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Parenting a two year old isn't exactly Seventh Heaven for Jessica Biel. The actress stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to promote her new show The Sinner and started talking about raising her young tot Silas. When Stephen Colbert asked Biel how many of her home's surfaces were covered in "what you hope is chocolate," Biel said, "Every square inch." "And if it's not the hopeful chocolate, it's stickers, and Play-Doh, and gak, and crumbs and who knows," she continued. "Everything is covered with everything." Biel confirmed to Colbert that she and her husband Justin Timberlake are in the middle of their son's terrible twos. She talked about...

Anyone who isn’t poised to win the Oscar for Best Director is certainly entitled to hate Damien Chazelle, and there’s not an openly fascistic executive order in the world that can stop them. But, as of late, the infuriatingly accomplished “La La Land” mastermind has been making it very difficult to do so. As if it weren’t frustrating enough that his sensational, stimulating new film is a quantum leap forward from the comparatively airless “Whiplash,” Chazelle further endeared himself to many by giving the rare awards show acceptance speech that actually engendered a deeper appreciation for the honoree’s work.

Accepting the Best Picture prize from the New York Film Critics Circle, the mustached wunderkind pandered to the audience with the same crowd-pleasing cinephilia that’s been squeezed into every frame of his box office phenomenon. Instantly grabbing the room’s attention, his remarks began by name-checking legendary American filmmaker Frank Borzage,...

All sing the praises of Frank Borzage, a gentle director fully committed to the idea of romance in an imperfect world. Sally Eilers and James Dunn make a go of marriage, despite their personal flaws and difficulties with communication. It’s hard to believe that films of this vintage portray behaviors as sensitive as this.

Bad Girl

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1931 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 90 min. / Street Date December 13, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Minna Gombell, Sarah Padden, William Pawley, Billy Watson.

Cinematography Chester A. Lyons

Film Editor Margaret Clancey

Written by Viña Delmar, Brian Marlow, Edwin J. Burke

Directed by Frank Borzage

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Directors don’t come any more romantic than Frank Borzage. It is said that he was one of several Fox directors, including John Ford, who were heavily influenced by F.W. Murnau, whose Sunrise was a massive hit in...

Justin Timberlake escaped the long arm of the law — but he couldn’t evade a gentle poke in the ribs from his wife Jessica Biel. A week after risking jail time by taking a photo of himself voting in Tennessee, Timberlake took a shot from Biel on Monday after the former “Seventh Heaven” star cast her own vote. Biel posted a trio of photos of herself on Instagram sporting an “I Voted” sticker on various parts of her face, including on her nose, over her eye and on her forehead. Also Read: Justin Timberlake Pleads Ignorance in Voting Selfie Scandal: 'I Had.

At age 10, Ukraine-born Mila Kunis landed a small role in the 1995 short movie “Make a Wish, Molly” about a Russian Jewish girl newly arrived in the U.S. Kunis also played small parts in mid-’90s TV shows like “Baywatch.” She had a recurring role as Ashley in the WB family series “Seventh Heaven” in 1996-97. Kunis played the 11-year-old version of Angelina Jolie‘s character in the acclaimed 1998 HBO movie “Gia,” a biopic of ’70s model Gia Carangi that won Jolie and Faye Dunaway Golden Globes. Mila Kunis married her former “That ’70s Show” co-star Ashton Kutcher in July 2015, months after.

I don’t know what the hell goes on in the minds of the CBS suits, or why the hell they are dragging their heels about Supergirl’s future.

But it doesn’t look good.

Monday night at 8:00 I turned the television on to CBS, only to see that Big Bang Theory was on for the entire hour. This isn’t the first time the network has done this; so have other networks for other shows, and it’s almost always a sign that the show is struggling for life, that its ratings are not satisfactory enough for the suits to keep the show on the air.

CBS is not a network noted for niche or cult programming, or a network geared towards the “coveted” 18-34 slice of the Nielsen ratings. Their programming has been dominated by police procedurals (NCIS and its many spin-offs) and soapy dramas masquerading as law procedurals (The Good Wife,...

Back in October, Malcolm-Jamal Warner -- who played Bill Cosby's son on eight seasons of The Cosby Show -- spoke out for the first time on allegations by over 50 women that the comedian had drugged and/or sexually assaulted them, saying in part: "My biggest concern is when it comes to images of people of color on television and film, no matter what ... negative stereotypes of people of color, we've always had 'The Cosby Show' to hold up against that. And the fact that we no longer have that, that's the thing that saddens me the most because in a few generations the Huxtables will have been just a fairy tale." Today, during an appearance on daytime talker The Real, Warner again held forth on the allegations, noting that while The Cosby Show has since been pulled from syndication, the films and TV shows of other prominent...

