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Final Installment of Afm 2009 Coverage Featuring Stills, Images, and Synopses for Dorothy Of Oz, Jackboots On Whitehall, Alien Vs. Ninja, and More

29 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

By now you’ve probably noticed that Steve got an ungodly amount of material from this year’s American Film Market (Afm). The place where buyers and sellers do business to bring you the films you’ll hopefully be seeing in the near future, Afm has tons of artwork and synopses which are used to promote films but which we will use to bring you news on these films.  We have reached the last piece of our Afm coverage.  It’s been a long and fruitful journey and you can follow it by reading parts Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7 by click on their respective links.

Below you’ll find posters for Conan and The Promised Land (The Wettest County in the World), images and synopses for animated film Dorothy of Oz and Jackboots on Whitehall plus images and synopses for the live-action movies Singularity, The Last Dragon, »

- Matt Goldberg

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Birthday Suits: Giant Sized Edition

17 November 2009 11:05 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

11/17 ~ Todays special boys and girls. Are you one of them?

Mischa, Marty and Rachel

1897 Frank Fay, aka Mr. Barbara Stanwyck. The theory goes that their troubled marriage was the basis of A Star is Born. That story is so big it's practically it's own franchise. I can't stop thinking about it today: Stanwyck through the lens of Gaynor, Garland, Streisand. Yummy!) Even if it's only an urban La legend, I love to think about it. Fay, a popular comedic actor, was also the originator of the Harvey role (on stage) before Jimmy Stewart got to it.

1901 Lee Strasberg, the hugely influential acting teacher that helped popularize "The Method" Students included... well, basically a whose who of late 40s / early 50s giants of the silver screen.

1905 Mischa Auer, very tall actor of oversized comic turns. You'll remember him from the blissfully funny My Man Godfrey and best picture winner You Can't Take It With You »

- NATHANIEL R

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Joffe Tackles Opus Dei Myths In New Film

4 November 2009 5:41 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Revered moviemaker Roland Joffe is to further expose secret Catholic Church organisation Opus Dei in a new movie set around the Spanish Civil War.

The sinister sect was largely vilified in Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its accompanying film, but now The Mission director is set to give the group a public relations boost in his new film There Be Dragons.

The movie, which stars former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko, Dougray Scott and Wes Bentley, focuses in part on the life of Opus Dei founder Jose Maria Escriva, who was made a saint in 2002.

Joffe has revealed to Reuters he worked with a member of Opus Dei on the set, making sure religious facts and historical items were accurate.

And he tells the news organisation that reports Opus Dei is all powerful are greatly exaggerated: "How could it be influential? It could have influence, I suppose, in the church. I checked up to find out how many cardinals were in Opus Dei and I think there may be one." »

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The revenge of Opus Dei

26 August 2009 | Cineman.ch/en | See recent Cineman.ch/en news »

In response to "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons", Opus Dei finances a movie about its founder, José Maria Escriva de Balaguer. After not coming off very well in "Angels and Demons", members of Opus Dei are taking this opportunity to give the public their side of the story, thanks to the movie that Roland Joffé is currently filming in Argentina, "There Be Dragons". The biopic takes on the life and works of Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer, the Opus Dei founder who was canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II, and was known both for having supported Spain's fascist dictator Francisco Franco and defended Nazi Germany¹s sickening ideology. In an interview about the project, Roland Joffé, maker of the excellent "The Mission" and "The Killing Fields", said he believed "The Da Vinci Code" stupidly and ignorantly shows an Opus Dei monk and that the movie uses religious symbolism to confuse people. »

- Constantin Xenakis (Cineman)

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Roland Joffe To Direct There Be Dragons

24 August 2009 11:54 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

If you’re anything like Empire, then you’ll know only the following about Catholic Church organisation, Opus Dei:a) It was featured in The Da Vinci Code, involved Paul Bettany flogging himself, and looked slightly shadyb) Erm, that’s it.Naturally, there’s more to it than albinos hitting themselves with homemade switches and Alfred Molina scheming to do whatever the hell it was he was doing (we’ve tried to banish The Da Vinci Code from our minds as best as we can, but it keeps provoking 3am sweats), and Opus Dei is keen that you should know that.Which is why they’ve recruited Roland Joffe, director of The Mission and The Killing Fields, to make There Be Dragons, a biopic of Opus Dei founder, Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, which promises to give the much-maligned organisation, erm, a fair crack of the whip.Escriva, who died in 1973, is »

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Puttnam Urges Filmmakers To Make A Difference In British National Party Battle

23 June 2009 6:30 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

David Puttnam has urged British moviemakers to find ways of making positive films about integrity and life lessons in an effort to thwart growing film propaganda funded by hardline members of the British National Party.

As part of his keynote address at the Edinburgh Film Festival in Scotland on Sunday, the revered film producer, aka Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, Cbe, insisted more arts cash and private funding had to be made available for stirring message-laden films like his acclaimed projects The Killing Fields, The Mission and Chariots of Fire.

He said, "I’m not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can cut through, let alone solve significant social or cultural problems; but through illuminating the sometimes very different lives and experiences of others... it can help create that vital context of understanding within which the type of change that sometimes looks impossible begins to look at least possible.

"If we ever cease to believe that we will also cease to make movies. In a tiny way it’s what I was trying to do in the films I produced that dealt with factual or historical events; most obviously in The Killing Fields, The Mission and Cal, but also in their own ways, Chariots of Fire, The Duellists and even Local Hero.

"In every case I tried to produce films that adhered to some definable concept of cultural integrity.

"We desperately need some of our most talented filmmakers to find ways of helping to ensure that the insidious propaganda of (BNP leader) Nick Griffin and his gang of thugs fails in its attempt to capture impressionable young minds in some of our more vulnerable communities.

"If the BNP are allowed to get away with exploiting complex issues to their own God knows what ends, then we have stepped on to a very slippery slope indeed." »

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Daniel Day-Lewis to Drink Scorsese’s Sake

2 February 2009 1:18 PM, PST | MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news »

Variety reports today that Martin Scorsese, Daniel Day-Lewis, Benicio Del Toro and (possibly) Gael Garcia Bernal will be collaborating on a film called Silence about Jesuits facing violence in 17th Century Japan. If this goes down, and Scorsese stays on his game, I can’t imagine this being anything other than absolutely terrific. Shooting is set to begin later this year in New Zealand.  Other than Kundun I can’t think of other exotic location shooting the man has done.  His two other period films, the under-rated Gangs of New York and the over-rated The Age of Innocence were both written by Jay Cocks, who is on board for Silence.  Movies about Jesuits are usually awesome (okay, I can only think of The Mission with Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro, but it is, indeed, awesome) and the cast sounds spectacular.  I’m very excited about this news. Below - »

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Daniel Day-Lewis to Drink Scorsese’s Sake

2 February 2009 1:18 PM, PST | MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news »

Variety reports today that Martin Scorsese, Daniel Day-Lewis, Benicio Del Toro and (possibly) Gael Garcia Bernal will be collaborating on a film called Silence about Jesuits facing violence in 17th Century Japan. If this goes down, and Scorsese stays on his game, I can’t imagine this being anything other than absolutely terrific. Shooting is set to begin later this year in New Zealand.  Other than Kundun I can’t think of other exotic location shooting the man has done.  His two other period films, the under-rated Gangs of New York and the over-rated The Age of Innocence were both written by Jay Cocks, who is on board for Silence.  Movies about Jesuits are usually awesome (okay, I can only think of The Mission with Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro, but it is, indeed, awesome) and the cast sounds spectacular.  I’m very excited about this news. Below - »

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2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2003

8 articles from 2009

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