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The Miles Davis Movie: Which Way Are We Going?
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Miles Davis Online
Interesting article in the NY Times Sunday about biopics. The Miles Davis Biopic was not mentioned, obviously(!), but the points made by Dennis Lim about the delicate craft of producing a successful biopic can be easily connected to the Miles Davis Movie--and the many hurdles it faces as the project remains in an ongoing and agonizing cycle of development.
Often maligned yet ever popular, the biopic is surely the most reductive of movie genres. All biographers face the task of ...
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Apple Hopes to Re-Enter the Living Room
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Michael Ricci
In September 2006, Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, announced news of the company's latest offering: the Apple TV. Mr. Jobs had high hopes for his latest creation, so high that he told his audience that he hoped the Apple TV would be a fourth leg to the Apple business among PCs and iPods and iPhones.
When the Apple TV was unveiled a few months later in early 2007, Mr. Jobs reiterated these comments in an interview with USA Today: ...
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Remastered Film Celebrating Elvis Presley's Career to be Shown in Theaters Across the Country
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Michael Ricci
Elvis Presley is returning to the big screen again in the remastered film “Elvis on Tour: 75th Anniversary Celebration," which will be shown July 29 at more than 460 movie theaters around the country.
The movie will feature remastered footage of concert performances and interviews from the 1972 documentary “Elvis on Tour" -- the singer's last film before he died in 1977.
The film's release commemorates the 75th anniversary of Elvis' birth and includes a retrospective from his former wife, ...
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Screenwriters Find Work is Dwindling
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Michael Ricci
Looking to cut costs, Hollywood studios recast the rules under which they have long hired writers.
Screenwriter David Steinberg was invited last fall by a producer to pitch his idea for a rewrite of a “high-concept comedy" about an adult slacker for a major studio. Steinberg figured he had a good shot at the assignment with credits like “American Pie 2" under his belt, even though he heard there were many other writers competing for the opening. After an initial ...
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Phil Spector Documentary to Screen in Hollywood
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Michael Ricci
A new British documentary, The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector, will screen for a week in August at the American Cinematheques Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, where the films director and co-producer, Vikram Jayanti, will be on hand for the opening night on Aug. 19.
Jayanti interviewed Spector in depth during his first trial in the murder of actress Lana Clarkson at his Alhambra mansion in 2003. That trial ended in a hung jury, but on re-trial, Spector was convicted ...
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A Cloud over Bali's Beautiful Beaches
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Michael Ricci
A documentary about Bali's 'Kuta cowboys,' the young bronzed Indonesian surfers who provide erotic services to female tourists on discreet sex vacations has brought unwelcome attention to Kuta Beach.
Amit Virmani was vacationing at Bali's famous Kuta Beach when he met a 12-year-old boy who told him of his unlikely goal: to grow up fast, so he could be a gigolo. The boy said his heroes were the young bronzed Indonesian surfers who provided erotic services to Japanese women and ...
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NARIP Announces Seminar on How to Market and License Music to Film and TV
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We All Make Music
Clapton Plucked for Pic
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All About Jazz
“Eric Clapton Crossroads 2010," a feature drawn from sets at the guitarist's June 26 festival in Chicago's Toyota Park, will unspool as a high-definition theatrical event July 27 on more than 475 U.S. screens.
Pic is being presented by National CineMedia Fathom and Rhino Entertainment, Warner Music Group's catalog arm. Clapton records for WMG's Reprise imprint. Clapton, ZZ Top, Steve Winwood, B.B. King, Jeff Beck, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, Buddy Guy and John Mayer are among performers featured in the ...
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