Working Hollywood: The baseball coordinator, stunt coordinator and second-unit director for the Jackie Robinson biopic ’42’ once played football for USC and the L.A. Rams before segueing into stunt work. It may seem surprising that Allan Graf — the baseball coordinator, stunt coordinator and second-unit director for Warner Bros.’ Jackie Robinson biographical drama “42” — first made his name on …
Bringing classic films back to the screen has become big business at festivals such as those run by TCM and AFI. When it comes to old films, Robert Osborne is hard to stump. But this time he had to consult his notes.
The History Channel’s TV miniseries “The Bible” debuted at the top of the DVD and Blu-ray sales chart, while Oscar best picture winner “Argo” held on to the top rental spot. Here are the top selling and renting titles for the week ending April 6 and April 7, respectively.
A San Diego-area firm enables the wealthy to show in their home theaters movies that are still at the multiplex. The cost: $35,000 in equipment and $500 to $600 a film
Oscar winners and nominees battled for supremacy as new arrival “Lincoln” bested “Les Miserables” to take the top sales slot, and returning “Argo” was the No. 1 rental title over “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Skyfall,” according to the tracking firm Rentrak.
New releases ruled the sales market, with “The Hobbit,” “Les Miserables” and “Zero Dark Thirty” knocking last week’s “Rise of the Guardians” off its roost. But holdover “Argo†claimed top spot on the rental chart. Here are the top-selling and top-renting titles for the week ending March 23 and March 24, respectively, according to Rentrak.
British actor Richard Griffiths, best known for playing muggle Uncle Vernon Dursley in the “Harry Potter” movies , has died.
British director says despite ‘extraordinary work’ being carried out in 3D, he doubts the technology will survive 3D movies may be nothing more than a “phase”, according to Oscar-winning British director Danny Boyle. Boyle, who on Sunday night received an outstanding contribution prize at the Empire awards, said he was not a fan of stereoscope on film and doubted it would survive. “I don’t use …
HONG KONG — Hong Kong-born, London-raised Roger Garcia continues his role as the executive director of the 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival. We talked with him about this year’s event, which continues through April 2.
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.