2017-03-31T13:10:22-07:00Colbert Skewers Pence, Nunes, Trump and the Gang
"For the past week everybody everywhere has been wondering about Devin Nunes’ secret intelligence source at the White House," Stephen Colbert said at the top of Thursday night’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “Nunes has refused to reveal who it was, out of concern that if his source was exposed, he’ll have to come up with a new reason to cancel all the Russia hearings.”
Earlier in the day, The New York Times revealed that two people met with Nunes, the California Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee: Ezra Cohen-Watnick, senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, a lawyer who had worked on national security issues at the White House.
“The rest of the story hasn’t changed,” Colbert said. “It was legal wiretaps of foreign...
"For the past week everybody everywhere has been wondering about Devin Nunes’ secret intelligence source at the White House," Stephen Colbert said at the top of Thursday night’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “Nunes has refused to reveal who it was, out of concern that if his source was exposed, he’ll have to come up with a new reason to cancel all the Russia hearings.”
Earlier in the day, The New York Times revealed that two people met with Nunes, the California Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee: Ezra Cohen-Watnick, senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, a lawyer who had worked on national security issues at the White House.
“The rest of the story hasn’t changed,” Colbert said. “It was legal wiretaps of foreign...
- 3/31/2017
- by EG
- Yidio
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer danced madly around media questions about a New York Times report claiming White House aides gave House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes (R-ca) the info that led to his claim that Trump communications may have been swept up in Obama administration surveillance. The Nyt identified “Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, a lawyer who works on national…...
- 3/30/2017
- Deadline TV
Jonah Hwang loved superheroes, especially Spiderman and The Flash, and he tried to be a pint-sized superhero himself.
For Valentine’s Day, the 8-year-old made by hand different cards for each student in his class at Cortez Elementary School in Pomona, California. When one of his younger cousins was sad, he gave him his prized light saber. And when he got a new watch, instead of keeping it, he gave it to a friend.
“That was just the kind of person he was,” family friend and pastor Adam Donner tells People. “In the short time he was here he really touched us all significantly.
For Valentine’s Day, the 8-year-old made by hand different cards for each student in his class at Cortez Elementary School in Pomona, California. When one of his younger cousins was sad, he gave him his prized light saber. And when he got a new watch, instead of keeping it, he gave it to a friend.
“That was just the kind of person he was,” family friend and pastor Adam Donner tells People. “In the short time he was here he really touched us all significantly.
- 3/28/2017
- by Christine Pelisek
- PEOPLE.com
Rolf de Heer..
Award-winning director Rolf de Heer (Twelve Canoes, Charlie.s Country) has been named one of four recipients of this year's Mpa Apsa Academy Film Fund, designed to support new feature film projects at script stage.
Announced by the Motion Picture Association (Mpa) at the 10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) in Brisbane last week, de Heer will receive a $25,000 Usd grant to develop his script Mr Ward.s Incredible Journey.
De Heer's screenplay follows the true story of Aboriginal elder Mr Ward, who tragically died in the back of a police van in the outback in 2008. De Heer will once again collaborate with David Gulpilil on the film.
The jury described the script as both .elegiac and timely. and commended de Heer and his Gulpilil for their .courage in taking on such a critical story in the ongoing history of the race relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Australia today.
Award-winning director Rolf de Heer (Twelve Canoes, Charlie.s Country) has been named one of four recipients of this year's Mpa Apsa Academy Film Fund, designed to support new feature film projects at script stage.
Announced by the Motion Picture Association (Mpa) at the 10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) in Brisbane last week, de Heer will receive a $25,000 Usd grant to develop his script Mr Ward.s Incredible Journey.
De Heer's screenplay follows the true story of Aboriginal elder Mr Ward, who tragically died in the back of a police van in the outback in 2008. De Heer will once again collaborate with David Gulpilil on the film.
The jury described the script as both .elegiac and timely. and commended de Heer and his Gulpilil for their .courage in taking on such a critical story in the ongoing history of the race relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Australia today.
