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New Michael Jackson Documentary Comming Soon
The author behind “Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson" is tackling the King of Pop's last days for the bigscreen. Author/filmmaker Ian Halperin is behind “Gone Too Soon," an 88-minute documentary about Jackson that is culled from 300 hours of footage shot inside the singer's camp. Shine International, which holds international distribution rights to the ...
Disgrace of The Hump in Santa Monica
Santa Monica sushi restaurant charged with illegally selling whale meat. The eatery admits the wrongdoing, its attorney says. Federal agents and animal activists cooperated in a video sting orchestrated by a producer of the Oscar-winning documentary 'The Cove.' Federal prosecutors Wednesday filed criminal charges against a Santa Monica sushi restaurant and one of its chefs, alleging ...
Get on Reality TV Show
You don't need to crash a White House party to make it onto a reality TV show. Wired asked Lynne Spillman, casting director for “Amazing Race" and “Survivor", what she looks for in wannabe fameballs. Here are three tips for making sure you aren't voted off her island. This article is a wiki. Got extra advice? ...
"The Cove" Being Felt at the Hump Santa Monica's Sushi Probe
The owner of The Hump, the Santa Monica sushi restaurant where, until recently, an endangered species of whale was on the menu, has already publicly admitted to violating the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act. Charges have been filed. The restaurant, in its own way, has even said it is sorry, issuing a statement that included the ...
Oscar Winner "The Cove" Becomes Basis for New TV Series
Fans of “The Cove," the environmentally themed film that won the best documentary Oscar last night, will be happy to know there's more where that came from. A new television series about the controversial dolphin trade in Japan, tentatively titled “Dolphin Warriors," has been greenlit by Animal Planet. The series picks up where the movie leaves ...
Dolphin Hunt Town Shrugs off Cove Oscar
TAIJI, Japan - The gala crowd in Los Angeles cheered as “The Cove" won the best documentary Oscar with its grisly portrayal of dolphin hunting. Half a world away, residents of the small Japanese village shown in the film abhorred the attention and said it won't end their centuries-old tradition. In Taiji on the rocky coast ...
New Zealand Capital Erects Film Sign
The New Zealand home base of Weta Digital, and a host of other NZ film companies, is set to officially become Wellywood, with a Hollywood-style sign to be erected on the hills of the Miramar Peninsula. The term has been used informally for some time but the new lettering -- mimicking the style of the Hollywood ...
Underwater Footage Key To 'Cove'
Much of the impact of “The Cove," which collected the documentary feature Oscar on Sunday night, comes from underwater footage that could not have been captured without help from Lucasfilm spinoff Kerner Optical. Kerner runs a hush-hush “skunk works" that solves high-tech problems for private industry, government contractors and the occasional three-letter agency. Since Kerner's expertise ...
Japanese politicians pan Oscar winner "The Cove"
The Oscar win for documentary “The Cove" is not getting much applause in Taiji, the port city in western Japan where helmer Louie Psihoyos and his crew secretly filmed the annual dolphin slaughter. “This film has mistakes of fact," mayor Kazutaka Sangen told local press. “I'm surprised that it won the award even though its content ...
Disney/ABC/Cablevision Save Oscar for NY
It came down to the wire, but New York-area Cablevision viewers got their Oscar fix. Disney/ABC restored service of its New York flagship, WABC, to Cablevision customers 10 minutes after the Oscars began, ending a day-long standoff. “We've made significant progress, and have reached an agreement in principle that recognizes the fair value of ABC7, with ...