Constance Cummings: Actress in minor Hollywood movies became major London stage star. Constance Cummings: Actress went from Harold Lloyd and Frank Capra to Noël Coward and Eugene O'Neill Actress Constance Cummings, whose career spanned more than six decades on stage, in films, and on television in both the U.S. and the U.K., died ten years ago on Nov. 23. Unlike other Broadway imports such as Ann Harding, Katharine Hepburn, Miriam Hopkins, and Claudette Colbert, the pretty, elegant Cummings – who could have been turned into a less edgy Constance Bennett had she landed at Rko or Paramount instead of Columbia – never became a Hollywood star. In fact, her most acclaimed work, whether in films or – more frequently – on stage, was almost invariably found in British productions. That's most likely why the name Constance Cummings – despite the DVD availability of several of her best-received performances – is all but forgotten.

Cafe Carlyle will welcome Broadway legend Chita Rivera for a two-week engagement, January 12-23. An accomplished and versatile actresssingerdancer, Chita Rivera has won two Tony Awards as Best Leading Actress in a Musical and has received eight additional Tony nominations for an exceptional 10 Tony nominations. Her career is highlighted by starring roles in Bye Bye Birdie, The Rink Tony Award, Chicago, Jerry's Girls, Kiss of the Spider Woman Tony Award, The Visit and the original Broadway casts of Guys and Dolls, Can-Can, Seventh Heaven and Mr. Wonderful. Additionally, she has toured in Born Yesterday, The Rose Tattoo, Call Me Madam, Threepenny Opera, Sweet Charity, Kiss Me Kate, Zorba and Can-Can with The Rockettes.

Coleen Gray actress ca. 1950. Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men in cult horror 'classic' Actress Coleen Gray, best known as the leading lady in Stanley Kubrick's film noir The Killing and – as far as B horror movie aficionados are concerned – for playing the title role in The Leech Woman, died at age 92 in Aug. 2015. This two-part article, which focuses on Gray's film career, is a revised and expanded version of the original post published at the time of her death. Born Doris Bernice Jensen on Oct. 23, 1922, in Staplehurst, Nebraska, at a young age she moved with her parents, strict Lutheran Danish farmers, to Minnesota. After getting a degree from St. Paul's Hamline University, she relocated to Southern California to be with her then fiancé, an army private. At first, she eked out a living as a waitress at a La Jolla hotel...

Coleen Gray actress ca. 1950. Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men in cult horror 'classic' Actress Coleen Gray, best known as the leading lady in Stanley Kubrick's film noir The Killing and – as far as B horror movie aficionados are concerned – for playing the title role in The Leech Woman, died at age 92 in Aug. 2015. This two-part article, which focuses on Gray's film career, is a revised and expanded version of the original post published at the time of her death. Born Doris Bernice Jensen on Oct. 23, 1922, in Staplehurst, Nebraska, at a young age she moved with her parents, strict Lutheran Danish farmers, to Minnesota. After getting a degree from St. Paul's Hamline University, she relocated to Southern California to be with her then fiancé, an army private. At first, she eked out a living as a waitress at a La Jolla hotel...

Stars: Jeremie Earp-Lavergne, Katharine Cleland, Ingrid Falaise, Pierre Lenoir, Ivan Freud | Written and Directed by Renaud Gauthier

I’ve said it many times before and I’ve no doubt I’ll say it many times again, but Canadians know how to make damn good horror flicks and guess what? They also know how to do great retro-grindhouse flicks too! Yes Discopath, the tale of a man turned to murder by the beat, is another fantastic genre flick from the land that brought us He Knows You’re Alone, My Bloody Valentine and the more recent Antisocial.

Writer/director Renaud Gauthier made his name as a music video director, so it should come as no surprise that music features heavily in his first feature film, Discopath, an epic tale of trauma and turntables:

It’s 1976, Donna Summer tops the charts and everyone believes in mirror balls. Except Manhattan burger cook Duane...

"Dance, dance, feel it all around you Dance, dance, dance, Never thought love had a rainbow on it See the girl dance See the girl dance."- Neil Young, "Dance, Dance, Dance"***When I watched Katy Perry’s recent Super Bowl performance I got very excited. There was a lot of shrieking. So much so that my roommate, who had been diligently watching screeners of important art films one floor below, came up to see what was happening. A friend who was over to watch the game, who I often go to repertory movies with, later told another friend he had never seen me so excited. The third friend watching it with us, she’s a writer, was also excited. In her excitement she sent all of her twitter friends a picture. In my own excitement I sent yet a fourth friend a text message. ******My text message may have been sent off haphazardly,...

Programming head Brad Schwartz has been promoted to president of Pop, formerly known as Tvgn. David Wisnia has resigned as the channel’s business operations president. Formerly Pop’s entertainment and media president, Schwartz will assume oversight of a broad range of business, legal, advertising and affiliate sales functions while continuing to head the network’s programming and creative operations. He continues to report to Pop’s Board of Directors. Also Read: Pop TV Boss Compares Pulling ‘Seventh Heaven’ Reruns to Pulling ‘Cosby Show’ Before joining Tvgn in April 2013, Schwartz served as senior vice president of programming and operations for Fuse.

