Jim Dandy Aug 7, 2017
Black Mask Studios' excellent Black is getting the film treatment.
Black by Kwanza Osajyefo, Tim Smith 3, Khary Randolph, Jamal Igle and Black Mask Studios, has been optioned for the big screen by Studio 8 Productions, according to a report in Deadline.
The comic, which imagines a world where only black people have super powers and examines all the repercussions of that setting through the journey of Kareem Jenkins, a teenage boy who survives being shot by police thanks to the emergence of his powers. The series sees him swept into an underground full of black heroes and facing off with a shady government agency.
Osajyefo and Smith join the film project as producers, along with Black Mask boss Matteo Pizzolo and Jon Silk and Rishi Rajani from Studio 8. This project is expected to be a part of Studio 8's distribution deal with Sony Pictures. No...
Black Mask Studios' excellent Black is getting the film treatment.
Black by Kwanza Osajyefo, Tim Smith 3, Khary Randolph, Jamal Igle and Black Mask Studios, has been optioned for the big screen by Studio 8 Productions, according to a report in Deadline.
The comic, which imagines a world where only black people have super powers and examines all the repercussions of that setting through the journey of Kareem Jenkins, a teenage boy who survives being shot by police thanks to the emergence of his powers. The series sees him swept into an underground full of black heroes and facing off with a shady government agency.
Osajyefo and Smith join the film project as producers, along with Black Mask boss Matteo Pizzolo and Jon Silk and Rishi Rajani from Studio 8. This project is expected to be a part of Studio 8's distribution deal with Sony Pictures. No...
- 8/4/2017
- Den of Geek
Another year, another hastily thrown-together list of influential figures in the Edm world.
It seems like every festival season, another music publication takes a stab at declaring some handful of industry figures to be the movement’s global tastemakers – InTheMix put together a decent one in 2013, but Rolling Stone demonstrated their complete lack of understanding of the dance music dynamic in 2014. We would expect a 2015 list compiled by Billboard to knock both out of the water since the publication has managed to keep its finger on the pulse of dance music, but they’ve managed to miss the mark as well.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m not discrediting the role of DJ/producers in the youth culture explosion that is Edm – but when you’re talking about the individuals responsible for advancing the enterprise as a whole, maybe one or two artists fit the bill. As such, Diplo...
It seems like every festival season, another music publication takes a stab at declaring some handful of industry figures to be the movement’s global tastemakers – InTheMix put together a decent one in 2013, but Rolling Stone demonstrated their complete lack of understanding of the dance music dynamic in 2014. We would expect a 2015 list compiled by Billboard to knock both out of the water since the publication has managed to keep its finger on the pulse of dance music, but they’ve managed to miss the mark as well.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m not discrediting the role of DJ/producers in the youth culture explosion that is Edm – but when you’re talking about the individuals responsible for advancing the enterprise as a whole, maybe one or two artists fit the bill. As such, Diplo...
- 6/15/2015
- by John Cameron
- We Got This Covered
The Prancing Elites just want to dance.
But the troupe of five gender-nonconforming dancers from conservative Mobile, Alabama, is often prevented from doing exactly that – or publicly shamed when they do.
The Prancing Elites Project, premiering Wednesday on Oxygen, follows Adrian Clemons, Kentrell Collins, Kareem Davis, Jerel Maddox and Tim Smith as they fight to gain acceptance from their hometown, and in some cases their own families, while trying to live out their dreams.
As Jerel tells it, he, Adrian and Tim are the "girls" of the group, where Kentrell and Kareem are the "boys." Tim, who identifies as female,...
But the troupe of five gender-nonconforming dancers from conservative Mobile, Alabama, is often prevented from doing exactly that – or publicly shamed when they do.
The Prancing Elites Project, premiering Wednesday on Oxygen, follows Adrian Clemons, Kentrell Collins, Kareem Davis, Jerel Maddox and Tim Smith as they fight to gain acceptance from their hometown, and in some cases their own families, while trying to live out their dreams.
As Jerel tells it, he, Adrian and Tim are the "girls" of the group, where Kentrell and Kareem are the "boys." Tim, who identifies as female,...
