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(Coral Springs, Florida--November 6, 2008) da Vinci Systems®, LLC, a subsidiary of JDS Uniphase Corporation, today announced that Asian media and entertainment producer Infinite Frameworks (IFW) continues to expand its business using a da Vinci 2K Plus™ color image enhancement system at its Singapore facility. The 2K Plus system is being deployed for a variety of projects including the feature film "My Magic," directed by Singapore’s Eric Khoo, which earned a 15-minute standing ovation ... more

Sport and controversy have been constant bedfellows since time immemorial. As far back as in AD 67, we had the Roman Emperor Nero, who invented what will always remain a sure-shot way of winning, bribing Olympics officials to disqualify all his fellow-competitors. Modern sportsmen have thankfully not been able to take recourse to the Nero method, but flighty souls that they are, many of them have not let that stand in the way of their maintaining a more than nodding acquaintance with c... more

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Find out when and where The Source is heading to next… -November 19, 2008, Collision USA Fashion Show, BMCC, NY, NY -November 1, 2008, Teen Summit with WKYS, Bow Wow, Yung Berg and DJ Unk, Washington, DC -November 1, 2008, New Music Seminar, Cleveland, Ohio -October 30, 2008, I AM C.H.A.N.G.E., NY, NY -October 24, 2008, The Black Entertainment & Sports Lawyer’s Association 28th Annual Conference, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands -October 18, 2008, Howard H... more

Demetrios Matheou in The Guardian: "The Amazonas film festival, whose flagship venue is that same opera house in crestfallen Manaus, is a much gentler affair [than Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo], of course, whose guests could not be more mollycoddled. In its way, though, the festival is just as bizarre as Herzog’s mythic-mad films. [...]... more

I.O.U.S.A., the critically acclaimed film about the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States economy, is on the short list for an Oscar nomination in the Best Documentary Feature category. The film, directed by Sundance veteran Patrick Creadon (Wordplay), is among the 15 documentary features that will now advance in the voting process designating the final five nominees for next year’s Academy Awards. I.O.U.S.A. has garnered rave reviews fr... more

Election years are typically strong for political documentaries. Capitalizing on citizens’ hunger for issues that the mainstream media is either ignoring or mishandling, audiences flock to theaters to get a deeper sense of what’s going on in the world. At least that was the thinking in 2004, with the blockbuster sales of “Fahrenheit 9/11″ and also given the multi-million-dollar grosses of “The Fog of War,” “Control Room,” “Super Size Me,R... more

Recalling a night at former New York City club Motherfucker back in 2002 where he watched early footage of “Squeezebox!,” Tribeca Film Festival programming head David Kwok saluted a group of local filmmakers (and their fans) for their perserverance and patience in bringing the documentary to the big screen. At the time, the group — including directors Steve Saporito & Zach Schaffer and producer Lyle Derek — expected to finish their film by the end of 2002. Y... more

Anthony Pellicano handled some sticky situations during his days as a private investigator for some of the biggest names in Hollywood. ... more

LOS ANGELES (AP) “Baby Mama,” Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s comedy about surrogate motherhood, delivered the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $18.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. ... more