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*Korean heart-throb Kwon Sang Woo who's traveling to Singapore and Indonesia for The Face Shop Kwon Sang Woo Asia Promotion Tour 2006, has received the highest honor from the Singapore government by having an orchid hybrid named after him in the national orchid garden, an honor usually reserved for guests of the State like Margaret Thatcher and Princess Diana. Kwon whose popularity has soared since the hit drama 'Stariway to Heaven' aired in Asia, becomes the first Korean star to have his name in the state garden.*
*Other names in the garden are Laura Bush, the U.S. first lady, and her Korean counterpart, President Roh Moo-hyun's wife Kwon Yang-sook.*
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*Dennis Hopper has new battle: prostate cancer*
The News Record
Robert's Rants
By Robert Kirchgassner | The News Recordnt
November 1, 2009
*Another Hollywood star has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, two months after actor Patrick Swayze died.*
Hopper began his career in the 1950s with roles in television, as well as film classics such as ?Rebel Without a Cause,? ?Cool Hand Luke? and ?Hang ?em High.? He has cited actors such as James Dean and Vincent Price as his mentors. Crediting Price with piquing his interest in art, he was led to a second career as an accomplished painter and photographer.
Hopper achieved movie stardom in 1969 when he directed, co-wrote and starred in ?Easy Rider?: an independent film which became one of the most influential movies ever made. It also brought stardom to co-stars Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda. Fonda co-wrote the film with Hopper and with whom Hopper clashed over the residual profits of the movie.
Where Swayze continued to endear himself to audiences after his star-making work in ?Dirty Dancing,? Hopper?s work after ?Easy Rider? produced mixed results. This was due, in part, to his notorious drug use, which became as famous as his
film work.
His follow-up to ?Easy Rider? was 1971?s ?The Last Movie,? a film that failed to make an impression with audiences and critics although it has developed a cult following. He wouldn?t direct another movie until 1980?s ?Out of the Blue.? It was during this time that his week-long marriage to The Mamas & the Papas singer Michelle Phillips ended when she filed for divorce, citing spousal abuse.
To this day, he remains estranged with Fonda over ?Easy Rider,? as well as with actor Rip Torn, who was the original choice for the role that went to Nicholson. In 1999, Torn successfully sued Hopper over a story Hopper told on The Tonight Show in which he claimed Torn pulled a knife on him during the making of ?Easy Rider.?
Although Hopper continued to act in various films, he wouldn?t return to prominence until 1979 with his role in ?Apocalypse Now.? He played a drug-induced photographer; some critics believed the film was a portrayl of himself. He followed ?Apocalypse Now? with memorable work in films such as ?Blue Velvet,? ?Hoosiers? and ?Speed.?
Outside the movie-making realm, Hopper, a registered Republican, voiced his support for Democrat Barack Obama?s election as president in 2008. Hopper made an appearance on the ?The View? on Election Day explaining that he didn?t within his party because Sarah Palin was the Republican vice presidential candidate.
Despite his erratic behavior, Hopper has been the recipient of numerous honors for his film work. He is a talented, versatile actor and filmmaker who has struggled with personal demons for many years with varying degrees of success.
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*_Don't forget_:*
*November 18, 2009*
_Autumn Leaves_ (1956) 2pm.
*November 24, 2009*
_Possessed_ ('47). 8:30am.
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*Rose to be named in honor of Natasha Richardson!!!*
Nov. 1, 2009
*Friends of Natasha Richardson are planning to honour the late actress by naming an English rose in her memory.*
The 45-year-old actress, who was married to Liam Neeson, died in March following a skiing accident in Montreal, Canada.
Family and friends of Richardson have been planning a way to honour her memory, and they've decided on a floral tribute.
Search: Who else has a flower named in their honor?
One anonymous pal tells Britain's Sunday Express newspaper, "We all want something to remember Natasha and there's no one who better resembles a perfect English rose than her. The whole family loves the idea of having a rose named after her."
