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April 29 Black Dog Films"Chipmunks" help revive movie soundtracksLOS ANGELES (Billboard) - For years, the soundtrack business was a sleepy corner of the industry. Apart from the occasional standout hit -- think "Titanic" -- most compilation soundtracks seemed irrelevant. But of late, a reawakening has occurred, and Robert Kraft, as president of Fox Music, has been on the front lines. Three of Fox's soundtracks reside in the top 10 of Billboard's Top Soundtracks chart: "Alvin and the Chipmunks" at No. 1, "Juno" at No. 2 and "Once" at No. 7. Kraft, who released two albums as a solo artist and two as part of a band, Robert Kraft & the Ivory Coast, was nominated for the 1993 Academy Award for best song alongside Arne Glimcher for "Beautiful Maria of My Soul" from "The Mambo Kings." He has been an executive on the Fox lot for almost 15 years, supervising the music for all of the studio's projects on the film and TV side, including "Moulin Rouge!" "Walk the Line" and "Titanic"; for TV, he oversees the music for "24," "Family Guy" and "The Simpsons," among others. It's a career that has survived the ups and downs of the music industry, but the recent resurgence in his soundtracks has even taken him by surprise. What does he suspect is the secret to soundtrack success? Two words: Singing chipmunks. Resources for April 28 The Beverly Hills PlayhouseMay 2008 Movie Releases "Iron Man" - Robert Downey, Jr. is Tony Stark. Based on the comic book superhero. Opens May 1, 2008 "Made of Honor" - Patrick Dempsey's best friend is Michelle Monaghan and upon returning from a business trip to Scotland, she's engaged! And she wants Dempsey to be her maid of honor! But Dempsey is in love with her! Will I make it to the trash can in time before I puke? Opens May 2, 2008 "Son of Rambow" - British indie flick about a pre-teen kid in the 1980's who is filming his own action movie, despite the fact that his stuntman/camera guy is of a different faith. And as usual, everyone wants to be in the movie. Opens May 5, 2008 "The Babysitters" - Katherine Waterston is a high school senior that picks up a few bucks by babysitting then goes for the gold with the children's parent, John Leguizamo. She soon enters a spiral of hooking up her girlfriends with "upstanding" family men. Will there be an Unrated version of this? Opens May 9, 2008 "Redbelt" - Chiwetel Ejiofor is a martial arts instructor who saves the life of a Hollywood star and is propelled into a big time martial arts fight that he doesn't want to do anything with. Was Van Damm-age asking for too much money? Directed by David Mamet. Opens August 21, 2008 "Speed Racer" - Here he comes... here comes Emile Hirsch . Yes, Emile Hirsch is Speed, Christina Ricci is Trixie, Matthew Fox is Racer X, Susan Sarandon and John Goodman are Speed's parents... I'm gonna watch it for the visuals. Opens May 9, 2008 "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" - It's been 1 year for the kids, and about 1300 years for Narnia. Peter, Susan, Lucy, and Edmund return (the actors playing them as well) to a different Narnia. Check out the trailer! Opening May 16, 2008 "What Happens in Vegas" - Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher wake up to find that they're married to each other. Not based on a Britney Spears stunt... Opens May 16, 2008 Resources for April 26 Osbrink Talent AgencyThreat of an actors strike boosts movie productionLOS ANGELES - Feature film production in the Los Angeles area jumped 11 percent in the first three months of the year as studios moved to get ahead of a possible actors strike. FilmL.A. Inc., an agency that tracks on-location filming, said the increase came in comparison to the first quarter of 2007. "The studios are trying to get production wrapped before June 30," the expiration date for the current Screen Actors Guild contract, Jack Kyser, chief economist for the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp., said Friday. A film shoot interrupted by a strike would a "very expensive proposition," he said. SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers held their 10th day of negotiations on Friday as another actors union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, waited in the wings for its contract talks to begin on May 5. AFTRA delayed the start of its talks for a week to give SAG a better chance to complete a three-year deal covering movies and prime-time television. Kyser said the reprieve for SAG gave many workers in Hollywood hope that there won't be a repeat of the 100-day strike by writers that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill. Resources for April 23 Black Dog FilmsSummer movie preview The heat outside might be stifling, but multiplexes will have plenty of breathing room this summer. It will be late July before there are more than two wide-release