Thursday 31 May 2018

Ten films to watch in June - BBC News


BBC News

Ten films to watch in June
BBC News
The Incredibles is one of Pixar's most beloved films – which, considering that nearly every one of their animations is beloved is really saying something – and certainly the one that always seemed most ripe for a sequel. This time the Parr family, each ...



'Adrift': Film Review - Hollywood Reporter


TheWrap

'Adrift': Film Review
Hollywood Reporter
Three years after watching teams of climbers struggle to survive their adventure on the eponymous mountain in Everest, Baltasar Kormakur offers a much more intimate survival tale in Adrift, setting two free-spirited lovers off into the Pacific Ocean ...
'Adrift' Film Review: Shailene Woodley Helps Steer Fact-Based Tale of Sea SurvivalTheWrap
Adrift review – shipshape Shailene Woodley keeps survival drama buoyantThe Guardian
Photos Of The Real 'Adrift' People Make The Film's Story That Much More PowerfulBustle

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Canon has sold its last film camera - TechCrunch


TechCrunch

Canon has sold its last film camera
TechCrunch
Mark this date on your calendar. It's the end of yet another tech era. Though, granted, this one's been been death rattling for nearly a decade now. Canon this week announced with no fanfare that it's sold its last film camera. The news was spotted by ...
Canon has ended sales for its last film cameraThe Verge
Canon ends film camera sales for goodEngadget
Canon shutters 80-year history of film camerasThe Japan News
Fstoppers
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Dinesh D'Souza: Trump pardons far-right film-maker who pleaded guilty - The Guardian


The Guardian

Dinesh D'Souza: Trump pardons far-right film-maker who pleaded guilty
The Guardian
Donald Trump has offered a full pardon to far-right documentary film-maker Dinesh D'Souza. The 57-year-old director of 2016's anti-Clinton documentary Hillary's America had pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign finance laws in 2014, and on ...

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Canon has ended sales for its last film camera - The Verge


The Verge

Canon has ended sales for its last film camera
The Verge
Canon has announced that it is officially discontinuing the EOS-1v, its last film camera, as reported by PetaPixel. Production of the EOS-1v — which was launched in 2000 — actually ceased back in 2010, but Canon continued to sell the remaining stock.
Canon ends film camera sales for goodEngadget
Canon shutters 80-year history of film camerasThe Japan News
Canon Finally Closes the Door on Film CamerasFstoppers

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John Cameron Mitchell's latest film blends Neil Gaiman, punk, and teen aliens - The Verge


The Verge

John Cameron Mitchell's latest film blends Neil Gaiman, punk, and teen aliens
The Verge
John Cameron Mitchell's film adaptation makes the metaphorical literal in a different way. While his version draws heavily on Gaiman's 1970s suburban London setting (and on Gaiman's own history), it also finds an eerie horror-movie symbolism in the ...



New film 'Jane & Emma' captures the friendship between a black convert and the beloved wife of Mormonism's founder - Salt Lake Tribune


New film 'Jane & Emma' captures the friendship between a black convert and the beloved wife of Mormonism's founder
Salt Lake Tribune
Many modern Mormons see black LDS pioneer Jane Manning James as heroic. What they may not know is what an unlikely, even risky, friendship the 19th-century free black member had with the first lady of Mormonism, Emma Smith. In an era when tensions ...



Judge backs new Melissa McCarthy film after 'Sesame Street' complaints - Page Six


Page Six

Judge backs new Melissa McCarthy film after 'Sesame Street' complaints
Page Six
The marketing for Melissa McCarthy's new film — featuring Muppet-like characters doing very naughty things — can move forward despite complaints from the folks behind “Sesame Street” that it “tarnishes” their kid show's brand the way a classic '70s ...
Happytime Murders film successfully trolls Sesame Street into marketing the filmBoing Boing
Judge rules against 'Sesame Street' makers in suit against Melissa McCarthy puppet filmUSA TODAY
Raunchy film can use 'No Sesame. All Street' in trailers, judge rulesNewsday

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How Drones Are Revolutionizing the Way Film and Television Is Made - TIME


TIME

How Drones Are Revolutionizing the Way Film and Television Is Made
TIME
Around the time Leonardo Da Vinci was painting the Mona Lisa, he was also writing his Codex on the Flight of Birds, a roughly 35,000-word exploration of the ways in which man might take to the air. His illustrations included diagrams positing pre ...