- 11/29/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Three people, including two students, were injured in a Wednesday afternoon shooting at Townville Elementary School in Townville, South Carolina, local law enforcement said. The students have been airlifted to a Greenville, South Carolina, hospital and the teacher was hospitalized locally, according to an Anderson County, South Carolina, sheriff's deputy who spoke to local media. One suspect, a teenager, is in custody, the deputy said. The victims' status was not immediately available. Dozens of emergency vehicles arrived at the school shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday, according to news reports. A man was also found dead near the school. According to Mike Ellis,...
- 9/28/2016
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
After shots were fired during Wednesday night’s Chicago P.D., we got our first taste of the Windy City-set franchise’s likely next offshoot, Chicago Justice.
PhotosMay Sweeps/Finale Preview: Scoop on Chicago Fire, P.D., Med and More
The crux of the episode involves a shooting, in which Roman is seriously injured. Burgess runs after the assailant and shoots him in the back multiple times. But it’s hardly case closed after that. The young man, Michael Ellis, is, by all accounts, an Eagle Scout. Even worse, the police have no eyewitnesses and can’t find the gun...
PhotosMay Sweeps/Finale Preview: Scoop on Chicago Fire, P.D., Med and More
The crux of the episode involves a shooting, in which Roman is seriously injured. Burgess runs after the assailant and shoots him in the back multiple times. But it’s hardly case closed after that. The young man, Michael Ellis, is, by all accounts, an Eagle Scout. Even worse, the police have no eyewitnesses and can’t find the gun...
- 5/12/2016
- TVLine.com
China set to overtake the U.S. as world’s prime market for films a year earlier than expected as hundreds of new screens open
China’s global box office share is expected to overtake that of the U.S. even earlier than predicted, to become the prime market for films in 2017, rather than 2018.
Mike Ellis, head of Asia Pacific operations of the Motion Picture Association of America, told the annual Us-China Film Summit that China’s film audience was growing even more rapidly than had been assumed, and was projected to reach $6.5bn (£4.3bn) in total revenue for this year – a 35% increase on 2014, according to the La Times. The total for the same period in the Us is projected to be a record-breaking $11bn, up 6% on 2014. If China’s box office expands at its current rate, it will reach $11.9bn by the end of 2017.
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China’s global box office share is expected to overtake that of the U.S. even earlier than predicted, to become the prime market for films in 2017, rather than 2018.
Mike Ellis, head of Asia Pacific operations of the Motion Picture Association of America, told the annual Us-China Film Summit that China’s film audience was growing even more rapidly than had been assumed, and was projected to reach $6.5bn (£4.3bn) in total revenue for this year – a 35% increase on 2014, according to the La Times. The total for the same period in the Us is projected to be a record-breaking $11bn, up 6% on 2014. If China’s box office expands at its current rate, it will reach $11.9bn by the end of 2017.
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- 11/6/2015
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Xin Cheng Jiang’s sci-fi love story wins at Beijing Film Market.
Sci-fi love story The Gate, a film about a tour guide who finds himself in a virtual gaming world, has won the Mpa Grand Prize in Beijing. The film’s writer/director, Xin Cheng Jiang, is known as an influential commercial TV director.
The award was presented at the Motion Picture Association (Mpa) - Beijing Film Market (Bfm) Film Workshop, held during the Beijing International Film Festival (Biff).
The prize includes sending Xin Cheng Jiang on “a week long film immersion course in Los Angeles”.
Mike Ellis, president and MD for the Mpa Asia Pacific, also awarded a President’s Special Recognition Prize to director Yang Jin for the project Instant Love - a comedic love story set in Tokyo about a Chinese man who will do anything to win the heart of a Japanese girl.
The prize will see Yang Jin attend the Asia...
Sci-fi love story The Gate, a film about a tour guide who finds himself in a virtual gaming world, has won the Mpa Grand Prize in Beijing. The film’s writer/director, Xin Cheng Jiang, is known as an influential commercial TV director.
The award was presented at the Motion Picture Association (Mpa) - Beijing Film Market (Bfm) Film Workshop, held during the Beijing International Film Festival (Biff).
The prize includes sending Xin Cheng Jiang on “a week long film immersion course in Los Angeles”.
