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Entertaining RSS FeedsJacofest: A Tribute To Jaco Pastorius - Music Reviews: Jacofest, a rousing all-star tribute to the late genre-bending, electric bass phenom Jaco Pastorius, found that artful balance between legacy and longing, delicate mixing history and mystery. ...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com VW bugs out of Universal deal - Weekly: Autoimaker puts Hollywood pacts on hold -- On paper it sounded perfect: In 2005, Volkswagen agreed to pony up around $40 million annually over three years to place its cars and familiar logo in Universal's movies, at the studio's premieres, on its DVDs and inside theme parks.
... Paradise - Film Reviews: The peripatetic life of filmmaker Michael Almereyda ("Happy Here and Now," "Hamlet") is captured in glorious fragments forming a breathtaking whole in his new video feature, "Paradise."
... Tomb Raider: Underworld - Web Exclusive: Like many of gaming?s most iconic franchises, "Tomb Raider" and its universally-recognizable bombshell heroine Lara Croft have occasionally struggled to find footing as tech and tastes evolve.
... The Higher Force (Stora planio) - Film Reviews: As with other recent Icelandic films (such as Baltasar Kormakur's "White Night Wedding"), whimsy overwhelms good comedic sense in rising helmer Olaf de Fleur's second feature, "The Higher Force."
... SAG, majors continue negotiations - Business News: Federal mediator supervises second meeting -- The Screen Actors Guild and the majors have started their second consecutive day of face-to-face talks under the supervision of a federal mediator.
... Composer/actor Pruitt dies - Web Exclusive: 'World Turns' performer studied classical music -- Composer and film and TV actor Keith Douglas Pruitt died in New York Nov. 12.
... Should the HFPA split into two groups? - Award Central: Voters overwhelmed with assessing TV and film -- While the Oscars are all about movies, and the Emmys focus exclusively on television, the Golden Globes ambitiously cover it all.
In an age where both mediums and their stars seem to be increasingly intertwined, it just makes sense to recognize film and television as flip sides of the same entertainment coin.
... A look back at last year's lost Globes - Labor Issues: Writers strike repercussions felt all around town -- The uber-glam Golden Globes is traditionally an affair to remember. Yet last year's strike-marred awards "ceremony" -- which offered all of the glitz of a televised town council meeting -- became a night the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. would like to soon forget.
... NBC needs Globes to regain stamina - TV Ratings: Network uses annual telecast as ratings grabber -- One year after the writers strike forced Hollywood to stick a pin in its biggest party, the folks involved with the Golden Globes are itching to break out the bubbly and take another crack at the kudofest.
... 'White Christmas' hits Broadway - Legit News: Limited run puts heat on musical -- Producers are dreaming of "White Christmas" becoming a New York perennial.
... Thesps shift from drama to comedy - Award Central: Tears, laughs all in a year's work for contenders -- While James Franco was brooding and winning a Golden Globe for the TV telepic "James Dean" and fighting superheroes in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man franchise, the actor says he longed for the escape of a comedy.
... Globes voters champion new series - Award Central: HFPA relishes being first to anoint rookie shows -- Coming off an Emmys ceremony that left many reeling, the TV portion of the Golden Globes arrives with no stagy bits nor cheesy retrospectives.
... Globes supporting noms fight for attention - Award Central: Series, minis and telepics are all thrown together -- Nobody is looking to make the three-hour Golden Globes any longer, but the supporting acting races on the TV side have become a demolition derby that could use a little separation.
... 'Wicked' sings in Minneapolis - Legit B.O.: Road Grosses -- The road got an 8.4% bump in Week 24 (Nov. 3-9), bringing the total gross for the 14-show slate to $13,203,558.
... HFPA newcomers bring global view - Award Central: Celada and Tropea to cast first Globes votes -- Early next month, Luca Celada and Herve Tropea will cast their Golden Globes votes for the first time.
... Globes comedy/musical contenders - Award Central: Voters looking to crown the best laffer or tuner -- Golden Globes comedy/musical contenders
... The Debt - Film Reviews: Centering on the legendary capture and killing of a fictional Nazi war criminal by a trio of young Mossad agents, "The Debt" is a sporadically intense Israeli thriller that shuttles between the mid-'60s, the time of that supposed courageous act, and the late '90s, during which a decidedly less heroic version of events threatens to surface.
... Marketing exec Rodriguez dies - Obituary: Exec marketed syndicated Twentieth programs -- Marketing exec Matthew Rodriguez, sr. VP of marketing and creative at Twentieth Television and MyNetworkTV, died Nov. 14 in Los Angeles after a brief battle with cancer.
... 'Arrested Development' movie on tap - Film News: Hurwitz to write, direct adaptation of sitcom -- "Arrested Development" creator and exec producer Mitch Hurwitz is close to a deal with Imagine and Fox Searchlight to write and direct a feature adaptation of the offbeat, Emmy-winning laffer that aired on Fox from 2003-2006.
