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Unseen Orson Welles Masterpiece in the Works

An unfinished Orson Welles film may finally get to see a release. The Other Side of the Wind, a film made in 1972 starring John Huston, has been hidden away in a vault for the last four decades due to ownership disputes, but negotiations are reportedly coming to a close....  read more

5 Great Performance-Art Hoaxers

Joaquin Phoenix’s foray into rap is arguably better as publicity stunt than convincing hoax, especially after the too-weird-to-be-true Letterman appearance. Now that Casey Affleck has officially revealed the whole thing as a lark, here’s a look at some artists who know (or knew) how to pull-off a believable ruse....  read more

Me and Orson Welles

Release Date: Nov. 25 (limited) Director: Richard Linklater Writers: Holly Gent Palmo, Vince Palmo Jr. (novel by Robert Kaplow) Starring: Christian McKay, Claire Danes, Zac Efron Cinematographer: Dick Pope Studio/Run Time: Freestyle Releasing, 113 mins. Newcomer upstages teen heartthrob in Richard Linklater’s latest Zac Efron is ostensibly the star of Me and Orson Welles—he has the biggest name, at least, thanks to his role in High School Musical. But he plays the nondescript pronoun in the film’s title, not the bigger-than-life dynamo who wraps pre-war New York City around his little finger. That role belongs to little-known Christian McKay,...  read more

The Ten Best Celebrity Alcohol Endorsements

Celebrities endorse alcohol for a variety of reasons: to cash in (see Diddy), because they really, really like to drink it (see Orson Welles), to promote a movie (see Will Ferrell), and because they're under the impression that a particular type of alcohol has mystical properties that enlighten our senses and help us summon UFOs (see Dan Aykroyd). If you haven't seen the first video, do yourself a favor and watch it....  read more

Richard Linklater Gets Long-Awaited Release Date for Orson Welles Biopic

Pushing through multiple delays, a filmmaker finally manages to get a release date for his film about another filmmaker directing a Shakespeare play on Broadway. It rarely gets more convoluted or meta than that. Small wonder, then, that it took nearly a year for said film to get that release date in the U.S....  read more