Thursday, November 24, 2011
What Have You Think about Tim Burton's Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon?
At the minimum, Tim Burton's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon was cute. Using the trademark Burton-esque eyeballs, damaged face and candy striped clothing, "B. Boy" -- as Burton themself referred to it as -- had all of the classic aspects of a Burton creation. Should you skipped the parade today, only then do we request you to definitely take particular notice in the balloon following the jump, and tell us if you are an admirer or otherwise. (For full-sized, click the image) What have you think about Tim Burton's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon?Loved it!Run-of-the-millDidn't like itVote [Photos: AP/Getty Images] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook Macy's Thanksgiving Parade 2011 We have accumulated pictures of the favorite TV and films figures in the 2011 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade! See All Moviefone Art galleries »
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Hot Short: Scrats Continental Crack-Up Part 2
Here’s a follow-around another short featuring Scrat the saber-toothed squirrel that Fox released in the start of the season. Fox and Blue Sky Art galleries certainly aren’t the first to obtain impressive mileage from a fascinating-searching rodent. That certain’s referred to as Scrat’s Continental Crack-Up Part 2. The film it’s marketing, Ice Age: Continental Drift, opens This summer time 13, 2012. For your fourth outing Jeremy Renner, Wanda Sykes, Aziz Ansari, Keke Palmer, Drake and Jennifer Lopez have grew to become an associate of returnees Ray Romano, Full Latifah, Dennis Leary, John Leguizamo, Seann William Scott and Josh Peck.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Safe Trailer Punches In
Jason Statham gets protectiveSooner or later, it would seem, every action hero type ends up doing one particular type of film, and it rarely ends well for them. Yes, we're talking about the Hard Nut Protects A Kid genre. And the target this time is Jason Statham, who goes all guns blazing in Safe. Take a look at the trailer below.Safe finds El Statho as Luke Wright, a cop-turned-cage-fighter in NY who is forced to scrape a living scrapping after the Russian Mafia murder his family and banish him to a shadowy existence. But then he spots a 12-year-old Chinese girl named Mei being chased on the subway by the same gangsters who offed his wife. Upon saving her, he discovers she's more than she appears: her talented noggin holds code secrets that were part of her life as a "counter" for the Triads. So she's not just a vulnerable kid, she's a gifted kid. Soon both sets of mobsters and a pack of corrupt cops are on their tail. So guess what Wright does? If you said he opens a little bakery that specialises in cream buns, you guessed wrong...Yes, it looks like a pretty standard chase/fight flick, which should please anyone who enjoys watching JS kick butt. Produced by Quentin Tarantino's regular compadre Lawrence Bender, it was written and directed by Boaz Yakin. Safe will be out on March 2, 2012.
Twilight's Ashley Greene Arrives at ABC's Pan Am
Ashley Greene Twilight star Ashley Greene has arrived a multi-episode arc on Pan Am, Entertainment Weekly reviews. Greene, who shows vampire Alice within the Twilight franchise, will have a debutante having a link with Ted (Michael Mosley). Browse the relaxation of present day news The 24-year-old actress will first come in the 12 ,. 4 episode, entitled "Hug Hug Bang Bang," that is perfect timing -- the 4th installment of twilighting, Breaking Beginning, opens just three days prior on November. 18.
Jay-Z Selling Occupy Wall Street T-T shirts No Intends to Share Profits With Protestors
Jay-Z is delivering a brand new type of T-t shirts for the Occupy Wall Street movement Friday via his Rocawear clothing label, but he doesn't intend to share the profits using the protesters.our editor recommendsOccupy Wall Street Boosts 'Margin Call' in Oscar RaceOccupy Wall Street: 'South Park' Assumes the Protests (Video)'Occupy Wall Street Hollywood': Artists On Scene of ProtestsStephen Colbert's Occupy Wall Street Video popular With Conservative Writers (Video) The rapper was lately seen putting on among the t shirts, which tweaks the saying "Occupy Wall Street" by crossing the "W" and adding an "S" to really make it read "Occupy All Roads."The protests, which began Sept. 17 in NY, have since spread to La along with other metropolitan areas as demonstrators protest corporate avarice and corruption. PHOTOS: The Scene at Occupy Wall Street The Company Insider noted the "irony" for the reason that Jay-Z doesn't have intention to distribute the proceeds to protestors. A Rocawear representative told the publication: "The 'Occupy All Roads' T-shirt was produced for the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement. Rocawear strongly encourages all types of constructive expression, may it be artistic, political or social. 'Occupy All Roads' is our method of telling people who there's switch to be produced everywhere, not only on Wall Street. At this time around we haven't made the official resolve for economically offer the movement." PHOTOS: The Scene at Occupy La But among the movement's most high-profile supporters, music mogul Russell Simmons -- that has attended Occupy protests and it has sent many tweets indicating his sights around the matter -- recommended the T-shirt on Twitter the 2009 week. "Love Jay-Z's t-shirt," he authored, tweeting a hyperlink to some photo published on his GlobalGrind website. "Glad i acquired mine today." Related Subjects Fashion Jay-Z Russell Simmons Occupy
Monday, November 7, 2011
Spooky 'Emergo' sells to major areas
Gregoire Melin's Kinology has folded out major territory sales on "Emergo," the newest genre pic from Rodrigo Cortes and Adrian Guerra, they behind "Hidden" and "Red-colored-colored Lights." Closing with topnotch entrepreneurs, "Emergo" has agreed to Alliance for U.K. and Canada, Universum in Germany and Australia's Hopscotch Films off a preliminary screening within the American Film Market. A U.S. purchase is becoming inside the works.Put together by Cortes, as well as the feature directorial debut of award-winning Catalan shorts helmer Carles Torrens, the British-language "Emergo" triggers a team of high-tech parapsychologists who investigate mysterious phenomena inside an old, eerie house. Toplining Kai Lennox and Michael O'Keefe, "Emergo" is defined at Guerra's new Barcelona-based production label Nostromo Pictures.Its makers acknowledge a debt to "The Blair Witch Project" and "Rec." Nonetheless they break new ground, it is said, in multiple cameras usage, different from HD lensing to 8mm, 16mm and 35mm familiar with capture the scientists' condition-in the-art technology -- infra-red-colored-colored filming, psychophonic tracks, movement sensors and magnetic area alteration meters -- along with the chilling phenomena they identify. "Emergo" has put together presales including Mexico (Cine Video y TV), Taiwan (Studio Solutions Group), Middle East (Gulf Film), Singapore (Cathay Keris Films), Indonesia (P.T. Rapi Films), Philippines (Pioneer Films), Argentina and Venezuela (Eastwood Holdings Intl.).Kinology is closing major territory presales on David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis" off a promo examined within the AFM, Melin mentioned. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com
Friday, November 4, 2011
Is Jerry Yang Trying To Bar A Yahoo Purchase?