Happytime Murders film successfully trolls Sesame Street into marketing the film - Boing Boing


Boing Boing

Happytime Murders film successfully trolls Sesame Street into marketing the film
Boing Boing
Sesame Street lawyers are not happy that Jim Henson's son Brian has a raunchy puppet film coming out called Happytime Murders. After they filed a suit against the film, Henson retained a crack puppet lawyer named Fred (above) to defend them.
Judge backs new Melissa McCarthy film after 'Sesame Street' complaintsPage Six
Judge rules against 'Sesame Street' makers in suit against Melissa McCarthy puppet filmUSA TODAY
Raunchy film can use 'No Sesame. All Street' in trailers, judge rulesNewsday

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Film Review: 'Adrift' - Variety


Variety

Film Review: 'Adrift'
Variety
In “Adrift,” she plays a troubled but ebullient 23-year-old globe-trotter named Tami Oldham (who's a real person; the film is based on a true story), and whether Tami is settling into the island of Tahiti because that's where the fates took her, or ...

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Ten films to watch in June - BBC News


BBC News

Ten films to watch in June
BBC News
The Incredibles is one of Pixar's most beloved films – which, considering that nearly every one of their animations is beloved is really saying something – and certainly the one that always seemed most ripe for a sequel. This time the Parr family, each ...



Too few films about older women and sex? Thank heavens for Book Club - The Guardian


The Guardian

Too few films about older women and sex? Thank heavens for Book Club
The Guardian
They recognised the enthusiastic responses as an opportunity “to celebrate women at a stage in life when they don't feel like they get the opportunity to see themselves on screen”, says Bill Holderman, who co-wrote and directed the film. He listened to ...

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How Toni Collette's turn in the year's scariest film lends 'Hereditary' its terrifying power - Los Angeles Times


Los Angeles Times

How Toni Collette's turn in the year's scariest film lends 'Hereditary' its terrifying power
Los Angeles Times
Toni Collette wasn't looking for darkness when “Hereditary” came calling. But when the darkness found her — in the form of the unnerving saga of the Grahams, an American family haunted by tragedy, mental illness, and perhaps something supernatural ...

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Nicky Earnshaw to Head UK Production for See-Saw Films - Variety


Variety

Nicky Earnshaw to Head UK Production for See-Saw Films
Variety
See-Saw Films has hired veteran executive Nicky Earnshaw as head of production for its U.K. film and television divisions, effective July 9. Earnshaw will be responsible for the production and day-to-day operations of See-Saw's film and TV slate ...

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Canon ends film camera sales for good - Engadget


Engadget

Canon ends film camera sales for good
Engadget
Canon stopped building film cameras eight years ago, but it had still been selling them from old stock. Now, it has quietly announced that it will end sales of its last film SLR, the EOS-1V, marking an end to an era that started in 1934 with its first ...
Canon Finally Closes the Door on Film CamerasFstoppers
Canon shutters 80-year history of film camerasThe Japan News

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The indie film world reacts to the fall of the house of Weinstein - Los Angeles Times


Los Angeles Times

The indie film world reacts to the fall of the house of Weinstein
Los Angeles Times
His companies distributed scores more movies over the years, many of them foreign-language films audiences otherwise might not have seen. He helped make stars out of Quentin Tarantino, Gwyneth Paltrow, and even a middle-aged British stage actress ...
Film producer Weinstein indicted for rapeKGMI

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The arrival of 3D films - archive, 1929 - The Guardian


The Guardian

The arrival of 3D films - archive, 1929
The Guardian
If the claims made for the “three-dimensional” film which has just had an experimental showing in New York are justified it would seem not unlikely. According to one account the actors in the excerpt from a well-known musical comedy which was shown ...