movies in one weekend vying for your $9. Inexplicably, that’s when the schedule starts to get ridiculously overloaded. Of 49 movies scheduled for wide release between May 2 and Aug. 29, 21 of them will be released in August. Fewer options means better chances for most movies. Here’s a look at summer’s likely biggest draws, duds, question marks and sleepers. Release dates are subject to change. The big players * “Iron Man” May 2 Plot: Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a cynical arms dealer kidnapped by terrorists and tasked to build missiles. When he escapes after forging a suit of towering technological armor, Stark gradually grows into Iron Man, a superhero with heavy boots of lead filling victims full of dread. Based on the Marvel Comics character. Prognosis: Excellent. Not just any franchise could attract an actor of Downey’s caliber. It should echo the action, scope and snap of “Batman Begins,” with more wiseacre humor. Particulars: In what was meant to be the first of several comic-book character cameos of the summer, Samuel L. Jackson shot a scene as Nick Fury. Reportedly, the scene isn’t in the final cut. Resources for April 21 The Beverly Hills PlayhouseBORDER Movie A must watch for those who want to get a glimpse of what is happening on the U.S. Border One of the most pressing issues facing the United States today, illegal immigration, is not a part of the Democratic Party's discourse as it fights for a candidate for the presidency of the United States. The Republican nominee pushed the agenda as a Senator several years ago but has since changed his tune in how he would tackle it, as president. While the politicians in Washington remain non-performing assets, the US border remains wide open, the US Border Patrol remains woefully understaffed, and illegal immigrants continue to stream into the United States unabated. One of the most important documentaries addressing this issue, BORDER, was recently released on DVD,
and it tells the story from a variety of perspectives, including from
that of rancher, Minuteman, border patrol agent, illegal immigrant,
legal immigrant, and even politician. The movie discusses broken
borders, depressed wages in the United States (The average salary for a
meat packer 20 years ago was $20, today it is $9, according to the
movie, thanks in large part to big business taking advantage of cheap
and illegal labor), death in the Arizona desert, the border cat and
mouse game, rape trees, drug smuggling, sex trafficking, Mexican
military incursions, and more. Resources for April 20 Osbrink Talent AgencyNYCC: The "Incredible Hulk" Movie PanelIf at first you don't succeed, smash, smash again. At least, that appears to be the lesson learned by Marvel after the release of their "Hulk" movie in 2003 by director Ang Lee ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Brokeback Mountain"). This summer, Marvel has another go-round in the theaters with their jade goliath in "The Incredible Hulk." The difference between this time and the last? Marvel Studios is creatively in charge of this film, as opposed to Universal Studios (who released the last "Hulk," and will still release this one as well). The two studios held a panel at the 2008 New York Comic-Con to talk about this "unofficial" sequel. Present at the con were producers Gale Anne Hurd ("Terminator") and Kevin Feige (of Marvel Studios), director Louis Leterrier ("The Transporter"), and actor Tim Roth ("Reservoir Dogs"). The first thing brought up in the panel was the release date - June 13. Those present agreed the date was creeping closer and closer with each passing day. Leterrier said, "I just came from a scoring session in Seattle this morning. Craig Armstrong is scoring the film, and the score sounds ‘Star Wars' good." They also informed us that the film is currently "picture-locked" (which means no more editing is taking place) and they are mostly working on the visual effects at this point. Speaking of visual effects, actor Tim Roth spoke about his character - human Emil Blonsky/CGI-creature the Abomination. He told the audience, "I always loved Hulk, but I didn't really know the Abomination. Once I got the part though, I read up on the character." The Blonsky that Roth is playing is a bit different than the one comic fans are used to, however. Tim Roth's Blonsky is a fighter. As a matter of fact, in a clip the audience was shown, con attendees saw him take on the Hulk as Blonsky - a human soldier in the army! He performed martial arts flips and spins, but still was beaten by the Hulk (of course). Roth further explained of his character, "He's
a soldier whose body is giving out on him. Becoming the Abomination is
his solution."
In addition to a different villain in this Hulk film, Feige
indicated that the movie would be going for a different tone. "We want
the Hulk to be a hero this time," he said.