*Richardson at the UK premiere of _The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian_*
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*_Don't forget_:*
*Mon, Nov 2, 2009 @ 1:16 AM 1925 (Eastern) _1925 Studio Tour_ (1925)*
*A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 is given to meet the people who make the movies there and see how movies are made!*
*Although this film has no titles for cast and crew at the beginning of the film, the intertitles identify many of the MGM employees shown, including 'Joan Crawford' as Lucille LeSueur, "a recent MGM discovery".*
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Joseph Cotten was in: _The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice_ (1952) directed by Orson Welles!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Orson Welles!*
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"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is magic.
HitFix - Drew McWeeny
Sunday, Nov 1, 2009
By: Drew McWeeny
It's a film that really shouldn't work. Almost every attempt by everyone else, no matter how dedicated or respectful or talented they are, fails at trying to take classic pop culture characters and play mainstream mash-up with them, a la "Space Jam" or "Looney Tunes Back In Action." Joe Dante made a Sisyphean effort at pulling off one of these movies, and left to his own device with an animation department given support and creative freedom, maybe he could have done it. But he didn't have that.
Robert Zemeckis, on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," had a wonderful sort of bullet-proof quality. It was a moment. It was a particularly loose and silly pop culture moment, and he was coming off two hits in a row. "Romancing The Stone" was reeeeeeally well-liked in Hollywood, and "Back To The Future" was reeeeeeally well-liked by every person on the planet. So he was pretty much King Giant Stud Of Stud Mountain.
And he chose to make a movie about a woman married to a rabbit.
Happily married.
And he totally pulled it off, too. The mix of the Disney and MGM and Warner Bros. characters, all living together in a cartoon universe that bumps right up against old Hollywood, is something that had never happened before, and may never happen again. Obviously we don't know what Zemeckis will use if he makes a sequel to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", which libraries he'll have access to.
Oh, didn't I mention that? Robert Zemeckis is totally talking about making a sequel now. And the writers of the first film, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, are returning to write this one. Right now.
That's cool. That's genuinely cool. And it's a nice summation of what's been said so far by Brendon Connelly. It sounds like MTV's got stuff they're planning to run soon, more information about what we might get with a sequel.
There's one piece of news I need to hear as a fan of the first film, though. Before I can even begin to consider this a sequel to the first film. Because we're talking about something magic. Something so special, so accidental, that I hope everyone involved realizes that it has to be reproduced exactly if you have any hope of this being a worthy successor to the first film.
Specifically, Richard Williams has to be the animation supervisor on the film.
Has to. Totally. Because as much as Robert Zemeckis directed the ever-lovin' **** out of the film, Richard Williams worked some miracles in almost every sequence in that movie. The level of 24-frame-per-second hand-animated performance in the movie is mind-boggling. They are wholly successful animated chararacters, new creations that fit into the rank and file of every character of iconic early animation. That's not easy, and Richard Williams pulled it off with flair. He made it look easy.
He designed Roger Rabbit. He designed Baby Herman. He designed Jessica Rabbit. Or, to be fair, he supervised the team of talented... nee, gifted animators who brought the impossible to life. Working with Michael Lantieri, working with puppeteers on-set, Richard Williams orchestrated a team who animated a film a higher level than anything that had been produced since Walt's personal heyday. It is a breath-takingly well-crafted film. Zemeckis threw down a huge challenge to Wiliams, and Williams threw it back at him with a smash-punch delivery. It's arrogantly well-animated. Williams and his team didn't just climb the mountain of work that Zemeckis threw at them... they conquered it.
Beyond creating new characters that perfectly recreated a feel of a bygone era of animation, Williams also perfectly revived old familar icons. His Bugs Bunny IS Bugs Bunny. His Mickey Mouse IS Mickey Mouse. His Daffy Duck and Donald Duck scene is like a fevered hallucination, so amazing and so delirious that it can't be real. I think he pulls off every single cartoon reference gag or shot or idea in the film, and it's just dizzying.
It's not a coincidence that "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," a $70-million-or-so film, was seen as a major investment for Disney. They were trying to decide if there was an appetite out there for the real deal. For the classic Disney movies again. This movie answered the question for them, just before the run of films that put them back in the animated feature business in a big way.
So seriously, Mr. Zemeckis or any authorized agent of Mr. Zemeckis who happens to read this and pass it along, Richard Williams. Gotta happen. You're a major part of the first film. So are Price and Seaman. And so is Richard Williams. It's like putting the Beatles back together. I think you've already got Ringo onboard. And George. And that makes you Paul.
