Week in Review: Eight Talking Points from the World of Film & TV From This Past Week

Surely you’ve got more to talk about than Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon…

Back to school: The Weinstein Company has officially confirmed they will release Salinger, a feature length documentary on the Catcher in the Rye author, on September 6th. The film was directed by Shane Salerno (he also co-wrote a companion biography with journalist David Shields, to be published by Simon & Schuster, who is a co-producer on the film).

By  |  March 23, 2013
Week in Review: Seven Talking Points From the World of Film From the Past Week

Veronica who? While it’s entirely possibly you’ve never heard of the series Veronica Mars, which aired on the CW from 2004-2007, a Kickstarter campaign launched on Wednesday by the show’s star Kristin Bell, and its director Rob Thomas, raised $2 million in ten hours to resurrect the show in film form. Read more here.

There’s little doubt they’ll struggle to raise their goal of $3.2 million by the April 11 deadline,

By  |  March 16, 2013
Talking Points: Eleven Intriguing Items From the World of Film From the Past Week

Guess who’s having a better spring than you? Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, Bob Balaban and Jean Dujardin, who have all just begun shooting George Clooney’s latest directing effort, The Monuments Men. Based on a true story, it follows group of military operatives who go behind enemy lines to retrieve stolen art from the Nazis during World War II. With principal shooting to take place in Berlin, you can imagine the shooting scheduling won’t be so punishing that the group can’t spend weekends off at Clooney’s famous Lake Como castle.

By  |  March 9, 2013