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Mukund Creations - All In One Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Los Angeles, Dec 2 (IANS) Reliance BIG Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has signed a development-production financing deal with Hollywood filmmakers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment. Their first project, titled “Mofos”, will be a comedy revolving round a group of youngsters who are unemployed, strapped...
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Media: PDA | guardian.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
HuffPo follows New York and Chicago with Los Angeles local sites featuring John Kusack and Drew Barrymore as bloggers Huffington Post has finally unveiled its Los Angeles site, which could represent another challenge for the struggling LA Times . The launch of HuffPost LA follows similar efforts focusing on Chicago, which has been up for more than a year, and New York, which went live this past summer....
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Businessofcinema.com (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Reliance BIG Entertainment has signed a development/production financing deal with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment. The first project under the deal will be the comedy Mofos, which is about two 20-something best friends who are unemployed, strapped for cash, down on their luck and decide to start up a business as Los Angeles' most ...
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The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Spawning little local editions is currently everyone's favorite great idea. Following the Times' and the Journal' s lead (albeit to sunnier climes), The Huffington Post launched a Los Angeles site today. As reported in WWD : The Los Angeles site will be led by senior editor Willow Bay, who joined The Huffington Post more than two years ago, and Billy Silverman, who previously worked for Brian Grazer...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Reliance BIG Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has signed a development-production financing deal with Hollywood filmmakers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment.
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*kartlink.com (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
London, UK - Friday 27 November, 2009; David Brabham’s Celebrity Karting Challenge 2010 at Autosport International on Friday 15 January, primarily in aid of Malaria No More UK, is shaping up to be one of the best yet. Held for the first time in Autosport International’s Live Action Arena, the unique charity kart race is attracting an unrivalled line-up of international motorsport stars...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Los Angeles: Grazer, Howard ink first-look pact with India-based conglom -- Imagine Entertainment is the 10th production company to form a first-look deal with Reliance Big Entertainment.
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ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Filming has begun on location in Portland, Oregon on an untitled project from two-time Academy Award®-nominated director Gus Van Sant, starring Mia Wasikowska (upcoming Alice in Wonderland ) and Henry Hopper. The film's screenplay was written by first-timer Jason Lew, based upon his original stage play "Of Winter and Water Birds." The film is produced by Imagine Entertainment's Brian...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Lensing has begun on location in Portland, Oregon on an untitled project from two-time Academy Award®-nominated director Gus Van Sant, starring Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper. The film's screenplay was written by first-timer Jason Lew, based upon his original stage play "Of Winter and Water Birds." The film is produced by Imagine Entertainment's...
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Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A. (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In In the Beginning Was the Meal (Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2009), Hal Taussig's discussion of the hymns embedded in John and in some of the New Testament letters is an eye-opener.I knew there were snippets of hymns in the Scriptures. But to imagine the entertainment/worship time of the earliest Christian plenary meals as being a time of singing those hymns as a way of transmitting and firming
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Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Variety is reporting that Rashida Jones, formerly of The Office and currently starring on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, has sold the rights to her upcoming Oni Press miniseries Frenemy of the State to Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. Based on the story of a young, wealthy heiress who works covertly for the CIA and is constantly, [...]
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
I am appalled this awesome little news item slipped past my radar, and even more upset that I am just now hearing that Rashida Jones has a comic book called Frenemy of the State at Oni Press. As if that isn't neat enough, Variety reports that Frenemy has just been optioned by Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. I mean, a comic book that's not only penned by a woman, but stars a young woman...
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Don't Lose Your Day Job (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Rashida Jones, who you probably know best as the object of Paul Rudd’s affections in I Love You, Man, has sold her graphic novel Frenemy Of The State to Imagine Entertainment and Universal to turn into a spy thriller. In it, an heiress becomes an agent for the CIA. VIA E: Jones told Variety, “It’s intended for [...]
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Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have acquired screen rights to Frenemy of the State, a graphic novel miniseries created by actress Rashida Jones, who will also write the script, with his eminence, Brian Grazer producing The adventure revolves around a young wealthy heiress who works undercover for the CIA. Rashida, the daughter of composer Quincy Jones and [...]
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
As countless graphic novels and comic books are being translated to film, one can't help but notice that there isn't much of a female presence in the pages or on the screen of these adaptations. Most of the stories are written and feature predominantly masculine themes and characters. This may be attributed to the fact that female-driven films like Aeon Flux, Catwoman and Elektra haven't been the strongest...