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Prometheus: The Science in Idea of Aliens Populating Earth | Entertainment | TIME.com

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Jeffrey Kluger - Jun. 19 (Special Report) - It's not such a crazy idea. Research has long supported the theory that life originated elsewhere.

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'Game Change': How accurate is the movie about Sarah Palin?

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Gloria Goodale - Mar. 10 (News) - Words have been flying between supporters of Sarah Palin, who charge the ‘Game Change’ filmmakers with a smear job, and the producers, who insist they’re committed to accuracy. ...

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Choosing sides on Sarah Palin in 'Game Change'

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By James Rainey - Feb. 18 (News Report) - 'Game Change' on HBO portrays her as woefully misinformed and emotional. Her supporters blast the film, but some former John McCain aides say it's accurate.

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Black leaders give 'The Help' a hand in marketing

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Nicole Sperling - Aug. 09 (News Report) - The chairwoman of the NAACP is among those spreading the word about the DreamWorks film, which focuses on relationships between white Southern women and their maids during the civil rights era. When Roslyn Brock, chairwoman of the NAACP, first heard about "The Help," a new film based on a novel about the volatile relationships between Southern white women and their black maids at the dawn of the civil rights movement, she was skeptical.

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Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress sells for $5.6 million at auction

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Alan Duke - Jun. 19 (News Report) - Marilyn Monroe's white "subway" dress sold for more than $5.6 million in a Beverly Hills, California auction Saturday night in which bidders paid another $2.7 million for three other Monroe movie outfits.

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Debbie Reynolds is parting with her movie treasures

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Susan King - Jun. 14 (News Report) - The actress has amassed a collection of about 5,000 pieces of memorabilia. Finally admitting that her dream of a permanent museum won't be a reality, she is auctioning off the artifacts.

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Prehistoric Cave With a Hornet on the Wall

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Larry Rohter - Apr. 24 (News Report) - The director Werner Herzog remembers being about 12 years old when he saw, and was transfixed by, a picture of a horse on the cover of a book about Paleolithic art, displayed in the window of a bookstore in the isolated Bavarian village where he lived. Ever since, even as he was making films like “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” and “Nosferatu,” that image “has engaged me and haunted my mind,” he said. “It has never left me.” But it took more than 50 years after that first exposure to prehistoric cave art for Mr. Herzog to be able to act on his childhood fascination. In the spring of 2010 he was allowed to film in the Chauvet cave in southeastern France, where archaeologists have found exquisite wall paintings some 32,000 years old, the oldest ever discovered, and the result is an 90-minute documentary called “Cave of Forgotten Dreams.”

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More TV viewers may be cutting the cord this year

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Dawn C. Chmielewski, David Sarno - Jan. 04 (News) - New mobile devices and Internet-connected televisions that could let viewers cancel their pay-TV subscriptions are expected to be among the hottest items at the Consumer Electronics Show.

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Two films, two sex scenes, two different ratings

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Steven Zeitchik - Dec. 04 (News Report) - 'Black Swan,' which shows a sex scene between two actresses, gets an R rating while 'Blue Valentine' shows a similar scene between a man and woman and gets the MPAA's dreaded NC-17. A film's label can make a big difference in box office receipts.

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With Film, Afghan-German Is a Foreigner at Home

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Slackman - Oct. 18 (News) - While Mr. Qurbani appreciates the reception that his film has gotten, its timing has cast him as a symbol of the fragile fault line currently challenging societal cohesion in Germany. “It is tragic what is happening here,” said Hatice Akyün, a writer and lifelong German resident of Turkish descent who, like Mr. Qurbani, must confront the frustrating daily exclamation from other Germans who never seem to tire of telling them, “You speak German so well.”

