Film

Greg MacGillivray, Large-Format Filmmaker, Shares His Life and Love of the Ocean

By Matt Coker Mon., Feb. 6 2012 at 9:42 AM
Categories: Ex Cathedra, Film
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​Greg MacGillivray of MacGillivray Freeman Films in Laguna Beach shares his life story tonight at a Laguna Canyon Conservancy fundraiser. Besides his company's many achievements--which include two Oscar nominations, the highest-grossing large-screen format film of all time (Everest) and $1 billion in worldwide box office faster than any other documentary film company in the history of cinema--MacGillivray touches on his latest projects, with words and images.
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Promised Land Sees Israel Through the Eyes of Surfers

By Matt Coker Fri., Feb. 3 2012 at 7:50 AM
Categories: Film, Gimme That OC Religion
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​A film about surfers of different faiths coming together in Israel, of all places, makes its U.S. premiere at a sold-out screening in Dana Point this evening.

Promised Land, which was directed by Todd Morehead and produced by Morehead and Carlsbad Christian nonprofit Walking on Water, screens at 6:30 p.m. at Capo Beach Calvary in  Capistrano Beach. Check after the jump for other local places you can see the film before it moves to Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
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Mike Gillespie, UC Irvine Baseball Coach, Must Settle for Wins on Field, Not at Oscars

By Matt Coker Wed., Feb. 1 2012 at 8:39 AM
Categories: Film, School Daze, Your Anaheim Angels of Anaheim
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​Ian Massey has a funny piece in UC Irvine's New University student newspaper about the ultimate Oscar "snub": the nomination denied a certain Moneyball supporting actor.

He would be Mike Gillespie, the head coach of the Anteaters baseball team.
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Court

Jenna Jameson Lawsuit Turns Heads

By Matt Coker Mon., Jan. 30 2012 at 3:44 PM
Categories: Court, Film
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​"It's the same contract Linda Blair understood--and she's possessed."

--Ted Bulthaup, owner of movie theaters in Illinois, trying to get his head around his lawsuit against Jenna Jameson (via DuPage's Daily Herald).
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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos Screens Tuesday Night; Prepare to Be Geeked

By Matt Coker Mon., Jan. 30 2012 at 7:25 AM
Categories: Film
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​A special presentation Tuesday evening of Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos folds into periodic gatherings by devotees of anime, manga and Asian music leading up to a June convention at the Anaheim Convention Center.

The film, which opened last July in Japan, makes its local premiere at 7:30 p.m. a few steps west of the Convention Center, at the UltraLuxe cinemas at GardenWalk.
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Ditch 3-D Glasses for "Jesus Glasses" at One Irvine International Film Festival Screening

By Matt Coker Fri., Jan. 13 2012 at 12:54 PM
Categories: Film, Gimme That OC Religion, School Daze
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​"Irvine International Film Festival is Full of Hidden Gems" gives an overview of the inaugural event running through Monday at Edwards Westpark 8 in Irvine, but more advance word is in order for Vic Losick's In God We Teach. Though it mostly chronicles a New Jersey high school student outing his history teacher proselytizing for Jesus, the documentary also revisits Mission Viejo's infamous "Jesus Glasses" case.
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Sports

[UPDATED with Sports Agent's Reaction:] Leigh Steinberg, Who Inspired Jerry Maguire, Accused of Being a Deadbeat

By Matt Coker Thu., Dec. 22 2011 at 5:00 PM
Categories: Court, Film, Sports
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​UPDATE, DEC. 22, 5 P.M.: One-time super-sports agent Leigh Steinberg of Newport Beach has reacted to the bench warrant imposed on him by an Orange County court commissioner, calling the whole thing the result of a mix-up. The 62-year-old tells the Associated Press that he was under the mistaken impression his attorney got the date changed on a hearing last week regarding a $1.4 million judgment the Irvine Co. won against him for unpaid office space rent.
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Crime-iny

Charles Michael Reynolds Gets Life for Murder of Freedom Writers Co-Star Armand Jones

By Matt Coker Mon., Dec. 19 2011 at 7:57 AM
Categories: Crime-iny, Film
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​A Long Beach gang member has been sentenced to life in state prison for his role in the murder of Armand Jones, a rising actor who had just wrapped filming Freedom Writers in March 2006 when he was gunned down in Anaheim.

Ironically, in the movie starring Hilary Swank, 18-year-old Jones played a gang member named Grant Rice who escaped a drive-by shooting that took the life of a friend.
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Island Cinema Reopens with Charity Showings of Young Adult and New Sherlock Holmes Flick

By Matt Coker Tue., Dec. 13 2011 at 5:01 PM
Categories: Film
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​The Irvine Co.'s revamped Island Cinema at Fashion Island in Newport Beach won't open to the public until Friday, but charity screening events tonight and Wednesday night give sneak peaks to guests who pony up $50 each.
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[UPDATED with Correction:] Revenge of the Electric Car ALREADY ROLLED Into Long Beach

By Matt Coker Mon., Dec. 12 2011 at 9:50 AM
Categories: Environment, Film, Long Beach
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​CORRECTION, DEC. 12, 9:50 A.M.: No, it was not a bank of dead batteries that prevented filmmaker Chris Paine and his new documentary Revenge of the Electric Car from showing up as advertised (by . . . gulp . . . me) at the Art Theatre in Long Beach Sunday. As it turns out, that event was Dec. 4.

My apologies to Paine, the Art and the many, many pissed off folks who apparently shared their displeasure about the missing film and filmmaker with staff and management and the historic theater.
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