Feige also told the audience that he and Leterrier were thrilled
with the way the movie has come out. He said that at the beginning of
the movie, Leterrier had made a wall with clips from "Hulk" comics of
moments they wanted to include in the film. When they looked at the
board recently, Feige said they realized that they got every image they
wanted. Resources for April 17 The Art of Murder, And of Murder MoviesThe inexhaustible durability of genre movies — our rich cinematic heritage of recognizable story styles and their defining and malleable conventions — has, in happier creative times, been roughly analogous to the cyclical rebuilding of thriving new cities on the sites of the metropolises that came before. But lately, the majority of American forays into genre hardly seem worth the trip. Dumbed-down popcorn fodder seems increasingly inspired by the box-office receipts of a previous film, rather than by a tradition of narrative or stylistic ingenuity. Latter-day action movies, policiers, romantic comedies, and others are generally assembled with such cynical lack of craft that they achieve little more than a crude spark of Pavlovian recognition in their intended audience. "Anamorph," a new film opening today at IFC Center on the same day it becomes available on cable, via IFC's on-demand service, is that increasingly rare commodity — a contemporary genre film that doesn't stumble as it looks backward to capture the spirit of the films that inspired it. Directed with cool, unostentatious economy by Henry Miller, and written (by Mr. Miller and Tom Phelen) with a singularly keen ear for the ebb and flow of neurotic and pathological human behavior, "Anamorph" features a gloomy but highly engaging incandescence that is all the more surprising considering the genre column it occupies. Plainly put, "Anamorph" is a serial-murder-thriller, a fusion of police procedural and horror film that has, like many recent concept splicings, declined in maturity and intelligence since an early 1990s heyday. Resources for April 16 Craig CoveActor Billy Mumy known for the role of Will Robinson in the TV series Lost in Space was a Hamilton high school class mate of future actor Craig Cove. They had lots of conversations about music which is another one of Billy’s passions. Craig had family that worked at “the film studios” so “show business” people were not unusual to him. Some students would stare a lot at Billy or call him Will Robinson. Billy and Craig would laugh and joke about it sometimes. Occasionally, Angela Cartwright who played Penny on the series would pick up Billy after school in her new white Pontiac Trans Am. Angela would park away from people behind campus to avoid attention. Billy wanted to be treated like a normal everyday kid. Nowand then Billy can be found at McCabes Music in Santa Monica. Resources for
April 15 Inside John Madden's StudioWhen thinking of people who could ostensibly take over for index card happy Bravo host James Lipton, former NFL coach John Madden is not the person who immediately comes to mind. By FilmStew Staff, FilmStew.com
Rubber-faced Frank TV star Frank Caliendo
is going to have a field day with this… As part of its 10th anniversary
edition, the upcoming California Independent Film Festival (April 16th – 20th)
in Dublin, CA has announced that it will have former NFL coach John Madden
moderating a panel discussion with director Penny Marshall up on a stage in the style
of James Lipton's Inside the Actors Studio. April 14 Review: Street KingsShort version: This movie starts out with some potential, but
by the end, it's over-the-top yet mediocre at the same time. It has its
good spots, but overall its flaws are too distracting and frustrating
for it to be truly enjoyable. Didn't I already see this movie a few years ago, and wasn't it called Training Day? That might be because this movie was directed by the guy who wrote Training Day, David Ayer. However, I feel quite confident in saying that, unlike Training Day, this movie isn't in danger of winning any Oscars, at least for acting or directing. It's not terrible, but it's far from great. As usual, Keanu Reeves substitutes with likability what he lacks in acting ability. Throughout the entire movie, the believability factor of Reeves playing a cop is about the same as when Kevin Costner played Robin Hood. Somehow, it doesn't matter, though. Far more detrimental to the movie are plot holes and logic gaps in the story that could accommodate a big rig. With the exception of Hugh Laurie, who plays Read Full News Resources for Craig Cove April 03 Paper: Heath May Have Fathered a Love ChildOne of Heath Ledger's
estranged uncles claims that the late actor may have fathered a love
child when he was a teenager, according to a report in Sydney's Daily Telegraph.
When he was just 17 years old, Ledger reportedly dated a 25-year-old woman – who discovered she was pregnant after the relationship ended and later gave birth to baby girl. Although the woman was living with another man at the time, Ledger's uncle Hadyn claimed to the paper, "There is a very real possibility that Heath was the father." But in a television interview, Hadyn called this possibility only a rumor. "It is a rumor and it is one that has been out there for sometime, not only within our family but certainly in the wider community of Perth and it's certainly a rumor that I'm aware of and other people have certainly been aware of it," he told Australia's Channel Nine News. "It is only a rumor and I simply answered by saying yes it's a possibility." Read Full News Resources for Craig Cove April 02 Actors Union Sets Talks With ProducersThe Screen Actors Guild announced it will begin negotiating a new contract with Hollywood producers on April 15. Talks are set to
start more than two months before SAG's contract expires with the
Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on June 30.
A-list actors such as George Clooney and Meryl Streep have pushed SAG to start talks quickly as the industry reconnects with viewers after the recent 100-day writers strike.
It appears
Tuesday night's announcement means SAG will beat its fellow actors
union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, to the
bargaining table. AFTRA had no immediate comment. Read Full NewsResources for Craig CoveThe Beverly Hills Playhouse founded and directed by Milton Katselas is a top well respected acting school. Actor Craig Cove credits the BHP intense training programs that enabled him to perform with a complete understanding of the craft. It’s like a top martial arts “Dojo” where you go train for a degreed “Black Belt”. The training is a combination of methods and exercises based mostly on Stanislavski, this requires discipline and dedication. Milton Katselas is an amazing acting teacher and coach. His classes are full of working TV and film actors. Stars attend as well just to stay “sharp”, and to work on new things. Active class alumni such as Jorge Garcia, Doris Roberts, Jenna Elfman, and Jeffrey Tambor are a few that come to mind. Resources for |
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