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[video trailer of movie] The Supreme Court has agreed to review a case involving “Hillary: The Movie.” “The outcome of this case,” producer David Bossie said, “will dictate how we’re able to make films and educate people about them.” Bossie’s movie was released while Hillary Clinton was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. He wanted to run TV commercials in key states during the primaries and show the movie on cable TV. But federal courts said no and said “Hillary: The Movie” violated campaign finance regulations because it was nothing more than an attack ad. Bossie’s group, Citizens United, appealed...

Come What May is the first release from Advent Film Group (AFG), but the production group founded by George Escobar is planning on producing many more movies in the future. Inspired by Sherwood Pictures (creators of FIREPROOF, Facing the Giants, and Flywheel) AFG has constructed its own model for creating great movies for a faith-based audience. "There was a core team of 40 home schooled student from across 16 different states that worked on the movie," he says. With a team at the ready, George and others worked on the script. The central plot is based on a real experience...

"Watchmen" is one of the most violent and dark movies ever. Is it possible to merchandise such a film? While it is a challenge, it IS possible! See for yourself in today's "Geeks On Caffeine" cartoon. NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and please refrain from copying the comic within this thread. Thank you very much!

Meghan McCain revealed to "Extra" her pick of stars to play her parents John and Cindy on the big screen. "I think if there were an actor to play my father, it would be Robert Duvall, because dad's a big fan of his." Meghan suggested that mom Cindy would be played by a glamorous legend "like Sharon Stone."

We’re not sure which is funnier: the fact that Hollywood sent a delegation to Iran or the fact that Iran immediately demanded an apology from that delegation. “(Iranian) cinema officials will only have the right to have official sessions with…Hollywood movie makers, when they apologize to the Iranians for their 30 years of insults and slanders,” said Javad Shamaghdari, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s offical art advisor. “We will believe Obama’s policy of change when we see change in Hollywood, too,” Shamaghdari continued, “and if Hollywood wants to correct its behavior towards Iranian people and Islamic culture then they have to officially...

"Taking Chance" airs tomorrow at 8PM on HBO. Taking Chance is based on a true story about a Marine officer who escorts the body of a dead Marine home from Iraq. Michael Medved has given it 4 stars (out of 4) and called it the first good movie about the Iraq war. Army casualty assistance officers have also praised the movie.

Blazing Saddles (1974) Closed Caption Comedy, WesternTV14 Warner Brothers Mel Brooks Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens Tune In Sun Feb 15 @ 8PM | 7C....Sun Feb 15 @ 10PM | 9C......Sat Feb 28 @ 8PM | 7C.......Sun Mar 01 @ 12AM | 11C Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens,...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2009 – Senior military officials and government dignitaries gathered to watch the premiere of “Taking Chance,” the HBO made-for-TV movie, at the Motion Picture Association of America here Feb. 9. Retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. Michael R. Strobl stands next to actor Kevin Bacon during a premier showing of HBO's made-for-TV movie “Taking Chance” in Washington, D.C., Feb. 9, 2009. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Bryan G. Carfrey  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “Taking Chance” depicts the experiences of Marine Corps Lt. Col. Michael R. Strobl while escorting the body of a fallen...

Folks, this is an awesome trailer of a movie documentary dedicated to former President Ronald Reagan. After watching this, it will bring back memories of what a special President we had and why we must, again, regain our Conservative base and put a President back in the White House who will continue his legacy. There is no sound at the beginning but within a few seconds it will start.

Start your Super Bowl weekend off right! TCM Friday at 6:15 pm Knute Rockne, All American Starring Ronald Reagan, Gale Paige Brief Synopsis: Biography of the famed Notre Dame coach and his fight to "win one for the Gipper." http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=80476

No arrest yet in movie theater shootingSaturday, January 17 ( updated 10:35 pm) By Jason Hardin - Staff Writer GREENSBORO — The shooter who opened fire on a fellow moviegoer in a packed theater lobby remained at large Saturday, while the theater planned to resume showings of the rapper biopic “Notorious” Sunday. Hundreds of people flooded out of the Grand 18 cinema next to Four Seasons Town Centre after gunfire broke out just after 9 p.m. Friday. Clive O’Connor , 32, was shot twice in the abdomen after arguing with someone in the theater, police said. His medical condition was...

