Sin Nombre News

The charmed life of Oprah Winfrey fave "Precious" is continuing: The film, propelled from indie curiosity to mainstream box-office draw by Winfrey's praise, has been nominated for Best Picture at the 25th Film Independent Spirit Awards.

Success of the Twilight saga books and films inspire new productions of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre In the footsteps of Heathcliff and Cathy a Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Twilight Saga: New Moon The BrontA s are back in fashion a ' with a bit of help from Bella Swan.

"500 Days of Summer," "Amreeka," "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," "Sin Nombre" and "The Last Station" took the Spirit Award nominations for best feature.

Oh, this is some good stuff. I was a little surprised recently when the announcement came down that Cary Fukunaga , who directed the very excellent Sin Nombre , would adapt Charlotte Bronte 's classic novel Jane Eyre as his next film.

Time: 2009 Nov 30 19:30 - 21:10 Summary: Mexico/USA. 2008. 96 minutes. Language: In Spanish with English subtitles.

It's been a while since there's been an Asian North American box-office hit. The Joy Luck Club, The Wedding Banquet , and Snow Falling on Cedars were all from the '90s. Indie successes like Better Luck Tomorrow and Eve and the Fire Horse have been few and far between over the past decade.

Indie distributor Revolver Entertainment has snapped U.K. rights to Heitor Dhalia's "Adrift" and Jim Jarmursh's "The Limits of Control" in double whammy deal with Focus Features.

The Spot: A neon sign that says "America" is half-submerged in floodwater. A scratchy voice recording plays in the backgrounda 'a man reciting a poem.

This is all over the news, though it seems it was Variety which first reported it: "Sin nombre" helmer Cary Fukunaga is in advanced negotiations to direct a feature adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" for Brit shingle Ruby Films.

This is a bit unexpected; there have been a lot of possible next projects in the works for Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga .

District 9 Movie aliens through the years have come in all shapes and sizes. There have been the good , the bad and now the ugly.

Running from angry gangsters is hard work, and opportunities to sit and think are few and far between.

Trying to pick which movie to go see can be painstaking if you simply cannot make up your mind.

"The Messenger" by first-time director Oren Moverman picked up top honors at the Deauville American Film Festival Sunday night, taking the fest's grand prize and international critics' award.

The Jake Erhardt International Film Series will show the Mexican film Sin Nombre Tuesday, Sept.

A perilous race for the border. A lot of movies have been made about the American side of the drug trade.

The young pitcher attends spring training in Arizona before being assigned to a minor league team in Iowa.

Come the middle of September comedian Joel McHale will be multi-tasking, moving between his hit E! Entertainment series The Soup with Community, a new prime time sitcom on NBC where he plays a lawyer forced to go back to community college when it is learned he never earned a Bachelor's Degree.

"State of Play": The big-screen version of the acclaimed 2003 BBC miniseries "State of Play" loses a lot of the original's nuance but still manages to offer some solid, sophisticated entertainment.

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