Entertain. - Los Angeles Times - 2010-07-29 17:42:04.
Hollywood is being invaded by ... alien invader movies
The current lineup includes Jon Favreau's "Cowboys & Aliens," due out next summer, which features space invaders landing in Old West Arizona.
Entertain. - Los Angeles Times - 2010-07-29 17:42:04.
The dark soul of Solondz
The polarizing director of 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' and 'Happiness' recasts characters from the latter film to similarly unsettling effect in 'Life During Wartime.'
Directors don't normally travel with theme music, but as Todd Solondz walks in the door, the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" comes over the house stereo. It's a fitting bit of serendipity, given that Solondz's films are rich in explorations of the dark side of human nature. Or, as his critics would have it, he's a misanthrope, creating miserable, pathetic characters and then driving them further into the depths of despair.
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Screening Room: Film academy salutes inventor Petro Vlahos
A Michael Schultz double feature, silent comedies, rock documentaries and Hugh Hefner are also on tap.
Petro Vlahos might not be a household name, but he's one of the most accomplished scientific and technical innovators in film and television. He holds more than 35 patents on equipment including camera crane motor controls, optical soundtracks and projection screens, but he's best known for creating both the analog and digital hardware and software versions of the Ultimatte compositing system.
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Meryl Streep will be Tina Fey's mom (on the Sony lot)
The Culver City studio has landed rights to "Mommy & Me," the A-list package that had been sought by nearly every major studio in town.
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Toronto lineup suggests indie crisis has affected quantity, not quality
The Toronto Film Festival lineup is always strong, and this year it somehow seems even stronger.
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Video: Marvel's 'Avengers' get animated
Marvel Studios and it's live-action feature-film version of "The Avengers" won't hit theaters until 2012, but this fall, the venerable comic-book franchise will get a different sort of treatment with a new animated series, "The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" under the Disney XD banner.
