Freida Pinto, British-Australian Naomi Watts, American Josh Brolin and Brit Anthony Hopkins. The film is scheduled to start shooting in London in the summer.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 18, 2009 under Coming Soon, drama | Comments are off for this article
Jesse Eisenberg as Walt Berkman in ‘The Squid and the Whale’
Jesse Eisenberg, (”The Squid and the Whale,” “Adventureland”) will play Allen Ginsberg in the indie drama “Kill Your Darlings.”
Chris Evans and Ben Whishaw will star with Eisenberg in the ensemble film, an account of a murder that led to the birth of the Beat Generation. Read more …
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Actress Tichina Arnold recently attended the premiere of her independent film ‘Hope & Redemption:The Lena Baker Story,’ in Atlanta, Georgia. Arnold has been working on the independent film for a while. The film is about the first black woman to be executed by electrocution in the state of Georgia.
The film was written, directed, and produced by Ralph Wilcox. It is based on a true story and was inspired by Dr. Lela Bond Phillips’ book Lena Baker Story.
The Lena Baker Story takes place in the early 1900’s through 1945 in Cuthbert, Georgia. It’s the story of one woman’s attempt to rise above the challenges of life, the choices she makes, and the consequences of those choices. The moment she thinks she has overcome her inner demons, she is called to work for Elliot Arthur, a father, a millworker and a drunk. As their relationship unfolds, it becomes strange, strained, and highly unacceptable for the time. Elliot Arthur needs Lena and in return Lena seems to need him. He abuses her and keeps her from her children by imprisoning her in his home. When she has finally had enough, Lena stands up and attempts to break free from the bondage of Elliot Arthur. A struggle ensues, and Elliot Arthur, a white man, is shot by Lena Baker, an African-American woman, on a hot, humid night in Southwest Georgia in 1945.
A jury of 12 white men, her subpoenaed peers, found Lena guilty of murder in less than 6 hours. She received the death penalty as her sentence, earning Lena Baker a place in history as the first and only woman to be sentenced to death by electric chair in the state Georgia. She was pardoned posthumously in 2005. [via: youtube]
National Geographic Entertainment has acquired the rights to the Sundance Film Fesitval immigrant comedy-drama “Amreeka” and plans a fall release to theaters. [Read more]
Director Cherien Dabis’s auspicious debut feature, Amreeka, is a warm and lighthearted film about one Palestinian family’s tumultuous journey into Diaspora amidst the cultural fallout of America’s war in Iraq. Muna Farah, a Palestinian single mom, struggles to maintain her optimistic spirit in the daily grind of intimidating West Bank checkpoints, the constant nagging of a controlling mother, and the haunting shadows of a failed marriage. Everything changes one day when she receives a letter informing her that her family has been granted a U.S. green card. Reluctant to leave her homeland, but realizing it may be the only way to secure a future for Fadi, her teenage son, Muna decides to quit her job at the bank and visit her relatives in Illinois to see about a new life in a land that gives newcomers a run for their money.Dabis weaves an abundance of humor and levity into this tale of struggle, displacement, and nostalgia and draws an absorbing and irresistibly charming performance from actress Nisreen Faour as Muna, who stands at the heart of this tale. Amreeka glows with the truth and magic of everyday life and signals the arrival of an exciting, new directorial talent. [via]
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Coachella Valley, Desert Hot Springs, California, bringing some help to the local economy reports The Daily Sun.
Jake’s Big Deal.” The film is scheduled for release in Hollywood summer 2010.
