TV / Film News

Could 'Dark Knight' Make Imax Mainstream?

Source: PC Magazine
July 23, 2008

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Imax has been “this close" to breaking big on the film exhibition scene, well, seemingly forever. So it might ring a bit hollow when executives predict that favorable publicity from Imax's role in the record success of “The Dark Knight" will prove to be a watershed for the giant-screen vendor. “This is a game-changer for us," Imax Filmed Entertainment president Greg Foster said. The claimmade in the heady afterglow of Warner Bros.' record bow of ...

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Latin Music USA - A Multi-Media Event Premieres on PBS

Source: All About Jazz
July 17, 2008

From Latin Jazz and Mambo to Salsa, Tejano, Chicano Rock, Latin pop, and Reggaeton, Latin Music USA tells the story of the rise of new American music forged from powerful Latin roots and reveals the often overlooked influence of Latin music on Jazz, Hip Hop, Rhythm and Blues and Rock and Roll - and on all of American culture. It's a fresh take on our musical history, reaching across time and across musical genres to embrace the exciting hybrid sounds ...

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New from Jazz Video Guy: John Stubblefield, Larry Willis, Bob Cranshaw, Freedom Suite

Source: All About Jazz
July 17, 2008

Jazz Videos: John Stubblefield Tribute, Uncle Sonny Rollins, Larry Willis and Bob Cranshaw

Check out the brand new featurettes from Bret Primack, a.k.a. Jazz Video Guy.

Stubbs Clifton Anderson's upcoming Doxy Records release includes “Stubbs," which he dedicates to his dearly departed friend John Stubblefield.

Uncle Sonny The latest edition of the Sonny Rollins Podcast features a comprehensive interview with Sonny's nephew, the trombonist Clifton Anderson. Meet Larry Willis A portrait of the one ...

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A Different Kind of "Knight" Music

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard bring a new approach to “The Dark Knight" score. Sequel twists concept of conventional score

GAMBIT is simple yet extraordinary: a superhero without a theme song. Say Batman, Superman, Indiana Jones -- the list goes on -- and a theme clicks in. Hear a theme, and the mind plays the visual. Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard have tossed that tradition out the window for The Dark Knight: Batman gets two notes. The Joker, ...

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Latin Music USA: A Multi-Media Event Premieres on PBS

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

From Latin Jazz and Mambo to Salsa, Tejano, Chicano Rock, Latin pop, and Reggaeton, Latin Music USA tells the story of the rise of new American music forged from powerful Latin roots and reveals the often overlooked influence of Latin music on Jazz, Hip Hop, Rhythm and Blues and Rock and Roll - and on all of American culture. It's a fresh take on our musical history, reaching across time and across musical genres to embrace the exciting hybrid sounds ...

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Heath Ledger's Final Days Among the Masses

Source: All About Jazz
July 11, 2008

L.A. Art Collective Struggles to Go On After Actor's Death

A Greyhound-style bus purchased on Craigslist for $8,700 rolls eastbound out of Los Angeles on Interstate 10, headed for Marfa, Texas, with 18 passengers. If a highway patrolman were to pull us over, he'd encounter a head-scratcher of a group. First he'd confront a big, bald white man named Cornfed, the driver, also acquired on Craigslist. Cornfed, a sometime rapper, is making a little money on this trip, biding his ...

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Wall-E Buzz Best Picture of the Year

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

WALL-E, Pixar's lonely little post-apocalyptic robot, is quickly collecting a lot of friends. Critics have applauded the animated film all the way to a 97% Fresh rating on the movie-review website Rotten Tomatoes -- the year's best so far.

Audiences have spent $128 million at the box office in WALL-E's first 10 days of release, placing the film seventh so far in 2008, and it is likely to climb closer to the heroes of May -- Indiana Jones and Iron ...

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Hellzapoppin'

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
July 10, 2008

Looking for the earliest Slim Gaillard clip I could find, I came across a sequence from Olsen and Johnson's manic 1941 hit movie Hellzapoppin'. Gaillard plays piano and guitar, with his constant companion of the period, the great Slam Stewart, on bass. Among the several dozen uncredited musicians and dancers is the Duke Ellington cornetist Rex Stewart, done up in a cook's outfit. If anyone can identify the clarinetist, trombonist and drummer, please send a comment. You'll see some of ...

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