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Michael Moore Says Judge’s Ruling Could Have ‘Chilling Effect’ on Documentaries

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Dave Itzkoff - May. 07 (News Report) - The director Michael Moore says that a federal judge’s ruling to allow Chevron to subpoena footage from the documentary “Crude” could have dire consequences on the documentary filmmaking process, and urged that film’s director to resist the subpoena if he can. On Thursday, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of United States District Court in Manhattan said that Joe Berlinger, the director of “Crude,” would have to turn over more than 600 hours of footage from that documentary. The film chronicles the Ecuadorians who sued Texaco (now owned by Chevron) saying an oil field contaminated their water. Chevron said that Mr. Berlinger’s footage could be helpful as it seeks to have the litigation dismissed and pursues an international treaty arbitration related to the lawsuit.

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Pat Tillman film a haunting blindside

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Bill Dwyre - Apr. 24 (News Analysis) - Journalists gave the story of soldier Pat Tillman’s death six years ago the hero’s treatment. What it deserved was real journalism. I have never quite gotten the Pat Tillman story out of my system. Only now am I understanding why.

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Film - The Runaways - The Girls Who Kicked In Rock's Door

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 17 (Other) - The most striking thing about “The Runaways,” a new film about the trailblazing bad-girl rock band from the 1970s, is how authentic it feels.

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Netflix Spilled Your Brokeback Mountain Secret, Lawsuit Claims

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Ryan Singel - Dec. 18 (News Report) - An in-the-closet lesbian mother is suing Netflix for privacy invasion, alleging the movie rental company made it possible for her to be outed when it disclosed insufficiently anonymous information about nearly half-a-million customers as part of its $1 million contest to improve its recommendation system. The suit known as Doe v. Netflix (.pdf) was filed in federal court in California on Thursday, alleging that Netflix violated fair-trade laws and a federal privacy law protecting video rental records, when it launched its popular contest in September 2006.

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Pro-internet piracy party on course for EU seats

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Marcus Oscarsson - May. 22 (News Report) - The Pirate Party, a single-issue Swedish group that campaigns to encourage internet copyright infringement, is on course to win several seats in the European parliament. "The plan is Sweden, Europe, the world. In that order," said Christian Engstrom, the Pirate Party's top candidate. The Pirate Party received 8 per cent in the poll and if the trend continues it will take a number of seats in Brussels.

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Storytelling, Ghetto Film School-Style

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Jacki Lyden - Feb. 22 (Special Report) - In a converted former piano factory looking over the East River in the Bronx, kids from all over New York City learn film-school techniques — and don't pay a cent for the experience. It's the Ghetto Film School, founded by former social worker Joe Hall, and its mission is to teach the art of narrative storytelling to kids in the city. As for the school's name, Hall explains that he wanted to take a negative term and turn it into something positive: "Our program is certainly not ghetto, when you think about travel and students interacting with really top-notch industry professionals and filmmakers." Competition for admittance to the school is fierce; out of about 120 applicants, only 20 are accepted into the 15-month program. Students meet after-school once a week and on weekends, and they receive film cameras, top-level guidance and plenty of feedback. Everyone writes a thesis script, the best of which (as judged by the group) is then shot on location in a city outside the United States. Last summer, that city was Kampala, Uganda.

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The Real Slumdog Millionaires

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - By Andrew Malone - Jan. 25 (News Report) - Alone and afraid, Aamir was initially grateful when a ‘kind’ older couple befriended him on his arrival in Mumbai. This chaotic urban sprawl is now India’s largest city and home to more than 20 million people. More than nine million of them live in slums, raising families in shacks built from rubbish on top of open sewers. For a homeless 12-year-old child freshly arrived from the countryside, it is a terrifying place to be. Overcrowding is now so bad in this huge metropolis that shanty towns have even sprung up in the international airport. People in rags scavenge as giant jets thunder past just feet away. But for many on the Indian sub-continent, Mumbai will always be the city of dreams — a place of Bollywood film stars and gold-paved streets. It was certainly the image that brought Aamir here.

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Sundance is a buyer's market - The Envelope - LA Times

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By John Horn - Jan. 24 (News Report) - The volume of Sundance features -- 118 films, culled from an overwhelming 3,661 submissions -- makes obvious the problems facing buyers and sellers.

