Main Street, the movie, may be shooting on your street soon. We’ve got the story over on Artery, our seasonal arts blogwhich will be cranking up in earnest for Full Frame.
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Movie cameras now set to roll in Durham in late March
The long-rumored, long-gestating film known as Main Street is inching its way to realization. Reliant Pictures, the Thom Mount-helmed company that is producing, has a production office at the old Duke Diet and Fitness Center at the corner of Trinity and Duke Streets, according to production manager David Linck. Filming is now set to begin […]
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He’s just that into you: Justin Long is Romeo to Evan Rachel Wood’s Juliet
Theatre in the Park announced today that Justin Long, an actor seen in such titles as He’s Just Not That Into You, Galaxy Quest, Live Free or Die Hard and the Peyton Reed-directed The Break-Up, will play her BF from the Montague side of the tracks in the Theatre’s May production of Romeo and Juliet. […]
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Che: Part Two is triumph revisited as tragedy
Che: Part Two opens Friday in select theaters Steven Soderbergh’s impressive, four-hour dramatization of the two defining battle campaigns of Ernesto “Che” Guevara has limited commercial appeal with none of the sentimental trappings of Walter Salles’ more widely seen The Motorcycle Diaries, which recounted a road trip taken by the young, relatively apolitical medical student. […]
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Just a thought…
Noted without comment … UPDATE: Here’s someone else’s commentary, published on Huffington Post. Turns out that TARP money is being showered widely over the sports biz. Some think it’s not such a bad thing. And, I didn’t know Bank of America sponsored Liverpool (but not on the jersey). That gives last weekend’s game, a 4:1 […]
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New York Times “succumbs to economic pressures,” withdraws support from Full Frame
As posted Friday on our Triangulator blog, and accidentally not posted here at the same time… If there was any doubt about the depth and breadth of the economic crisis in general and the daily newspaper crisis in particular, this afternoon’s announcement from the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival abolishes it. The New York Times, […]
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March madness, bracket battiness open thread
Will seven ACC teams get in? We’ll find out shortly who’s in and who’s out. UPDATE: Yep, seven ACC teams, as forecast. The No. 1 seeds are: Louisville (Midwest), Pittsburgh (East), UNC (South) and UConn (West) And the six other ACC teams invited are: Wake Forest (No. 4 in Midwest) Boston College (No. 7 in […]
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ACC Tourney–Sunday open thread
In something of a confrontation through negation, yesterday’s UNC-FSU game allowed us to compare the top vote-getters for ACC Player of the Year. Lawson won the award, of course, while FSU’s Toney Douglas finished second, one place ahead of Tyler Hansbrough. How do we assess Lawson and Douglas’ respective merits in this game? On Lawson’s […]
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RailHawks top Revolution 1-0
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARYUNC may have lost today, but the surprisingly healthy crowd of 2,700 soccer fans that braved the gruesome weather in Cary tonight went home thrilled. The revamped Carolina RailHawks showed off a confident, organized attack and a strong defense to knock off the visiting New England Revolution, 1-0. Defender Mark Schulte scored […]