... 'Twilight' shining bright at box office - Front Page: Summit's vampire pic on pace for $30 mill Friday -- Summit Entertainment's teen vampire thriller,?Twilight,? could see an opening day take of $30 million from 3,419 playdates after grossing north of $7 million in Thursday midnight shows.
... Pindorama: The True Story of the Seven Dwarves (Pindorama: A verdadeira historia dos sete anoes ) - Film Reviews: When circus life is a family business, as it's viewed in the lightweight docu "Pindorama: The True Story of the Seven Dwarves," it can be so pleasant that it doesn't make for much of a film.
... Broadway box office sees Week 25 lull - Legit B.O.: 'Plow,' 'Seagull' buck downward trend -- Broadway experienced a pre-Thanksgiving lull in Week 25 (Nov. 10-16), with few tourists in town to help boost box office.
Only a handful of shows managed to buck the downward trend.
... Osaka Hamlet (Osaka hamureto ) - Film Reviews: Shaky familial connections are buoyed by the Bard when an aggrieved Japanese teen deals with his dysfunctional family in the conventional but occasionally moving meller "Osaka Hamlet."
... Dominick Dunne: After the Party - Film Reviews: The observer becomes the observed, and is a joy to behold, in "Dominic Dunne: After the Party," a straightforward but gripping docu about the titular writer.
... Teen musical '13' to close - Web Exclusive: Show will have had 105 regular performances -- Hang another vacancy sign on Broadway. Teen musical "13" will close Jan. 4 after a short run, adding to a growing list of shows slated to shutter soon after the holidays.
... Oprah: In a league of her OWN - Weekly TV: Winfrey looks to work magic with TV network -- The market conditions for launching a cable channel next year are not exactly ideal.
... Canada funds commercial fare - Weekly: Capri, Keystone, Whizbang get cash injection -- Canuck funder Telefilm Canada hasn't had much success developing English-Canadian film hits, but the Montreal-based agency has a new development program that Telefilm execs think could be a blueprint for how to break the box office curse.
... Bolt - Film Reviews: An "Incredible Journey" or "Homeward Bound" updated for the superhero era, "Bolt" is an OK Disney animated entry enhanced by nifty 3-D projection. The first inhouse feature from Disney Animation since Pixar guru John Lasseter took over the studio's creative reins, this tale of a canine forced to overcome his superdog complex and learn to become a regular pooch bears some telltale signs of Pixar's trademark smarts, but still looks like a mutt compared to the younger company's customary purebreds. While punchy enough to keep parents amused, pic will probably play best to small fry and, especially with Disney star Miley Cyrus onboard, will have no trouble chasing down hefty biz through the holidays.
... City of Ember - Film Reviews: A fabulously designed underground metropolis proves more involving than the teenagers running through its streets in "City of Ember," a good-looking but no more than serviceable adaptation of Jeanne Duprau's 2003 novel.
... W. - Film Reviews: Oliver Stone?s unusual and inescapably interesting ?W.? feels like a rough draft of a film it might behoove him to remake in 10 or 15 years.
... Body of Lies - Film Reviews: Neither the location-based verisimilitude of Ridley Scott's shooting style nor the estimable Middle East expertise of source-material author David Ignatius can disguise "Body of Lies" as anything other than the contrived phony-baloney it is.
... Appaloosa - Film Reviews: ?Appaloosa? is a decent Western made in an era when a Western has to be pretty darn good to rope people into a theater to see it.
... The Wrestler - Film Reviews: Mickey Rourke creates a galvanizing, humorous, deeply moving portrait that instantly takes its place among the great, iconic screen performances.
... Rachel Getting Married - Film Reviews: Brimming with energy, elan and the unpredictability of his "Something Wild," Jonathan Demme's triumphant "Rachel Getting Married" may just lay the wedding film to rest, being such a hard act to follow.
... Slumdog Millionaire - Film Reviews: Driven by fantastic energy and a torrent of vivid images of India old and new, "Slumdog Millionaire" is a blast.
... Burn After Reading - Film Reviews: After their triumphant dramatic success with "No Country for Old Men," the Coen brothers revert to sophomoric snarky mode in "Burn After Reading."
... Project Runway: Season 5 - Episode 4 (Going for the gold. Kind of. ) - TV Reviews: Apparently, many designers have no idea what the term "sportswear" means. The folks on this season believe that athletes would wear purple cocktail attire and that patriotic means gold and white stripped girlie wear.
... The Dark Knight - Film Reviews: Having memorably explored the Caped Crusader's origins in "Batman Begins," director Christopher Nolan puts all of Gotham City under a microscope in "The Dark Knight," the enthralling second installment of his bold, bracing and altogether heroic reinvention of the iconic franchise. An ambitious, full-bodied crime epic of gratifying scope and moral complexity, this is seriously brainy pop entertainment that satisfies every expectation raised by its hit predecessor and then some. That should also hold true at the box office, with Heath Ledger's justly anticipated turn as the Joker adding to the must-see excitement surrounding the Warner Bros. release.
... Synecdoche, New York - Film Front Reviews: Like an anxious artist afraid he may not get another chance, Charlie Kaufman tries to Say It All in his directorial debut.
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