John Waters News

Share + Nov 14, 2009 11:14 pm US/Eastern Reporting Adam May 1 of 1 The creators of "Liberty Heights", "Serial Mom" and "The Wire" got together Saturday night to raise money for and awareness about Maryland's film industry.

As the Right Wing wraps Samuel Alito up in a festive black robe, hoping to sell his Supreme Court appointment for Christmas , celluloid iconoclast John Waters wants nothing more than to revel in the season - boozy familial fisticuffs, consumer despair, goopy cornflake-wreath cookies and all.

But she has also done her part to imbue such Barry Levinson memory plays as "Avalon" and "Liberty Heights" with their gnarly warmth and David Simon 's hard-hitting TV shows, "The Corner" and "The Wire," with their bluesy grit.

The projectors have stopped running, the popcorn has been swept up and bleary-eyed moviegoers have emerged back into the daylight.

CHARLOTTESVILLE - Lamenting the death of burlesque, cult artist and filmmaker John Waters announced from the stage, "This is not a lecture.

SLIPKNOT 's Corey Taylor and Sid Wilson took part in separate webcast/chats this past Halloween when the band performed at Fangoria 's Trinity Of Terrors convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ticket sales for the 22nd-annual Virginia Film Festival - which begins today - have already surpassed the number sold for last year's festival.

John Waters , Barry Levinson and David Simon aren't just appearing on stage for the first time together for the Maryland Film Festival benefit on Nov.

Hollywood revels in remaking classics. This ranges from the thrillers such as The Hitcher and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to musicals such as Annie and Hairspray.

In the 1970s, John Waters was the bad boy of fringe filmmaking with his cult-classic, X-rated Pink Flamingos .

Where does John Waters's poor taste leave off and his characters' poor taste begin? His deepest wade into the mainstream to date , this is sort of his personal American Graffiti, set in Baltimore in 1962.

What is the Virginia Film Festival? It is your plan for the weekend, resolved. Can you be more specific? Yes.

Here it is: the John Waters movie his own parents aren't allowed to watch! The dialogue and performances throughout Waters' 1972 breakthrough Pink Flamingos may not crackle with as much subversive wit as its near-perfect successor Female Trouble , but Flamingos continues to earn its legs as Waters' most offensive and most memorable picture.

If moviemaking won't come to Baltimore, Charm City's own budding moviemakers will make it happen, using all the means at their disposal - digital technology, eloquent locations and craft friendships developed in the years when this city had an amazing 2 1/2 film crews at work on movies such as "Liberty Heights" and "Cecil B. Demented," and TV shows ...

October 17, 2009 It's bad enough that we watch reality TV to begin with, but it gets worse when we give out arbitrary awards to the shows that inhibit our already lacking social lives -- the 2009 Fox Reality Channel Really Awards air tonight.

Adam Shankman, who directed the movie musical version of John Waters' "Hairspray," is returning to the genre with "Rock of Ages," a rock-themed 80s love story set to the tunes of Journey, Twisted Sister, Joan Jett, Bon Jovi, and Pat Benatar, among others.

The Simpsons family has emerged as surprising villains -- and Bruce Willis as a surprising hero -- in a survey by an American anti-smoking group.

When the "Midnight Movie" was in its heyday, the actual movie was a mere side dish to the experience of going to a theatre at midnight and encountering whatever low-budget oddity was currently in vogue.

A A A From showing his counter-culture films in small Baltimore churches to becoming a Hollywood icon, filmmaker John Waters will discuss his accomplishments as a screenwriter, author and director at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, Oct.

In what is set to be the biggest, baddest and most gruesome convention to hit Las Vegas, Fangoria's Trinity Of Terrors continues to add to the list of scream-worthy celebrities set to attend the three day event.