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Sundance Film Festival: Sellers anticipating a bounty of deals
24 FramesOptimism is running high for distribution deals at the Sundance Film Festival but box-office success isn’t guaranteed.... -
Jessica Biel, Nazis top SXSW midnight movies lineup
24 FramesGenre favorites Ti West and Don Coscarelli are among the filmmakers whose work will be featured in the midnight and short films lineup at Austin's South by Southwest Film Festival, which gets underway next month.... -
Happy birthday, Tall Man! 'Phantasm' turns 30
The Hero ComplexOriginally released in 1979, the cult gem "Phantasm," about a pair of brothers and an ice cream vendor who run afoul of the mysterious, cemetery-raiding Tall Man, has all the hallmarks of a trippy independent production from that era. It...... -
Classic and rare films at Cinecon
Movie buffs, prepare to feast upon a banquet of classic and rare films, celebrity guests and memorabilia marts at the 45th annual Cinecon film festival, which kicks off tonight and runs through Monday at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
Among the...Tags: Deborah Kerr, Matthew Broderick, John Candy, Drama (genre), Richard M. Sherman
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Sundance fest adds four pics: Stars include Sean Penn, Jesse Eisenberg,Tracy Morgan, Paul Giamatti
Tribune Media Services"Predisposed," a comedy starring Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo and Tracy Morgan, is one of four features added to the lineup of the 28th annual Sundance Film Festival. The writing-directing debut of Philip Dorling and Ron Nyswaner, "Predisposed" will bow...Tags: Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Melissa Leo, Festive Events, Miranda July
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Thrills turn more extreme as indie genre pics evolve: Sundance Film Festival 2012
VarietyIt's been 20 years since Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" thrilled Sundance audiences and helped pave the way for a flood of low-budget genre films. In its wake, the indie marketplace thrummed with lean, punchy crime stories -- films about heists...Tags: Excision (music group), Quentin Tarantino, Festive Events, Horror (genre), Target
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'Masters of Horror: 'Cigarette Burns' and 'Dreams in the Witch House''
Zap2It.comAnchor Bay has taken an interesting approach to releasing Showtime's "Masters of Horror" anthology series. Rather than merely bundling the 13 hour-long movies into a three- or four-disc set, the company has opted to release the films as individual DVDs or...Tags: DVDs and Movies, Norman Reedus, Death, Halloween, John Carpenter
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Fall back into your seats
Tribune Staff ReportersNow that the summer of sequels finally has ended, Hollywood has a message for adults: It's safe to get back in the theaters again. The fall always looks great from a Labor Day perspective as the studios and indie distributors prepare to unveil their...Tags: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Juvenile Delinquency, Laura Linney, Helen Mirren, Colin Firth
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'Bubba Ho-Tep'
Times Staff WriterThe limp spoof "Bubba Ho-Tep" imagines that Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) is alive and residing in the Shady Rest Convalescent Home in Mud Creek, Texas. It seems that, tiring of his life as the King of rock 'n' roll, he got an Elvis impersonator named...Tags: Crimes, Death, Bruce Campbell, Health, Movies
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Movie review: 'Bubba Ho-Tep'
Tribune staff reporter2 stars (out of 4) In "Bubba Ho-Tep," an ancient Egyptian mummy feeds on the blue-haired residents of an East Texas rest home. Only an impotent, elderly Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) and the (nearly) assassinated John F. Kennedy (Ossie Davis) can save...Tags: Sam Raimi, Death, Television Industry, Elvis Presley, John F. Kennedy
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