And since you're also working to make "The Yellow Submarine," I think you understand what I mean when I tell you that you can't put the Beatles back together until you go get John.
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*VAULTS: Celebrating the music of Johnny Mercer*
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Washington Times - Gary Arnold
*A serendipitous convergence will make the next week doubly gratifying for people who cherish notable American songwriters ? and would be receptive to recalling their careers by watching fond but also discerning biographical features.*
First and foremost, the distinguished posthumous subject: Johnny Mercer, who was born in Savannah, Ga., on Nov. 18, 1909, and died in Los Angeles on June 25, 1976, after failing to recover from a brain-tumor operation.
Turner Classic Movies will celebrate the Mercer centennial with a Wednesday evening series throughout November. Consisting of 25 vintage titles and incorporating about 130 songs, it commences with two showings of a deft and melodic 90-minute chronicle titled "Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me."
Shot by Clint Eastwood's production company, this documentary will share the first Turner bill with a trio of pictures enhanced by Mercer lyrics: "The Fleet's In," a patriotic caprice of 1942 that encouraged Betty Hutton to run irrepressibly amok as an adornment to the Jimmy Dorsey jazz band; "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," a joyously kinetic hit of 1954 that flattered its troupe of male dancers and choreographer Michael Kidd more than the folksy-hokey song score by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer; and "Blues in the Night," a 1941 homage to jazz musicians that reflected the sophisticated and stirring partnership of composer Harold Arlen with lyricist Mercer.
The entire programming day on Nov. 18 will be devoted to movies that utilized Mercer songs, many classic but some also transitory. The parade is cleverly contrived to climax with a quadruple-bill that revives the four pictures that contained Academy Award-winning Mercer numbers: "The Harvey Girls," "Here Comes the Groom," "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Days of Wine and Roses." The respective winners, of course, were "The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," with a tune by Harry Warren; "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," which reunited Mercer with Hoagy Carmichael; and the back-to-back collaborations with Henry Mancini on "Moon River" and "Wine and Roses." A dozen other Mercer songs with various composers were in the Oscar finals over four decades.
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Isabel Sanford was in: _The New Centurions_ (1972) with George C. Scott!
*NEW ACTOR: George C. Scott!!*
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Happy Halloween!!!
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*Actor Peter Graves gets Walk of Fame star in LA*
Oct. 30, 2009
*LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Peter Graves, known for his roles in the 1980 film spoof "Airplane!" and the TV series "Mission: Impossible," has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.*
The 83-year-old actor attended the Los Angeles ceremony Friday with his wife Joan, their children and grandchildren. He called the honor "a red letter day in my life."
Minneapolis-born Graves made his debut in films in the early 1950s, gaining fame as team leader Jim Phelps on the CBS TV series "Mission: Impossible" from 1967 to 1973.
He won a Golden Globe award for the part in 1971.
His comedic turn as deep-voiced airplane pilot Captain Oveur in "Airplane!" cemented his celebrity status.
Graves hosted the A&E series "Biography" and also guest-starred on TV shows including "House."
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*'Palimony' figure Michelle Triola Marvin dies*
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Oct. 30, 2009
*LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michelle Triola Marvin whose landmark lawsuit against her former lover, "Dirty Dozen" actor Lee Marvin, placed the word "palimony" into the family law lexicon and changed the legal rights of unmarried cohabiting partners, died Friday at age 76.*
She underwent surgery for lung cancer last year and died at the Malibu home of actor Dick Van Dyke, her partner of 30 years, said family spokesman Bob Palmer.
Michelle Marvin's birth name was Triola and she met Lee Marvin while working as an extra in his 1964 movie "Ship of Fools." They lived together for six years and she took his last name but never married. The relationship ended in 1970.
At first she accepted payments from him of $833 a month to support her while she tried to resume her singing and acting career. But after support checks stopped she filed suit for half of everything Marvin had earned during their years together. Her share would have been $1.8 million. Her cause was taken up by one of Hollywood's most colorful divorce lawyers, Marvin Mitchelson, who launched what was a campaign to change the law.
The case of Marvin vs. Marvin focused a spotlight on the then radical arrangement of cohabiting unmarried couples and the plight of women after such relationships ended. At first, the suit was rejected by the courts as having no basis in law. But Mitchelson took her case to the California Supreme Court where in 1976 she won the right to bring suit.