'Cat People' 1942 actress Simone Simon Remembered: Starred in Jacques Tourneur's cult horror movie classic (photo: Simone Simon in 'Cat People') Pert, pouty, pretty Simone Simon is best remembered for her starring roles in Jacques Tourneur's cult horror movie Cat People (1942) and in Jean Renoir's French film noir La Bête Humaine (1938). Long before Brigitte Bardot, Mamie Van Doren, Ann-Margret, and (for a few years) Jane Fonda became known as cinema's Sex Kittens, Simone Simon exuded feline charm in a film career that spanned a quarter of a century. From the early '30s to the mid-'50s, she seduced men young and old on both sides of the Atlantic – at times, with fatal results. During that period, Simon was featured in nearly 40 movies in France, Italy, Germany, Britain, and Hollywood. Besides Jean Renoir, in her native country she worked for the likes of Jacqueline Audry...

Participant Media’s television network, Pivot, made the following announcements at Friday’s Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour: The renewal of eco-adventure series, “Angry Planet;” the greenlighting of docuseries “Series Lives of Americans;” three new productions in development; and a premiere date for first scripted series “Fortitude.”

First, the last offering: “Fortitude,” which stars Richard Dormer and Stanley Tucci, will debut on Thursday, Jan. 29 at 1o p.m. Et with a two-hour premiere event.

Also Read: Pop TV Boss Compares Pulling ‘Seventh Heaven’ Reruns to Pulling ‘Cosby Show’

The new episodes of “Angry Planet” will continue storm chaser George Kourounis...

Pop TV president Brad Schwartz wasn’t prepared to answer what the network would do if it aired “Cosby Show” reruns amid the sexual assault allegations currently swirling around Bill Cosby.

A rebrand of TV Guide Network, Pop TV’s new programming draws heavily upon ’80s and ’90s culture and could conceivably air repeats of “The Cosby Show.” One reporter asked the executive how he would handle such a situation.

“I don’t want to dodge the answer,” Schwartz told reporters during Friday’s Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena. “I have to think about it.”

Also Read: Bill Cosby...

Director to attend screening of Testament of Youth, along with producer Rosie Alison, as it opens Leeds International Film Festival on Wednesday [Nov 5].

Director James Kent and producer Rosie Alison will attend the opening night of Leeds International Film Festival (Liff) on Wednesday [Nov 5].

Their film Testament of Youth, which was backed by Screen Yorkshire and was filmed primarily in the region, opens the festival and is followed by the world premiere of Dominic Brunt’s The Taking, with Brunt also in attendance along with cast members.

Other films in Liff’s Yorkshire film line-up include Catch Me Daddy, X+Y, Mr Somebody? and To Hell With Culture.

Testament of Youth also leads into a programme of films and events commemorating the centenary of World War One on Remembrance Sunday [Nov 9], which will see a brand new digital print of Abel Gance’s J’accuse (1919) and Frank Borzage’s Seventh Heaven (1927), both presented with live organ accompaniment.

For more information...

Final Image Films created this supercut of Best Picture losers using only the final images from each film. Working backwards from last year's loser, The Wolf of Wall Street, to 1929 loser Seventh Heaven. You can see the full list of films here, but give it a watch first and see how many you recognize and how far back you can go before you really can't name any of them. Here's the same concept only with the winners instead.

Somehow, when none of us were looking, The CW became the preeminent geek network. I know. I’m as surprised as anyone, but maybe we shouldn’t be. The CW was created when both networks that aired Buffy the Vampire Slayer merged, after all. But still, how did this happen?

The CW launched in 2006 with shows like Gilmore Girls, America’s Next Top Model, Seventh Heaven, and One Tree Hill. Geekish programming had a small foothold on Thursday with Smallville and Supernatural, but the rest was tween girl bait (except for Friday Night Smackdown, aimed at… whoever watches pro wresting). One of their only two new shows was Hidden Palms, a wannabe The O.C. And they continued that way for awhile, making glossy teen soaps like Gossip Girl and 90210.

Contrast that with their current lineup, which includes Star-Crossed, The Tomorrow People, The Originals, Beauty and the Beast, Arrow, The 100,...

While "12 Years a Slave" won Best Picture, its helmer Steve McQueen lost Best Director to Alfonso Cuaron ("Gravity"). This marked the 23rd time in the 86-year history of the Oscars that there was a split in these two races. That translates into about 25% of the time.  The most recent instance was last year when Ang Lee won his second Academy Award for helming the 3-D spectacle "Life of Pi" while "Argo" won Best Picture despite director Ben Affleck not being nominated.  That was only the fourth time in Oscar history that the director of the Best Picture had been snubbed by the academy. The other instances: 1927/28: "Wings" won Best Picture; William Wellman was snubbed: Frank Borzage won Best Director for "Seventh Heaven"; 1931/32: "Grand Hotel" won Best Picture; Edmund Goulding was snubbed: Frank Borzage won Best D...