As others have noted, the Catholic-school movie Doubt (like the play) is kind of a Rorschach test that leaves audiences forming conclusions based on their preconceptions. The film, set in 1964, pits a disciplinarian nun (Meryl Streep) against a “the-Church-needs-to-change” priest (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) over his abuse of a child. But having seen it, I think the movie version is open to several interpretations: 1. It might be a “Gay message movie.” (Spoiler alert!) We meet a boy who is misunderstood and abused because of his homosexuality (“God made him that way,” explains his mother. “We’re talking about actions, not...

An attorney for 20th Century Fox says the studio will continue to seek an order delaying the release of 'Watchmen.' U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess last week agreed with Fox that Warner Bros. had infringed its copyright by developing and shooting the superhero flick, scheduled for release March 6. Feess said Monday he plans to hold a trial Jan. 20 to decide remaining issues. Fox claims it never fully relinquished story rights from its deal made in the late 1980s, and sued Warner Bros. in February. Warner Bros. contended Fox isn't entitled to distribution. Fox is owned by News...

(CNN) -- Call it the second coming. Klaatu the spaceman first visited these parts in Robert Wise's 1951 Cold War classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still," when he threatened to blow us all up unless we stopped threatening to do the job for him. Klaatu wasn't exactly greeted with open arms back then -- he was shot and hounded for his troubles -- and if the earth has moved on over the past half century, you wouldn't know it from the trigger-happy welcoming committee that surrounds his luminous snowball of a space craft in New York's Central Park. Where...

At 78, perhaps the only actor in the history of American cinema to convincingly kick the butt of a guy 60 years his junior, the hard-headed, snarly mouthed Clint Eastwood of the 1970s comes growling back to life in "Gran Torino." Centered on a cantankerous curmudgeon who can fairly be described as Archie Bunker fully loaded (with beer and guns), the actor-director's second release of the season is his most stripped-down, unadorned picture in many a year, even as it continues his long preoccupation with race in American society. Highlighted by the star's vastly entertaining performance, this funny, broad but...

Produced by Wild Eyes Prods. Executive producers, Carl H. Lindahl, David Keane; producers, Ryan Spyker, Aaron Cowden; director, Keane; writers, Bowden, Terrence Henry. Narrator: Bill Lloyd. Editor, Justin Inda; music, Michael Plowman. Running time: 120 Min. “Charlie Wilson’s War” (Wide Release Theater Movie) Genres: Comedy, Drama, Adaptation, Biopic and War Running Time: 1 hr. 37 min. Release Date: December 21st, 2007 MPAA Rating: R for strong language, nudity/sexual content and some drug use. Distributors: Universal Pictures Distribution Production Co.: Icarus Productions, Participant Productions, Relativity Media, Playtone Studios: Universal Pictures Filming Locations: Morocco Los Angeles, California USA Produced in: United...

On Thursday December 4, 2008 a movie theater owned by the City of Miami Beach by the name of Byron Carlyle at 500 71 ST en Miami Beach, will show a movie in favor of Che Guevara. I do not know which film will be, since many have been made with lies and not with the real history. Che Guevara was a murderer.......

Baader-Meinhof is flashy and violent, but the glamour hides Germany's odd history of leftist anti-semitism Jean-Luc Godard said that all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun. If so, The Baader-Meinhof Complex, released on 14th November, is some movie. The Red Army Faction (RAF) was essentially a collection of women alongside the charismatic Andreas Baader. The gang so glorified violence that it used a Heckler & Koch machine gun, against the background of a red star, as a logo. Automatic weapons fire, most of it from women, is the film's central motif. Based on Stefan...

Paramount has revised its recently release trailer for its upcoming "Star Trek" movie. They've added an old, familiar face...Click here to find out who.Requires Quicktime. (720p resolution)

A movie drama about the life of the Prophet Mohammad is to go into production soon, and will be only the second English-language film of its kind ever made, its producers said on Monday. "The Messenger of Peace" will be a remake of Moustapha Akkad's "The Message," a 1977 Hollywood classic starring Anthony Quinn which is often applauded by Muslims as an example of how commercial Western cinema can respect Islam. "We have only the utmost respect for Akkad's work but technology in cinema has advanced since the 1970s and this latest project will employ modern film techniques in its...

