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Inglourious Basterds receives 10 nominations at Critics' Choice Movie ... - Newstrack India

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 02:11 AM PST

London, December 15 (ANI): Quentin Tarantino's film 'Inglourious Basterds' has received 10 nominations at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

 

Movie musical 'Nine' has also bagged the same number of nominations from Broadcast Film Critics Association.

 

Both films will compete for Best Picture prize against 'Avatar', 'An Education', 'The Hurt Locker', 'Invictus', 'Precious', 'A Serious Man', 'Up', and 'Up in the Air', reports The Daily Star.

 

Meanwhile, George Clooney is up for the Best Actor for his role in Up in the Air, apart from Jeff Bridges for 'Crazy Heart'.

 

Also, Colin Firth for his character in 'A Single Man' has been nominated.

 

Tarantino has been nominated for Best Director for his film.

 

The awards will take place on 15 January (09) in Los Angeles. (ANI)

 

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Father-daughter duo Ron Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard dying to shoot ... - New York Daily News

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 02:18 AM PST

Monday, December 14th 2009, 10:50 PM

Ron Howard and daughter Bryce Dallas Howard could have made a movie together by now - if family miscommunication hadn't gotten in the way.

"We have talked about it. I'd be lucky to get her in a movie. I'd be lucky to get her to return my call!" Ron gushed to us at the premiere of Tennessee Williams' "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond" at The Oak Room.

Typical dad gripe. But Bryce insists that it isn't her fault a father/daughter collab hasn't happened - she's blaming it on her pop. "Well, that's just not true," she dished to us a few minutes later. "He knows for a fact that I pester him every single day to put me in a movie. I really want to work with him!"

Cue Christmas dinner conversation at the Howards!

Pinning down Danny

We hear Danny Glover is ready to walk down the aisle with Brazilian girlfriend Eliane Cavalleiro, who's 20 years his junior. A source close to the actor confirms he'll say "I do" on Christmas Day in San Francisco, during a break from filming the WWE flick "Brother's Keeper" in New Orleans.

SEEN & HEARD

Harvey Keitel and Cynthia Nixon checking out Willem Dafoe in Richard Foreman's "Idiot Savant" at the Public Theater on Saturday. … Ice T and Coco dining at Benjamin's Steak House on Saturday night. … Rob Iler kicking off the start of the St. Maarten's season taking shots of Patron at the Sopranos Piano Bar on Saturday night. … Naomi Campbell and Russian billionaire boyfriend Vladislav Doronin canoodling at Indochine on Sunday night.

with Carson Griffith

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Kenny Ortega to Direct 'In the Heights' Movie - 9News

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 01:35 AM PST

Another Broadway musical will be coming to a movie theater near you. Tony Award-winning "In the Heights" will soar to new heights on the big screen, reports The Hollywood Reporter.

The famed director of Michael Jackson's 'This is It' and the 'High School Musical' trilogy, Kenny Ortega, will direct the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The star, composer, and writer of the stage production, Lin-Manuel Miranda, will follow his character to the movie, reprising his role.

Meanwhile, Corbin Bleu, also of 'High School Musical' fame, will be joining the Broadway cast in the later part of January.

Related stories: Corbin Bleu Reaches New 'Heights' 'A Single Man' is Singular Sensation at Screening in LA 

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Paramount to Start Online Service to Sell Movie Clips - Tuscaloosa News

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 02:33 AM PST

Feeling "the need for speed," as Tom Cruise put it in "Top Gun"? Log on to ParamountClips.com, search for the exact video snippet you want and press the checkout button. Within minutes — with the price depending on the type of licensing use you have in mind — Paramount will electronically deliver the selection in the format and resolution desired. Most scenes are available in multiple languages.

The site, to be introduced on Tuesday, is powered by VideoSense, an automated indexing tool developed by the technology company Digitalsmiths. Using proprietary video interpretation systems, Digitalsmiths allows films to be quickly searched by specific actor, line of dialogue, location, genre or product, among other criteria.