He would later say that the day she won the right to walk into court and file suit was the day American marriage and family law changed forever. Mitchelson, known for his pursuit of multimillion-dollar divorce cases, sought to win the same rights for Marvin as she would have under alimony laws if the couple had married. He coined the term, "palimony" and it stuck.
By the time the case of Marvin Vs. Marvin came to court in 1979, palimony suits were springing up across the country.
In a time when live-in relationships without marriage had no place in the law, the case broke new legal ground. But Michelle Marvin never received any of Marvin's fortune.
A judge rejected Marvin's community property request but granted her $104,000 for "rehabilitation." The award was later overturned on appeal.
Afterward, she went to work as an agent's secretary at the William Morris talent agency, Palmer said.
"She had a lot of friends in the (show) business," he said.
Although Marvin came away with no money, the sensational case spurred similar trials and established in California law the right of unmarried partners to sue for joint property on grounds that their partners had violated a relationship contract.
Marvin had contended she gave up her career to become the actor's "cook, companion and confidant" and he had promised to support her for life. He denied that contention.
Palmer said Marvin didn't dwell on the case and wasn't bitter, even though she was forever associated with it. Many said she came up with the concept of palimony, but it was really Mitchelson, he said.
"She just shrugged it off," Palmer said. "If Lee Marvin's name came up, she said he was a great guy.
Her relationship with Van Dyke began in the late 1970s and they moved to Malibu in 1986. Lee Marvin died in 1987.
Besides Van Dyke, Marvin is survived by her sister, Diane Triola Johnson of Los Angeles; a niece and a nephew.
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*I agree ....more Joan films .....TCM needs to stop playing _Mildred Pierce_ (1945) over and over every month ...please play something new of Joans!!!*
Letty Lynton (1932)
Sadie McKee, Chained and Forsaking All Others (all 1934)
This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
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*Can't wait to see: _Model Shop_ (1969) directed by Jacques Demy ....I loved his films _Les Demoiselles de Rochefort_ (1967) & _Les Parapluies de Cherbourg_ (1964)!!!*
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Vincent Price was in: _The Tingler_ (1959) directed by William Castle!
*NEW DIRECTOR: William Castle!*
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*Frampton manager Dee Anthony dies at 83*
Oct. 26, 2009
*SOUTHPORT, Conn. (AP) -- Dee Anthony, who began a 40-year music-managing career representing neighborhood friend Jerry Vale in the 1950s and later worked for Tony Bennett, Peter Frampton and other popular artists, has died. He was 83.*
The Southport, Conn., resident died Sunday at Norwalk Hospital of pneumonia, family spokesman Jay Strell said.
Anthony was Frampton's manager when the singer-guitarist released the wildly successful "Frampton Comes Alive" album in 1976. He also represented British acts including Traffic, Jethro Tull and Joe Cocker when they first came to the United States in the mid-1960s, Strell said.
Born Anthony D'Addario, he grew up in the Bronx and met Bennett in 1954 at a nightclub in Yonkers, according to an obituary prepared by his daughter, Michele Anthony, former president and chief operating officer of Sony Music. He represented Bennett for more than a decade.
"He was an amazing man, tremendous father, grandfather and husband," Michele Anthony said in a statement Monday. "We're now reflecting on all of the wonderful times we spent together as well as the impact he had on so many others."
Anthony founded Bandana Enterprises with his brother, Bill, in 1968. The company managed a host of bands including The J. Geils Band, Ten Years After and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Anthony went on to represent Peter Allen and Devo in the 1980s and retired in the mid-1990s.
A memorial service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in New York City.
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*Josh Brolin and Matt Damon to Star in Coen's 'True Grit' Remake*
by Elisabeth Rappe Oct 26th 2009
Cinematical.com
It's impossible to top an icon like John Wayne, but the Coen Bros' True Grit is shaping up to have a better supporting cast than the original did. (Hey, Wayne supposedly didn't like Kim Darby either.) Variety has just announced that Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in talks to join Jeff Bridges in the Coens' remake.
