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Set in 1962, six years after her celebrated Wedding of the Century, GRACE OF MONACO is an intimate snapshot of a year in the life of the twentieth century’s most iconic Princess – Grace Kelly – as she strived to reconcile her past and her present, a yearning for a return to the big screen with her newfound role as a mother of two, monarch of a European principality and wife to Prince Ranier III.

While contemplating overtures from Alfred Hitchcock to return to her career in Hollywood, Grace found herself plunged into a personal crisis when Rainier’s modernization of an ailing Monaco was halted by Charles de Gaulle – the French President – and his attempts to not only impose French taxation on Monaco, but reclaim the principality for France by force.

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The full-blown international crisis and impending French invasion that loomed – would pose a crisis not just for her family, her marriage and her country, but in Grace’s private life. It would become the moment in which a cinematic icon, an American far from home, would have to face a tough decision – return to her celebrated status as a movie star, globally loved and adored, or accept that she will never act again, embrace her new role and her new identity, her duty to her husband, her children, and the world’s second smallest country that has now become her home.

Grace of Monaco is a real-life fairytale, a sweeping romance, a portrait of the cinematic legend of Princess Grace and a realization that love is much more than a passion, but an obligation.

You lucky sods!  Here are 4 BRAND NEW, SUPER-FRIGHTENING CLIPS from House of Good and Evil.

Starring Marietta Marich (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning), Rachel Marie Lewis (Beacon Point), Christian Oliver (Speed Racer), Jordan Rhodes (The Indian Runner) and Bo Keister (Killing Kennedy),  House of Good and Evil played various high-profile festivals where it’s won over critics and horror fans alike, taking Best Picture at the 2013 Twin Rivers Media Festival, and called ‘“One of the best psychological horror films I saw this year”’ by online horror hub Horror on Screen.

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After losing their unborn child, Chris and Maggie escape the pressures of the city to live in a secluded country home. But soon Maggie begins to experience strange events in this mind-bending countryside horror about dedication, grief, and insanity.

Premiere Props announced they will be auctioning off a collection of 34 uncovered photos of James Dean, accompanied with their negatives and all reproduction rights granted, on Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 at their headquarters in El Segundo, CA.  There will be a preview from 9-11am PT with the live auction beginning at 11am PT.

The photographs were taken by Gus Vignolle, journalist and photographer for Sports Illustrated.    Vignolle covered Dean while he raced in a new Porsche Speedster for the first time in Palm Springs on March 26 & 27, 1955.  Additionally, Vignolle published MotoRacing, a new sports car newspaper in October 1955, which included some of these photographs in a four part series.

The negatives have been missing for over 50 years and Vignolle’s daughter Zaz Vignolle Clark recently uncovered them after sorting through her father’s articles and photographs.

Vignolle met James Dean personally at his first race on March 26 and then only raced two more times before his fatal accident in his new 550 Porsche Spyder on his way to a race in Salinas, California.

There is also a personal birthday card from James Dean to Vignolle Clark signed by Dean with additional signatures from his racing organization.

“James Dean is a true American icon,” said Dan Levin, Vice President of Premiere Props.  “We are thrilled to be able to offer fans the chance to own these rare photographs, as they truly are a find.”

In addition to the photographs, there will be over 1000 movie and television props, costumes and rare classic posters auctioned including:

• GONE WITH THE WIND – curtains that adorned the windows and doorways in Tara, and then some were subsequently used by Scarlett (Vivien Leigh) to create her famous “Curtain Dress.”
• Ingrid Berman’s Custom Dress From and Stand from Selznick Studios – multi-Oscar winning legend Ingrid Berman’s personal dress form used at the Selznick’s Studios during the 1940’s, when David O. Selznick put her under contract.
• CLEOPATRA – Roman Army Shield
• PLANET OF THE APES – John Chambers/Zoyd Luce Gorilla Horse Soldier Head
• STARGATE SG-1 – Complete Kull Warrior Armor Costume
• Strands of James Dean’s Hair obtained by Gordon Bau, the make-up supervisor on GIANT
• Strands of Elvis Presley’s Hair obtained by Presley’s hairstylist and barber, Homer M. Gilleland
• Strands of Marilyn Monroe’s Hair obtained by legendary and make-up arists Sydney Guilaroff on the set of the ill-fated unfinished feature SOMETHING’S GO TO GIVE
• 2001:  A SPACE ODYESSY – a Stanley Kubrick signed poster
• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE – a Stanley Kubrick and Malcolm McDowell signed poster

Fans can starting bidding now, placing bids online at http://www.icollector.com/ and http://www.liveauctioneers.com or calling to set up phone bidding with a Premiere Props representative.

Collectors can place proxy bids until the Hollywood Extravaganza Auction goes LIVE at 11am PT on Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23.

Starring Oscar^® nominee Johnny Depp (“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” “Finding Neverland,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films), Paul Bettany (“The Da Vinci Code,” “A Beautiful Mind”), Rebecca Hall (“The Town,” “The Prestige”), Kate Mara (“House of Cards,” “Shooter”), Cillian Murphy (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight Rises”), Clifton Collins, Jr. (“Star Trek,” “Pacific Rim”) and Oscar^® winner Morgan Freeman (“Million Dollar Baby,” the “Dark Knight” movies).

“Transcendence” marks the feature film directorial debut of Oscar^®-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister (“Inception,” the “Dark Knight” movies).  Pfister directed the movie from a screenplay by Jack Paglen.

Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions.  His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him.

However, in their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed—to be a participant in his own transcendence.  For his wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and best friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), both fellow researchers, the question is not if they can…but if they should. 

Their worst fears are realized as Will’s thirst for knowledge evolves into a seemingly omnipresent quest for power, to what end is unknown.  The only thing that is becoming terrifyingly clear is there may be no way to stop him.

Transcendence will be released in the UK by Entertainment Film Distributors on 25^th April 2014.

Oscar-winning producers BreakThru Films [UK/Poland] and Trademark Films [UK] has reached 40,000 GBP goal on Kickstarter.com in the first two weeks of the campaign, to train 40 painters for the world’s first feature length painted animation. Now the campaign it’s heading towards 65,000 GBP “stretch goal” to train the rest 60 painters. The film is entitled Loving Vincent, and will tell the story of the life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the world’s most beloved painters, and will be told through the eyes of the people he painted. 

What is truly unique about Loving Vincent is that each of the film’s 56,000 frames will be an oil painting on canvas, using the same technique in which Vincent himself painted…

Loving Vincent is a murder-mystery. The intrigue unfolds through interviews with the characters closest to Vincent and through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death. The film investigates the theories around Vincent’s death. Was it suicide, was he driven to his death by one of the people he was close to or was he in fact shot by someone who so far has remained in the shadows of history.

What is so unusual about the technique?

Cutting edge animation techniques will bring Van Gogh’s work to swirling life on the screen, integrating it into the drama of the story. Viewers will see the paintings they know and love, but from an entirely new point of view.

Forty painters will hand paint 56,800 frames to complete this 80 minute film The production will take two years, and will be made using Breakthru’s patented technology PAWS (Painting Animation Work Stations). Thanks to PAWS, BreakThru and Trademark have been able to reduce the per frame rate from over 2 hours to around 40 minutes, allowing them to make the film in just over a year. 

To get a head start on selecting and training our painters, BreakThru Films decided to launch a campaign on the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/438026311/loving-vincent-film-bring-van-goghs-paintings-to-l

Loving Vincent will be completed in 2015, the 125th anniversary of van Gogh’s death.

Please take a look at the concept trailer of the movie:

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