TheWall Street Journal has struck a nerve at Yahoo getting a tale today that quotes several traders who say co-founder Jerry Yang is trying to reassert his energy in the organization by underminingthe board’s effort to discover a buyer.News reviews based on rumor and speculation are merely that,” the business states in the statement.Mr. Yang is among 9 company company directors while using identical fiduciary duties and motivation as all his fellow company company directors — for everybody the most effective interests from the organization’s traders.”The WSJ story states that as former Boss now a substantial investor and board member, Yang’s”multiple hats have elevated questions both inside and outdoors Yahoo about whether they can act inside the welfare of traders rather than from the necessity to preserve his influence and legacy.” It quotesa letter sent today by Daniel Loeb, who handles theThird Point LLC hedge fund, a substantial investor in Yahoo, getting in touch with Yang to resign. He reported Yang’s “ineptitude” in 2008 when he was Boss and rejectedMicrosoft’s $45B offer for Yahoo — which is now offering an industry cost of $19.2B.Loeb mentioned he'd fight a “sweetheart” to promote Yahoo with a private equity finance finance firm. The story also quotes Peter Schoenfeld ofP. Schoenfeld Resource Management LP, who states the”board needs to be dedicated to releasing [Yahoo] value for individuals traders instead of safeguarding just a little group.” Yahoo remains searching for its way since September if the fired Carol Bartz as Boss.
Seville remembers Russian cinema
SEVILLE -- The eighth edition from the Seville European Film Festival, Europe's primary devoted showcase for that continent's films, is tossing the spotlight on recent Russian Cinema. Bowing Friday, and running through November. 11, fest will screen additional features, shorts and docu films from youthful and vet Russian filmmakers. Two Russian photos, Andrei Zvyagintsev's "Elena," which won a Cannes' Not Certain Regard jury prize, and Nikolay Khomeriki's Match Factory-offered "Heart's Boomerang," a black-and-whitened drama, play Seville's primary Competition. Seville will recognition Nikita Mikhalkov, whose "Burnt through the Sun: The Citadel," Russia's foreign-language film Oscar entry, forms a part of a retrospective. "Russian cinema is taking pleasure in a brand new spring in the subjects and designers," stated Seville fest's artistic director Javier Martin-Dominguez. "Our focus mainly consumes new company directors and much more novel topics, reflecting an exciting, modern cinema," he added. A vital meeting point for that European film industry, Seville will promote co-productions between Russia and The country. The spanish language helmer Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez's comedy "Don't Touch the Dead, Kid," which sources exactly the same-entitled novel by late film writer Rafael Azcona, among The spanish language cinema's best, world preems at Seville's opening gala. Created by Juan Gona and co-composed by Garcia Sanchez, David Trueba and Bernardo Sanchez, pic completes an Azcona film trilogy representing '50s The country. Its first couple of parts -- Marco Ferreri's "The Small Apartment" and "El Cochecito" -- are actually regarded as as classics. Primary Competition includes the planet premiere of Arantza Alvarez's feature debut "Kenu," a French-language, Senegal-set immigration drama, co-created by Andalusian shingle Jaleo Films and France's La Fabrica Nocturna. Closing evening pic is Steve McQueen's "Shame." Seville's official section screens 16 films fighting for that Golden Giraldillo, fest's top award, which has a Euros40,000 ($55,200) cash-prize for that winner's distribution in The country. Vet Russian documentary director Aleksandr Gutman will preside your competition jury. Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai and Marion Doring, European Film Academy director, will get tribs. Fest will even pay tribute to Spain's exhib-distributor Enrique Gonzalez-Macho, founding father of Alta Films, Eddie Saeta's producer Luis Minarro and actress Maria Galiana. An EFA Selection will screen films pre-selected through the European Film Academy, whose nominations announcement, on November. 5, signifies among Seville's highlights. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com
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