Posted on 10/12/2005 2:20:08 PM PDT by RonDog
...Gary Oldman doesn't play a villain in The Contender — at least not according to the actor's manager, Douglas Urbanski. And, even though Oldman went on the record in Premiere magazine as siding with his character in the political drama, don't call the Brit actor a conservative, insists Urbanski.Nearly every reviewer in the country has jumped to the conclusion that Oldman's character, Sen. Shelly Runyon, is yet another rogue in the actor's crowded gallery of villains.
"We did not set out to make a movie about a nasty, villainous Republican," Urbanski explains to Mr. Showbiz. Urbanski co-produced the film and makes no secret of the fact that his own political leanings are diametrically opposed to those of the "left-leaning billionaires," as he refers to DreamWorks heads Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg...
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"I belong to the 'I want my movie to succeed' party," quips Urbanski, who's voting for George W. Bush come Election Day...
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...Other feature films to be screened in the festival are "Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West" (World Premiere), the stunning sequel to "Relentless," directed by Wayne Kopping and produced by Raphael Shore and Peter Mier;
From Obsession.
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San Pedro filmmakers showcase a conservative Hollywood
[LIBERTY FILM FESTIVAL starts FRIDAY 10/21]
Posted by RonDog
On News/Activism 10/20/2005 7:33:25 AM PDT · 4 replies · 46+ views
www.dailybreeze.com ^ | October 20, 2005 | Nick Green
ALERT:
Larry Elder, Ted Hayes and Director Hal Needham to Speak at Liberty Film Festival
[10/21-23]
Posted by RonDog
On News/Activism 10/17/2005 6:27:12 PM PDT · 6 replies · 123+ views
www.LibertyFilmFestival.com ^ | October 14, 2005 | Jason Apuzzo
Liberty Film Festival Opens in L.A. -
featuring Ron Silver, Evan Maloney - and FReeper AnnaZ!
Posted by RonDog
On News/Activism 10/12/2005 2:20:08 PM PDT · 28 replies · 486+ views
www.NewsMax.com ^ | October 12, 2006 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Filmfest Seeing Redby David Finnigan, Contributing Writer
Conservative filmmakers will invade West Hollywood this weekend for the second annual, Bush-loving Liberty Film Festival, with WeHo’s Pacific Design Center becoming a haven to some Jewish entertainment names who vote red while living among the blue.
“It’s a film festival with a clear point of view — also a countercultural point of view,” said prominent talk show host, author and film critic Michael Medved. Medved is a filmfest board member who will fly down from Seattle after Shabbat on Sunday to moderate a panel featuring Joel Surnow, the executive producer of Fox’s “24,” and ex-studio chief Frank Price.
Thespian Robert Downey Jr. and KABC-AM talk show host Larry Elder will pop by, too. Actor Ron Silver, who shocked Hollywood liberals last year by addressing the Republican National Convention, will premiere, “Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60,” a 65-minute documentary. His narration catalogues U.N. failures.
The festival also will have Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel, conservative scribe Ron Radosh and progressive Hollywood author Ed Rampell (see Rampell’s op-ed piece on Page 11) on hand to debate the question: “Was Communism a Threat to Hollywood?”
Several of last year’s festival entries took on Michael Moore’s film, “Fahrenheit 9/11.” This year, the festival’s slate is more balanced, with Moore-bashing reduced to one 15-minute parody short called, “Fellowship 9/11.”
The festival isn’t a conservative “attempt to take over Hollywood,” Medved told The Journal by telephone from Seattle. “What I think people are tying to do is begin a conversation about a little bit more political balance. These people [generic Hollywood liberals] function in a world in which they are so hermetically sealed from the rest of America.”
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