Indie video games, priced from $10-20 on WiiWare, Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, don’t generate Halo money, but a top-seller can still make its creators multi-millionaires in a matter of weeks after launch.
NVFF, now in its second year, more than doubled in size.
Affleck’s third directorial outing, following Gone Baby Gone (2007) and the Town (2010), has been well-received by critics and fans. I checked Metacritic and Argo is currently sitting with a strong 84 rating.
Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush to host special night. The 3rd annual Napa Valley Film Festival runs November 7 – 11 at venues in Napa, Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga.
Ebert follows in the footsteps of philanthropist and Sundance Institute Trustee George Gund, who was the first to receive the award.
The 35th edition of MVFF opens October 4 with films Silver Linings Playbook and On the Road and runs for ten days.
Cronenberg has made a string of memorable, haunting films including Crash (1996), The Brood (1979), Dead Ringers (1988) and A History of Violence (2005).
The film follows four talented young sommeliers as they cram for the grueling, notoriously difficult Master Sommelier exam.
Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born Into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Son of Babylon, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America.
The 36th Festival will open with VITO by Jeffrey Schwarz, an empowering documentary about the inexhaustible gay activist and film author Vito Russo, chronicling his work and influence on the LGBT community.
