Film Review: ‘Drift’
This underdog story manages to get a fair bit right about early 1970s surf culture when it isn't trafficking in the hoariest of David-vs.-Goliath cliches.
Andy Burg
Fox O&Os nab reruns of ‘Anger Management’
The second half of Charlie Sheen's comeback bid has been set as a clutch of Fox O&Os have picked up off-net rights to his FX sitcom "Anger Management" for a fall 2014 start.
Bizzers offers media insight
Speaking their languageVariety president Neil Stiles, a BritWeek board member, welcomed bizzers to Friday’s Film and TV Summit at the Beverly Hilton. * * * Global know-howSilverwood Films founder…
Review: ‘YellowBrickRoad’
Cryptic pic follows a team of researchers investigating an town's disappearance decades earlier.
Review: ‘Saw V’
Taking a considerable risk with their Lionsgate cash cow, the makers of "Saw V" have decided to tone down the ongoing saga's torture horror for a generally conventional cat-and-mouse detective movie.
Reviving RKO’s horror heyday
Andy Fickman has made a deal with Roseblood Movie Company and Twisted Pictures to godfather four remakes from RKO's horror heyday, including three that were produced by horrormeister Val Lewton…
Review: ‘A Battle of Wits’
An Asian big-budgeter in which the characters don't get lost among the production design and special effects, costume action-drama "A Battle of Wits" more than lives up to its title.
Review: ‘Saint Martyrs Of The Damned’
William Castle meets David Lynch in the widescreen horror romp "Saint Martyrs of the Damned." Simultaneously sending up the genre while presenting an unsettling story of bizarre mystery and genetic…
Review: ‘I Am From Nowhere’
A smug and condescending pic about all the pics made about Andy Warhol's ancestral village of Mikova in eastern Slovakia, "I Am From Nowhere" has nowhere to go. Fests and cablers might want to pair…
Review: ‘Waiting for Guffman’
Mockumentary from Spinal Tap alumnus Christopher Guest has genuine laughs, but outside the fest circuit "Waiting for Guffman" seems a candidate for cable and homevid rather than theatrical release.
TriStar reups Adelson, Baumgarten
TriStar Pictures announced Friday that it has extended for 18 months its first-look production deal with Adelson-Baumgarten Prods., refreshing a relationship that began with an overall housekeeping…
