Incaseyadidntknow, the incredibly reputable production house and distributor Focus Features is actually the art house film division of NBC Universal. Among the myriad award-winning films they have produced is uber-green film Away We Go. In conjunction with NBCU’s Green is Universal Week, FilmInFocus caught up with Meredith Bergmann of Green Media Solutions, the company that [...]
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An impressive team of major Hollywood players is behind a new film detailing the birth of the environmental organization Greenpeace. Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure, Cool Runnings, While You Were Sleeping) will direct, Jerry Zucker (Naked Gun, Airplane!) and wife Janet will produce, and The West Wing’s Andy Sorkin has been approached to write the script.
According [...]
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Director Roland Emmerich’s new disaster movie 2012 is about to hit theaters — and as the Mother Nature Network recently found out, there was an effort to keep the $260 million dollar film as green as possible.
Emmerich, who drives a hybrid and powers his home with solar panels, said “After making The Day After Tomorrow, [...]
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“I met him first in the winter of 2005-06. I’m involved very heavily with an organization that is one of the biggest developers of affordable housing, a nonprofit affordable housing developer, and it’s an organization that has contributed a lot to developing housing policy. So we often will have sessions with new senators and stuff [...]
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The upcoming rom-com Valentine’s Day is reported to be one of Warner Brothers’ greenest productions to date. Full details are few but in a recent ABC News article, Shelley Billik, WB’s vice president for environmental initiatives has said that the film’s base camp, where trailers for wardrobe, makeup and the cast are set up, was [...]
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I’ve never seen Troll 2, but after reading these reviews I feel like it’s a must to experience what’s considered a “beyond awful” movie. In fact, regardless of the bizarre vegetarian themes present in the film, this one could possibly rank as the worst film period. It’s that bad that it’s become a cult classic. [...]
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That early taste of director James Cameron’s new scifi epic Avatar has just become a full on meal.
A new full trailer has just been released expanding on the story and pulling back the curtain on the gorgeous alien world of Pandora. As we mentioned earlier, Avatar deals with some very Earth-like environmental conflicts — particularly [...]
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Before he passed away this summer, Michael Jackson was hard at work on a concert series he hoped would spark a new comeback for his career. As part of an agreement with the company helping make that dream a reality, hundreds of hours of rehearsal footage was shot of the King of Pop performing, organizing, [...]
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Last night was the EMAs (pronounced “emmas”, in case you didn’t know), the annual awards gala thrown by the Environmental Media Association in celebration and recognition of those working in film and TV production who are supporting and promoting the green cause both behind the scenes and on camera. Sir Richard Branson and Jason Mraz [...]
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Jack Johnson is one lean, green, music-playing machine, and he’s about to prove it!
On October 27th, “En Concert” will officially be released — a film chronlocing one leg of Johnson’s 2008 “Sleep Through the Static” tour.
Here are the Razz we were pretty much obsessed with the Static tour, thanks to their use of biodiesel buses, [...]
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