Mike Ellis, president and MD for the Mpa Asia Pacific, also awarded a President’s Special Recognition Prize to director Yang Jin for the project Instant Love - a comedic love story set in Tokyo about a Chinese man who will do anything to win the heart of a Japanese girl.
The prize will see Yang Jin attend the Asia...
- 4/22/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Jafar Panahi [pictured] among the recipients.
The 2014 Mpa Academy Film Fund has announced its four grants of $25,000 during the 8th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards ceremony in Brisbane.
The selected projects are:
Corridors Of Power (documentary feature)
Dror Moreh (Israel)
“Dror Moreh’s new film, Corridors of Power, is a bold and confronting examination of how the world’s political leaders have responded to reports of mass killings and genocide around the world in recent decades. His film explores the connection between the strength of political responses and economic self-interests. The film will take us far behind the scenes, into the inner sanctums of the world’s most powerful decision makers.”
Flower (Goul) (feature film)
Jafar Panahi (Islamic Republic of Iran) for Panah Panahi
“Flower explores the turmoil created by a father’s conviction that he must kill his disabled son to bring peace to his family. This challenging drama is drawn from real life, and brings...
The 2014 Mpa Academy Film Fund has announced its four grants of $25,000 during the 8th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards ceremony in Brisbane.
The selected projects are:
Corridors Of Power (documentary feature)
Dror Moreh (Israel)
“Dror Moreh’s new film, Corridors of Power, is a bold and confronting examination of how the world’s political leaders have responded to reports of mass killings and genocide around the world in recent decades. His film explores the connection between the strength of political responses and economic self-interests. The film will take us far behind the scenes, into the inner sanctums of the world’s most powerful decision makers.”
Flower (Goul) (feature film)
Jafar Panahi (Islamic Republic of Iran) for Panah Panahi
“Flower explores the turmoil created by a father’s conviction that he must kill his disabled son to bring peace to his family. This challenging drama is drawn from real life, and brings...
- 12/12/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Kim Chang Hoon won the top prize at this year’s Biff-mpa Film Workshop for his take on a zombie black comedy, Home Sweet Home.
The prize came with a trip to Los Angeles to participate in a five-day film immersion programme that takes place in early November in the lead up to the American Film Market (Afm).
Mike Ellis, president and managing director Asia Pacific, Motion Picture Association (Mpa), also awarded two President’s Special Recognition Prizes to Kwon Hyuk Jun’s Hwaran and Choi Sun Young’s My Destiny.
Hwaran is a story about an infertile couple that enters into an arrangement to hire a surrogate mother. My Destiny is a fictional historical drama of how Lee Jiham, a counselor in the Joseon Dynasty, came to write Tojong Bigyeol, a well-known local book on fortune telling.
Kwon and Choi will attend the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs) in Brisbane, Australia, to engage...
The prize came with a trip to Los Angeles to participate in a five-day film immersion programme that takes place in early November in the lead up to the American Film Market (Afm).
Mike Ellis, president and managing director Asia Pacific, Motion Picture Association (Mpa), also awarded two President’s Special Recognition Prizes to Kwon Hyuk Jun’s Hwaran and Choi Sun Young’s My Destiny.
Hwaran is a story about an infertile couple that enters into an arrangement to hire a surrogate mother. My Destiny is a fictional historical drama of how Lee Jiham, a counselor in the Joseon Dynasty, came to write Tojong Bigyeol, a well-known local book on fortune telling.
Kwon and Choi will attend the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs) in Brisbane, Australia, to engage...
- 10/5/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Not So Fast: China Says It Isn’t Increasing Movie Quota Contrary to reports earlier this week, China is not planning to increase its quota on films imported from Hollywood. Official state news agency Xinhua said Tuesday that the quota will remain unchanged at 34, citing an official with the country’s film governing body, Sapprft. In February 2012, China and the U.S. signed a pact to increase the number of films approved for theatrical release in China from 20 to 34. The parties also agreed on an increased revenue share of 25%. In the first year the change was implemented, local Chinese films lost market share but since have rebounded strongly with about 58.7% of box office takings in 2013. In a statement on Monday, Mpa Asia chief Mike Ellis said the org was unaware of any official plans on changing the quota system but noted that the belief that an open market “best serves filmmakers and audiences alike.
