Taking Stock of Who We Were: Ang Lee’s new movie “Taking Woodstock” has backstory of pure serendipity
October 11, 2008
WOODSTOCK,NY(RUSHPRNEWS)10/11/2008 – As previously reported by RushPRnews, Fiftysomething director Ang Lee is tackling a new movie project, a comedy this time, and his third film with a gay storyline, about the Woodstock Nation hippie music festival in August of 1969. Remember those days? Were you there? Too young to remember? Read on. The movie will be released late June, just around the time of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock Nation’s coming out party.
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Reel Suave Brings World Cinema To Your Doorstep
October 10, 2008
‘Reel Suave’ website is real suave: Focus is on Hollywood and on foreign movies from all corners of the world
By Dan Bloom
Salt Lake City,UT(RUSHPRNEWS)10/10/08 – John Antony is a 23-year-old film buff with a degree in chemical engineering who loves movies. He loves movies so much, in fact, that he is part of a new website called Reel Suave, that bills itself as “A Site for True Film Buffs”. He is, in fact, Reel Suave’s editor.
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Brody to the Max! First-Name Contest Gains Monentum
October 8, 2008
Brody to the Max! — First name “contest” for Adrien Brody’s first-nameless “Bloom” character in “The Brothers Bloom” gains steam
by Dan Bloom
HOLLWYOOD(RUSHPRNEWS)10/08/2008–Rian Johnson, director of “Brick”, has a new film coming out very soon, with festival screenings now going on around the world, and the movie is called “The Brothers Bloom”. It’s called that because there are two brothers in the movie, and their last name is Bloom. Mark Ruffalo plays Stephen Bloom, a con man extraordinaire, and Adrien Brody plays his brother, called only “Bloom” throught the entire film.
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Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. to bow new film at AFI
October 7, 2008
By Kat Kramer
AFI FEST 2008 Announces Lineup
HOLLYWOOD, CA (RUSHPRNEWS) 10/7/08 - The upcoming popular American Film Festival 2008 has recently announced its stellar lineup for opening and closing night Galas. “The Soloist” starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. directed by Joe Wright, will open the Fest on October 30, and Paramount Vantage’s “Defiance” has been selected as the festival’s closing night Gala presentation.
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Hathaway Deft With Comedy and Controversy
October 7, 2008
NEW YORK (RUSHPRNEWS)10/7/08- Anne Hathaway hosted “Saturday Night Live” with courage and style, kicking off the show by unflinchingly tackling the elephant in the room. The star of “The Princess Diaries” dedicated her opening monologue to poking fun at her public breakup with disgraced businessman Raffaello Follieri, doing her best to play the part of the easily deceived damsel.
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Movies: âNick and Norah’ an Exercise in Subtlety
October 6, 2008
By Matthew B. Zeidman
NEW YORK (RUSHPRNEWS)10/6/08 - If there’s one thing that defines newly released rom-com “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” it isn’t the indie soundtrack, the sight gags or the cosmopolitan streets of New York. In one word, it’s subtlety.
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Taking stock of “Taking Woodstock” Ang Lee’s New Movie Looks at the 60s
October 5, 2008
“Ang Lee doesn’t choose his movies. His movies choose him.”– RushPRnews
Ang Lee’s new movie speaks to worldwide audience
by Dan Bloom
Woodstock,NY(RUSHPRNEWS)10/05/2008 – When RushPRnews, broke the news last month about how a humorous memoir about the 1969 Woodstock music festival made it into the hands of Hollywood of Oscar winner director Ang Lee — “the pride of Taiwan”, one might add! — the story was quickly picked up by the Reuters News Service and placed on its international wire and going to more than 5,000 news outlets worldwide. And not only in English.
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Possible Paparazzo Set Up -Turned Heather Locklear in to Police
October 3, 2008
Photog’s attorney claims call to 911 was her civic duty
By Matthew B. Zeidman
LOS ANGELES(RUSHPRNEWS)10/03/08 - It came to light Wednesday that Heather Locklear’s arrest following alleged erratic driving wasn’t left to luck, but was instead made possible by a 911-dialing paparazzo tailing the former “Melrose Place” star, who was able to snap photos of the police action and sell them anonymously to gossip Web site TMZ for $27,500, reported Hollywood Today.
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Bubbie and Zadie! — Just in time for Hannukah 2008!
October 3, 2008
By Dan Bloom
MONTREAL(RUSHPRNEWS)10/03/2008 — Twenty years ago, when Susan Anderson was given a cassette tape of a children’s Hanukkah story titled “Bubbie and Zadie Come to My House”, her first child Ryan was about a year old and the family, including Anderson’s husband, Jim, began listening to the tape every Hanukkah at their home in Virginia Beach, Virginia.





