Michigan movie training program graduates class
NBC 24 Toledo Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:08 PM PDT
A new crop of would-be film industry workers picks up credentials this week in Michigan. The state has become a magnet for movie business since creating a refundable tax credit of up to 42 percent on production expenses in Michigan. It's the most lucrative in the country. |
HARD-DRIVE HARD LUCK
Randy Cohen via Yahoo! News Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:00 PM PDT
My friend Natalie had a small party, to which another friend brought a movie on his portable hard drive for all to watch. When Natalie got up to get a sweater, she tripped over the cord, killing the hard drive. She offered our friend $300 to replace it, but he demanded $1,800 to cover data retrieval too: the drive contained his digital artwork, not backed up. Who owes what? -- Joe Kerr, New York |
Naxos Restores Classic Movie Scores
Arts Journal Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:43 PM PDT
"Better known as a recording company that takes a special interest in American classical compositions, Naxos has recently expanded into movie restoration, reviving semi-legendary documentary films whose musical scores have proven more durable than their pictorial aspects and thematic pretensions." |
Riyadh screens first movie in more than three decades
Charleston Daily Mail Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:34 PM PDT
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - For the first time in three decades, Saudis in the nations capital did something that most Westerners take for granted - they went to the movies. But it wasnt exactly date night. No women were allowed.Saturdays screening of the Saudi... |
Musical looks at notorious murderer Ed Gein
The Oshkosh Northwestern Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:26 PM PDT
OMRO Move over Public Enemies its Omros turn in the spotlight. Movie lights and cameras are shining on the city of Omro, where a movie is being shot that takes a whimsical look at Ed Gein, the rural Plainfield handyman who is one of Wisconsins most notorious murderers and grave robbers. |
‘Menahi’ screening irks some
Arab News Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:19 PM PDT
RIYADH: After 30 years, the first movie show to be screened here triggered a minor incident with some Saudis using the platform to voice their disapproval of cinemas. |
England stroll but Capello has work to do
Independent Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:10 PM PDT
It was the Kazakhstan fans who brought up the subject of Borat in the end, after five days of the English politely ignoring the fact that the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen had managed to turn their whole country into the punchline for his movie. At half time on Saturday the home fans unfurled a banner with Borat's face on it â€" the figure in question was being lynched. |
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