Taking Stock of Who We Were: Ang Lee’s new movie “Taking Woodstock” has backstory of pure serendipity
October 11, 2008
By Dan Bloom
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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Movies: ‘Nick 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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Kentucky Fried Cruelty: The Movie- Coming to A Theatre Close to You
October 3, 2008
Moviegoers to See Ads That Show an Evil Colonel Who Scalds ‘Chicken’ Prisoners to Death and Injects Them With Drugs
Denver,CO(RUSHPRNEWS)10/03/2008– Just in time for Saw V and the slew of other horror movies that come with Halloween, PETA’s sinister anti-KFC ad campaign is coming to a theater near you. The surreal, horror-flick-inspired ads, two of which were rejected for not being conservative enough, feature a stony-faced Colonel Sanders who oversees the abuse of prisoners, which mimics the abuse suffered by chickens raised and killed for KFC restaurants. Beginning today, the spot “Crack House” will hit Denver theaters and be screened before various R-rated movies.
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Anthem Taps Solomon as Chairman of Digital Entertainment Studio
October 2, 2008
ANTHEM DIGITAL APPOINTS MICHAEL JAY SOLOMON CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
LOS ANGELES(RUSHPRNEWS)10/02/2008 – Anthem Digital, the parent company of Anthem Pictures, announced today that it has named entertainment pioneer Michael Jay Solomon as Chairman of its board of directors, effective immediately.
‘Anne Frank Story of Taiwan’ Now a TV Documentary
September 29, 2008
The historical incident of a Taiwanese man who hid from the martial law police for 18 years in a tiny crawl space just 60 cm wide set for TV documentary
By Dan Bloom
TAIPEI, TAIWAN(RUSHPRNEWS)09/29/2008 – Everyone around the world knows the famous story about Anne Frank, the little Jewish Dutch girl who kept a diary when she and her family were hiding from the Nazis during World War II in Amsterdam. Anne died tragically in a Nazi concentration camp, after she and her family were discovered in their hiding place and taken by train to the notorious Nazi death camps.
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Newman Remembered as Actor, Anti-hero and Philanthropist
September 28, 2008
Rebel Without a Clue -Paul Newman dead at 83 from cancer
By Jeffrey Jolson
HOLLYWOOD (RUSHPRNEWS/HOLLYWOODTODAY) 9/28/08 — It is a sad day in Hollywood and around the world, and not just for film fans. Much of the most brilliant work cool hand Paul Newman ever did before he died at 83 wasn’t on the silver screen, but in hospitals, the UN, store shelves and charities worldwide. He was the pioneer of the actor activist, the model that the Clooneys and Jolies have followed - and he did it with the mix of class and rebellious spirit that made his movie characters so memorable.
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