The 85-year history of the Academy Awards is rife with statistical oddities, and one that has the potential to play out this Sunday is among the most intriguing: a split between the films that win Best Picture and Best Director.

Though conventional wisdom has long held that only one film will walk away with both prizes on Oscar night, many pundits are predicting that the awards will instead go to two different movies this year, with "Gravity" director Alfonso Cuaron expected to snag the Best Director statuette, while "12 Years a Slave" (or "American Hustle," depending on where your loyalties lie) is the favorite to win Best Picture.

While such a split has occurred just 22 times since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences started handing out trophies in 1929, four of the first five ceremonies produced a divide between the Best Director and Best Picture prizes. "Wings," dubbed the original...

Chinese platforms Youku and Tudou registered 3.5m screenings for the online film festival.

The fourth edition of Unifrance’s MyFrenchFilmFestival.com — running Jan 17 to Feb 17 — more than quadrupled its viewing figures this year.

French cinema export agency Unifrance, which organises the event, reported that the online film festival generated 4 million screenings, against 750,000 in 2013 and 1.3m in 2012.

The month-long initiative - featuring 10 features and 10 shorts which have not been widely sold internationally - ran on 20 partner platforms as well as the dedicated MyFrenchFilmFestival site, which attracted some 100,000 subscribers this year.

The leap in hits was due in large part to increased viewing in China where online platforms Youku and Tudou reported 3.5m screenings for the event between them.

A surprise drop in MyFrenchFilmFestival.com viewings last year was pinned at the time to ownership changes at Youku just before the 2013 edition which had resulted in less visibility on the site.

Unifrance noted that short film In Seventh Heaven (7ème...

Chinese platforms Youku and Tudou registered 3.5m screenings for the online film festival.

The fourth edition of Unifrance’s MyFrenchFilmFestival.com — running Jan 17 to Feb 17 — more than quadrupled its viewing figures this year.

French cinema export agency Unifrance, which organises the event, reported that the online film festival generated 4 million screenings, against 750,000 in 2013 and 1.3m in 2012.

The month-long initiative - featuring 10 features and 10 shorts which have not been widely sold internationally - ran on 20 partner platforms as well as the dedicated MyFrenchFilmFestival site, which attracted some 100,000 subscribers this year.

The leap in hits was due in large part to increased viewing in China where online platforms Youku and Tudou reported 3.5m screenings for the event between them.

A surprise drop in MyFrenchFilmFestival.com viewings last year was pinned at the time to ownership changes at Youku just before the 2013 edition which had resulted in less visibility on the site.

Unifrance noted that short film In Seventh Heaven (7ème...

Following the great success of myFrenchFilmFestival.com last year (750,000 film viewings registered in 189 countries, with a 25% increase in paid viewings) the leading worldwide French film festival on the Internet now in its 4th edition returns this coming January 17th.

For one month, Us Internet users will have access to 10 features and 10 shorts in French with English subtitles. A selection of first and second feature films, theatrically released in France during the year, offers worldwide showcasing of a new generation of filmmakers, highlighting the diversity of young French production.

New features of the 2014 edition

- The festival will be accessible in the Us on the website myFrenchFilmFestival.com, iTunes (through Under the Milky Way) and TV5 Monde’s Cinema on Demand during one month (Jan 17-Feb 17 2014).

For more information:

www.tv5.org/cms/USA/Cinema-on-demand/p-22481-lg3-TV5MONDE-Cinema-On-Demand-in-November.htm

www.itunes.com

- La Fille Du 14 Juillet (The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu) will be the closing film of the Museum of Moving Image’s First Look festival on January 19th, with director Antonin Peretjatko in attendance.

- A selection of 9 features will be screened in theatres throughout the Us starting January 2nd, thanks to our partnership with SpectiCast. View full schedule here: http://www.specticast.com/myfff.jsp

- The films will also be proposed to 400 airline companies via our partner Skeye for in-flight viewings.

4 prizes will be awarded at the end of the festival:

The Filmmakers Award , presided by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and composed of foreign directors

Lynne Ramsay (United Kingdom), Marco Bellocchio (Italy), Anurag Kashyap (India) and Frédéric Fonteyne (Belgium).

The International Press Award , with a jury of 11 foreign journalists

The Audience Award , for which Internet users are invited to vote on-line

The Social Networks Award , chosen by 100 film buffs, influential on Facebook and Twitter

The winning films will then be shown on Air France flights during 6 months.

The full pass to watch the 10 features and 10 shorts online will be available for $22, features-only pass for $16.5, shorts-only pass for $8.2, single feature for $2.7 and single short $1.4.