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Michael Crichton, Author of Thrillers, Dies at 66

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By William Grimes - Nov. 05 (Breaking News) - Michael Crichton, whose technological thrillers like “The Andromeda Strain” and “Jurassic Park” dominated best-seller lists for decades and were translated into Hollywood megahits, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 66 and lived in Santa Monica, Calif. A statement released by his family gave the cause as cancer, but provided no other details.

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Hunting the Hidden Dimension

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700

PBS - Nov. 02 (Special Report) - They're odd-looking shapes you may never have heard of, but they're everywhere around you—the jagged repeating forms called fractals. If you know what to look for, you can find them in the clouds, in mountains, even inside the human body. In 1958, Benoit Mandelbrot begins using computers to explore vexing problems in math. They help him to understand repeating patterns in nature in an entirely new way. He coins the term fractal to describe them and develops the Mandelbrot set in 1980.

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Werner Herzog explores the Antarctic

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Sheri Linden - Jun. 22 (News Report) - Werner Herzog says he should have known better. In 46 years of visionary filmmaking often devoted to life in extremis, the prolific director has never been one to toe the line. But on his latest work, the nonfiction feature "Encounters at the End of the World," he had a brief lapse: Against his better instincts, he followed instructions -- and found himself on the losing end of a tussle with an 800-pound snowmobile. "Encounters," filmed over seven weeks in Antarctica, abounds with exhilarating and strange beauty, unforgettable characters both human and otherwise, and is often mordantly funny. Having now made features on all seven continents, Herzog discovered a landscape unlike anything he had previously explored. "The only thing that comes close would be the Sahara Desert, in just the expanse of it and the amount of solitude," he said recently. Arriving at the Studio City offices of the film's production company, Creative Differences, Herzog was all warm hellos and high energy and dispensed not a syllable of unnecessary preliminaries. That focus and efficiency are hardly surprising; this is a man who has released six films in the last five years, one of which, the acclaimed documentary "Grizzly Man," he shot, edited and delivered in 29 days.

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Do the right thing and shut up, Lee urges pastor

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Xan Brooks - May. 01 (News Report) - Director Spike Lee has waded into the ongoing controversy surrounding Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor whose provocative statements have proved a thorn in the side of Democrat frontrunner Barack Obama. Lee advises the preacher to do the right thing and keep quiet. "The more he opens his mouth, the more damage he does," he told the Guardian yesterday. For good measure, Lee hinted at a political conspiracy behind Wright's recent, contentious attempts to justify his remarks. "It looks like he's being paid to keep talking," he said.

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Meet a Pirate's Best Friend

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Business Week - By Mark Scott - Mar. 20 (Special Report) - With a simple design and powerful technology, YouTorrent has become an underground Web sensation less than three months after its debut. It attracted 2.7 million unique visitors in February, making it more popular than ballyhooed video startups Joost.com and Hulu.com, according to researcher comScore (SCOR). It already gets about one-tenth as many visitors as Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iTunes store. It has become a bit like the Google (GOOG) of pirated content.

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The Rich Man's Michael Moore

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Robert Frank - Feb. 23 (Other) - Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune...is getting used to being an outcast among the upper class. After the 2003 release of his first film, "Born Rich," which looked at the lives of the silver-spoon set, and now his second, "The One Percent," which focuses on the American wealth gap.... While his wealth has helped him gain access to the people he's filming, it's also carried personal costs. He has learned the hard way that the biggest betrayal for the rich is to talk publicly about their riches. "I think most wealthy people want to live with this myth of equal opportunity and equality in this country," he says. "I don't think they want to question their right to this wealth."

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Special cars, cameras make chase scenes

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - By SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer - Dec. 31 (Special Report) - LOS ANGELES - Nicolas Cage is racing his silver Mercedes through the narrow streets of London when beer kegs suddenly start dropping from the truck in front of him. But he can't swerve to avoid the exploding kegs. In fact, he can't control anything in the car at all. It's not a nightmare, it's movie magic: Though Cage sits in the driver's seat, the actual driving is being done by a stuntman in a metal rig atop the car for a chase scene in "National Treasure: Book of Secrets."

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