- 4/22/2015
- by Amanda Michelle Steiner, @amandamichl
- People.com - TV Watch
Dancers will have a myriad of networking opportunities this spring at the 14th Annual Dance Media Festival presented by Dance Camera West (Dcw). The festival, which take place at venues from Beverly Hills to Dtla April 30-May 5, will showcase the medium’s various forms and should bring together producers, directors, choreographers and performers. “Over 30 films will be screened over the course of the Festival connecting diverse cultures and environments through the exploration of dance,” according to a release. Click here for more details. Other events for L.A. performers include: Breaking Into Hollywood WebinarMarch 20 1-2:30 p.m.Raindance LAOnlineMore info here. Serve A Year Campaign Launch EventMarch 23 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.Jimmy Kimmel Live! Studio Lot/El Capitan Theatre6840 Hollywood Blvd., Los AngelesContact Tim Smith for more info: tsmith@servicenation.org Producer’s Etiquette 2015March 25 at 7:30 p.m.Film Independent Office9911 W. Pico Blvd., Los AngelesClick here for more info.
- 3/19/2015
- backstage.com
Discovery Channel's survival series, “Dude, You're Screwed,” returns Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 9 p.m. Et. Season 2 will not only have a whole lot more adventures, it will also have three new dudes who want a piece of the action. Joining returning castmembers Terry Schappert, John Hudson, Matt Graham and Jake Zweig are wildlife tracker and conservationist Casey Anderson, backwoods survivalist Chris Swanda and bushmaster registered Master Maine Guide Tim Smith. Just like Season 1, the upcoming season will feature some deceptively beautiful locations around the world — Tanzania to Transylvania to Nicaragua. See video: ‘Dude, You're Screwed’ Peek: How a Speedo Becomes.
- 10/11/2014
- by Jethro Nededog
- The Wrap
If you haven’t heard yet, Potato will eat you. Potato is the new multiplatform endeavor from DJ/producer masterminds Skrillex, Diplo, and A-trak with support from managers Kevin Kusatsu and Tim Smith. It’s clear that all things Potato will be one half awesome and one hundred percent bonkers. “Messages” is the latest video from Dillon Francis and is a collab with Potato and label Mad Decent. Between frogs with eggplant arms, smiling poop ice-cream to psychotic rabbits and dancing bikini clad pigs, I like to think that Francis had a say in the placement of every single emoji in this video. It’s just plain fun. “Messages” is like a cracked out version of a lyric video. Here is what a boring lyric video would look like. Perhaps we can even think of this as an alternate take on Bonobo’s video for Cirrus where he masterfully created...
- 5/2/2013
- by Arshan Sadri
- Tubefilter.com
Meat & Livestock Australia’s front man Sam Kekovich suffers a head injury which causes him to hallucinate about rugby players in tutus, getting his fingernails painted and dancing Gangnam Style in this year’s Australia Day campaign.
Kekovich tells viewers that he is suffering from “Lambnesia” which causes symptoms of unAustralianess.
The scene was set for the campaign with Ten uploading a video to its YouTube channel last week which appeared to show Kekovich being injured by a misdirected cricket ball during a live cross with weatherman Tim Bailey.
The reveal was due to take place on Seven’s Today Tonight yesterday evening, but the network extended its news bulletin to cover the bush fires emergency, with Kekovich appearing on Sunrise this morning.
The ad retains Kekovich’s signature rant to camera. The campaign, from creative agency Bmf, aims to drive consumers to a website where they are invited to...
Kekovich tells viewers that he is suffering from “Lambnesia” which causes symptoms of unAustralianess.
The scene was set for the campaign with Ten uploading a video to its YouTube channel last week which appeared to show Kekovich being injured by a misdirected cricket ball during a live cross with weatherman Tim Bailey.
The reveal was due to take place on Seven’s Today Tonight yesterday evening, but the network extended its news bulletin to cover the bush fires emergency, with Kekovich appearing on Sunrise this morning.
The ad retains Kekovich’s signature rant to camera. The campaign, from creative agency Bmf, aims to drive consumers to a website where they are invited to...
- 1/9/2013
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
When it comes to moonshining, what you put into it is what you get out of it. And Discovery Channel went all in unlocking a potent formula in the hit series Moonshiners, a docuseries that follows the insular world of a handful of backwoods moonshiners and the law officials trying to stop them. Season 2 of Moonshiners returns to Discovery Channel Wednesdays at 10pm Et/Pt, beginning Nov. 7. One of the stars of the series is Southwestern Virginia native Tim Smith, a living legend in those parts, who’s been brewing “good liquor” considered a “whole lot stronger” than what you’d [...]...
- 11/2/2012
- by Barb Oates
- ChannelGuideMag
Following a competitive pitch, digital agency Citrus has won three projects for fashion retailer The Pas Group.
