Harper Lee book news leaves home town surprised, bemused and sceptical
(Feb 6, 2015 | Guardian)
The author is unavailable, her lawyer elusive and for some in the small southern town of Monroeville a second novel is just the latest out-of-character occurrence Harper Lee visiting the courthouse in her home town of Monroeville in 1965. Photograph: Donald Uhrbrock/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImagesEd Pilkington in Monroeville, AlabamaFriday 6 February 201506.00 ESTFor...read more
Lizabeth Scott, Film Noir Siren, Dies at 92
(Feb 6, 2015 | New York Times)
By ROBERT D. McFADDENFEB. 6, 2015 Ms. Scott with Van Heflin in "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946), one of her first films. Credit Paramount Pictures, via Photofest Lizabeth Scott, a sultry blonde with a come-hither voice cut out for the seething romantic and homicidal passions of her Hollywood film noir roles in the late 1940s...read more
Kino Lorber Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Fund Pioneers of African-American Cinema Collection
(Feb 4, 2015 | Kino Lorber)
Kino Lorber Launches Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Pioneers of African-American Cinema Four-disc Blu-ray anthology will offer a thorough survey of independent African-American filmmakers (1916-1944) such as Oscar Micheaux, Spencer Williams and Zora Neale Hurston, and will include many films never before available on video or any media. NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY...read more
Harper Lee to publish new novel, 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird
(Feb 3, 2015 | Guardian)
Go Set a Watchman, completed in the mid-50s but lost for more than half a century, was written before To Kill A Mockingbird and features Scout as an adultHarper Lee in 2007. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesAlison Flood in London and Paul Lewis in New YorkTuesday 3 February 201514.57 ESTWhen an author's debut novel wins the Pulitzer prize and goes on to sell 40 million...read more
getTV IS CELEBRATING ITS FIRST BIRTHDAY, INVITING VIEWERS TO SHARE THEIR #1STMOVIEMEMORY ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK
(Feb 2, 2015 | Sony getTV)
getTV IS CELEBRATING ITS FIRST BIRTHDAY, INVITING VIEWERS TO SHARE THEIR #1STMOVIEMEMORY ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK TOMORROW AT 6 A.M. PT CULVER CITY, CA - Monday, February 2, 2015 - getTV is commemorating its first birthday with a special Twitter party and Facebook takeover, kicking off tomorrow - Tuesday, February 3, at 6 a.m. PT. Throughout the day, viewers will be encouraged...read more
getTV's February Programming Highlights Include its First Birthday Party on February 3
(Jan 30, 2015 | Sony getTV)
getTV CELEBRATES ITS FIRST BIRTHDAY ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, WITH A TWITTER PARTY AND FACEBOOK TAKE OVER, AS PART OF A MONTH OF FIRSTS FEATURING PREMIERES OF IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT AND HIS GIRL FRIDAY Highlights Include a Sidney Poitier Birthday Double Feature, Valentine's Day Westerns Marathon, New "The Year Was" Tuesday Block, Jack Lemmon Mondays, and More CULVER CITY, CA -...read more
Turner Classic Movies Festival News: New Premiere Restorations and Special Guests Announced
(Jan 29, 2015 | TCM)
TCM Classic Film Festival Announces Two Time Academy Award®-Nominated Actress Ann-Margret Will Present the 50th Anniversary of The Cincinnati Kid; NASA Astronaut Captain James Lovell To Appear For the 20th Anniversary World Premiere Restoration of Ron Howard's Apollo 13Festival Will Feature Newly Restored Editions of 42nd Street, Calamity Jane, 1776, Roman Holiday, The Proud Rebel and Rififi plus...read more
The Last Star: An evening with Olivia de Havilland
(Jan 29, 2015 | Entertainment Weekly)
In 1940, 'Gone With the Wind' swept the Academy Awards. Now, 75 years later, Olivia de Havilland, the film's last surviving star, talks about losing to Hattie McDaniel, swooning for Errol Flynn, and vowing, at 98, to live at least a century. by Missy Schwartz (John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images; Reed Saxon/AP)...read more
'Jane the Virgin': Rita Moreno Cast as Rogelio's Mother
(Jan 28, 2015 | Variety)
Mike LaMonica January 28, 2015 | 03:27PM PT Elizabeth Wagmeister Are you ready to meet Jane Villanueva's other...read more
TCM Unveils Lineup for 2015 Edition of 31 Days of Oscar
(Jan 27, 2015 | TCM)
TCM Unveils Lineup for 2015 Edition of 31 Days of Oscar® Including Premieres of The Artist and The King's Speech31 Days of Oscar® Airs February 1 - March 3 Featuring A Nightly Chronological "History of the Oscars®" Through Film Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will kick off its 31 Days of Oscar®, the network's annual month-long celebration of the Academy Awards®, on February 1...read more
Warner Archive Collection New Releases: Shirley Temple & Sheer Cinema Pleasures
(Jan 27, 2015 | Warner Brothers Archives)
Pleasures, Guilty and OtherwiseBORN RECKLESS (1958) "Every Big-Time Rodeo Prize Rolled Into One Pair of Tight Pants!" goes the tagline for this rock 'n rodeo wonder starring the one and only Ms. Mamie Van Doren who catapulted this piece of cinema into the cult classic firmament. She's the cowgal crooner and sultry stunt-rider with the cutest little rope-trick of all. He's the two-timing rough...read more
Kino Lorber Releases The U.S. Release Version of Mario Bava's Black Sunday on Blu-ray
(Jan 26, 2015 | Kino Lorber)
Kino Lorber Releases the U.S. Release Version of Mario Bava's horror classic Black Sunday starring genre legend Barbara Steele (Pit and the Pendulum, The Long Hair of Death, Shivers) Available on Blu-ray February 24th Alternate, re-edited version of Bava's influential and groundbreaking 1960 directorial debut, featuring a new musical score by Ultra-Lounge composer Les Baxter and English dubbing...read more
Turner Classic Movies to Host World Premiere Screening of Long Lost Harry Houdini Classic The Grim Game at 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival
(Jan 23, 2015 | TCM)
Turner Classic Movies to Host World Premiere Screening of Long Lost Harry Houdini Classic The Grim Game at 2015 TCM Classic Film FestivalTurner Classic Movies (TCM) is bringing the long-lost Harry Houdini classic The Grim Game (1919) back to the public eye in a world premiere screening during 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival held March 26-29 in Hollywood. This much-sought-after film - a complete print...read more
Simon West To Helm 'The Blob' Remake
(Jan 22, 2015 | deadline.com)
Simon West To Helm 'The Blob' RemakeIt crawls! It creeps! It's getting a remake. Goldcrest Films is set to co-produce an update of 1958 horror/sci-fi classic The Blob. Simon West (Wild Card, The Mechanic,Expendables 2) is directing with principal photography eyed for this summer. Producers are Richard Saperstein and Brian Witten (Cell). Korea's Taewon Entertainment...read more
Broadway-Bound Roy Rogers Musical
(Jan 22, 2015 | Hollywood Reporter)
Alan Menken Joins Creative Team for Broadway-Bound Roy Rogers Musical Roy Rogers and Dale Evans by David Rooney 1/22/2015 1:00pm PST A top-tier creative team is saddling up for the new bio-musical Happy Trails: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans in Song & Story, based on one of vintage Hollywood's...read more