The 2014 Myfff Selection

I – Features

- In a Rush, directed by Louis Do Lencquesaing

- Augustine, directed by Alice Winocour

- Little Lion, directed by Samuel Collardey

- Maddened by His Absence, directed by Sandrine Bonnaire

- The Virgin, the Copts and Me, directed by Namir Abdel Messeeh

- The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu, directed by Antonin Peretjako

- The Day of the Crows, directed by Jean-Christophe Dessaint

- Welcome to Argentina, directed by Edouard Deluc

- Mobile Home, directed by François Pirot

- Pauline détective, directed by Marc Fitoussi

II – Shorts

- Just Before Losing Everything, directed by Xavier Legrand

- The Lobster's Cry, directed by Nicolas Guiot

- Clay, directed by Michaël Guerraz

- The Runaway, directed by Jean-Bernard Marlin

- The Lizards, directed by Vincent Mariette

- Mademoiselle Kiki et les Montparnos, directed by Amélie Harrault

- Solitudes, directed by Liova Jedlicki

- In Seventh Heaven, directed by Guillaume Foirest

- A la française, directed by Morrigane Boyer, Julien Hazebroucq, Ren-Hsien Hsu, Emmanuelle Leleu, William Lorton

- Le premier pas, directed by Jonathan Comnène...

10 features and 10 shorts will be on offer.

UniFrance is launching the fourth edition of myFrenchFilmFestival.com, which will run Jan 17 to Feb 17.

Last year’s festival saw 750,000 viewings in 189 countries.

New for the 2014 edition are the addition of platforms including iTunes in 80 territories. SpectiCast will make the selections available to more than 1,000 cinemas worldwide, and 400 airlines will offer the films via partner Skeye.

The festival will showcase 10 first and second features and 10 shorts.

The jury for the filmmakers award will be led by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and also include Lynne Ramsay, Marco Bellocchio and Anurag Kashyap. A press award, audience award and social networks award will also be handed out.

The films are:

Features

In a Rush, directed by Louis Do Lencquesaing

Augustine [pictured], directed by Alice Winocour

Little Lion, directed by Samuel Collardey

Maddened by His Absence, directed by Sandrine Bonnaire

The Virgin, the Copts and Me, directed by Namir Abdel Messeeh

The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu, directed by Antonin...

By Mark Pinkert

Contributor

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This is the second article in a three-part series.

Earlier this month, the acclaimed writer/producer/director Joss Whedon spoke at an Equality Now benefit dinner and suggested that the word “feminism” be removed from the English lexicon. According to Mr. Whedon, the word is problematic because it assumes that gender equality is not the “natural state” but something that needs to be achieved. Though several self-purported feminist bloggers have criticized this idea, Whedon’s speech does raise some interesting questions about how prejudice can hide away in the depths of language and rhetoric.

Thankfully, we have reached a point where shouting sexist comments is socially unacceptable and utterly disgraceful; anyone who does becomes ostracized by civil people. But that does not mean gender prejudices have been cured. The most corrosive type of sexism, and the one Whedon was getting at, is the kind embedded in words and institutions,...

  Although "12 Years a Slave" is still favored to win Best Picture, its helmer Steve McQueen is locked in a tight race for Best Director with Alfonso Cuaron ("Gravity"). History favors McQueen winning as these two awards have lined up for 63 of the 85 years of Oscar. However, of the 22 times they have not, the most recent instance was last year when Ang Lee won his second Academy Award for helming the 3-D spectacle "Life of Pi" while "Argo" won Best Picture despite director Ben Affleck not being nominated.  That marked only the fourth time in Oscar history that the director of the Best Picture was snubbed by the academy. The other instances: 1927/28: "Wings" won Best Picture; William Wellman was snubbed: Frank Borzage won Best Director for "Seventh Heaven"; 1931/32: "Grand Hotel" won Best Picture; Edmund Goulding was snubbed: Frank Borzage ...

(Click to enlarge) There.s no real formula one can use to win an Oscar . except this one. Researcher David Shaw broke down the history of Academy Award winner for Delayed Gratification, focusing on the winners in the Best Actor and Best Actress categories. They start with Emil Jannings (who won in 1928 for both The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh) and Janet Gaynor (who won for participating in Three features that year: Seventh Heaven; Street Angel; and Sunrise). The chart is a hot mess of colorful lines. Staring at it for longer than a minute can induce migraine headaches. But here are a few of the major factors the research revealed. If you want to win an acting Oscar, you should: - Play a Fictional Character. - Play a North American (instead of a Brit or someone of a different, European descent). - Play someone who works...

Stars: Jeremie Earp-Lavergne, Katharine Cleland, Ingrid Falaise, Pierre Lenoir, Ivan Freud | Written and Directed by Renaud Gauthier

I’ve said it many times before and I’ve no doubt I’ll say it many times again, but Canadians know how to make damn good horror flicks and guess what? They also know how to do great retro-grindhouse flicks too! Yes Discopath, the tale of a man turned to murder by the beat, is another fantastic genre flick from the land that brought us He Knows You’re Alone, My Bloody Valentine and the more recent Antisocial.

Writer/director Renaud Gauthier made his name as a music video director, so it should come as no surprise that music features heavily in his first feature film, Discopath, an epic tale of trauma and turntables:

It’s 1976, Donna Summer tops the charts and everyone believes in mirror balls. Except Manhattan burger cook Duane...