The announcement:
Digital agency Citrus has won a string of projects for Review, Metalicus and Republic – being some of the brands of the fashion retailer The Pas Group – following a competitive pitch.
Due to go live mid-year, Citrus will launch new online stores for Review and Republic and overhaul Metalicus’ existing digital retail platform. The brief aims to drive and maximise the group’s online sales by delivering an engaging digital brand and customer experience.
Peter Noble, CEO of Citrus, said The Pas Group was looking to create a loyal, multi-channel base of active online shoppers. “Pas started its online journey with Metalicus a few years ago, however our engagement is really taking the group to the next phase of its eCommerce strategy.”
“Our aim is to create a highly engaging online shopping...
The announcement:
Digital agency Citrus has won a string of projects for Review, Metalicus and Republic – being some of the brands of the fashion retailer The Pas Group – following a competitive pitch.
Due to go live mid-year, Citrus will launch new online stores for Review and Republic and overhaul Metalicus’ existing digital retail platform. The brief aims to drive and maximise the group’s online sales by delivering an engaging digital brand and customer experience.
Peter Noble, CEO of Citrus, said The Pas Group was looking to create a loyal, multi-channel base of active online shoppers. “Pas started its online journey with Metalicus a few years ago, however our engagement is really taking the group to the next phase of its eCommerce strategy.”
“Our aim is to create a highly engaging online shopping...
- 3/28/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
"One Tree Hill" fans, the end is near. The cast and crew are currently shooting their series finale, and we've been following along on Twitter as they say goodbye to friends and favorite locations, recalling the memories they've shared there along the way.
On Tuesday (Nov. 8), they shot their last scenes at Tric, the club location that Karen and Peyton in Season 2 and has been a focal point ever since. Sophia Bush shared an exciting piece of news via her Twitter: Gavin DeGraw is returning as a musical guest for the final episode.
DeGraw, of course, is the man responsible for "I Don't Want to Be," the show's theme song, which was covered by a wide variety of artists for the Season 8 opening credits.
Sources tell us that this year, there won't be an opening credit sequence -- as it's the final season, they don't want to waste precious moments...
On Tuesday (Nov. 8), they shot their last scenes at Tric, the club location that Karen and Peyton in Season 2 and has been a focal point ever since. Sophia Bush shared an exciting piece of news via her Twitter: Gavin DeGraw is returning as a musical guest for the final episode.
DeGraw, of course, is the man responsible for "I Don't Want to Be," the show's theme song, which was covered by a wide variety of artists for the Season 8 opening credits.
Sources tell us that this year, there won't be an opening credit sequence -- as it's the final season, they don't want to waste precious moments...
- 11/8/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
A psychologist has been tracking viewers' attention during movies, and his research is taking him all the way to Hollywood
This is an excerpt from There Will Be Blood. Eleven viewers were shown the scene and their eye movements were recorded using an infrared camera-based eyetracker. Each circle represents the centre of one viewer's gaze. The size of each circle represents the length of time they have focused on that particular area.
Psychologist Tim Smith from Birkbeck, University of London, explains his work - and why Hollywood is interested - in our Science Weekly podcast.
Psychology
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This is an excerpt from There Will Be Blood. Eleven viewers were shown the scene and their eye movements were recorded using an infrared camera-based eyetracker. Each circle represents the centre of one viewer's gaze. The size of each circle represents the length of time they have focused on that particular area.
Psychologist Tim Smith from Birkbeck, University of London, explains his work - and why Hollywood is interested - in our Science Weekly podcast.
Psychology
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- 6/7/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
This week we look at how science can help us understand our perception of music and film. We meet Tim Smith, a psychologist at Birkbeck, University of London, whose work examining exactly how we watch (and attend to detail in) movies has taken him all the way to Hollywood.
Tim asked volunteers, all of whom were fitted with eye-tracking equipment, to watch a pivotal scene from Paul Thomas Anderson's film,There Will Be Blood. By studying who and what the volunteers looked at during the film, he gleaned some fascinating insights into how good directors weave their magic.
Watch the video here. All is explained in the podcast.
Ahead of the Cheltenham Science Festival we meet scientist and Kiss FM DJ Martin Archer. Martin will present a workshop entitled DJ Physics, using the art of mixing and DJing to explain some of the frontiers of physics.
Rounding up this...
Tim asked volunteers, all of whom were fitted with eye-tracking equipment, to watch a pivotal scene from Paul Thomas Anderson's film,There Will Be Blood. By studying who and what the volunteers looked at during the film, he gleaned some fascinating insights into how good directors weave their magic.
