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For someone who has been making films as long as he has, there is a surprisingly short list of films where I would argue that Arnold Schwarzenegger gives genuinely good performances. As a movie star, he doesn't really have to give good performances. That's one of the things that makes being a movie star so weird. There are legitimate legendary movie stars who have never given what I would call a good performance, but who do their jobs perfectly well. Being a movie star is far more about having a particular personality that you bring to every role. Most of the most famous Schwarzenegger films, he's just playing variations on himself. Even though I adore films like "Conan The Barbarian" and the first two "Terminator" films, I think his work in them is good because the directors of those films knew exactly what they wanted out of Schwarzenegger, and they...

Brit Robertson recently made a visit to Huffington Post in New York earlier this week as part of a promotional trip for her new movie The Last Ride. Robertson wore a chic print dress that featured a front zipper which she paired with black booties and accessorized with a cropped black leather jacket. The actress […]

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Recently, CBS released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" episode 16 of season 15. The episode is entitled, "The Last Ride," and it turns out that we're going to see the team get involved with a murder case that features fancy rides and a chrome-covered victim, and more. In the new, 16th episode press release: The CSI team will investigate a death involving a vintage Rolls Royce and a Chrome-Covered victim. Press release number 2: The CSI team is going to investigate a death involving a vintage Rolls Royce and a chrome-covered victim. Guest stars features: Alimi Ballard (Detective Kevin Crawford), James Aldridge (Coroner Asst. Jimmy), Blair Bomar (Ava Montrose), Wil Traval (Carlo Derosa), Travis Schuldt (Aron Derosa), Matthew Glave (Ken Bixler), Karen Sillas (Ruth Montrose), Tracy Fraim (Duncan Reidel), Vito D'Ambrosio (Alfonz Derosa) and Benjamin Plessala (Young Aron Derosa). The episode was written by Gavin Harris,...

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Denise Gossett is the Founder / Festival Director of the highly successful movie festival Shriekfest.

The festival just completed its 2012 season and has released its winner lineup. Check out the winners below, as well as an exclusive video interview with Gossett, by our Hollywood correspondent Dawna Lee Heising.

Shriekfest screened almost 40 films and had 30 screenplay finalists & 10 original song finalists. "Nailbiter" directed by Patrick Rea took the Grand Jury prize for Best Horror Feature Film, "Found In Time" directed by Arthur Vincie took the Best SciFi Feature Film award, and "It's In the Blood" directed by Scooter Downey took the Best Thriller Feature Film award.

"Blackout" directed by James Bushe took the Best Horror Short Film prize, "A Light in the Darkness" directed by Fed Wetherbee won the Best SciFi Short Film Award and "The Sleepover" directed by Chris Cullari took the best Super Short Film Award.

The...

Applications are now open for the 10th annual film market SPAAmart, put on by the Screen Producers Association of Australia.

The announcement:

The Screen Producers Association of Australia (Spaa) today announced that applications are now open for the 10th annual feature film market, SPAAmart 2012, which will take place during the annual Spaa Conference in November.

SPAAmart is calling for distinct feature film projects at an advanced stage of development with significant attachments, and ready to present to the market for financing, sales and distribution.

SPAAmart was launched in 2003 with the aim of bringing the best Australasian feature projects to the attention of local and international financiers. Films that have previously participated in SPAAmart as a launching pad include Clubland, West, Noise, The Home Song Stories, Lucky Miles, Romulus My Father, The Last Ride, Beautiful Kate, The Cedar Boys and most recently Beneath Hill 60 and Mei Mei.

As with previous years,...

Out This Week is a weekly column intended to provide reviews of nearly every new indie release. Reviews are written by Indiewire critic Eric Kohn and other contributors where noted. Reviews This Week "Bro'" "The Invisible War" "Kumaré" "The Last Ride" "Nate and Margaret" "To Rome With Love" "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World" "Stella Days" "The Woman in the Fifth" Bro' The sweaty, drug-fueled underbelly of SoCal gets a nice awkward kiss from Nick Parada's "Bro'." While Johnny's (Will Chavez) our introductory blank slate character to the drugs and shots behind the world of Freestyle BMX, it's Jesse (Beau Manley) that sucks us in with such a hangdog attitude that he makes Droopy the Dog seem over-active. "Bro'" has been touted as the first...

Here are the new MPAA ratings from Bulletin No: 2193.

