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Vulture (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Photo courtesy of HBO Films If it’s an arc you’re looking for, you’ll want to note that “Combat Jack” found soldiers protesting the incompetent leadership so forthrightly established last episode. But in summer 2008, we all know better than to expect a movement climaxing with “mission accomplished” — or even an unhappy ending, given that McCain seems to have been right about the surge. Generation...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Photo courtesy of HBO Films Last episode, our grunts landed in the shit: They saw dead bodies; they almost became dead bodies. “Screwby” opens with a soldier being instructed to take a dump before the Humvees hit the road — “We have a long day ahead of us” — but the new shit’s coming from above (rolling downhill, as they say). Scarily fearless leader Godfather prunes away the moral guidelines as the...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Sands, on duty. Photo courtesy of HBO Films If you haven’t been staying home Sunday nights to watch HBO’s Iraq-war mini-series Generation Kill , you should be. Based on the award-winning book by Evan Wright, an embedded reporter for Rolling Stone , the series follows the Marines of the First Recon Battalion through the first 40 days of the Iraq invasion. And since the creators of The Wire , Ed Burns...
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KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
HBO Films is developing "Irreparable Harm," a telepic from scribe Jesse Wigutow ("Eragon"). Project follows Snepp as he returns to the U.S. after the fall of Saigon, conflicted over what had just happened..
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Filed under: Documentary , Distribution , HBO Films , Cinematical Indie , War I was just re-watching Eugene Jarecki's terrific documentary Why We Fight the other day and wondering, "man, how did this not win an Oscar?" Both its ineligibility and the strength of the 2006 feature documentary category aside, it's a really great visual essay on the problems of the U.S. military -- particularly the allowance...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Film News: Wigutow to write, Jarecki to direct CIA pic -- HBO Films is developing "Irreparable Harm," a telepic from scribe Jesse Wigutow ("Eragon").
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Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
"Generation Kill," a seven-part miniseries from HBO Films, is the first-hand narrative account of the young Marines of the First Reconnaissance Battalion - [...] Read more!
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Phillyist (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Many of you may not know that Philly is home to the notes Bram Stoker developed as he wrote his acclaimed classic Dracula . The bragging rights are cool enough, but it turns out that the notes, housed at the Rosenbach Museum and Library , drew the attention of HBO while they were filming a documentary about the nocturnal blood drinkers. The doc itself is playing second fiddle to an hour-long series...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Filed under: Documentary , Drama , Deals , HBO Films One of my favorite documentaries last year was Crazy Love , about a New York couple named Burt and Linda who have been together off and on for 50 years despite some serious setbacks, e.g., the time Burt hired a man to throw lye in Linda's face and blind her. These are people who should hate each other -- she for the way he physically harmed her,...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
TV News: Fisher Stevens will co-produce telepic -- Dan Klores will remake his award-winning documentary "Crazy Love" as a dramatic feature for HBO Films. Klores has written the script and will direct.
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RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
My, how times have changed. Just three months ago, HBO Films was gaining accolades for its newly released John Adams, a seven-part miniseries on America's second president and his history-making role in a world-changing political revolution. Three months later, HBO's newest entry, Recount--focused on the much smaller, modern melodrama surrounding Florida's battle over thousands of hanging chads--is...
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India Press Release (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
/India PRwire/ - The National Award Winning documentary JOHN & JANE is finally releasing in Indian cinemas this week. After being distributed internationally by HBO Films last year it finally reaches the big screen in Mumbai and Delhi as part of NFDC's distribution program "CINEMAS OF INDIA" held in association with PVR Cinemas. The film will be showing at PVR Juhu from June 6th onward and at PVR...
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Blogging Sundance (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Filed under: Independent , Deals , New Releases , Sundance , Festival Reports , Shorts , Fandom , DIY/Filmmaking , HBO Films For an emerging filmmaker, the Sundance Film Festival provides a starting point for the life span of a feature-length work. There's a far greater sense of immediacy, however, for the filmmakers involved in the shorts program, where a wide variety of material tends to begin circulating...
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ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
New Line Cinema and HBO Films' Sex and the City surpassed all expectations, opening to an estimated $55.7 million from 3,285 theaters for an average of $16,968 per location. The Friday-to-Sunday figure marks the biggest R-rated comedy opening of all time, beating the $45.1 million debut of American Pie in 1999. Among all R-rated films, it ranks as the fifth-biggest behind The Matrix Reloaded ($91.8...