The full lineup for the FrightFest All-Nighter in London has been announced and includes Nothing Left to Fear and The Station:

“The FrightFest All-Nighter 13 returns to the Vue in London’s Leicester Square on Saturday October 26 for the third year, with six killer titles including UK premieres of The Station, Patrick, Nothing Left To Fear and Soulmate. So climb aboard FrightFest’s Halloween Express, with guests including Neil Marshal, Anna Walton, Renaud Gautheir and Michael Armstrong, for the night-ride of your lives.

Tickets for the London event go on sale Tues 1 Oct.

Horror fans around the country can join in the fearsome fun on Saturday 2 November, when the event travels to the Gft Glasgow and the Empires in Sunderland, Newcastle and Poole. On Sat November 16 the event hits the Watershed Bristol

London line-up:

18:30 Soulmate (UK Premiere)

Axelle Carolyn makes her impressive feature debut with a sophisticated ghost story. After...

The FrightFest All-Nighter 13 returns to the Vue in London’s Leicester Square on Saturday October 26 for the third year, with six killer titles including UK premieres of The Station, Patrick, Nothing Left to Fear and Soulmate. So climb aboard FrightFest’s Halloween Express, with guests including Neil Marshal, Anna Walton, Renaud Gautheir and Michael Armstrong, for the night-ride of your lives

Horror fans around the country can join in the fearsome fun on Saturday 2 November, when the event travels to the Gft Glasgow and the Empires in Sunderland, Newcastle and Poole. On Sat November 16 the event hits the Watershed Bristol

London line-up:

18:30 Soulmate (UK Premiere)

Axelle Carolyn makes her impressive feature debut with a sophisticated ghost story. After attempting to commit suicide due to the sudden death of her husband, Audrey (Anna Walton) decides to retreat to a remote country cottage. But she soon discovers her safe haven is haunted by its previous owner.

If there’s one thing you can say about the Frightfest Halloween All-Nighter it’s that the one-night only event has provided some of the most diverse horror line-ups to be screened theatrically in its meagre seven year existence – and 2013′s line-up is no different, with screenings of the eagerly awaited remake of Aussie horror Patrick, from director Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood, Machete Maidens Unleashed); Soulmate, from actress turned director Axelle Carolyn (Centurion); and the first film from former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash’s new production outfit Slasher Films, Nothing Left To Fear. And as if those weren’t enough, this years retro screening is the awesome, and formerly banned in the UK, Mark of the Devil, from director Michael Armstrong.

This years London event is scheduled for Saturday 26th October from 6.30pm and will be located for the third year at the Vue, West End. Tickets (costing...

Megan Mullally is a two-time Emmy-winning star of TV's Will amp Grace, and recent star of Broadway's Young Frankenstein. On August 28 amp 29 she returns to Provincetown by popular demand - for two shows only - after her sold-out Art House debut last summer. Patti LuPone won her second Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, as well Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, for her performance as Rose in the most recent Broadway production of Gypsy, and created the title role in Evita on Broadway with her now legendary performance, for which she won her first Tony and Drama Desk Awards. On August 31 and September 1 she makes a triumphant Provincetown return for 4 shows only, after debuting at The Art House last summer. Chita Rivera is a living Broadway legend and a two-time Tony winner as Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Anna in The Rink. She...

Update: Active Entertainment has asked us to remove the trailer, which is not the official version or release and had been leaked by mistake. We apologize for the inconvenience and will post the actual Ghost Shark trailer once it is legitimately available. Last week, Sharknado took the world by storm. And rightly so. No film in the history of the medium has captured the pure, face-melting terror of both natural disasters and aquatic sea life. But Syfy doesn’t seem prepared to let the Sharknado hype die down, and so we get the trailer for the next surefire shark hit: Ghost Shark. The film stars Mackenzie Rosman (of Seventh Heaven fame), and like Sharknado, the premise is exactly what you think it is. Check out the trailer below. The premise isn’t quite as weird as Sharknado, but Ghost Shark more than makes up for that with a slew of terrible, terrible...

My earliest recollection of reveling in car races was a stock car race outside of Pittsburgh. I can still smell that fuel and hear the sounds of the engines revving up. And the sexuality that was in the air. The daredevil drivers and their swagger meandering and out of the crowd. Oh, just to touch a driver would have made my day. The fumes of the petrol mingled with the fast food and I was in Sixth Heaven. Now after seeing "Fast & Furious 6," I found myself in Seventh Heaven. Initially...

DVD Release Date: May 28, 2013

Price: DVD $24.99

Studio: Virgil Films

Sara Rue looks out for father Elliott Gould in Dorfman in Love.

A young woman living with her dad gets a shot at love in the 2011 romantic comedy Dorfman in Love starring Sara Rue (TV’s Rules of Engagement) and Elliott Gould (Contagion).

