| Le Voyeur Goes to Sony | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 2:56:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | Columbia Pictures has picked up the thriller Le Voyeur for Will Smith and James Lassiter to produce through their Sony-based Overbrook Entertainment, says The Hollywood Reporter. Written by Massy Tadjedin, the long-gestating project originally was set up in 2002 at Universal Pictures with Kevin Misher and Akiva Goldsman producing. The film centers on a man who returns to the Caribbean island of his youth and becomes a suspect in the murder of a teenage girl that was committed two days after his arrival. The story is based on a 1955 French novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet. .... | |
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| | | Patrons still playing on Race Course sweepstakes machines | | Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:58:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | Milton McGregor said Monday he will seek a new hearing before the state Supreme Court on his Birmingham Race Course sweepstakes, and warned his 250 employees their jobs may end. The state attorney general warned the court's decision - that the sweepstakes game was a carefully planned effort to get around Alabama anti-gambling laws - likely would force closure of many smaller operations statewide. Jefferson County District Attorney David Barber, whose appeal led to Friday's decision, and others said they won't act to close gambling operations until the judgment is final. In Cullman County, however, an afternoon raid closed one operation and two others closed voluntarily. A Cullman County team shut down Lucky Charm, an Internet sweepstakes business in Good Hope, at about 2:30 p.m.... | |
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| | | High Stakes Poker Marathon To Feature Casion Royale Highlights & Interviews | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:06:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | HIGH STAKES POKER, GSN's exclusive cash game poker series, is scheduled for a special four show marathon on Monday, November 13 (8:00 PM – 12:00 PM ET) sponsored by Casino Royale, the upcoming James Bond film from Columbia Pictures and MGM. The marathon will include interviews with the actors as well as behind the scenes footage from Casino Royale throughout the evening. .... | |
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| | | Clooney, Zellweger To Star In Romantic Sports Comedy Filmed In S.C. | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:04:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Oscar winners George Clooney and Renee Zellweger are set to star in a romantic sports comedy to be filmed in South Carolina's Appalachian foothills. Clooney is a co-writer and will also direct and star in "Leatherheads," which is set in the 1920s just as pro football begins to catch on in America. "Leatherheads" is to start filming in the Upstate in February for Universal Pictures. Clooney won best supporting actor earlier this year for "Syriana." Zellweger took home an Oscar for best supporting actress for 2003's "Cold Mountain." Clooney's next movie, "The Good German," is slated for release in December. .... | |
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| | | Gear Up Like Bond with Sony Electronics | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 6:55:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Sony Electronics is offering movie fans and gadget-lovers an opportunity to gear-up like Bond with Sony's exclusive Bond Collection(TM) products in anticipation of the upcoming James Bond film Casino Royale, which will be released worldwide on November 17, 2006 from Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. The collection, available exclusively on http://www.sonystyle.com/casinoroyale and in Sony Style retail stores across the country, features limited-edition 007-branded models of VAIO(R) TX and UX series ultra-portable PCs, Cyber-shot(R) digital cameras and Micro-Vault(TM) media storage devices. All of these products will feature the 007 logo and the VAIO PCs will come pre-loaded with exclusive Casino Royale content, such as wallpapers and screensavers. Each limited production 007 model is numbered and comes with a certificate of authenticity.... | |
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| | | Heineken launches global Casino Royale advertising campaign | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 12:59:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Amsterdam, 28 October 2006 - Heineken International today announced the launch of its global advertising campaign, starring Eva Green as Vesper Lynd in the new James Bond film Casino Royale, which has its worldwide premiere in London on November 14th. The campaign features the commercial, titled 'Waiter', for TV, internet and cinema, now showing on http://www.heineken.com/casinoroyale Additionally, Eva Green features in print and outdoor advertising, consumer competitions to win exclusive James Bond prizes, merchandise and on- and off premise promotions. The campaign is activated by Heineken in over 40 markets from October through February 2007. Heineken is the first in the history of James Bond to shoot its commercial using the actual Bond film set.... | |
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| | | Columbia Pictures Launches Ultimate Internship Contest | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 10:57:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | Columbia Pictures has announced it is partnering with eight of the world's leading companies to offer The Pursuit of Happyness 'Pursue It' The Ultimate Internship Contest, in which contestants will compete for dream internships at Gap Inc., The Hollywood Reporter, Morgan Stanley, NBC, the National Football League (NFL), PEOPLE Magazine, PlayStation and Yahoo! In addition to the internship position, each winner also will win a trip to the Hollywood premiere of Columbia Pictures' inspiring drama The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith, Thandie Newton and Jaden Christopher Syre Smith. Winners will have the opportunity to meet Smith and enjoy the gala evening with the film's cast. Based on a true story, The Pursuit of Happyness stars Will Smith as Chris Gardner, a marginally employed salesman who finds himself with nowhere to go after he and his five-year-old son (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith) are evicted from their San Francisco apartment.... | |
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| | | Space Elevator Competition Extended One Day | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 6:53:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | Las Cruces, New Mexico -- Space elevators might be the next big things in space transportation, but Saturday's Space Elevator Games at the Wirefly X-Prize Cup showed that they are still a long way off. After battling winds on Friday that twisted the elevator ribbon, on Saturday the teams faced mechanical and speed challenges in getting their respective ribbon crawlers off the ground. Still, by the end of second day, several teams could not compete and had their attempts moved to today for a post-event make-up. The cup was founded by the creators the Ansari X Prize, the $10 million prize package offered to anyone who could launch a re-usable sub-orbital spacecraft, capable of carrying passengers, twice in a two week period.... | |
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| | | Privacy in The Digital Age | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:55:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | With University officials' acknowledgment that the Facebook is an aid in the Minuteman speech investigation, Columbia is reinforcing a message that students should have gotten long ago: be careful what you do on the Internet. Otherwise, you could end up like the 183 people from the Portland, Ore. area whose lives were changed in an instant last month when Jason Fortuny, a Seattle blogger, posted a Craigslist ad posing as a 27-year-old female tennis player. A nude photo of the said woman accompanied the post. In the course of 24 hours, Fortuny received 183 responses. Many of the e-mails came from easily identifiable personal e-mail accounts. Others came from business accounts, including a few from domains like Microsoft.com. The responses ran the gamut.... | |
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| | | West Columbia soldier recovering, waiting on purple heart | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 6:56:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | (West Columbia) October 13, 2006 - This past spring, we brought you the story of Raymond Lee, a 26-year-old who has permanent brain damage, the soldier's recovery and his very special request. It's been six months since Raymond Lee awoke from a coma after a roadside bomb in Iraq almost killed him. Doctors thought they'd have to cut off one of his legs. They said permanent brain damage would keep him from eating and talking on his own. But after several months in military hospitals, family members say the 26-year old is defying the odds. Recovering at a neurocare center in Virginia, Raymond is in high spirits, walking, and trying his best to keep his memory from slipping away. "The letters and the pictures really really helped," says Raymond's sister Cindy McLemore.... | |
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