Bridges will play Rooster Cogburn, while Damon is in talks to play La Boeuf, the Texas Ranger who pairs up with Cogburn and Mattie. I'll probably anger the Glen Campbell fans out there, but I think this is a vast improvement over the original casting. I can actually buy Damon as a Texas Ranger.
Brolin will be taking a walk on the nasty side, as he'll be playing Tom Chaney, the man who gunned Mattie's father down for the gold he had in his saddlebag. While Chaney wasn't the most pleasant fellow in the original, there's no doubt that Brolin will increase the menace and nastiness. I think we can all agree Brolin has done no wrong since his No Country For Old Men comeback, and this is the kind of role that'll be delicious to watch him tear into. The film is set to go into production in March 2010, and the Coens won't waste any time in the editing room as it's slated to be released in late 2010.
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*Sat, Oct 31, 2009 @ 8:00 PM - All Times Eastern - Check Local Schedule.*
*_Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_ (1941)*
*The movie was based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and directed by Victor Fleming, director of Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz two years earlier. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the rights to the 1931 film, originally released by Paramount Pictures, in order to keep the earlier film out of circulation.*
Thanks,
Wikipedia!.
*Critical reception*
The film was not the critical and commercial success that the 1931 version had been. Fredric March famously sent his friend Tracy an amusing telegram thanking him for his biggest career boost, as Tracy's performance was routinely savaged when compared with March's version. Tracy was considered too bland as Jekyll, and not frightening as Hyde.
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*Jackson, Peter* - A New Zealand filmmaker, producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings trilogy adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien.
He is also known for his 2005 remake of King Kong and as the producer of the critically acclaimed film District 9.
He won international attention early in his career with his "splatstick" horror comedies, before coming to mainstream prominence with Heavenly Creatures, for which he shared an Academy Award Best Screenplay nomination with his partner, Fran Walsh.
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*Novarro, Ramon*
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Joan Evans was in: _The Outcast_ (1954) directed by William Witney!.
*NEW DIRECTOR: William Witney*
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*Female on the Beach (1955)*
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*Knightley Nabs Starring Role in "My Fair Lady" Remake*
By Adam Hetrick
and Andrew Gans
26 Oct 2009
*Actress Keira Knightley will portray Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in the forthcoming film remake of the classic 1956 Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady.*
The Telegraph reports that "Pride and Prejudice" director Joe Wright will reunite with Knightley for the movie musical. Academy Award-winning actress Emma Thompson is penning the screenplay that includes additional material from Shaw's Pygmalion.
Knightly, who will star in the West End revival of The Misanthrope in December, was among the first names bandied about when the remake was announced in 2008. A Steady Rain's Daniel Craig has been mentioned as a candidate for Professor Henry Higgins.
"My Fair Lady" is produced by Cameron Mackintosh and Duncan Kenworthy. As previously reported, the creative team intends to film on location in London to give the film an authentic feel. According to a previous statement, producers hope to "dramatize as believably as possible for present-day audiences the emotional highs and lows of Eliza Doolittle as she undergoes the ultimate makeover, transforming under the tutelage of Professor Henry Higgins from a Cockney flower girl to a lady."
Knightley has appeared on screen in "Atonement," "The Duchess," "The Edge of Love," "Pride and Prejudice," "Bend It Like Beckham," "Domino" and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series.
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*I love how stuff like this gets found!*
The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Event Returns to More Than 300 Movie Thea
in Hot Topics
Posted
*The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Event Returns to More Than 300 Movie Theaters Nationwide for a Command Performance on November 17th 2009!!*
Tue Nov 3, 2009
Reuters
*NCM Fathom, Warner Home Video and Turner Classic Movies Announce Special Event*
*Encore Presentation of Family Treasure in Select U.S. Locations As Fans Call for*
*Rebroadcast*
CENTENNIAL, Colo.--(Business Wire)--
*Take a magical journey down the yellow brick road with Dorothy, her little dog*
*Toto and their unforgettable friends as they come alive on the big screen once*
*again in The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Encore Event on Tuesday, November*
*17th at 6:30 p.m. local time in 324 select movie theaters for an encore*
*rebroadcast.*
The first broadcast event was presented in movie theaters on Sept.
