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- 'Little Obama' movie explores chapter of president's ... - Los Angeles Wave Newspapers
- Movie Trailer: The Last Exorcism - Slashfilm.com
- 24 Movie RELEASE?! - LALATE news
- A career good enough to eat (+recipe) - New Zealand Herald
'Little Obama' movie explores chapter of president's ... - Los Angeles Wave Newspapers Posted: 26 May 2010 01:32 AM PDT Do you think he was just any little boy? Aptly misquoting a line from "Lawrence of Arabia," one of President Barack Obama's favorite films, Obama's adolescence has been turned into a movie entitled "Little Obama" about his childhood years in Indonesia. The film, written and co-directed by Damien Dematra, documents Obama's life in Jakarta with his mother and stepfather from the age of six until he was ten years-old. It will premiere there June 17 to coincide with Obama's planned visit to his former home. The young Obama is played 12-year-old actor Hasan Faruq Ali, a New Mexico native, who like his inspiration, moved to Indonesia as a toddler. "It feels great to play Obama, " the young actor said. "I was shy about it at first...But then it became easy and fun, especially acting as a very important character who left here to become president." The movie is based on Dematra's fictionalized biography of Obama, "Obama Anak Menteng" (literally, Obama the Menteng Kid), and was filmed in the city of Bandung, about 110 miles southeast of Jakarta. "It's not about politics, it's just the story of a boy," said Dematra. "It's about his friendships, his hobbies, just a childhood story." -- Olu Alemoru Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
Movie Trailer: The Last Exorcism - Slashfilm.com Posted: 25 May 2010 05:11 PM PDT Lionsgate has released the first movie trailer for the Eli Roth-produced horror film The Last Exorcism. I haven't read much about the project until now, so I was surprised to find out that the film appears to use the documentary style framing device employed by films like The Blair Witch Project. Watch the trailer now, embedded after the jump.
Synopsis: When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine "exorcism" on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy. Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years of parting desperate believers with their money, Cotton and his crew plan to film a confessionary documentary of this, his last exorcism. But upon arriving at the already blood drenched family farm, it is soon clear that nothing could have prepared him for the true evil he encounters there. Now, too late to turn back, Reverend Marcus' own beliefs are shaken to the core when he and his crew must find a way to save Nell – and themselves – before it is too late. THE LAST EXORCISM is written by Huck Botko & Andrew Gurland and directed by Daniel Stamm. The film hits theaters on August 27th 2010. Watch the trailer in High Definition on Yahoo. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
24 Movie RELEASE?! - LALATE news Posted: 24 May 2010 10:13 PM PDT
TV producers are reportedly anxious to turn the hit tv series into a possible slate for future films. Executive producer Howard Gordon explained Movieweb that the first film's script is in rewrites, "The current status of the movie is that Billy Ray has written a draft which Kiefer Sutherland has read, and we're all working together on the second draft." He added, "Now, it's not been shared with Fox or anybody so there is no official status right now. It's very much a work in progress. Honestly, the movie division is on the other side of the lot and I don't know and can't measure their intentions or their timing, and certainly can't measure their reaction to the script because they haven't read it yet. " Gordon hinted a short time schedule is possible. "So I think it's all very much speculative at this point. I think our preference would be to do it sooner than later, of course, and get Jack back out in front of people within a year or two, but I don't know. That would be just me speaking." Gordon said any film would be true to the tv series will be conducive to drawing new movie fans. "There are two sets of requirements, which is honoring the series and the creative integrity of the character, and also potentially bringing in a whole new group of people into the franchise who can then go back and watch, and believe it's been consistent. So I think we recognize that we're serving two masters or two audiences here, not that they are mutually exclusive but there are two requirements." Other Hot Stories on LALATE NEWS:Kendu Isaacs Mary J Blige Fight Report! Mary J Blige Growing Pains iPOD Lawsuit Mary J Blige Dress at Diane von Furstenberg Mary J. Blige Stay Down Music Video LALATE EXCLUSIVE Mary J Blige Hollywood Celebrity Party LALATE EXCLUSIVE: Mary J. Blige Celebrity Party TONIGHT! Heart of the City, Party! Jay-Z Mary J. Blige (VIDEO)! Jay-Z Mary J. Blige Pre Wedding Taped Performance Mary J Blige Ne Yo Super Bowl (VIDEO) - Do You (Pepsi Super Bowl Bash Live) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
A career good enough to eat (+recipe) - New Zealand Herald Posted: 26 May 2010 01:39 AM PDT New York-based food stylist Susan Spungen has worked with actress Meryl Streep twice in quick succession - first on Julie & Julia, the movie documenting one woman's quest to cook like culinary legend Julia Child, and then on romantic comedy It's Complicated. As well as sharing the same leading lady and being released in 2009, these two movies have another common factor: food is a vital part of the finished product. Not merely a static prop, the food has an elevated significance, variously reinforcing character traits, reflecting emotions and even underscoring plot points. "In movies like It's Complicated where the food is an important part of the movie and it's running through many of the scenes and has to have a certain look and feel and also consistency, that's when someone like me is brought on to execute the vision of the director," says Spungen, whose most memorable scene was the one in It's Complicated in which Streep's character, Jane, is cutting up a chicken. "Meryl is angrily chopping off the chicken leg when Alec Baldwin walks in after he's stood her up the night before. "In order to do that scene, we cooked 50 chickens. We actually counted. I think we cooked 50; we might have used 49 or 48. This went on for a couple of days and it was constant chickens coming out. It went on and on because a scene like that has to be shot from a variety of angles and with many takes of each angle so each time it had to be a completely new chicken. I think that's the kind of thing that people don't realise." Just as the character's emotion was portrayed via the fervent dismemberment of the chook, the food was also intrinsic to Jane's overall identity. "Food was really very important to her character. It was very much part of who she was. It showed her nurturing spirit, her earth-motherliness, all of that. It was just extremely important to who she was as a character." Author of Recipes: A Collection for the Modern Cook, Spungen was also the food editor for Martha Stewart Living for 12 years until 2003 when she turned to freelance food styling. The first hint that a culinary career might be lying ahead came in kindergarten when she insisted on cooking a recipe for "Christmas cookies or something" that appeared in a weekly reader. Most of Spungen's early forays into the kitchen involved baking cakes and biscuits. "I liked the trial and error of it. I enjoy feeding people." Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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