Spike Lee To Direct Crowdsourced Mobile Phone Movie

Spike Lee meets Nokia in the latest artist/brand partnership to promote a fascinating fusion of technology, entertainment, and user-generated, crowdsourced content.It's interesting to note that Nokia is taking...

"Away from Her" Dominates Canada's Genie Awards

Who could have imagined that in a seemingly few years, Canadian indie film ingenue Sarah Polley would move from a child acting role on 'Road to Avonlea' to an Academy Award-nominated, and multiple Genie...

The Oscar Winners Are...

"Did your favorite star take home a golden statuette? Read our complete winners list to find out -- winners are listed in red and bold. BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR "Atonement" "Juno" "Michael Clayton" "No Country For Old Men" "There Will Be Blood" PERFORMANCE BY AN...

Writers Guild Award Nominees Announced

All of the expected heavyweights made it into this year's WGA nomination list. Nominees include the acclaimed films: “Juno,” “Michael Clayton,” “Knocked Up”, “No Country for Old Men,” “There Will Be Blood,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” and...

Terminator in 2009: I'll Be Back!

Inevitable, really... a second Terminator trilogy. This new round of robot-on-robot action will be set in the future, though, and Arnold Schwartzenegger, whose monosyllabic cyborg is a pop-culture icon (and the...

ROBOTECH Coming to the Big Screen

Robotech was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid. I loved the idea of humans controlling giant machines to smash the snot out of each other. Hey, I was, like, eight years old. Guess what?It's still...

Coupland's JPod to become TV comedy series

"Canadian author Douglas Coupland, who wrote his first film screenplay with last year's Everything's Gone Green, has written a new TV series based on his novel, JPod. The 13-part series will be a look into...

Script Frenzy: 20,000 words in 30 days

From the creators of the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), some new insanity for the budding literati; "Script Frenzy is an international writing event in which participants attempt the creatively daring...

Harry Potter Fans Stage Convention in New Orleans

The Phoenix Rising Convention in New Orleans, May 17-21, 2007One of the latest events planned by the Harry Potter fans while they wait impatiently for the last (sigh) book in the series to come out this...

Emma Thomson and Stephen Fry in Iceland

"Hótel Glymur popular among celebrities British actors Emma Thomson and Stephen Fry are planning an extensive screenplay writing course at Hótel Glymur in the Hvalfjördur fjord in southwest Iceland late this...

Cheshire hero set to conquer Hollywood

"Cheshire hero set to conquer Hollywood Dan McMullanTHE life of a legendary mountaineer who was raised in Cheshire and died on the slopes of Everest looks likely to be turned into a Hollywood blockbuster. Mobberley-born George Mallory is thought by some to have been the first...

Valleywag: Web 2.0 uselessness checklist

According to Valleywag, Web 2.0 business ideas are  the "i'm working on a screenplay" of Silicon Valley: Every regular Joes got a dot-com startup idea. This is pretty funny since everyone in LA i know is working on a screenplay. How come people in Detroit...

Token Booth Closings Start in April

The first nine of the 164 token booths scheduled for closing will be shut down in April. The Daily News says the first retired booths will include ones in Union Square and Penn Station, and then the remaining booths will close weekly until October. Then, 600 of the clerks...

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