Paramount will initially restrict use to business customers — advertising agencies, mobile carriers, foreign broadcasters — that want to license pieces of films for commercial use. The plan is to ultimately open the site to consumers. People wanting to embed a specific scene from "The Godfather" on their blog could go to ParamountClips.com and buy it.

The service reflects a renewed effort in Hollywood to create fresh content from existing libraries, much as ring tones became a blockbuster offering for the music industry. Movie and television studios, suffering from a steep drop in DVD sales, are hopeful that serving up clips can become a business in itself while also stoking demand for the films in their entirety.

Although clips from films like "The Godfather" are already available free on YouTube, analysts said the new service was a chance worth taking.

"This Digitalsmiths technology is very impressive because it gives the ability to slice and dice and remodify content in a safe, automated way," said Bobby Tulsiani, a senior analyst at Forrester Research.

"It remains to be seen if it opens up a new business opportunity, but we didn't think people were going to pay for ring tones, either," he added.

Paramount's new service will initially allow users to search 80 films, including "The Godfather," "Forrest Gump," "Grease" and "The Addams Family." More than 200 films will follow, with the ultimate goal being about 1,000 movies, or about a third of the studio's total library, according to Geremie Camara, vice president of product development for Paramount Digital Entertainment.

Ben Weinberger, chief executive of Digitalsmiths, which is based in North Carolina, would not discuss pricing or say how much it cost to index movies; Mr. Camara also refused to provide financial information. Generally speaking, however, clip pricing ranges from technically free (a foreign network buys a movie and as part of the deal gets usage of a certain number of clips for promotion) to hundreds of thousands of dollars for a clip used in a national advertising campaign. The bigger the movie, the more expensive the clip: "The Godfather" is almost certainly going to cost you more than "The Spiderwick Chronicles," although it depends on the usage.

As for individual use, no pricing has been set but it will most likely follow the ring-tone model: Licensing a snippet of a song for a commercial is expensive, but a ring tone of the same snippet for personal use costs 99 cents.

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"Under the Eightball" Movie -- World Premiere Press Release - YAHOO!

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 12:52 AM PST

The revolutionary, independent film 'Under The Eightball' is scheduled for theatrical release on December 16th in New York City and December 18th in West Hollywood. The film promises to be a paradigm shifting experience for many as it reveals the 'true' source of the suffering associated with Lyme Disease and a host of other illnesses including ALS, Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and over 300 other diseases.

New York, NY and Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) Dec. 14, 2009 -- Andalusian Dogs and J.B. Virtual Enterprises Inc. announces the World Premiere Theatrical Release of the revealing documentary "Under The Eightball" on Wednesday December 16 in New York City, NY and Friday December 18 in West Hollywood, CA.

Where: IFC Center 323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street NY,NY 10014
When: Run to begin Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Who: Directors and Producers Timothy Grey, Breanne Russell and Rasheed Ali will be in attendance
Contact: 212-924-7771 or go to: www.ifccenter.com

Where: Laemmle's Sunset 5 8000 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90046
When: Run to begin Friday, December 18, 2009
Contact: 323-848-3500 or go to: www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2

The revolutionary, independent documentary 'Under The Eightball', chronicles investigative journalist Lori Hall-Steele's battle with Lyme Disease as her brother, director Timothy Grey, and friend, Breanne Russell, set out on a mission to uncover Lyme Disease's illusive and often misunderstood origins.

The filmmakers were, immediately confronted with a medical industry marked by ambivalence, a government steeped in corruption and greed, and a debilitating and deadly disease that traces back to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Grey and Russell hold fast, hastened to save Lori's life.

"'Under The Eightball' promises to become a paradigm shifting event for many of its viewers," says Grey.

In their eighteen month long journey Grey and Russell travel the country in search of answers and interview top experts in the world of Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases. 'Under The Eightball' includes live footage, historical documents, original animation and archival military footage.

The movie was produced by Michigan based film company Andalusian Dogs and was written, directed and edited by Timothy Grey and Breanne Russell. Executive producers are Justin Blake, Rasheed Ali and Dorel Nichefor.

This film has not been rated.

'Under The Eightball' has a run time of 125 min.

www.undertheeightball.com

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