Tyler Perry is being sued for allegedly stealing the inspiration for his movie “Good Deeds” released in February 2012. Terri Donald, an author who goes by the pseudonym TLO Red’ness, wrote a book entitled “Bad Apples Can Be Good Fruit” in 2007. Donald claims that the plot of Perry’s 2012 movie closely resembles the storyline [...]
2012 Summer Movie Season Started with a Bang, Ended with a Whimper
September 2, 2012 | Posted by
Enjoy your Labor Day weekend and the end to Summer 2012′s movie season. It started out strong with Marvel’s The Avengers (which Disney expanded into about 1,700 theaters this weekend and added $365K Friday to help its worldwide gross push past $1.5B sooner) and is now finishing weak on what is traditionally one of the softer weekends of the year. Saturday’s grosses in [...]
Spike Lee: The Dolly Shot
May 2, 2012 | Posted by
Spike Lee’s filmmaking style is notorious for a number of reasons (ever heard of guerrilla filmmaking?). But one of his characteristic camera techniques is the sweeping and panning “dolly shot.” Vimeo user Richard Cruz created “Spike Lee / The Dolly Shot,” a super cut of the many uses of the dolly shot in Spike Lee’s [...]
'The Kennedy Detail' Movie Release To Correspond With 50th Anniversary Of Assassination
April 16, 2012 | Posted by
Atchity Entertainment and Ramos & Sparks Group have announced that they will produce a feature film based on the bestselling book The Kennedy Detail, according to Deadline.com The producers say they have obtained the rights to the book, which was written by former Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine and journalist Lisa McCubbin. They plan for [...]
Anthony Mackie Joins The Cast Of "The Gangster Squad"
June 27, 2011 | Posted by
Anthony Mackie officially signs up with “The Gangster Squad.” set in the 1940′s A special unit is organized to stop the corruption from taking over the city of Los Angeles. Mackie plays Rocky Washington, an ex-cop and the first black lieutenant in the LAPD, who is ultimately recruited to work as part of the squad. “The Gangster [...]
