The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is proud to present James Franco with the Outstanding Performance of the Year Award on Saturday, January 29, 2011. He will be honored for his compelling performance in Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours at the 26th edition of the Fest which runs January 27-February 6, 2011, it was announced today by SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling.This fall will see the release of the highly anticipated 127 Hours, in which Franco stars in the true story of young adven...
Images Copyright Marvel Comics and Columbia Pictures All Rights Reserved by Marc HalperinAfter a comprehensive worldwide casting search Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios have their new Spiderman, Andrew Garfield has been chosen to portray Peter Parker. Spider-Man returns to the big screen in 3D on July 3, 2012. The new film directed by Marc Webb, will begin production in early December from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt. Bloggers, pop culture commentators, and everyday fans have spe...
Friday, July 6------The July 4th Weekend (which this year is being celebrated from Wednesday, July 4 through Sunday, July 9) is one of the box office bonanza weekends of the year. In a summer that has seen very few box office champs (SPIDER-MAN 3 and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 3 the obvious exceptions), studios are looking to films opening this critical week to give a necessary transfusion to Hollywood box office coffers. Just mid-week through this critical long weekend, the sci-fi action film TR...
Tuesday, May 1-----America's favorite superhero is back. ...The Tribeca Film Festival and Columbia Pictures have joined together to usher in the latest chapter in the life, loves and adventures of Peter Parker (also known as Spider-Man) with a marathon of midnight screenings leading up to the premiere of SPIDER-MAN 3 on Friday. Night owls and Spidey die-hards can catch the original SPIDER-MAN, starring Toby McGuire, Kirsten Dunst and Willem Dafoe, tonight at midnight at the Clearview Chelse...
22ND ANNUAL ISRAEL FILM FESTIVALPRESENTS OVER 40 FILMS MARCH 7-22 Amy Pascal, co-chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment, will be honored with the 2007 IFF Visionary Award at the 22nd Annual Israel Film Festival Opening Night Awards Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 6, was announced today by Festival Founder and Executive Director Meir Fenigstein. Last year’s Visionary Award recipients were Focus Features CEO James Schamus and Universal Pictures Co-Chairman David Linde. Schamus also s...
Willem Dafoe honored with Donostioa Prize at 53th San Sebastian Festival.With a face of sharply cut angles and restless eyes, this peculiar actor could well have found himself typecast in villainous roles like the one he played in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart. But he has in fact achieved enormous popularity for characters having nothing in common with this stereotype, such as Sergeant Elias in Oliver Stone’s Platoon, Paul Schrader’s sleepy New York night-time dealer in Light Sleeper or Jesu...
