by Shannonn Kelly
Last minute talks have resumed on Halloween morning to help Hollywood writers and producers reach a deal on a new contract. Wednesday October 31, 2007  is the last day of the present agreement.
Failure to reach a deal will affect numerous TV and Film productions.
One of the main issues is about revenue going back to [...]

Posted on October 31st, 2007 by RHIFF
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by Shannonn Kelly
The Theatrical Katharine Hepburn, in Journals and Letters is a terrific article on the late actress published online at the New York Times Monday October 29, 2007 by By Patricia Cohen.
The article centers around a gift from Ms. Hepburn’s estate that was donated to the New York Public Library.  The collection is a ”cache of theater-related [...]

Posted on October 30th, 2007 by RHIFF
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by Shannonn Kelly
ReelHeART always has a hard time deciding whether we actually like Ben Affleck “The Actor”. However, we have no trouble liking Ben Affleck, “the Director”.
With his feature directorial debut, “Gone Baby Gone”, Affleck has managed to do what we know he does pretty well.
We already know Ben can write. Affleck won an Oscar with co-writer [...]

Posted on October 29th, 2007 by RHIFF
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by Shannonn Kelly
ReelHeART has been reporting on this story weeks back when De Palma’s film gave the Venice Film Festival audience and judges a hard dose of reality with his Iraq war film “Redacted”.
Since the Q & A squabble over at the New York Film Festival, things are heating up and for good reason.
De Palma’s [...]

Posted on October 19th, 2007 by RHIFF
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by Shannonn Kelly
Born Deborah Jane Kerr Trimmer on September 30, 1921 in Helensburgh, Scotland. Suffering since the 90’s from Parkinson’s disease, Kerr died, in Suffolk, England on Tuesday October 16, 2007. Her death was ‘officially’ announced on Thursday October 18, 2007 by her agent. Kerr, nicknamed “The English Rose” was 86.
ReelHeART is saddened to see this [...]

Posted on October 19th, 2007 by RHIFF
Classement : Actresses | 1 Comment »

by Shannonn Kelly
Francis Ford Coppola cast Al Pacino in The Godfather and again along with Robert De Niro in The Godfather II.
Yet, according to columnists Rush & Molloy at the New York Daily News Coppola “disses Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino in a surprising critique of three of America’s greatest actors”, during [...]

Posted on October 19th, 2007 by RHIFF
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