MommyCoddle (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Last night, Dan and I finished watching the HBO Films series John Adams. I think this last episode was my favorite. It was the only where I cried, but it was also so much about Abigail and John Adams reflecting...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
News: HBO have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Recount on 19th August 2008 priced at $19.98 SRP. HBO Films presents Recount, the true story chronicling the turbulent weeks in Florida after the 2000 presidential election. The film starring Kevin Space...
Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
NEW YORK, Aug 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the success of their freshman film, "Half Nelson," the second feature from Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, SUGAR has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for North American and Latin American Distribution rights from HBO Films....
Vulture (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Photo courtesy of HBO Films If it’s an arc you’re looking for, you’ll want to note that “Combat Jack” found soldiers protesting the incompetent leadership so forthrightly established last episode. But in summer 2008, we all know better than to expect a movement climaxing with “mission accomplished” — or even an unhappy ending, given that McCain seems to have been right about the surge. Generation...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Photo courtesy of HBO Films Last episode, our grunts landed in the shit: They saw dead bodies; they almost became dead bodies. “Screwby” opens with a soldier being instructed to take a dump before the Humvees hit the road — “We have a long day ahead of us” — but the new shit’s coming from above (rolling downhill, as they say). Scarily fearless leader Godfather prunes away the moral guidelines as the...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Sands, on duty. Photo courtesy of HBO Films If you haven’t been staying home Sunday nights to watch HBO’s Iraq-war mini-series Generation Kill , you should be. Based on the award-winning book by Evan Wright, an embedded reporter for Rolling Stone , the series follows the Marines of the First Recon Battalion through the first 40 days of the Iraq invasion. And since the creators of The Wire , Ed Burns...
KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
HBO Films is developing "Irreparable Harm," a telepic from scribe Jesse Wigutow ("Eragon"). Project follows Snepp as he returns to the U.S. after the fall of Saigon, conflicted over what had just happened..
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
Filed under: Documentary , Distribution , HBO Films , Cinematical Indie , War I was just re-watching Eugene Jarecki's terrific documentary Why We Fight the other day and wondering, "man, how did this not win an Oscar?" Both its ineligibility and the strength of the 2006 feature documentary category aside, it's a really great visual essay on the problems of the U.S. military -- particularly the allowance...
KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Screenwriter Jesse Wigutow and director Eugene Jarecki ("Why We Fight") have signed deals to develop the feature "Irreparable Harm" for HBO Films. Jarecki also will executive produce along with Paula Weinstein of Spring Creek Prods..
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Film News: Wigutow to write, Jarecki to direct CIA pic -- HBO Films is developing "Irreparable Harm," a telepic from scribe Jesse Wigutow ("Eragon").
Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
"Generation Kill," a seven-part miniseries from HBO Films, is the first-hand narrative account of the young Marines of the First Reconnaissance Battalion - [...] Read more!
Phillyist (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Many of you may not know that Philly is home to the notes Bram Stoker developed as he wrote his acclaimed classic Dracula . The bragging rights are cool enough, but it turns out that the notes, housed at the Rosenbach Museum and Library , drew the attention of HBO while they were filming a documentary about the nocturnal blood drinkers. The doc itself is playing second fiddle to an hour-long series...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Filed under: Documentary , Drama , Deals , HBO Films One of my favorite documentaries last year was Crazy Love , about a New York couple named Burt and Linda who have been together off and on for 50 years despite some serious setbacks, e.g., the time Burt hired a man to throw lye in Linda's face and blind her. These are people who should hate each other -- she for the way he physically harmed her,...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
TV News: Fisher Stevens will co-produce telepic -- Dan Klores will remake his award-winning documentary "Crazy Love" as a dramatic feature for HBO Films. Klores has written the script and will direct.
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
My, how times have changed. Just three months ago, HBO Films was gaining accolades for its newly released John Adams, a seven-part miniseries on America's second president and his history-making role in a world-changing political revolution. Three months later, HBO's newest entry, Recount--focused on the much smaller, modern melodrama surrounding Florida's battle over thousands of hanging chads--is...