96 Minutes Rated R For violent content and pervasive language. And They're Off... Rated PG-13 For some crude and sexual references. The Artist Rated PG-13 For a disturbing image and a crude gesture. Release Date: November 23, 2011 The Chateau Meroux Rated PG-13 For some sexual content including references. Dragon Crusaders Rated R For some violence. Elevate Rated PG For brief mild language. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Rated PG-13 For intense sequences of action and violence, some disturbing images, and language. Release Date: February 17, 2012 Immortals Rated R For sequences of strong bloody violence, and a scene of sexuality. Release Date: November 11, 2011 Joyful Noise Rated PG-13 For some language including a sexual reference. Release Date: January 1, 2012 Kin Rated R For strong violence, language and sexuality. The Last Ride Rated PG-13 For thematic elements, some language, a fight and smoking. My Week With Marilyn Rated R For some language.

1. I Melt With You: Grade C

This poster seems to think it’s cooler than it actually is. I think the only shot that is interesting at all is that of Jeremy Piven.

2. Melancholia: Grade B-

This is a case where anticipation, and early reviews of the film demand a little more from its posters. It looks great, I particularly like the dreamy feel to it, but one would expect more.

3. The Last Ride: Grade C+

A great shot of a wide open space seemingly swallowing the traveling man. The problem is, that open space is needlessly filled with distracting text.

4. The Rum Diary: Grade B

Much more expressive and fun than last week’s poster. This poster gives us a little more insight into the chaotic nature of the character and the film itself.

5. Trou Story: Grade B

This poster may not be an artistic feat,...

"Good things come in pairs, man, you know?"

"Oh, for sure."

"Volcano, Dante's Peak, Deep Impact, Armageddon, right? Wyatt Earp, Tombstone."

"Panda Express, Yoshinoya Beef Bowl."

"Exactly!"

Sure, that conversation from Knocked Up is funny, but it also holds a lot of truth. And perhaps it's now more true than ever with rival Snow White projects, Greek epics, Peter Pan re-imaginings and yet another tandem of Wyatt Earp films in the works.

But while Deep Impact and Armageddon both saw big returns in the summer of 1998, that seems to be the exception rather than the rule. In most of these cases, one film succeeds and the other falls by the wayside.

A concept never lost on the Winklevii is the importance of getting there first. Setting (and meeting) an earlier release date is probably the most important thing for a film jostling with a facsimile, even more so than securing...

Morpheus Tales #12

If Ever I Should Leave You by John S. Barker

Illustrated by Matthew Freyer

Kid Intestines by Christopher Glazer

Woodbury by Brick Marlin

Illustrated by Vladimir Petkovic

Misery Of the Pickled Punk by Lawrence Barker

May Old Acquaintance Be Forgot by Kury Fawver

Illustrated by Charlie Zacherl

Deviation by Edward Rodosek

Sharp Edges by John F. D. Taff

Killer On The Road by Dameion Becknell

The Hunger Inside by Charles A. Muir

Illustrated by Martin Blanco

Flying Monkey, Angry Moon by Martin Slag

Illustrated by Ian Welsh

The Last Ride by Lenora Farrington-Sarrouf

Into The Painting by Carey Borgens

Morpheus Tales continues it’s excellent run in publishing some of the best short horror fiction around with Issue #12. The stories are varied, dark, disturbing and genuinely creepy. Everyone should find something they love in this issue.

The editors of Morpheus Tales have an obvious love of horror fiction...

• It sounds too good to be true; Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese all working on a hitman drama entitled The Irishman? It's one of a handful of projects Scorsese is considering for his next film (he's currently shooting 3-D Hugo Cabret with Chloe Moretz, Jude Law, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen). De Niro has been developing the picture at Paramount through his Tribeca Productions. The script is written by Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List, Gangs of New York, David Fincher's Dragon Tattoo series), based on the 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & The Inside Story of The Mafia, The Teamsters, & The Last Ride of Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt. The ...

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You don't see a lot of Hugo Weaving in leading roles. The classy thing to do is to call him a "character actor," but he's got as much talent as leading men that also fit that description. But he has primarily been stuck in supporting roles in big movies, not that he isn't great in them; think Agent Smith from the Matrix series, or Elrond from Lord of the Rings. His highest profile leading role is probably as V in V for Vendetta, and of course, you don't see him.

And while The Last Ride is not a big budget Hollywood movie, it does feature Weaving front and center, and for that reason alone, it should be of interest to you. He plays a father on the run from the law, and at the beginning of his journey across the Australian countryside, picks up his young son for, well, one last ride.

Strike Zone: Latest WGA news and updates

The picketer was quite clear about the reason for braving the midday sun to march back and forth in front of the Paramount studio gates Monday.