San Fernando Valley girl Deb Dorfman (Rue) has no special guy in her life, though she spends an awful lot of time taking care of men. They include her demanding widowed father (Gould), her vain, stingy married brother (Jonathan Chase), and her globetrotting journalist friend Jay (Johann Urb, TV’s Californication), who she has a secret crush on. While cat-sitting for Jay at his cool downtown Los Angeles, Deb gives herself a serious makeover, from a new haircut to a new “I Count Too” attitude. Especially helpful and encouraging is a hunky artist, Cookie (Haaz Sleiman), who may...

Like Night of the Hunter, Tod Browning’s Freaks or Leonard Kastle’s The Honeymoon Killers, The Road to Yesterday can be ranked among the UFOs of cinema. It’s place in the heart of Cecil B. DeMille’s work proves to be in itself very distinctive. We know that, during his entire life, DeMille had virtually only one producer—Paramount (the former Famous Players Lasky)—just like Minnelli was MGM’s man and Corman American International’s. Sixty-three of his films (out of seventy) were produced at Paramount. And, oddly enough, it is among the seven outsiders, situated within a brief period from 1925 to 1931, that his best activity is to be found (I’m thinking of Madam Satan, The Godless Girl, and The Road to Yesterday)–his most audacious undertakings. To top it off, for this uncontested king of the box office, his best films were his biggest commercial failures.

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Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

"Respect" to the fellow nominees... "Unlimited Gratitude" to Tarantino

Three Best Pics introduced

Animated Short John Kahrs, Paperman

Animated Feature Brenda Chapman & Mark Andrews, Brave

Cinematography Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi

Visual Effects Life of Pi

Costume Design Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina

Makeup Les Miserables

James Bond Tribute -Dame Shirley Bassey killed it.

Live Action Short Shawn Christensen, Curfew

Documentary Short Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine for Inocente

Three more best pics introduced

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Documentary Feature Searching for Sugar Man

Foreign Film Michael Haneke for Austria with Amour

Musicals Tribute with performances from Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jennifer Hudson, and the cast of Les Misérables

Sound Mixing...

When somebody mentions The L.A. Complex, chances are you think one of two things: “What’s The L.A. Complex?” or “Didn’t that show get, like, the worst ratings ever?”

It’s true: When this Canadian import first debuted on The CW in April, its premiere had the dubious honor of being crowned broadcast TV’s lowest-rated drama debut of all time. The numbers didn’t improve much in subsequent weeks, or when the series returned for a second season in August — season 2′s finale in September drew just 390,000 pairs of eyeballs. So it’s no surprise that yesterday, Canada...

In celebration of Love Comes Softly 10th Anniversary Collection and Loves Christmas Journey just being released on DVD, I got the chance to talk with Haylie Duff, who plays Annie in Love Finds A Home and Love Takes Wings.

Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the original Love Comes Softly movie by reliving your favorite moments from the most-inspirational film series of the past decade with a new 10-Disc DVD Gift Set. The perfect gift to give a loved one or yourself this Christmas. Over 18 hours of beloved, heartwarming movies provides more value than ever! Each of the 10 movies are inspired by the best-selling book series from Janette Oke and include an all-star cast including: Katherine Heigl, Lou Diamond Philips, January Jones, Cheryl Ladd and many more.

Check out my interview with Haylie Duff here:

Being an actress, you get a lot of scripts. What was it about the character of Annie,...

Justin Timberlake wore his wedding ring today in Italy! It was just yesterday that he and his longtime girlfriend Jessica Biel tied the knot at the Borgo Egnazia Resort. The couple released a statement to People, sharing the happy news and saying, "It’s great to be married, the ceremony was beautiful, and it was so special to be surrounded by our family and friends." Pictures from the party will appear in the publication's next issue. Joining Justin and Jessica at the Fasano, Italy, bash were friends like Seventh Heaven's Beverley Mitchell, Jimmy Fallon, Andy Samberg, and Jt's 'N Sync buddy Chris Kirkpatrick. The guests were game for an adventure and didn't know the location of the nuptials until the last minute. View Slideshow ›...

Good things come to those who wait ... at least in the case of Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake.

Following a 10-month engagement (and a brief split), the couple of five years tied the knot in southern Italy on Friday, People confirms.

They exchanged vows in a rustic, intimate ceremony attended by close family and friends, such as Biel's former "Seventh Heaven" co-star Beverley Mitchell and Timberlake's "D--k in a Box" partner Andy Samberg. "It's great to be married, the ceremony was beautiful and it was so special to be surrounded by our family and friends," the newlyweds mused.

According to an insider, the pair had taken "extra precautions" to keep the location under-wraps, even going so far as to have guests fly into Germany where they were then handed tickets to proceed to Italy. Guests did not know the final destination until they had those hot tickets in-hand. That's some serious planning.

Justin Timberlake has said "Bye Bye Bye" to bachelorhood - he and Jessica Biel tied the knot.

"It's great to be married, the ceremony was beautiful and it was so special to be surrounded by our family and friends," the couple said in a joint statement to People on Friday.

The pair wed in southern Italy.

