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Live From Tiff 2009: T Minus 2: Get Low & Soul Kitchen

8 September 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- T minus two. Nothing to report on, except I ran into a pair of poster one sheets of films I'll be covering that obviously caught my eye. The first we have the one sheet for (a smaller, clearer version of it can be found on IMDb) Aaron Schneider's feature length film debut. A cinematographer by trade, Schneider's last short actually won him the Oscar and this lifts from the short. Written by Chris Provenzano, C. Gaby Mitchell and Scott Seeke, Get Low is based on the winning short Two Soldiers and based on the true story of Felix "Bush" Breazeale. Set in the depression-era 1930s Tennessee, when a man with a shady past (Robert Duvall) tries to find redemption through witnessing his own funeral as part of a funeral home’s promotional stunt. Sissy Spacek plays a woman from his past and Bill Murray makes a rare appearance »

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Dennis Hopper Returns to Crash with All New Cast Members

21 July 2009 6:20 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

They say Los Angeles is a city built of desire-a place of hope, possibilities, and a brighter tomorrow. Los Angeles is also a vast urban sprawl where those who don't attain their dreams can fall into isolation and despair. The Starz original series Crash premieres Friday, September 18 at 10:00 p.m. (et/pt).

Season two of Crash goes beyond the police storylines of the first season to focus on a farther-reaching collection of Angelenos from different social strata as their lives intersect. Is it by fate or coincidence that a billionaire visionary collapses in a parking lot and is helped by a strip-mall security guard? That a girl is murdered at the athletic club where she works? This season, multiple new storylines explore the human connections made in pivotal moments when characters must literally or figuratively fight for their lives. Nothing seems random in season two of Crash; instead, a »

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Fox Searchlight goes 'Crazy' for Country Pic

21 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- How could you go wrong with character names such as Tommy Sweet, Jean Craddock and Bad Blake? Fox Searchlight has boarded a low budget indie pic which apparently works with a Tender Mercies-like plot and features a strong foursome of Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhall, Colin Farrell and Robert Duvall. Variety reports that Searchlight paid a low seven-figure minimum guarantee for worldwide rights to the indie drama, set for release in the spring. Perhaps a Sundance showcase is in the cards?Actor Scott Cooper made his directing debut with this feature, recently starred with Duvall in someone else's feature-length directorial debut. Aaron Schneider's Get Low will play out to buyers and the Torontonians in September. Based on the debut novel by Thomas Cobb, this centers on a down-on-his-luck, alcoholic country music singer named Bad Blake (Bridges) who is able to get his life and career back on track »

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Eric Roberts leads new 'Crash' cast

11 June 2009 2:56 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »

  Starz has announced which new and returning cast members will join Dennis Hopper in the upcoming season season of the ensemble drama "Crash." Leading the way among the fresh faces is Eric Roberts ("The Dark Knight," "Heroes"), who will play a Seth, billionaire entrepreneur attempting to bring an NFL team to Los Angeles. Julie Warner ("Doc Hollywood") also joins the cast as Andrea, Seth's manipulative right hand woman. Dana Ashbrook ("Twin Peaks"), Linda Park ("Star Trek: Enterprise"), Jake McLaughlin ("In the Valley of Elah") and Tess Harper ("Tender Mercies") are also new to the cast, while Hopper leads a returning... »

- Daniel Fienberg

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Tony Award Nominations / Movie Connections

5 May 2009 11:42 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

The Tony Award Nominations are upon us. As is my inconsistent tradition, I thought I'd share a little bit about a movies you can rent or think about to create an unfulfilling celluloid guilty-by-association approximation of the Broadway experience of the 2008/2009 season before the TONYs roll around on June 7th. Not everyone gets to New York to see the shows. And even if you live here, like me, you don't get to them in your financially challenged years. Tony Winners Cynthia Nixon (who seems to be everywhere lately, right?) and In the Height's man Lin-Manuel Miranda are announcing them live any minute now.

If you want a reminder of what's eligible which you can use to see who got snubbed check out this eligibility chart.

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Joe Turner's Come and Gone

This is the 2nd in August Wilson's famous 10 play »

- NATHANIEL R

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Orlando Bloom Joins Main Street Cast

25 March 2009 10:10 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Orlando Bloom has joined the cast of Main Street, the late playwright Horton Foote's final screenplay. The Pirates of the Caribbean star will share the screen with Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson, Colin Firth and Andrew McCarthy. The drama centers on a group of people in a small town in North Carolina whose lives are shaken up when a stranger arrives. Bloom will play a small-town policeman. British theater director John Doyle is at the helm. Foote, who died this month, was best known as a playwright but also wrote screenplays, with such movies as To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, both of which won him Oscars. Bloom is also starring in Mark Ruffalo's directorial debut Sympathy for Delicious. Besides a minor part in the anthology film New York, I Love You, Bloom hasn’t hit the screen since 2007’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. The project, »

- James Cook

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Top Screenwriter and Playwright Foote Dead at 92

4 March 2009 5:30 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

The Pulitzer Prize and Oscar-winning screenwriter behind movie classics To Kill A Mockingbird and Tender Mercies has died.

Horton Foote was working on a production of one of his plays in Hartford, Connecticut, when he died. He was 92.

Foote, who was born in Texas, won screenplay Oscars in 1962 and 1983 for To Kill A Mockingbird and Tender Mercies respectively.

He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his play The Man From Atlanta. »

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7 articles from 2009

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