CNN has picked up director Penny Lane’s Our Nixon, which is culled from hundreds or hours of intimate home videos shot by the 37th president’s closest aides. The cable network plans to premiere the film in August, while Cinedigm will release it theatrically.
As if film production and distribution hasn't been fundamentally fractured enough, here comes Vine to smash the traditional models of storytelling and viewership into a million little six-second pieces.
The line between reality and fantasy is seemingly blurred in the new film Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes, which released its first trailer Thursday.
Written, directed, and co-produced by Francesca Gregorini (Tanner Hall), the film takes a look at the life of Emanuel, a young woman who has grown up without a mother. Played by Kaya Scodelario (Skins), Emanuel develops a strange fascination with her new neighbor, Linda (Jessica Biel), who closely resembles Emanuel's deceased mother.
The Project is a movie about pirates without Johnny Depp. It's also a movie about life-or-death military operations, but there are no duty-bound, Stars and Stripes-waving patriots to be found. Instead, this documentary, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a stark and shocking look at the outlaw police force that seems a world away, but has a vast impact on the way we live in America.
Shane McConkey's legacy continues to reach new heights.
The Canadian-born skier helped revolutionize and legitimize extreme sports in the 1990s, bringing fame and great attention to a growing group of mountain athletes that sought to redefine -- and push the boundaries of -- sanity on the slopes. A pioneer of the BASE jumping-skiing hybrid, McConkey's resume was filled with medals, honors and trophies by 2009, when he died -- at just 39 years of age -- while attempting an especially difficult stunt on a mountain in Italy.
For many adolescents, summer signals the start of endless days spent in a homemade tree house. But the in The Kings of Summer -- formerly titled Toy's House -- three boys are looking to be free of more than just school.
The Agatha Christie Estate has signed with WME for representation.
At a time when estates like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's -- creator of Sherlock Holmes -- are generating big business, Christie's is one of the most coveted.
As one of the most enduring mystery authors of all time, Christie has sold more than 2 billion books and has spawned numerous franchises. As part of this exclusive partnership, WME will represent all facets of her estate, expanding its reach across TV, film and digital media.
There is life after death after all, at least for Adan Canto.
As Paul Torres, a member of Joe Carroll’s cult on Fox’s midseason hit The Following, he offered himself up as fellow follower Jacob’s first kill in the March 18 episode “Love Hurts.” (He reappeared in a guilty Jacob’s hallucinations in the following episode.)
After a decade and a half of working in obscurity and occasionally popping up to bemuse the public and impress critics, Harmony Korine, dedicated anti-commercial artist, has found himself in the international spotlight.
The 40-year-old writer-director is a new name to many who are just discovering the man responsible for corrupting half a generation of Disney Channel stars in the new neon-nihilism film Spring Breakers. There are quite a few things to discover about this mysterio, and so, here is a guide:
Before Harmony Korine went (semi) legit with Spring Breakers, he was a young, trouble-making wunderkind best known for directing inaccessible avant garde films and giving bizarre, non-sequitur-filled interviews to a bemused David Letterman.
It’s been more than six months since Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers premiered at the Venice Film Festival, but many U.S. moviegoers will get their first glimpse of the raunchy, candy-colored drama when it opens nationwide Friday.
For former teen queen Selena Gomez, the opening officially marks her departure from the squeaky-clean Disney scene and is her first project that is decidedly inappropriate for her legions of young “Selenators” (or fans).