Watch the video here. All is explained in the podcast.
Ahead of the Cheltenham Science Festival we meet scientist and Kiss FM DJ Martin Archer. Martin will present a workshop entitled DJ Physics, using the art of mixing and DJing to explain some of the frontiers of physics.
Rounding up this...
- 6/7/2011
- by Alok Jha, Ian Sample, Nell Boase, Jason Phipps
- The Guardian - Film News
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
When we talk about cinema, we usually talk about how the filmmaker guides us through the journey overall, and through each image he or she presents. We discuss the movements, the lights and the focus, and how that evokes moods and reactions in us, the moviegoer. (Check out Alison Nastasi's Framed for some of this discussion.)
But a wildly cool new series on David Bordwell's Website on Cinema turns the attention to the viewer. Not the overall reactions, mind you -- the shocked faces, intent looks and emotional reactions -- but rather the way our eyes absorb a scene. By tracking the eyes of a number of viewers watching a scene from 'There Will Be Blood,' psychological researcher Tim Smith attempts to discuss the importance of staging, and what, exactly, our attentions are drawn to as we watch a scene.
Continue Reading...
When we talk about cinema, we usually talk about how the filmmaker guides us through the journey overall, and through each image he or she presents. We discuss the movements, the lights and the focus, and how that evokes moods and reactions in us, the moviegoer. (Check out Alison Nastasi's Framed for some of this discussion.)
But a wildly cool new series on David Bordwell's Website on Cinema turns the attention to the viewer. Not the overall reactions, mind you -- the shocked faces, intent looks and emotional reactions -- but rather the way our eyes absorb a scene. By tracking the eyes of a number of viewers watching a scene from 'There Will Be Blood,' psychological researcher Tim Smith attempts to discuss the importance of staging, and what, exactly, our attentions are drawn to as we watch a scene.
Continue Reading...
- 2/17/2011
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Moviefone
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
When we talk about cinema, we usually talk about how the filmmaker guides us through the journey overall, and through each image he or she presents. We discuss the movements, the lights and the focus, and how that evokes moods and reactions in us, the moviegoer. (Check out Alison Nastasi's Framed for some of this discussion.)
But a wildly cool new series on David Bordwell's Website on Cinema turns the attention to the viewer. Not the overall reactions, mind you -- the shocked faces, intent looks and emotional reactions -- but rather the way our eyes absorb a scene. By tracking the eyes of a number of viewers watching a scene from 'There Will Be Blood,' psychological researcher Tim Smith attempts to discuss the importance of staging, and what, exactly, our attentions are drawn to as we watch a scene.
Continue Reading...
When we talk about cinema, we usually talk about how the filmmaker guides us through the journey overall, and through each image he or she presents. We discuss the movements, the lights and the focus, and how that evokes moods and reactions in us, the moviegoer. (Check out Alison Nastasi's Framed for some of this discussion.)
But a wildly cool new series on David Bordwell's Website on Cinema turns the attention to the viewer. Not the overall reactions, mind you -- the shocked faces, intent looks and emotional reactions -- but rather the way our eyes absorb a scene. By tracking the eyes of a number of viewers watching a scene from 'There Will Be Blood,' psychological researcher Tim Smith attempts to discuss the importance of staging, and what, exactly, our attentions are drawn to as we watch a scene.
Continue Reading...
- 2/17/2011
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
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• Datablog: download the full list as a spreadsheet
1) James Cameron
Director: Avatar, Titanic
2) Steven Spielberg
Director: Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, Et: The Extra Terrestrial
Producer: Letters From Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers
3) Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor: Inception, Shutter Island, Titanic
4) John Lasseter
Director: Toy Story, Toy Story 2
Chief creative officer: Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios
5) Brad Pitt
Actor: Inglourious Basterds, The Assassination of Jesse James by the
Coward Robert Ford
Producer: Kick-Ass, A Mighty Heart, The Departed
6) Christopher Nolan
Director: Inception, The Dark Knight
7) Scott Rudin
Producer: No Country for Old Men, The Queen, The Truman Show
8) Quentin Tarantino
Director: Inglourious Basterds, Pulp Fiction
9) George Clooney
Actor: Michael Clayton, Ocean's Eleven
Director: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night, and Good Luck
10) Ed Vaizey
Politician: Minister for culture, communications and creative...
