Archive for February, 2012

  • Spotlight: Cellmates

    Spotlight: Cellmates

    February 20th, 2012 | Spotlight | jwilka

    Director Jesse Baget Actor Hector Jiminez Actor Stacy Keach Actor Kevin Farley

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    Variety: Internet VOD challenges pay TV

    February 17th, 2012 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Internet VOD challenges pay TV Number of iVOD users reached 7 million in 2011 By TODD KUSHIGEMACHI The video-on-demand market for paid rentals is currently ruled by pay TV services, but the Internet-on-demand market is growing in strength, according to the NPD Group. Pay TV VOD services hit $1.3 billion in revenue for 2011, according to [...]

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    Variety: Direct-to-DVD films decline

    February 13th, 2012 | Gravitas News, News | jwilka

    Direct-to-DVD films decline Studio product still makes money; indies struggle By ROBERT MARICH   The decline of the DVD business, which began in 2009, has split the producers of direct-to-DVD content into haves and have-nots — and sent the major distributors to look for sweeteners for their product, including offering exclusive windows to retailers, adding bonus [...]

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  • Spotlight: The Tents

    Spotlight: The Tents

    February 12th, 2012 | Spotlight | jwilka

    Q&A with director James Belzer 1. How did you get into filmmaking? I attended NYU for film. After spending many years in the fashion magazine business, I began directing live theater productions in NYC Off-Broadway (at The Lucielle Lortel) and at the theater in Cherry Grove (Fire Island). I loved directing the live theater productions, [...]

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  • Spotlight: 2nd Take

    Spotlight: 2nd Take

    February 2nd, 2012 | Spotlight | jwilka

    Q&A with director John Suits 1. How did you get into filmmaking? I grew up watching movies and was fascinated by the process from a very young age. In High School I made my first short films. They were all terrible, but I immediately fell in love with the process. While in undergrad, my friends [...]

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  • 2nd Take

    2nd Take

    February 1st, 2012 | Drama, Films | jwilka

    Lives intersect at a storage facility in a seedy industrial neighborhood.  Peter is a a grieving screenwriter who has given up his craft, Charlie is a desperate wanna-be actress who can’t act, Bobby an agent who doesn’t have any clients.  Together, they play out a classic Hollywood fantasy set against a bleak reality that seems [...]

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  • Cellmates

    Cellmates

    February 1st, 2012 | Comedy, Films | jwilka

    Leroy Lowe, grand dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan confronts everything he’s been taught to hate when he’s sentenced to three years of hard labor on a prison work farm, where Warden Merville, dead set on rehabilitating Leroy, chooses Emilio, a Hispanic field worker imprisoned for fighting for labor rights, to be his cell-mate. [...]

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  • The Tents

    The Tents

    February 1st, 2012 | Documentary, Films | jwilka

    In the fashion world, hundreds of designers showcase their latest collections in the giant white tents erected every spring and fall for New York Fashion Week. The tents draw people in, from fashion editors, to buyers to celebrities — this pop cultural phenomenon generates global fashion trends and often becomes the proving ground for legendary [...]

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