Director George Hickenlooper, whose film Casino Jack has been playing festivals and is on the verge of release, has died in Denver, Colorado at the age of 47. His cousin, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, confirmed the director's passing to the Denver Post. George Hickenlooper may still be best known for co-directing the wonderful 1991 Apocalypse…
Read MoreOscar® and Emmy® Nominated Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special in 3-D) is set to premiere a new one-hour documentary special titled "Committed: The Toronto International Film Festival" by on AMC this Tuesday October 12th at 11pm eastern. Narrated by AMC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff and commissioned by AMC, the…
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When we first saw a trailer for Casino Jack, starring Kevin Spacey as disgraced 'super lobbyist' Jack Abramoff, the film was called Bagman and the trailer was miserable. Tonally the clip was all over the place, the voice over was laughable, and it committed a serious sin by trying to pretend that Rolling Stones songs…
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The Toronto Film Festival is just getting underway, and already one film has been picked up for Us distribution. Sarah's Key, starring Kristen Scott Thomas, was picked up by The Weinstein Commpany today as the first official buy of the fest. More info on the film after the break, along with good breaks for Barney's…
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For once it isn't M. Night Shyamalan getting stuck into a bitter dispute over a film's title (see The Woods/The Village and the Avatars) but some fresh meat. The combatants this time are documentarian Alex Gibney and sometime documentarian, sometime fiction filmmaker George Hickenlooper. At this moment, they're both at work with films about the…
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