Pele Project Set For August Start Of Production
Soccer legend Pele is headed for the big screen with Imagine Entertainment and Seine Pictures going into production in August on a coming of age story. Pele is also headed to Cannes next week…
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Jada Pinkett Smith to Star in Colombian Drama
Jada Pinkett Smith will star in and co-produce Colombian pic "La escribana de uraba" (Scribe) through Overbrook Entertainment, the shingle she runs with spouse Will Smith. Bilingual pic is…
Imagine Ent. sets biopic of soccer’s Pele
Imagine Entertainment is getting in on the slew of soccer-themed projects spurred by the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, planning a feature film about legendary Brazilian soccer…
Review: ‘Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told’
More a mashup of production numbers than a docu, pic shows little direction from co-helmers Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Jeff Zimbalist but lots of editing (Zimbalist's other hat).
Review: ‘The Two Escobars’
"The Two Escobars" are related not by blood, but by a Colombian soccer team.
Zimbalist dies at 73
Stephanie Zimbalist, wife of Efrem Zimbalist Jr., died in Solvang, Calif. Feb. 5 of lung cancer. She was 73.
Review: ‘Vincent in Brixton’
"He's a stormy fellow, isn't he?" comments Eugenie (Carolyn Palmer) about Vincent Van Gogh (Graham Miller), the new lodger her mother has welcomed into their Brixton, England, home.
Review: ‘Prison of Secrets’
Prison of Secrets (Sun. (16), 8-10 p.m., Lifetime) Filmed in Los Angeles by Carroll Newman Prods. in association with Hearst Entertainment. Executive producer, Carroll Newman; co-executive producer…
Review: ‘The Crimson Thread’
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Review: ‘Tarzan, the Ape Man’
Metro has remade its 1932 Johnny Weissmuller-Maureen O'Sullivan starrer, Tarzan the Ape Man and the story is even more implausible than it was 27 years earlier.
Review: ‘Home Before Dark’
Home before Dark should give the Kleenex a vigorous workout. Based on one woman's battle to regain her slipping sanity, it is a romantic melodrama of considerable power and imprint.