23rd, with many locations selling out across the country. Presented by NCM
Fathom, Warner Home Video and Turner Classic Movies, this special encore
presentation has been scheduled to meet the high demand from fans to see the
exclusive big screen event, just in time for the holiday season.
Tickets for The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Encore Event are available at
participating theater box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com. For a
complete list of theater locations and prices, please visit the web site
(theaters are subject to change).
"Tens of thousands of fans nationwide celebrated the 70th anniversary of this
beloved family classic in local movie theaters in September and due to the
overwhelming response, we are proud to present a final opportunity for fans to
gather again and experience `The Wizard of Oz` on the big screen," said Dan
Diamond, vice president of Fathom.
The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Encore Eventwill be introduced with a taped
interview from Robert Osborne, film historian and host of Turner Classic Movies,
who will share facts and stories about this ageless classic. The exclusive cut
of "To Oz! The Making of a Classic" will offer audiences a look into how L.
Frank Baum`s classic novel was transformed into one of the most beloved films of
all time including archival interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and rare
musical outtakes.
The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Encore Eventappears on the big screen in
select AMC Entertainment Inc., Cinemark USA Inc., Clearview Cinemas, Cobb
Theatres, Goodrich Quality Theaters, Hollywood Theaters, Kerasotes Showplace
Theatres and National Amusements movie theaters, as well as Palace Cinema 9
(South Burlington, VT) and Penn Cinema (Lititz, PA), through NCM`s exclusive
Digital Broadcast Network. The presentation of "The Wizard of Oz," first shown
on the big screen more than 70 years ago, has been digitally re-mastered using
the original film source and screen format.
"The Wizard of Oz" opened on Aug. 15, 1939 and received five Academy Award
nominations, including Best Picture and captured two Oscars - Best Song ("Over
the Rainbow") and Best Original Score - plus a special award for Outstanding
Juvenile Performance by Judy Garland.
Warner Home Video`s re-mastered Blu-ray and DVD release, The Wizard of Oz 70th
Anniversary Ultimate Collector`s Edition, debuted September 29. With six times
higher resolution than standard DVD, along with the sonic excellence of Dolby
TruHD, the film is at its pristine best for home entertainment viewing. The
limited Ultimate Collector`s Editions features 16 hours of bonus features - four
hours of which have never been available until now. Visit the official website
www.thewizardofoz.com for more information on events and products.
http://thewizardofoz.warnerbros.com/
*About National CineMedia*
NCM LLC operates the largest digital in-theatre network in North America through
long-term agreements with its founding members, AMC Entertainment Inc., Cinemark
Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CNK) and Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC), the three
largest theatre operators in the U.S., and through multi-year agreements with
several other theatre operators. NCM LLC produces and distributes its FirstLook
pre feature program; cinema, lobby and online advertising products;
comprehensive meeting and event services and other entertainment programming
content. NCM LLC`s national network includes approximately 16,800 screens of
which approximately 15,500 are part of the company`s Digital Content Network
(DCN). NCM LLC`s network covers 171 Designated Market Areas (49 of the top 50).
During 2008, approximately 660 million patrons attended movies shown in theatres
currently included in the network (excluding Regal Consolidated Theatres).
National CineMedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCMI) owns a 41.5% interest in and is the
managing member of NCM LLC. To learn more about National CineMedia Inc., please
visit the company`s website at www.ncm.com or www.FathomEvents.com.
*About Warner Home Video*
With operations in 90 international territories, Warner Home Video, a Warner
Bros. Entertainment Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in
the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video`s film library is the largest of
any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of
Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home
Video and New Line Home Entertainment. www.thewizardofoz.com
*About Turner Classic Movies*
Turner Classic Movies is a Peabody Award-winning network celebrating 15 years of
presenting great films, uncut and commercial-free, from the largest film
libraries in the world. Currently seen in more than 80 million homes, TCM
features the insights of veteran primetime host Robert Osborne and weekend
daytime host Ben Mankiewicz, plus interviews with a wide range of special
guests. As the foremost authority in classic films, TCM offers critically
acclaimed original documentaries and specials, along with regular programming
events that include The Essentials, 31 Days of Oscar and Summer Under the Stars.
TCM also produces a wide range of media about classic film, including books and
DVDs, along with hosting a wealth of materials at its Web site, www.tcm.com. TCM
is part of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company.
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