A pro-life movie, largely produced by over 40 homeschooled students, is being praised for presenting solid legal arguments against the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision while captivating audiences with an engaging storyline that is both entertaining and thought-provoking. “Audience survey card responses were tremendous,” reported Valley Family Forum Director Dean Welty after one of several sold-out preview screenings for the full-length feature “Come What May” in Harrisonburg, Va., and Grants Pass, Ore. “Moviegoers were excited or agitated on both sides because the movie shows in dramatic fashion just how flimsy the legal footing stands for Roe,” he added, according...

Fox News Catches Star Trek Filming

'Silhouette City' Captures Essence of Christian Right as Supremacist Political Movement By Bruce Wilson It is the mark of a truly outstanding documentary that it can survive the test of a fast-changing political and religious landscape and remain relevant and even transcendent. There have been many superb documentaries in the last few years about religion and politics, but my own personal opinion is that Michael W. Wilson's Silhouette City stands above the pack, and for one overriding reason - Wilson's deep understanding of the dynamic in which the militant, militia-movement grounded Christian right of the 1980's has morphed into a...

LOS ANGELES — Already on the hook for billions to bail out Wall Street, taxpayers are also finding themselves stuck with a growing tab for state programs intended to increase local film production... ...Michigan, its own budget sagging, is in the middle of a hot political fight over a generous 40 percent rebate on expenditures to filmmakers that was carried out, with little opposition, only last April. Producers of films for studios like Warner Brothers and the Weinstein Company rushed to cash in ... Rebellious legislators from both parties are now looking to put a cap on the state’s annual...

Hi fellow Freepers. I did a search and did not find this topic. If you know of a previous post, please redirect. I've been hogging our Netflix (history, documentary, military genres) and realize the wife and kids need some levity. Would you all take the time and give me an opinion of what you consider to be the best funny movies you've seen. I'm talking from the silent era of Charlie Chaplin up to the most present ala American Carol. It doesn't matter if it's dark humor to vulgar humor to Walt Disney. Thanks for your input!

An American Carol was certainly produced for the amusement of people with conservative political leanings. To deny that would be silly. And it certainly succeeds at that particular mission. If you can keep from laughing when terrorists in Afghanistan truck in a bunch of sombrero-wearing Mexicans to do “jobs the Taliban won’t do,” you’re either missing your funny bone or you listen to NPR a lot. The same goes for a cabal of college professors breaking into a musical number titled “1968,” in which they taunt horrified parents about how they intend to reward their hard-earned tuition dollars with four...

An American Carol debuted this past weekend and there have been some disturbing reports that ticket sales for the film have been fraudulently credited to other films in cineaplexes all across the country. The rumors are so persistent that the American Carol folks have added a section to their website for movie-goers to report the fraud. The filmmakers are reporting that at least 10 theaters are being investigated for this fraudulent practice. So, if you have attended this film and happen to still have you ticket stubs, take a look at them to see if you were credited with having...

David Zucker’s An American Carol finished at number nine at the box-office in its first weekend of release – somewhat disappointing, I must admit (considering I saw it twice) – but fortunately ahead of Bill Maher’s anti-religion film “Religulous.” The movie took in $3.81 million in sales, just ahead of Maher’s masterwork, which snagged $3.5 million. The film “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” finished in the top spot, pulling in $29 million. Read the story here. As many weekend filmgoers have already expressed – far more eloquently than I could hope to - “An American Carol” wasn’t the funniest film ever made....

Other than the awful Blue Collar comedy crew, you don't see a whole lot of humor come from the political right. The tasteless, wrongheaded but consistently entertaining "An American Carol" is David Zucker's effort to show the satire sword can swing both ways. Never mind that the movie is about as politically relevant as Zucker's "Airplane!" Taking a reverse Colbert approach, Zucker attacks Michael Moore by exaggerating his political stances and exposing logical fallacies. Lead Kevin P. Farley, as rotund, ballcap-wearing documentarian Michael Malone, is a major reason the slipshod film is as entertaining as it is. The unheralded brother...