- 2/12/2014
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
“Please don’t worry, come to China.” That was the message delivered by China Film Co-production Corporation president Zhang Xun [pictured] at the Us-China Film Summit in downtown Los Angeles today.
Zhang was one of the luncheon speakers at the event, staged for the fourth year running by the Asian Society Southern California and Entertainment & Media in Asia. Speaking to an audience estimated by the organisers at 4-500, Zhang urged Us and Chinese film makers to get past their cultural differences and work together more often.
“I would like our American friends to do away with your hesitations,” Zhang said. “Just go forward. Let’s join hands so that American and Chinese movie makers can make movies that will take the breath of the whole world away.”
Zhang, who was presented with the event’s Co-Production Leadership Award, said that during the summit’s morning panel sessions, “I heard two groups of people talk. The first group...
Zhang was one of the luncheon speakers at the event, staged for the fourth year running by the Asian Society Southern California and Entertainment & Media in Asia. Speaking to an audience estimated by the organisers at 4-500, Zhang urged Us and Chinese film makers to get past their cultural differences and work together more often.
“I would like our American friends to do away with your hesitations,” Zhang said. “Just go forward. Let’s join hands so that American and Chinese movie makers can make movies that will take the breath of the whole world away.”
Zhang, who was presented with the event’s Co-Production Leadership Award, said that during the summit’s morning panel sessions, “I heard two groups of people talk. The first group...
- 11/6/2013
- ScreenDaily
Britain's Prince Charles will meet workers at a shoe factory during a visit to Northampton later this month. The future king will be returning to the town in central England for the first time in just over five years when he arrives there on January 22. Full details of his visit are yet to be confirmed by Clarence House but he will be visiting shoemakers Crockett & Jones, the high end shoemaker which has been based continually in the town since it was founded in 1879. He will be meeting workers at the company's factory and is likely to do a walkabout outside to meet the crowds of well-wishers. Northampton North MP, Michael Ellis, told the Northampton Chronicle: 'This is...
- 1/11/2013
- Monsters and Critics
Singapore/Beijing – On April 11, as part of U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke’s Roundtable on Intellectual Property Rights (Ipr) Protection, the Motion Picture Association (Mpa) together with major Chinese online video sites Youku, Sohu, iQiyi, and LeTV unveiled a “Thank You” video featuring nearly 100 of China’s leading actors and filmmakers. Heeding a call from the Mpa, China’s film community turned out in droves to deliver personal messages of thanks to the sites’ hundreds of millions of users and a call for support of legitimate online screen content – with the full backing of China’s burgeoning online video industry. The launch was attended by dignitaries including Ambassador Locke, European Union (EU) Ambassador to China, Markus Ederer, South Korean Ambassador, Lee Kyu-Hyung, and United States Patent & Trademark Office (Uspto) Deputy Director, Teresa Rea. They were joined by Chinese government officials, industry executives and celebrities. “Congratulations to everyone involved in this initiative.
- 4/12/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
You know your father was Captain of a starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 Casting Tidbits. Including your mother's and yours. I dare you to do better. First up, Variety reports Sandra Bullock will star in and executive produce a new drama at Warner Bros. with The Proposal director Anne Fletcher at the helm. Very little is known about the untitled project which spawned from a pitrch from writers Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis, but it's described as An Unmarried Woman meets Saturday Night Fever. However, this will not be Bullock's next project to follow-up The Blind Side since she's looking to take a lead role in Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity. Next, though he's been set to play famous cyclist and humanitarian Lance Armstrong in a long-gestating biopic, it looks like Matt Damon will tell the story of the Tour de France champion in a different way. 24 Frames reports ...
- 10/20/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Sandra Bullock is reteaming with The Proposal director Anne Fletcher for an untitled Warner Bros. release that she will also executive produce, says The Hollywood Reporter . The pitch comes from Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis. Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot of Offspring Entertainment are producing. According to the trade, "the contemporary-set project is described as in the vein of the 1978 Paul Mazursky film 'An Unmarried Woman' and 'Saturday Night Fever.'" Bullock's next project will either be Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity or Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close . Fletcher is now developing Most Wanted , which would reteam her with both The Proposal stars Ryan Reynolds and Bullock.