• Datablog: download the full list as a spreadsheet
1) James Cameron
Director: Avatar, Titanic
2) Steven Spielberg
Director: Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, Et: The Extra Terrestrial
Producer: Letters From Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers
3) Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor: Inception, Shutter Island, Titanic
4) John Lasseter
Director: Toy Story, Toy Story 2
Chief creative officer: Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios
5) Brad Pitt
Actor: Inglourious Basterds, The Assassination of Jesse James by the
Coward Robert Ford
Producer: Kick-Ass, A Mighty Heart, The Departed
6) Christopher Nolan
Director: Inception, The Dark Knight
7) Scott Rudin
Producer: No Country for Old Men, The Queen, The Truman Show
8) Quentin Tarantino
Director: Inglourious Basterds, Pulp Fiction
9) George Clooney
Actor: Michael Clayton, Ocean's Eleven
Director: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night, and Good Luck
10) Ed Vaizey
Politician: Minister for culture, communications and creative...
- 9/24/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw, Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Cannes -- Atlantic Film Group and U.K. financier Prescience have sealed a strategic alliance that will give Atlantic Film Group's Antipodean financing subsidiary, Atlantic South, access to a facility worth an anticipated $20 million a year, the companies said Sunday.
The British fund will provide debt, equity and bridge financing via Atlantic South for Australian and New Zealand productions and co-productions in the $5 million-$15 million budget range.
Atlantic South, based in Sydney and Auckland, is headed up by Atlantic Film Group founder, Alan Harris, a film producer and specialist in co-production and international financial structuring. Harris estimates that the Atlantic/Prescience venture could provide up to 60% of a qualifying production's budget.
"Atlantic South is a natural logical progression for the Atlantic Film Group brand" Harris said.
Added Prescience managing director Tim Smith: "We have worked successfully with Alan Harris on a variety of projects over the years and this...
The British fund will provide debt, equity and bridge financing via Atlantic South for Australian and New Zealand productions and co-productions in the $5 million-$15 million budget range.
Atlantic South, based in Sydney and Auckland, is headed up by Atlantic Film Group founder, Alan Harris, a film producer and specialist in co-production and international financial structuring. Harris estimates that the Atlantic/Prescience venture could provide up to 60% of a qualifying production's budget.
"Atlantic South is a natural logical progression for the Atlantic Film Group brand" Harris said.
Added Prescience managing director Tim Smith: "We have worked successfully with Alan Harris on a variety of projects over the years and this...
- 5/16/2010
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"Kathryn Grayson, whose beauty and lilting soprano brightened MGM musicals of the 1940s and 1950s including Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate, has died," reports the AP. "She was 88." The Auteurs community remembers her with a photo, filmography and clip, and the Baltimore Sun's classical music critic, Tim Smith, posts three more clips.
Update, 2/19: "When coloratura soprano Kathryn Grayson... sang five songs, including an aria from La Traviata, in MGM's all-star patriotic parade, Thousands Cheer (1943), she began her 10-year reign as the prima donna of Hollywood," writes Ronald Bergan in the Guardian. "With her china-doll features, little turned-up nose and patrician manner, Grayson raised the tone of more than a dozen musicals. Although opera managers did not beat a path to her door, her clear, slightly shrill, small voice carried well on film in popular classics and operatic scenes."
Image: With Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh (1945).
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Update, 2/19: "When coloratura soprano Kathryn Grayson... sang five songs, including an aria from La Traviata, in MGM's all-star patriotic parade, Thousands Cheer (1943), she began her 10-year reign as the prima donna of Hollywood," writes Ronald Bergan in the Guardian. "With her china-doll features, little turned-up nose and patrician manner, Grayson raised the tone of more than a dozen musicals. Although opera managers did not beat a path to her door, her clear, slightly shrill, small voice carried well on film in popular classics and operatic scenes."
Image: With Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh (1945).
...
- 2/19/2010
- MUBI
Brisbane, Australia - December 07: Israel Folau (C) chats with team mates during a Brisbane Broncos Nrl training session at the University of Queensland on December 7, 2009 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images)
Brisbane, Australia - December 07: Tim Smith runs a drill during a Brisbane Broncos Nrl training session at the University of Queensland on December 7, 2009 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images)
Fremantle, Australia - December 07: Kyle Hardingham prepares to train with the Dockers during a Fremantle Dockers Afl training session at Santich Park on December 7, 2009 in Fremantle, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)
Melbourne, Australia - December 04: Nathan Jones of the Demons looks on during a Melbourne Demons Afl training session at Casey Fields on December 4, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)
Federal Way, Wa - December 04: Matt Grevers swims the 100 yard backstroke heats during day...