How Drones Are Revolutionizing the Way Film and Television Is Made - TIME


TIME

How Drones Are Revolutionizing the Way Film and Television Is Made
TIME
Around the time Leonardo Da Vinci was painting the Mona Lisa, he was also writing his Codex on the Flight of Birds, a roughly 35,000-word exploration of the ways in which man might take to the air. His illustrations included diagrams positing pre ...



Successful Idaho-made film showcases state's talent, growing film industry - KTVB.com


KTVB.com

Successful Idaho-made film showcases state's talent, growing film industry
KTVB.com
Its success speaks to the caliber of talent in the Gem State, while giving exposure to our growing film industry. "6 Dynamic Laws for Success" is in its third week at the Flicks Theatre in Boise. Its run was extended another week because it's been ...



Ailing Thai beach made famous by Leonardo DiCaprio film gets tourist timeout - NBCNews.com


NBCNews.com

Ailing Thai beach made famous by Leonardo DiCaprio film gets tourist timeout
NBCNews.com
Many of Thailand's marine national parks are closed from mid-May to mid-October during the monsoon season but because of Maya Bay's popularity, it hasn't had a break since a Hollywood crew set foot on its sands in 1999 to film the dark backpacker tale ...

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First 2018 Galway Film Fleadh titles include Katie Taylor doc, horror 'Possum' (exclusive) - Screen International


Screen International

First 2018 Galway Film Fleadh titles include Katie Taylor doc, horror 'Possum' (exclusive)
Screen International
A new documentary charting a volatile period in the career of champion boxer Katie Taylor will have its world premiere at Ireland's Galway Film Fleadh (July 10th-15th). Don't Go, a psychological thriller starring Stephen Dorff and Melissa George and ...

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Netflix Planning Theatrical Screenings for Orson Welles' Final Film, 'The Other Side of the Wind' - Collider.com


IndieWire

Netflix Planning Theatrical Screenings for Orson Welles' Final Film, 'The Other Side of the Wind'
Collider.com
Cinephiles have waited decades to see Orson Welles final film, The Other Side of the Wind, which was left unfinished at the time of his death in 1985. But when streaming giant Netflix acquired the global rights to the film last year, it became a ...
Netflix Agrees to Theatrical Release for Orson Welles' Final Film, 'The Other Side of the Wind'IndieWire

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Japan Debates the Ethics of Making Films on the Cheap - Variety


Variety

Japan Debates the Ethics of Making Films on the Cheap
Variety
Hirokazu Kore-eda's Palme d'Or in Cannes for “Shoplifters” seems far away for most Japanese film-makers. Instead, a rare public war of words has now raised the question of whether movies in Japan are being made too cheaply. And is that damaging the ...



How 1960s Film Pirates Sold Movies Before the FBI Came Knocking - Gizmodo


Gizmodo

How 1960s Film Pirates Sold Movies Before the FBI Came Knocking
Gizmodo
Woody's crime? Film piracy. The cops would make away with dozens of movies. But this being 1975, he wasn't trading in DVDs or even VHS tapes. He was trading in film. Real film. Long before the internet's bandwidth could handle the traffic of a single ...



Hugo Weaving to Star in VR Feature Film 'Lone Wolf' - Variety


Variety

Hugo Weaving to Star in VR Feature Film 'Lone Wolf'
Variety
Hugo Weaving, who previously starred in technology trend-setting film “The Matrix,” will head the cast of full-length virtual reality feature “Lone Wolf.” He is joined by “Hotel Mumbai” actress Tilda Cobham-Hervey. The Australian film is to be directed ...

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