We met Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Kary Antholis at “The Pacific” premiere on February, 24th at the Chinese Theater in the heart of Hollywood. The new WWII themed HBO mini-series is produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman. In the following on camera interviews Tom Hanks explains the importance of such stories [...]

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The sexy Greek-American New Yorker, Justine Cotsonas first appeared on the cast of As The World Turns for the role of Sophie Duran. The 24 year old studied acting at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her big film debut will occur in the new film, Last Night where she will play the role [...]

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Tom Hanks is keeping it Greek.  He is working on another project with Nia Vardalos. The new movie is a comedy called Larry Crowne starring Julia Roberts and is about a middle-aged man who is looking to reinvent himself. Hanks has been writting the scipt with Nia Vardalos since he came up with the idea [...]

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The Greek-American film producer, Stratton Leopold is on board as co-producer for Wolfman, a remake of the 1941 classic horror film. The Executive Vice President of Production at Paramount Pictures was born in Savannah, GA where he owns and operates a ice cream parlor called Leopold’s.  Leopold’s Ice Cream is a family business that was [...]

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The Golden Globe Awards has been honoring the best in motion pictures and television for 67 years. On Sunday January 17th, viewers from over 130 countries were watching while the Golden Globe Awards was brought to  life once again by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who has donated over ten million dollars to film related [...]

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Laura Neri, a director of Greek origins is anxiously awaiting the premiere of her first feature film, Kill the Habit. The film will premiere at Cinequest next month. Neri wrote, directed and produced the film that was shot here in Los Angeles. The cast includes Greek actress, Katerina Moutsatsos as one of the lead characters.  [...]

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Alexa Davalos was born in France, but is of Greek descent.  She speaks both Greek and French fluently.   She was born into a family of actors. Her mother was an actress and her grandfather, Richard Davalos starred next to James Dean in East of Eden. She started out as a model, but shifted her career [...]

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“Alice’s Attic” just won a new award for Best Animation at the Very Short Movies Film Festival. The stop-motion animated short was directed by Greek-American Robyn Yannoukos. The film is about a character who is forced to submit to change through suffering and pain. Yannoukos has described the short as “a socio-political commentary about the [...]

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Greek mythology continues to inspire film making in Hollywood.  To name a few, Troy, Alexander, and of course Frank Miller’s, 300 . Miller is currently developing the sequel, Xerxes. The film will highlight the battle of Marathon that took takes place about ten years before the Battle of Thermopylae in 300.  The battle of Marathon [...]

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Eighty-nine pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company:
* “The Beaches of Agnes,” Agnès [...]

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