LUCAMAR Productions Inks Multi-Year First-Look Deal With The Walt Disney Studios Rob Marshall is set to direct a film adaptation of the acclaimed Broadway musical “Into the Woods,” featuring Stephen Sondheim’s original music, for The Walt Disney Studios, to be produced by Marshall and John DeLuca through their production company LUCAMAR Productions. James Lapine, who […]
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Director Rob Marshall heads “INTO THE WOODS” for NEW Disney Feature Film
January 11th, 2012 
Beyond the Marquee Shall We Play A Game? USC Kids get a Movie-Themed REALITY check!
January 10th, 2012 AllisonFilms You would expect your first semester of your freshman year of college to be an exciting whirlwind of new people, classes, and experiences, but you wouldn’t exactly anticipate having to decipher cryptic emails, search for secret symbols and mingle with media moguls would you? Well, my fist semester at the University of Southern California’s School […]
A long time ago, on a Mac far away…
January 10th, 2012 DaveWill Happy New Year readers! I hope you all enjoyed the holidays! I wanted to kick off 2012 with a brief introduction into how I ended up writing for BTM and give you an insight into my work and the process that is behind it. I’ll keep it brief…
Documentary: “Surviving Japan” is a Real Eye-Opener on the Fukushima Disaster
January 7th, 2012 Beyond the Marquee A new documentary video by Chris Noland (a Tsunami Relief volunteer and Independent Director) has been taising eyebrows on the International front as he poses questions about the Japanese government putting the interest of the nuclear power industry before the lives of Japanese citizens.
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY its Mind Numbing
January 5th, 2012 John Delia The British movie Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is not for everyone. It’s a mind-numbing film for audiences that crave an involving storyline, can deal with British accents and are into the underpinning of espionage that fueled The Cold War in the 1970’s. I am not a big fan of films like this one, but […]
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Tags: British, John le Carre, Rated R, Spy Thriller 
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Guilty Pleasures and the Films of Robert Rodriguez
January 2nd, 2012 Geoffrey Geib Film critic Pauline Kael famously once wrote/said[1], “Movies are so rarely great art, that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them.” One man’s treasure is another man’s Indiana Jones and the One With the Alien Ending, and so in honor of all the great trash […]
The Top Ten films for 2011 According to Delia
December 28th, 2011 John Delia In 2011 I saw 200 plus films, not counting the Independent offers viewed at film festivals or sent to my home for comment. This was not a year for bragging rights with too many sequels, enough superhero’s to save several planets, repetitious storylines, not enough good drama, a lot of raunchy romance with more […]
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