Brisbane, Australia - December 07: Tim Smith runs a drill during a Brisbane Broncos Nrl training session at the University of Queensland on December 7, 2009 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images)
Fremantle, Australia - December 07: Kyle Hardingham prepares to train with the Dockers during a Fremantle Dockers Afl training session at Santich Park on December 7, 2009 in Fremantle, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)
Melbourne, Australia - December 04: Nathan Jones of the Demons looks on during a Melbourne Demons Afl training session at Casey Fields on December 4, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)
Federal Way, Wa - December 04: Matt Grevers swims the 100 yard backstroke heats during day...
- 12/9/2009
- by dennis
- The Backlot
Listening last month to Election Day results from the all-news radio station (NYC’s Wcbs Am) as I lounged the evening away reading a book, I was suddenly reminded of my own minor brush with politics 35 years ago. We Never do politics or religion at Starlog (save for being pro-space, pro-literacy and anti-censorship), but recalling those times bemused me, so I’ve bothered to write them down here and make a Rare exception. Maybe you’ll be bemused, too.
Like all other freshmen bound that year for Bethany College, that “small college of distinction in the rolling hills of West Virginia” (as the College Bulletin described it), I had to choose a freshmen seminar for the fall. As a Post-Watergate budding journalist, I selected a course on politics that promised its students would actually Work in a campaign, namely that of its professor, Dr. Hiram Lester, who was running for State Senate.
Like all other freshmen bound that year for Bethany College, that “small college of distinction in the rolling hills of West Virginia” (as the College Bulletin described it), I had to choose a freshmen seminar for the fall. As a Post-Watergate budding journalist, I selected a course on politics that promised its students would actually Work in a campaign, namely that of its professor, Dr. Hiram Lester, who was running for State Senate.
- 12/3/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
Familiar faces hawking under new banners is a theme during AFM as veterans of the market circuit take up the battle to secure financing for projects after seeing the hard-hit sales sector suffer and companies disappear.
This year's AFM will boast a brace of familiar faces from Stateside boasting new companies and two newly formed international sales companies operating under the banners Metropolis International Sales and Timeless Films from the U.K.
Veteran sales agent Reiko Bradley -- who recently survived a brain hemorrhage -- has launched Eclipse International, a sales and distribution company. Bradley is the CEO, and Stephen Durham is the president of the L.A.-based company.
The company wheels into the market with four films, including science fiction thriller "New World Order" detailing a time-traveling quest to prevent terrorists from attacking an international peace summit in 2012.
In late 2006, Bradley, now 47, suffered a brain hemorrhage,...
This year's AFM will boast a brace of familiar faces from Stateside boasting new companies and two newly formed international sales companies operating under the banners Metropolis International Sales and Timeless Films from the U.K.
Veteran sales agent Reiko Bradley -- who recently survived a brain hemorrhage -- has launched Eclipse International, a sales and distribution company. Bradley is the CEO, and Stephen Durham is the president of the L.A.-based company.
The company wheels into the market with four films, including science fiction thriller "New World Order" detailing a time-traveling quest to prevent terrorists from attacking an international peace summit in 2012.
In late 2006, Bradley, now 47, suffered a brain hemorrhage,...
- 11/4/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London -- Brendan Gleeson is teaming up with "Ned Kelly" scribe John Michael McDonagh to star in McDonagh's "The Guard," an Irish-set comedy thriller also featuring Don Cheadle, Mark Strong and Liam Cunningham.
Gleeson joins the movie as it begins shooting on location in Ireland.
It details the story of an unorthodox Irish policeman (Gleeson) who joins forces with a straitlaced FBI agent (Cheadle) to take on an international drug-smuggling gang.
Gleeson's character is billed as a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.
Written and directed by McDonagh the film also stars Fionnuala Flanagan, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan, Pat Shortt and newcomer Katarina Cas.
The film is produced by Reprisal's Chris Clark and Flora Fernandez Marengo and Element's...
Gleeson joins the movie as it begins shooting on location in Ireland.
It details the story of an unorthodox Irish policeman (Gleeson) who joins forces with a straitlaced FBI agent (Cheadle) to take on an international drug-smuggling gang.
Gleeson's character is billed as a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.
Written and directed by McDonagh the film also stars Fionnuala Flanagan, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan, Pat Shortt and newcomer Katarina Cas.
The film is produced by Reprisal's Chris Clark and Flora Fernandez Marengo and Element's...
- 10/29/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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