 The San Francisco Bay Area is home to Pixar, Lucasfilm, American Zoetrope, Industrial Light and Magic and now Ted Hope. The San Francisco Film Society has tapped the prolific independent film producer (70 films including The Savages, In the Bedroom, Martha Marcy May Marlene) to be their executive director highlighting Hope’s grasp on the current state of the film and his innovative approach to his projects as reasons why he was chosen. The full press release is available for your viewing pleasure:
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 One film that I think a number of us are underestimating in our awards predictions so far is the Robert Zemeckis/Denzel Washington flick ‘Flight’. I’m guilty of this too, but I might have to change my thinking a bit as news hit today that the film has been selected to play as the Closing Night Film at the upcoming New York Film Festival (you can find the article at the festival’s website here). This is about a month early debut for the movie, and that usually indicates some level of confidence in the project. After the jump you can find the press release.
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The first trailer for Robert Lorenz’s Trouble with the Curve dropped on Tuesday, and today we get a look at the first poster for the movie. Clint Eastwood is featured front and center, gazing out at a baseball game that he is scouting while the floating tagline – “Whatever Life Throws At You” – foreshadows the struggles he will endure and how he will adjust to them. Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, and Robert Patrick also star in Trouble with the Curve, due out September 28th.
Have a look at the poster after the jump…
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Dustin Lee Hoffman is one of the finest actors of all time and is a living legend of cinema. He was born on August 8th, 1937 in Los Angeles, California, of Jewish decent from Ukrainian and Romanian immigrants. Hoffman began his acting career working alongside Gene Hackman at the Pasadena Playhouse, and the pair soon left for New York City, acquiring small roles in television shows, commercials, and Off-Broadway productions. In the early 60s, he attended the Actors Studio and studied method acting. As a result, his success on stage began to grow, which then led to bigger roles in television shows like Naked City, as well as landing him his first film, The Tiger Makes Out (1967). Later that same year, Dustin Hoffman would receive the role of a lifetime, and break out in a big, big way.
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 File this one as a definite long shot, but it seems that Warner Brothers is trying to sit down with Ben Affleck to convince him to take the reigns for their gestating ‘Justice League’ film. Variety is reporting here that the studio has him at the top of their list now that Christopher Nolan has made it abundantly clear that he’ll have nothing to do with this movie. The flick has a script written by ‘Gangster Squad’ scribe Will Beal and WB has a strong relationship with Affleck so this does make a bit of sense. I’d personally love for it to happen, but I have my doubts. Affleck seems interested in a slightly different sort of film at the moment, though who knows, as the studio sought him out for their Superman reboot as well. After the jump you can see a few details of this story, but take it with a grain of salt for now. One can dream, of course. Read on below for more…
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