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Lineup Announcements
– Exclusive: The 12th Annual Sunscreen Film Festival announced its official selections for the 2017 event featuring films with Alec Baldwin, Dylan McDermott, John Cleese, Daphne Zuniga and more. Opening night will feature Michael Mailer’s newest film, “Blind,” a romantic-drama, starring Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore and Dylan McDermott. Closing night will wrap up the festival with “Albion: The Enchanted Stallion,” a family fantasy adventure, starring John Cleese, Debra Messing, Jennifer Morrison and Stephen Dorff.
Retrospective Screenings will include Daphne Zuniga appearance at the festival honoring the 30th anniversary of “Spaceballs.” Also in this category will be “The Greatest Show on Earth,” from 1952 directed by Cecile B. DeMille, which won the Oscar for Best Pictures and Best Writing in 1953. The screening will honor the closing of the Ringling Bros.
Lineup Announcements
– Exclusive: The 12th Annual Sunscreen Film Festival announced its official selections for the 2017 event featuring films with Alec Baldwin, Dylan McDermott, John Cleese, Daphne Zuniga and more. Opening night will feature Michael Mailer’s newest film, “Blind,” a romantic-drama, starring Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore and Dylan McDermott. Closing night will wrap up the festival with “Albion: The Enchanted Stallion,” a family fantasy adventure, starring John Cleese, Debra Messing, Jennifer Morrison and Stephen Dorff.
Retrospective Screenings will include Daphne Zuniga appearance at the festival honoring the 30th anniversary of “Spaceballs.” Also in this category will be “The Greatest Show on Earth,” from 1952 directed by Cecile B. DeMille, which won the Oscar for Best Pictures and Best Writing in 1953. The screening will honor the closing of the Ringling Bros.
- 3/30/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Brooklyn-based filmmaker David Novack has crafted an intelligent, poetic and engaging documentation of Isaac Babel’s grandson’s search for his grandfather: writer, man, Jew, Russian. This search reveals small and large stories surrounding Babel, and it encompasses Russia, Brooklyn, France, Ukraine, and more. We witness the enduring power of words, the rising power of truth.
This information rich 88 minutes feels like a walk through many Babel realities, including his writing works that vividly recall real events -- is descriptions of occurrences so powerful, and threatening to the existing Stalinist regime that he was not simply murdered, he was secretly murdered. The authoritarian intent was to erase and blow away any remains of Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel/Case File #419/no inmate file/May 15, 1939.
Andrei Malaev-Babel’s search for his grandfather connects a personal search to the historical era that informs and provides cautionary revelations about authoritarian political action as it follows...
This information rich 88 minutes feels like a walk through many Babel realities, including his writing works that vividly recall real events -- is descriptions of occurrences so powerful, and threatening to the existing Stalinist regime that he was not simply murdered, he was secretly murdered. The authoritarian intent was to erase and blow away any remains of Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel/Case File #419/no inmate file/May 15, 1939.
Andrei Malaev-Babel’s search for his grandfather connects a personal search to the historical era that informs and provides cautionary revelations about authoritarian political action as it follows...
- 1/30/2017
- by Carletta Joy Walker
- www.culturecatch.com
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
In one of the busier weekends of the month, two of the movies did better than I predicted and two did worse. The real winner of the weekend was Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween, which did far better than anyone thought with an opening weekend of $28.5 million in just 2,260 theaters or $12,611 per theater. It ended up completely demolishing Tom Cruise’s action sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, which opened in almost 1,500 more theaters, but at least that ended up around where I predicted with $22.9 million. Ouija: Origin of Evil came out slightly below my prediction to take third place with $14 million, while the Fox comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses bombed even worse than I expected with $5.5 million in 3,000 theaters.
This Past Weekend:
In one of the busier weekends of the month, two of the movies did better than I predicted and two did worse. The real winner of the weekend was Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween, which did far better than anyone thought with an opening weekend of $28.5 million in just 2,260 theaters or $12,611 per theater. It ended up completely demolishing Tom Cruise’s action sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, which opened in almost 1,500 more theaters, but at least that ended up around where I predicted with $22.9 million. Ouija: Origin of Evil came out slightly below my prediction to take third place with $14 million, while the Fox comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses bombed even worse than I expected with $5.5 million in 3,000 theaters.
- 10/26/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
The young David Novak had good reason to heed his mother's advice to make friends fast. Born in Beeville, Texas, the future inspirational-book author and executive chairman of Yum! Brands - the parent company of fast-food giants KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut - spent his childhood on the move: Every three months, his father's job relocated the family's 40-foot trailer home from one small town to another. by the time he was 12, he had lived in 32 trailer parks in 23 states. But rather than be intimidated as the perpetual new kid on the block, he embraced it. "I did not...
- 7/1/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival reeled out its inaugural black carpet on Friday (Nov 13) for its opening night, which included a screening of silent comedy My Grandmother (1929).
Banned in its time for denunciating bureaucracy, the satirical film was directed by Georgian actor, director and cartoonist Kote Miqaberidze.
The Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra enhanced the evening with a live accompaniment led by conductor Nikoloz Rachveli who is both the principal conductor of the Georgia National Symphony Orchestra and head of the Georgia National Music Center.
Rachveli also led the orchestra to an original piece played over excerpts of notable Georgian films (to be showcased in a retrospective at the festival), winning a standing ovation from the audience at the Nordea Concert Hall.
Mikheil Giorgadze, Georgian Minister of Culture and Monument Protectorate of Georgia, was in attendance and said: “Today, at this great platform, you will witness filmmakers works that have been prohibited and censored by the Soviet...
