In greenlighting Antoine Fuqua’s ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ and Roland Emmerich’s ‘White House Down,’ studios just couldn’t resist the drama of an attack on the president’s residence. When veteran filmmaker Roland Emmerich was first offered the chance to direct a movie about terrorists taking over the White House, he couldn’t believe his luck.
How great must your release schedule for a given month be when masterworks such as Bergman’s ‘Wild Strawberries’ and the Harold Lloyd-starring ‘Safety Last’ aren’t the biggest names on the list? For arthouse/niche distributor Criterion, that’s the case when it releases ‘Shoah,’ the 11-years-in-the-making oral history of the Holocaust, on DVD and Blu – ray on June..
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Music hits the big screen for Treefort Film Series by George Prentice Admission to the films is free to Treefort pass holders and $5 for others at the Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St.Music and Movies Unite at Treefort Film Series Clarke Howell is a double-threat at Treefort.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Two Quebec inmates climbed up a rope into a hovering helicopter to make a daring daylight escape Sunday from a jail northwest of Montreal, authorities said.Quebec provincial police said later that they had arrested three people about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the Saint-Jerome jail from which the inmates escaped. One of those arrested was 36-year-old inmate Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau.