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Comic-Con treats filmmakers as royalty
Behind The Scenes TV | 9 hours ago by Alan
There was a time when Zack Snyder could walk through the Comic-Con convention of comic book devotees, picking through Watchmen graphic stories undisturbed like any other geek. No more. Snyder has become a member of the convention’s nerd royalty read more
BIG 92.7 FM: In search of the coolest fresher
Sinlung Nation | July 24th 2008
By Raja Marthandan BIG 92.7 FM will be organising a contest for the freshers joining the college this year. They are on a look out for the coolest fresher male and female at the Delhi University. The contest is aimed to attract more number of youth read more
INTERVIEW: Director Rob Cohen Tackles THE MUMMY!!
Behind The Scenes TV | July 23rd 2008 by Alan
Rob Cohen has been battling mummies and dragon emperors from the director’s chair as of late! He took some time during the press day for the film with the IESB and a group of journalists to talk about his experience taking up the franchise! read more
Michael Bay talks ‘Transformers 2′ and ‘Friday the 13th’…
Behind The Scenes TV | July 23rd 2008 by Alan
During a break on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen — described to us as a “remote air force base” at an “undisclosed location” — horror franchise reviver and blockbuster director extraordinaire Michael Bay ho read more
A Scowl And A Smoke Doesn't Get You Far
Cocoa And Caffeine Hollywood Travels | July 22nd 2008 by Kendra Liedle
A couple of weeks ago, I worked on a car commercial. The director looked like Kurt Cobain. He smoked like a chimney. He paced back and forth, always with a pissy scowl on his face. I never once saw him smile.Yes, they were running late and toward read more
Herbal weapon for mosquitoes
Sinlung Nation | July 22nd 2008
Guwahati, Jul 22 : Soldiers engaged in counter-insurgency operations in the Northeast will soon have a new weapon to fight a deadly adversary — the malaria-spreading anopheles mosquito. R.L. Srivastava, the director of the Tezpur-based Defence Rese read more
Danger tag to remain on Manas
Sinlung Nation | July 22nd 2008
Guwahati, Jul 22 : Manas may well have to live with “danger” tag for at least another couple of years. The joint Unesco and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) monitoring mission, which visited Manas early this year, revealed th read more
Writer-Director Adam McKay likes goofing off with Will Ferrell
Behind The Scenes TV | July 21st 2008 by Alan
As long as Adam McKay is deciding the fate of the comedy universe (or so it seems), he’s going to enjoy it. The writer-director of “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” and “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” read more
Poetic Realism: the film genre a director died to make
A Sensitivity to Things | July 20th 2008 by John
More a tendency than a genre in its own right, Poetic Realism was a highly influential yet short-lived movement in French cinema of the 1930s, a brief outbreak of lyricism sandwiched between the bludgeoning horrors of two world wars. Unlike Soviet mo read more
Anne Hathaway: in pique condition
Sinlung Nation | July 20th 2008
Anne Hathaway, the hottest young actress in Hollywood, is feeling a bit sore and tender - but it has little to do with the physically punishing action film in which she’s currently appearing. Catherine Elsworth meets her mid [. read more
Churachandpur farmers provided seeds
Sinlung Nation | July 20th 2008
Imphal, Jul 20 : Extending help to the farmers as part of the Government efforts toward increasing foof production, State Agriculture Department has provided one Kabuta and seeds of various food crops to the farmers of Sumchinvum village in Churachan read more
Child soldiers assuming dangerous proportions in Manipur
Sinlung Nation | July 20th 2008
Imphal, Jul 20 : Indian authorities in the restive northeastern Manipur state have warned parents against letting their children venture out alone after some 20 teenagers were recruited as child soldiers by separatist groups, officials Sunday said. read more
100 fall ill after eating rolls
Sinlung Nation | July 20th 2008
Guwahati, Jul 20 : Nearly 100 people were taken ill in Jorhat town of Upper Assam after eating mayonnaise rolls from a popular eatery yesterday. Nearly 25 of them had to be hospitalised. Most of the affected people ate the rolls along with other deli read more
Dipsy Doodle Location Scouting
nyc.locationscout.us | July 19th 2008 by R. Richard Hobbs
Eyes in the Sky | May 11, 2007 in GPS, Johnny Appleseed, Nuvi, driving, location scout | by jhalbrook “…The fact that I was once employed as a location scout in Hollywood... R. Richard Hobbs | nyc.locationscout.us | New Yor read more
Yet another job for feminism to solve
Frog Blog | July 18th 2008
Treehugger notes that women managers make greener business decisions: Put that in the context of New Zealand and Human Rights Commission’s 2008 Census of Women’s Participation [pdf], which shows that 8.65% of directors in New ZealandR read more
You’re the best around, no one’s ever gonna keep you down.
The Eighth Art | July 18th 2008 by DJ
Here’s my list of the five best filmmakers. Enjoy. 1. Francis Ford Coppola - With movies like The Godfather I and II, The Conversation and most importantly Apocalypse Now, Coppola is unparalleled. He is the best that has been and it will ta read more
Pininfarina to launch electric car in India by 2014
Sinlung Nation | July 18th 2008
A PRESS RELEASE Pininfarina, an Italian car design firm has plans to launch an electric car in India by 2014. It would introduce the car in other countries including India, only after achieving a sales target of 15,000 units by 2014 in European and read more
AFI 100 Years 100 Movies Podcast 002
AudioShocker | July 18th 2008 by AudioShocker
Continuing the countdown of the American Film Institute’s 100 Years… 100 Movies. Conrad explains the criteria for getting on the list, followed by conversation about Bringing Up Baby, Do the Right Thing, The Searchers, The Last Picture Show, read more
Indian hospitals face shortage of blood
Sinlung Nation | July 18th 2008
By Satyarth Prakash Nayak New Delhi, Jul 18 : Many volunteers come forward to donate blood during a crisis, however, under normal circumstances most hospitals in the country are facing a shortage of blood. Indian hospitals are short of 2 million unit read more
NOW Media not NEW Media - Letter From SAG
still ACTING after all these years | July 17th 2008 by Tommy G. Kendrick
The following letter members received from SAG today reinforces some of the points I was making in my earlier post: BIG PRODUCER$ MONETIZE YOUTUBE CLIP$ July 17, 2008 It’s Not New Media – It’s NOW Media Dear Screen Actors Guild Member, I want t read more
The Shillong Chamber Choir
Sinlung Nation | July 17th 2008
The film is about a choir in the quaint little town of Shillong in Meghalaya. A choir which specializes in Western Classical music - a genre that the director of the film had no clue about. Probably in her ignorance lay the secret of the unhindered f read more
Bangladesh, a safe haven for Indian insurgents
Sinlung Nation | July 17th 2008
By Sumon K Chakrabarti New Delhi, Jul 17 : For the first time since 1992, Bangladesh Rifles handed over to India three Bodo insurgents sheltered in Bangladesh. But as foreign secretaries of both countries meet in New Delhi on Thursday, India has made read more
Barcelona insist Messi should miss Olympics
Sinlung Nation | July 17th 2008
Madrid, Jul 17 : Barcelona are seeking a negotiated settlement that would allow Argentina’s Lionel Messi to miss the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Primera Liga club have said. Argentina’s Olympic team coach Sergio Batista said on Wednesda read more
19 students from Manipur for National Talent search
Sinlung Nation | July 17th 2008
Imphal, Jul 17 : In all 19 students of Manipur have been short-listed for the National Talent Search interview on the basis of Second Level Written Examination held on May 11, 2008, informed a release of Director of Education (S) today. Of the 19 can read more
THE INVISIBLE FOREST by Antero Alli
Easy Bake Coven | July 16th 2008 by Susan
THE INVISIBLE FORESTby Antero Alli"An obsessed theatre director brings his troupe out to a forest to ritualize his version of French Surrealist Antonin Artaud's vision of a mythic theatre of gods, ghosts and spirits. They stay at a privately owned ca read more
From Action Man to Batman
Behind The Scenes TV | July 16th 2008 by Alan
He’s supposedly secretive and hates giving interviews, so what do we know about Christopher Nolan as he stands at the pinnacle of his career? After all, it’s only 10 years since he was making Kafkaesque three-minute films while studying f read more
Nigerian gangs use NE women for drug trafficking
Sinlung Nation | July 14th 2008
By Sahil Makkar New Delhi, Jul 14 : Anti-narcotic agents are worried over the increasing use of Indian women, sex workers included, by Nigerian cartels to smuggle out drugs. Until recently, Nigerian gangs in India were sending out heroin sourced from read more
In Conversation with Microsoft
Sinlung Nation | July 14th 2008
By Bharti Adhikari In a tete-a-tete with this correspondent, Sumeet Gugnani, Director of Mobile Communication Business of Microsoft India spoke about smart phones in general and Windows Mobile in particular. Here’s presenting excerpts from the read more
THE WALRUS SPEAKS
Easy Bake Coven | July 14th 2008 by Susan
THE WALRUS SPEAKSfrom sasha frere-jones...This one is self-explanatory. Here’s the description included on the video’s YouTube page:In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Le read more
The Plan
edgeofsanity | July 13th 2008 by ettarose
In the beginning was the plan.And then came the assumptions.And the assumptions were without form.And the plan was completely without substanceAnd darkness was upon the face of the workersAnd they spoke among themselves, saying“It is a crock of shi read more
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