Banned in its time for denunciating bureaucracy, the satirical film was directed by Georgian actor, director and cartoonist Kote Miqaberidze.
The Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra enhanced the evening with a live accompaniment led by conductor Nikoloz Rachveli who is both the principal conductor of the Georgia National Symphony Orchestra and head of the Georgia National Music Center.
Rachveli also led the orchestra to an original piece played over excerpts of notable Georgian films (to be showcased in a retrospective at the festival), winning a standing ovation from the audience at the Nordea Concert Hall.
Mikheil Giorgadze, Georgian Minister of Culture and Monument Protectorate of Georgia, was in attendance and said: “Today, at this great platform, you will witness filmmakers works that have been prohibited and censored by the Soviet...
- 11/16/2015
- ScreenDaily
Listen up! Kid President has some words of wisdom to share. The young, self-proclaimed child chief of the United States doesn't identify himself by name in his video, apparently preferring that his message get all the attention. "Life is not a game, people," says the tux-wearing "chief executive" - identified by Tennessee's Jackson Sun as 9-year-old Robbie Novak, a third-grader at East Chester Elementary School - says on a video posted on his Kid President website. "Life isn't a cereal, either," he says in the video, which has already been viewed on YouTube 3 million times. "Well, [rolls eyes], it is a cereal.
- 1/30/2013
- by Dahvi Shira and Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
David Novak, CEO of Yum! Brands (/the dude responsible for the bulk of my caloric intake), stopped by the set of Morning Joe Monday to discuss his various fast food restaurants' healthier offerings -- and to impart a message. It is ultimately up to the individual consumer, he said, to make healthy decisions for themselves, whether it comes to eating fast food in moderation, selecting better food options, or choosing when and how often to exercise. "The bottom line," he said, "is you're accountable for what you do." Your decision to eat half your body weight in Bugles while crying alone in your bedroom is totally on you, bruh.
- 1/16/2012
- by Alex Alvarez
- Mediaite - TV
Actor R Madhavan has taken the early lead in PETA India's annual Hottest Vegetarian Celebrity poll. Madhavan, a longtime PETA supporter, says, "For me, being a vegetarian is about being compassionate. I love animals, so I would never eat them. Having a healthy heart is a great bonus, but I'd rather people think of me as having a good soul and a kind heart." R Madhavan has taken up the cause of chickens and has written to food chain CEO David Novak on behalf of PETA urging...
- 12/9/2010
- GlamSham
Bollywood actor R. Madhavan is concerned about the abuse of chickens and has written a mail to David Novak, CEO of KFC, on behalf of PETA urging him to stop killing the birds for their food menu.PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is asking people to boycott KFC restaurants in India until animal welfare improvements are adopted."I am sure you're a compassionate person who agrees that animals, whether they are dogs, cats or chickens, should not be abused and that working to stop this unnecessary cruelty should be a top priority," Madhavan wrote to Novak."Please ...
- 10/6/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
Bollywood actor R. Madhavan has written to KFC urging the company to stop mistreating chickens The 3 Idiots star and PETA activist wrote to David Novak, CEO of KFC parent company Yum! Brands, urging him to follow KFC Canada’s example and enact animal welfare reforms. "I am sure you’re a compassionate person who agrees that animals - whether they are dogs, cats or chickens - should not be abused," he wrote in his letter. "Please use (more)...
- 10/6/2010
- by By Anna Krahn
- Digital Spy
R. Madhavan has been associated with PETA for a while now. For the uninitiated, the actor has been fighting for the cause of protecting animals for a long time. That explains the reason why he sent a letter on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India to David Novak, CEO of KFC parent company 'Yum! Brands', urging him to adopt PETA's recommendations to stop the worst abuses of chickens that are killed for KFC. Madhavan, in his letter to David, wrote "I am sure you're a compassionate person who agrees that animals - whether they are dogs, cats or chickens - should not be abused and that working to stop this unnecessary cruelty should be a top priority. Please use your unique position to stop the worst abuses of these sensitive birds by making the improvements suggested by PETA and KFC's own former animal welfare advisors.
- 10/5/2010
- by Satish Sundaresan
- BollywoodHungama
R. Madhavan has been associated with PETA for a while now. For the uninitiated, the actor has been fighting for the cause of protecting animals for a long time. That explains the reason why he sent a letter on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India to David Novak, CEO of KFC parent company 'Yum! Brands', urging him to adopt PETA's recommendations to stop the worst abuses of chickens that are killed for KFC. Madhavan, in his letter to David, wrote "I am sure you're a compassionate person who agrees that animals - whether they are dogs, cats or chickens - should not be abused and that working to stop this unnecessary cruelty should be a top priority. Please use your unique position to stop the worst abuses of these sensitive birds by making the improvements suggested by PETA and KFC's own former animal welfare advisors.
- 10/5/2010
- by Satish Sundaresan
- BollywoodHungama
New Delhi, Oct 5 – Bollywood actor R. Madhavan is concerned about the abuse of chickens and has written a mail to David Novak, CEO of KFC, on behalf of PETA urging him to stop killing the birds for their food menu.
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is asking people to boycott KFC restaurants in India until animal welfare improvements are adopted.
“I am sure you’re a compassionate person who agrees that animals, whether they are dogs, cats or chickens, should not be abused and that working to stop this unnecessary cruelty should be a top priority,” Madhavan wrote to Novak.
“Please.
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is asking people to boycott KFC restaurants in India until animal welfare improvements are adopted.
“I am sure you’re a compassionate person who agrees that animals, whether they are dogs, cats or chickens, should not be abused and that working to stop this unnecessary cruelty should be a top priority,” Madhavan wrote to Novak.
“Please.
- 10/5/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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