- 10/20/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Sandra Bullock will star in as well as serve as an executive producer in a Warner Bros. Pictures film that has been set up with Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot of Offspring Entertainment. The project reunites Bullock with her "The Proposal" director Anne Fletcher. That film generated a hefty $317 million worldwide last year. Anne Fletcher, whose Bullock starrer "The Proposal" grossed $317 million worldwide last year, is onboard to direct. Warner Bros. bought the untitled pitch for the drama from scripters Michael Ellis and Pamela Falk. Sandra Bullock's Fortis and Offspring's Matt Smith are executive producing.
- 10/20/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Warner Bros has bought a pitch that will be developed to re-team The Proposal star Sandra Bullock and director Anne Fletcher. The script will be written by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis. The studio recently signed Bullock to team with Robert Downey Jr. in the Alfonso Cuaron-directed film Gravity...Robin Williams is in discussions to play the title role of a talking tiger in the Broadway transplant of Rajiv Joseph's play Bengal Tiger At The Baghdad Zoo.
- 10/20/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
What makes a "Ratchet & Clank" game tick? The humor? The strange new worlds? Captain Qwark? While we'd certainly argue the latter, one would be hard-pressed to not mention the massive (and oftentimes hilarious) arsenal of gadgets and weapons at our Lombax hero's fingertips. We all have our favorite weapons, but I decided to ping the team at Insomniac to find out what new guns appearing in "A Crack in Time" are their personal picks. So what new destructive force took the cake?
Coming in at number 5… the Rift Inducer 5000.
Rift Inducer 5000 - Guess who's coming for dinner?
"The Rift Inducer 5000 is definitely one of the more fantastical weapons we've done in Ratchet & Clank. It's effective, it's tactical, and it's absolutely hilarious to watch. What's there not to like about a gun that rips a hole in the universe and summons a bloodthirsty, tentacled monster named Fred?"
-Tj Fixman, Writer
Sonic...
Coming in at number 5… the Rift Inducer 5000.
Rift Inducer 5000 - Guess who's coming for dinner?
"The Rift Inducer 5000 is definitely one of the more fantastical weapons we've done in Ratchet & Clank. It's effective, it's tactical, and it's absolutely hilarious to watch. What's there not to like about a gun that rips a hole in the universe and summons a bloodthirsty, tentacled monster named Fred?"
-Tj Fixman, Writer
Sonic...
- 10/16/2009
- by Locke Webster
- MTV Multiplayer
With five nominations, "Iron Man" leads the list for the seventh annual Ves Awards, which were chosen Saturday by panels comprised of members of the Visual Effects Society.
The Marvel Studios-produced superhero movie was cited in the categories of visual effects in a visual effects-driven movie, best single visual effect of the year, outstanding animated character in a live-action movie, outstanding models and miniatures in a feature, and outstanding special effects in a movie. The nominees cited for "Iron Man" are Ben Snow, Hal Hickel, Victoria Alonso and John Nelson.
Its competition for the best visual effects in a visual effects-driven movie honor are "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" (Wendy Rogers, Dean Wright, Andrew Fowler, Greg Butler), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Eric Barba, Edson Williams, Nathan McGuinness, Lisa Beroud), "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (Michael J. Wassel, Lucy Killick, Adrian de Wet, Eamonn Butler) and "Cloverfield" (Kevin Blank,...
The Marvel Studios-produced superhero movie was cited in the categories of visual effects in a visual effects-driven movie, best single visual effect of the year, outstanding animated character in a live-action movie, outstanding models and miniatures in a feature, and outstanding special effects in a movie. The nominees cited for "Iron Man" are Ben Snow, Hal Hickel, Victoria Alonso and John Nelson.
Its competition for the best visual effects in a visual effects-driven movie honor are "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" (Wendy Rogers, Dean Wright, Andrew Fowler, Greg Butler), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Eric Barba, Edson Williams, Nathan McGuinness, Lisa Beroud), "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (Michael J. Wassel, Lucy Killick, Adrian de Wet, Eamonn Butler) and "Cloverfield" (Kevin Blank,...
- 1/19/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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