A host of celebrities, including Adam Samberg (Justin's "D*** In A Box" "Saturday Night Live" digital short co-star), *Nsync's Chris Kirkpatrick, producer Timbaland and Jessica's "Seventh Heaven" co-star Beverly Mitchell had been spotted in the area, according to multiple reports.

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Los Angeles (AP) — NBC slashes Jay Leno's "Tonight" pay in half, but forks out more than $8 billion to renew its broadcast rights to Sunday Night Football.

Rumors swirl about a salary cut for Matt Lauer and Alec Baldwin tweets an offer to cut his salary, even as the network gambles on a $4.4 billion bid for the Olympics.

Is this any way to run a network that's been stuck at No. 4 in the prime-time ratings for eight seasons?

Yes, according to observers, who say NBC is making the right moves by saving where it can and spending where it should under new owner Comcast Corp.

"I'm impressed they're both taking all these creative shots and exercising financial discipline," said Garth Ancier, a network veteran who helped launch Fox and was an entertainment chief at NBC.

Stephen Burke, Comcast vice president and NBCUniversal CEO, "knows where to spend money and where not to,...

Cine-asia Is Excited To Announce A New Wave Of Hkl Classics Set To Be Re-released On DVD Under The Cine-asia Presents Hkl Banner

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In his first historic feature for a Western audience, Jackie takes up the role of Jerry Kwan, a flamboyant Kung Fu expert, forced to compete in a no-holds-barred street-fighting tournament by heavy-hitting syndicate mobsters.

Crafted by the director and producer that brought you the Bruce Lee classic Enter the Dragon, Battle Creek Brawl is a stunning showcase for the remarkable physical prowess of Jackie Chan. Performing some of the fastest and most powerful Wing Chun hand techniques ever recorded on film, Jackie also stops the show with a multi-point bicycle-kick performed effortlessly without the aid of a wire!

Combining action, romance and Chan’s remarkable physical comedy, Battle Creek Brawl is a dynamic martial-arts extravaganza,...

Amidst the blockbuster season of robots, explosions, superheros and aliens, we can all use a pleasant period piece drama to cleanse the palate. Benoit Jacquot is giving us just that with Farewell, My Queen, the movie that opened the Berlin Film Festival to solid reviews and arriving in theaters in the heat of July.

Inglourious Basterds‘ Diane Kruger takes the lead as queen Marie Antoinette while Ghotocol‘s Lea Seydoux is by her side. The production design seems to be top-notch and the story passionately captured, which is half the battle in these sometimes droll entries into the genre. Check out the trailer and poster below via Apple.

Synopsis:

Farewell, My Queen marks the return of acclaimed director Benoit Jacquot (A Single Girl, Seventh Heaven, Sade, Deep in the Woods,) and brilliantly captures the passions, debauchery, occasional glimpses of nobility and ultimately the chaos that engulfed the court of Marie...

Intrigued by The Artist but don't know where to start exploring the silent film archives? Try these five classics, which lead to plenty more…

It doesn't take long for a novelty to be hailed as a trend. Internet film rental service Lovefilm reports that the buzz around The Artist has sparked a boom in curiosity about early cinema, with a 40% rise in the number of people streaming silent films on its site in the week leading up to the Oscars.

The top 10 most-streamed silents include a clutch of Buster Keaton's ingenious comedies, some heady Hollywood melodrama (A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara, and The Son of the Sheikh, with Rudolph Valentino) and creepy Swedish horror The Phantom Carriage. There are only two films on the list that seem to bear any relation to Michel Hazanavicius's surprise hit: Frank Borzage's mournful romance Seventh Heaven (which inspired the...

Jeremy London will fly away all right—to the slammer if authorities prove the allegations against him. Prosecutors in Riverside, Calif., have charged the ex-Party of Five and Seventh Heaven star with domestic violence stemming from the scuffle he got into last month with his estranged wife Melissa Cunningham. A rep for the Riverside District Attorney's Office said prosecutors filed the misdemeanor count two days ago after London's baby mama filed a police report alleging the actor assaulted her outside her home on Nov. 18 when the two got into an argument over custody of their child. A warrant was subsequently issued for his...

Trading confetti for lifelike dolls, Jessica Biel has a new indie project on the horizon.

Fresh off her bust of a New Year's Eve, Biel is in talks to go in a new direction with her her post "Seventh Heaven" career. The actress has her sights set on Fancesca Gregorini's "Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes." According to Variety, Biel is in talks to play Linda, a mother so torn apart by the death of her baby that she cares for a doll as if it's her child. Kaya Scodelaria is set to star opposite Biel as Emanuel, playing a troubled 17-year-old girl who loves "babysitting" Linda's doll because Linda looks exactly like her dead mother.

Biel already has a busy 2012 on the books. She's already filmed "Nailed," a David O. Russell-directed feature that co-stars Jake Gyllenhaal and James Marsden; "The Tall Man," a Pascal Laugier-directed thriller; "Playing The Field,...