This time, conservatives in Tinseltown have collaborated to communicate their ideas, but they’re doing it in jocular way. The movie has a cast that includes veteran stars Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight, James Woods, Dennis Hopper, Robert Davi, and Leslie Nielsen. With this kind of lineup, you’d expect some great performances. And there are, under the master comedy direction of Zucker. The plot loosely follows Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” with Kevin Farley playing the character of Michael Malone, a modern-day Scrooge who wants to abolish the July Fourth holiday. Paris Hilton, who happens to be a Sen. Barack Obama supporter,...

This weekend, a deeply divided America will have another round of new films to choose from at the theaters. One is Religulous, a comic documentary in which Bill Maher, America's best-known agnostic humorist, presents a vision of the destructive forces of organized religion, a vision no less apocalyptic than the end-times scenarios promulgated by some of his targets. Then there's An American Carol, which its maker, Airplane! and Naked Gun alum David Zucker, describes as "the opposite of the Bill Maher movie." Mr. Zucker's proudly conservative comedy isn't primarily about religion. It reworks the Charles Dickens Christmas Carol scenario so...

http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/ Movie coming to theaters this weekend. This is a follow on to Facing the Giants. Very moving trailer.

Just under 4 years ago, I started this blog after meeting several devout Christendom College students after a Sunday Traditional Latin Mass at St. Mary, Mother of God Catholic Church in Washington, DC. The previous month, I had traveled to England and visited several Catholic sites, including the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, and had seen Catholic art in the National Gallery in London. I was inspired, by the events of that time and by those students, to blog about Catholic subjects, especially Catholic art, feast days, and devotions; and also, write about Traditional Latin Masses in the Washington,...

Bill Maher's Anti-Religion Movie “Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.” That’s my favorite quote from Bill Maher’s often brilliant, but often unfocused “documentary,” called “Religulous.” It opens in early October right after its debut at the Toronto Film Festival. The articulate, quick-witted comedian sets out in this film — which was supposed to have been released last Easter — to prove that line is true. Directed by Larry Charles, the man who put "Borat" together so skillfully, "Religulous" is blatant about Maher’s feelings: religion is bad. All religions are bad. They are ruining everything. If you go for...

It looks hilarous, all FREEPERS should attend and bring family and friends.

Coming this December 12. Keanu Reeves takes over the Klaatu role from Michael Rennie. Extended clip (this may get pulled)IMDbOfficial movie siteWikipedia article

A young filmmaker risks everything, including his life to tell his brothers' story. Often humorous, sometimes lethal, this embedding with four combat units in Iraq, gives him insight into his two soldier brothers, his family, and ultimately into his own character. Brothers At War Coming Soon To A Theater Near You http://brothersatwarmovie.com http://ie.youtube.com/BrothersAtWar

My favorite movie lines quotes, quips, profound, truisms. I'll start with the dark and work toward the light. A FreeRanging thread, please add your inputs. Okay to link youtube and music links.

Lady Magdalene's to Screen at the 2008 Cinema City International Film Festival OPENPRESS) September 19, 2008 -- Jesulu Productions' new suspense-comedy feature film, Lady Magdalene's, has been selected as one of only five narrative-features, out of over 3,000 submissions, to be a finalist that will screen Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 4:45 PM, at the 2008 Cinema City International Film Festival, to be held September 29th to October 1st, 2008, at the AMC Universal City Walk, adjacent to Universal Studios. Admission to all Cinema City International Film Festival screenings, including the screening of Lady Magdalene's, is free. Lady Magdalene's will...

This story takes the audience to the most stirring and heartwarming scenes in America. History, adventure and spectacular scenery are the backdrop. Opportunity, personal responsibility, and the free enterprise system is the platform in which America's success is molded. We are a nation that owes much to many. This is an American story told through the magic of magnificent music performed by top performers, breathtaking photography, thrilling aerial scenes, and some of the most touching human moments ever presented on the giant screen. Cast: Marie Antoinette, Michelle Ashman, Jonathan Banks, Jon Jon Briones, Kimberlin Brown

The American Idol candidate September 10, 2008 By Roger Ebert I think I might be able to explain some of Sara Palin's appeal. She's the "American Idol" candidate. Consider. What defines an "American Idol" finalist? They're good-looking, work well on television, have a sunny personality, are fierce competitors, and so talented, why, they're darned near the real thing. There's a reason "American Idol" gets such high ratings. People identify with the contestants. They think, Hey, that could almost be me up there on that show! My feeling is, I don't want to be up there. I want a vice president...