"Writers are not going to get any money, so we have to do this so we can get some money," he explained.

With that, 7-year-old Alex McGee resumed his place in the sign-bearing line behind his father, telefilm writer Ron McGee.

Yes, it was bring-your-kid-to-picket-duty day for striking members of the WGA.

"He's been asking me to bring him," Ron McGee ("The Last Ride") said with a grin. "So this allowed me to do so".

The guild conceived of the event in an apparent attempt to remind the public of the impact of the strike on members' families. Staged on the day after Veterans Day, many kids were free from classes and available to accompany their parents to studio picket lines.

"When he is older, I want Ethan to have a memory of what we went on strike for, and in 15 years, he'll feel like he was part of something," said Wayne Kramer, a member of the WGA and DGA with writing and directing credits including "The Cooler" and the upcoming Harrison Ford starrer "Crossing Over".

Kramer told a reporter that his son, Ethan, was 6 1⁄2 -- only to be corrected that he actually was "6 3⁄4."

The sprinkling of kids at the Paramount picket line and others around town didn't keep the adults from venting their frustrations on Day 8 of the WGA strike, launched after the collapse of film and TV contract talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers.

A&E is in negotiations with Jurgen Prochnow to play the role of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the upcoming biopic See Arnold Run. While terms of the contract are still being finalized, A&E is looking to tap the German-born Prochnow (The English Patient) for Run, which is scheduled to begin shooting next month in Southern California and could air as early as the fourth quarter (HR 6/30). J.B. Rogers (American Pie 2) will direct from a script by Matt Dorff (ABC's Inside the Osmonds). A&E declined comment. A&E has already cast Roland Kickinger to play a younger version of Schwarzenegger in Run, which will focus on his gubernatorial bid as well as his early bodybuilding career. Cypress Point Prods. (44 Minutes) and Stu Segall Prods. (The Last Ride) are producing Run, with Stu Segall, Gerald W. Abrams and Michael Goldstein serving as executive producers. Paramount Television will handle distribution of the film. Still to be cast is the role of Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver.

Former The O.C. regular Chris Carmack is in negotiations to team with Amanda Bynes in the romantic comedy Lovewrecked for helmer Randal Kleiser. Media 8 Entertainment is producing along with the recently relaunched Bacon & Eggs from a script by Stephen Langford. Lovewrecked finds Bynes as Jenny, an 18-year-old who is ecstatic when she learns that her favorite rock star -- to be played by Carmack -- is a guest at the tropical resort where she is working for the summer. When they are both thrown overboard during a cruise, Jenny finds herself stranded alone with him on what they think is a remote beach. Media 8's Stewart Hall is producing with Bacon & Eggs' Joe Anderson and Wendy Thorlakson. Carmack is best known for his role as Luke Ward on the freshman year of Fox's hit series O.C. His other credits include a starring role opposite Dennis Hopper in the USA Network original telefilm The Last Ride. He is repped by Writers and Artists Group International, managers Ted Gekis and Daniel Ribera and attorney Matthew Thompson at Stroock, Stroock & Lavan.

Following a 10-year break, Dennis Hopper is back in the director's seat with a new road movie, A Night in Old Mexico, being produced by David Valdes (Unforgiven). United Artists is looking at boarding the project, which stars Robert Duvall as an aging man who travels to Mexico with his grandson. The film was written by Bill Wittliff (Legends of the Fall). Televisa Cine, the film arm of Mexican media behemoth Televisa, has signed on as an executive producer of the project and also will reportedly serve as a line producer. Hopper last directed Chasers in 1994. His other directing credits include The Hot Spot, Colors, Out of the Blue, The Last Movie and Easy Rider. As an actor, he's involved a list of projects, including Closing the Ring, Legacy, Americano, The Last Ride, House of 9 and Wicked Prayer. Hopper is repped by ICM.

Following a 10-year break, Dennis Hopper is back in the director's seat with a new road movie, A Night in Old Mexico, being produced by David Valdes (Unforgiven). United Artists is looking at boarding the project, which stars Robert Duvall as an aging man who travels to Mexico with his grandson. The film was written by Bill Wittliff (Legends of the Fall). Televisa Cine, the film arm of Mexican media behemoth Televisa, has signed on as an executive producer of the project and also will reportedly serve as a line producer. Hopper last directed Chasers in 1994. His other directing credits include The Hot Spot, Colors, Out of the Blue, The Last Movie and Easy Rider. As an actor, he's involved a list of projects, including Closing the Ring, Legacy, Americano, The Last Ride, House of 9 and Wicked Prayer. Hopper is repped by ICM.