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Happy Birthday: Ivan Reitman

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Ivan Reitman Born: October 27, 1946 in Komárno, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic] Married to: Geneviève Robert (12 September 1976 – present) (3 children) [on current comedy, 2013] The world has become more abrasive, possibly because of social media. But people said that about us. The sexuality seems to have lessened.…

Happy Birthday: Roberto Benigni

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Roberto Benigni Born: October 27, 1952 in Manciano La Misericordia, Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy Married to: Nicoletta Braschi (26 December 1991 – present) [on winning the Best Actor Academy Award for Life Is Beautiful (1997) after already accepting the Best Foreign Language Film award as its director] “Thank you. This…

Happy Birthday: Ruby Dee (1922–2014)

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Ruby Dee (1922–2014) Born: October 27, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA Died: June 11, 2014 (age 91) in New Rochelle, New York, USA Married to: Ossie Davis (9 December 1948 – 4 February 2005) (his death) (3 children) I think you mustn’t tell your body, you mustn’t tell your soul,…

Watch all the Videos from the Oct. 2016 ACTION/CRIME Film Festival

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Highlights from the Thursday October 20, 2016 event. The October 2016 ACTION/CRIME Festival was a major success. The sold out crowd loved every single film. The theme of the festival was “Remember the Red Herring”. In these genres (action, crime, mystery) especially, the “red herring” element always appears, like they…

Deadline October 29th – 1pg. Screenplay Contest

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The Los Angeles FEEDBACK Festival Presents: Submit a screenplay that is only 1 page long and have it performed at the Writing Festival by professional actors. Also garner FULL FEEDBACK on your work. (NOTE: The screenplay submission must be properly formatted.)  Submit for only $15. Most of the screenplays will…

Interview with Storyboard Artist Yoriaki Mochizuki (The Lego Movie, Storks)

A Khmer Rouge cadre arrests a civilian in an animated scene from "The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor." Illustration by Yori Mochizuki.

It was definitely an education chatting with story artist Yoriaki Mochizuki. He chats about working storyboarding animation movies and how it can be a much more creative process than working on live action films, and so much more…. Matthew Toffolo: How was your storyboard experience working on STORKS? When did you come aboard the film?… Continue reading Interview with Storyboard Artist Yoriaki Mochizuki (The Lego Movie, Storks)

Deadline Today: NOVEL Writing Festival

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Watch Novel Performance Readings: Novels Showcased so far in 2016: 28 Novels Performed 2 Novels Made into a Movie Plus, 8 Poems Made into a Movie and 54 short stories read.  Get FULL FEEDBACK on either the 1st chapter or entire novel book from our committee of Professional Writers, and…

Read this week’s movie reviews:

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AMERICAN PASTORAL (USA 2016) *** Ewan McGregor makes his directing debut and stars alongside Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning in this ambitious adaptation of Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, about a “perfect” American family that is torn apart by the social and political upheavals of the 1960s. One must…