This Thursday marks the 7-year anniversary of the horrific 9/11 terrorist attacks against our great nation and our citizens. As our nation pays tribute to those who lost their lives, and those in our Armed Services who fight to protect us from future attacks by Islamic jihadists, I wanted to alert you to an important event that is taking place on 9/11/08 that will help ensure Americans never forget that tragic day, and the events that led up to the terrorist attacks on our nation. There will be a special one-time only FREE showing of the movie, Obsession: Radical Islam's...

Ringer Deej found this article on EW.Com: It’s now official: The Lord of the Rings screenwriting team of Peter Jackson (pictured), Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens will join The Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro to pen the screenplay for the two planned Hobbit movies. Sources tell EW.com that the scribes’ deals are all complete and they will commence writing shortly. (With shooting scheduled to begin in Fall 2009 in New Zealand, the quartet better get busy!) The Hobbit will center on Frodo’s uncle, Bilbo Baggins, and his initial discovery of the immensely-powerful ring. New Line and MGM plan to release...

A movie has just been finished based on the true story reported by WND of a woman trapped in the bathroom of an abortion clinic who watched helplessly as her baby, who was born alive, died. The film, "22weeks," made by a young, Puerto Rican filmmaker, Ángel Manuel Soto Vázquez, will soon be released in private screenings in select cities as it ramps up for hopeful showings at the Toronto and Cannes Film Festivals. The film, with promotional pages on MySpace and Facebook, describes the movie on its homepage as follows: A young woman is locked in the bathroom of...

'Swing Vote' Kelsey Grammer and Kevin Costner have been sued over their new film Swing Vote, reports TMZ. Screenwriter Bradley Blakeman filed suit in New York yesterday claiming that the movie was based on his script Go November, which he allegedly sent to Grammer "in confidence" in spring 2006.

Defiance stars Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell and Liev Schreiber as three Jewish brothers who flee Nazi-occupied Poland and build a makeshift village alongside Russian resistance fighters.

Dark satire in which the token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm is accidentally put in charge. Renaming the business "Truth and Soul, Inc.", he replaces the tight regime of monied white ad men with his militant brothers. Soon afterwards, however, the power that comes with its position takes its toll on Putney...

Vivendi Entertainment has picked up North American rights to David Zucker's new comedy "An American Carol" and will release it in the fall. Pic tracks a cynical, anti-American filmmaker who sets out on a crusade to abolish the July Fourth holiday. He is visited by three ghosts who try to show him the true meaning of America. Directed, produced and written by Zucker, known as one of the masterminds of the "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" franchises, the pic is also produced by Mpower's Stephen McEveety and John Shepherd. The cast includes Kevin Farley ("Monk") as the filmmaker, plus Kelsey Grammer,...

On Friday, I believe, a caller to Rush's show suggested some parallels between the current Batman movie and the President, and Rush added a couple of his own. I saw the movie yesterday and viewed it with those observations in the back of my mind. I went to the movie for recreation not as an analyst, so what I have to say here may not be complete and subject to some corrections. I don't think there are any real spoiler's here either; unless the reader has never seen a batman comic or movie. Rush, suggested that the Batman spotlight in...

A 23-year-old father was booked into jail under suspicion of second-degree child abuse after leaving his son in his car while he watched the midnight showing of "The Dark Knight." David Farnham of Salt Lake City left his 2-year-old son inside his car in the parking lot of the Century 16 Theaters at 125 E. 3300 South on Saturday night. An onlooker walking by the car at 1:22 a.m. on Sunday saw the baby inside the vehicle crying and sweating profusely, said detective Gary Keller with the South Salt Lake City Police Department. Farnham rolled the windows up in the...