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Robert A. “Bob” Wilson — father of Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson and Andrew Wilson — has died, Luke confirmed to the Dallas Morning News. Luke told the outlet that his dad died Friday after years of battling Alzheimer’s disease. He was 75.

A longtime presence in Dallas’ television arena, Bob helped pave the way for Kera, North Texas’ public broadcasting station. His influence inspired a 2011 documentary called Bob Wilson and the Early Years of Kera, released as the station marked its 50th anniversary — a celebration whose gala Bob was too sick to attend at the time, according to the Dallas Morning News.

Exclusive: Anton Corp., the parent company of Anton Capital Entertainment, has hired former eOne director of development Laura Wilson as VP Acquisitions. Wilson, who will report to CEO Sebastien Raybaud as well as President of Distribution Harold van Lier, was responsible for overseeing all in-house development at eOne. She previously spent three years at Momentum Pictures as acquisitions coordinator before Momentum's parent company, Alliance Films, was acquired by eOne…...

Executives from See-Saw Films, Curzon and Paramount are among those taking part in this year’s industry programme.

The National Film and TV School (Nfts) has revealed the line-up for the 2016 edition of its Inside Pictures programme, the business training and development initiative.

Participants this year include Amy Jackson, head of production at See-Saw Films, Cate Kane, acquisitions manager at Curzon Artificial Eye, Laura Wilson, director of development at Entertainment One Features, and Sing Street producer Martina Niland. See the full line-up below.

This year’s industry ambassador will be Andrew Cripps, president of international at IMAX, who will present at several stages throughout the programme and will meet with participants during the process.

Taking place over three one-week modules in London and Los Angeles, between June 2016 and January 2017, the initiative aims to arm the participants with cutting-edge industry business knowledge and management skills, fostering the next generation of film industry leaders.

The programme...

Matt Zoller Seitz’s new book The Wes Anderson Collection features deep explorations into all seven of the director’s films, along with in-depth interviews with Anderson himself. The lush coffee table book, which is in stores tomorrow, illustrates these insights with copious stills and illustrations; the chapter on The Royal Tenenbaums (excerpted on Vulture) has a bonus in its candid, alternately warm and dramatic behind-the-scenes shots taken by Laura Wilson. Besides being an acclaimed photographer, Laura also happens to be the mother of longtime Anderson collaborators Owen and Luke Wilson. Owen, who co-wrote Tenenbaums, has been friends with Anderson since college, and thus Wilson’s presence on the sets only enhanced the appropriate family vibe. Here, Wilson walks us through the memories that these Tenenbaums shoot elicit.

The Darjeeling Limited (Criterion Collection)

Extras include:

CommentaryDocumentary by Barry Braverman - a making of featurette with raw footage from the shooting of The Darjeeling Limited in IndiaConversation with James Ivory Essay by Matt Zoller Seitz - Mr. Seitz, who reviewed Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket in the Dallas Observer, deconstructs The Darjeeling LimitedAmerican Express commercialSriharsh's audition - raw footage from the auditionOakley Friedberg/Packer speechDeleted scene and two alternate takesSketch by Roman Coppola - a short sequence stirred together from Roman Coppolla's footage shot (mostly in India) during the writing of The Darjeeling Limited and set to the electronic tablaWaris' diaryTrophy case - a quick look at the various awards The Darjeeling Limited has wonStills galleries - a collection of stills from full-time-on-set photographer James Hamilton, Laura Wilson (mother of Owen Wilson) and Sylvia Plachy (mother of Adrien Brody)Booklet - an illustrated booklet containing Richard Brody's essay "Voyage...

Global warning.

A scene from "2012"

Photo: Sony Pictures

Even if most of the Earth were to be destroyed by a natural cataclysm predicted long ago by the ancient Mayans (or Hopis, or even the I Ching — take your pick), director Roland Emmerich would surely survive, if only to crawl back and polish off what little was left.

Going in to Emmerich's "2012," I was prepared to set my brain on spin-cycle and just roll with it — who doesn't enjoy a good CGI soak now and then? And there is in fact some snazzy digitalia on display here: a monster tsunami crashing over the Himalayas; a spectacular White House takedown (yet again); and some monster-wave ship-twirling that's truly, uh, titanic. An L.A. freeway buckles and falls, Las Vegas craps out, and the coast of California rears up and slides right into the ocean. All that, plus lots of collapsing high-rise real estate,...

Columbia Pictures

Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten

Grade: C

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Written By: Harald Kloser, Roland Emmerich

Cast: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson, Danny Glover

Screened at: AMC Empire NYC, 11/9/09

Opens: November 13, 2009

Is .2012. apocalypse new? No, sorry, it.s apocalypse same .ol. Unless you.re one of the a new generation of moviegoers that have never seen .Independence Day. or .The Day After Tomorrow. (both directed by .2012,. helmsman Roland Emmerich), you.ve taken this roller-coaster ride before. To paraphrase Spiro Agnew, if you.re seen one building topple, one wave immerse thousands, one statue crushed, several people falling through the cracks to their death, one giraffe and one elephant hauled onto a would-be Noah.s ark.well, you.ve seen .em all.

So what.s left in .2012. to delight us? Why the story, of course. Sad to say,...