Nell Minow's Blog, page 63

Sneak Peek: Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life

I'm excited about "Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life," based on the best-selling books by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts. The terrific cast includes "Gilmore Girls" star Lauren Graham, "Modern Family's" Rob Riggle, and Adam Pally of "Happy Endings." We are delighted to present an exclusive still from the film.



It's the story of Rafe, who doesn't like rules, and his new principal, who loves them. Rafe (Griffin Gluck) and his friend Leo...

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Exclusive Clip! Dawn of the Croods, Season 2

We are delighted to have an exclusive clip from the second season of "Dawn of the Croods," only on Netflix, premiering August 26.



Watch as Eep, Thunk, Grug, Ugga, Sandy and Gran encounter many new modern-day problems for the first time in history as they navigate life in the prehistoric Croodacious Era! Eep joins the first Scream-Leading team, sets up the first underground dance club, and takes up death-guarding at the watering hole; Grug tries to improve his hunting skills through the...

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Every Plot in Fiction/Movies

I once heard that all movie plots fall into just two categories: a boy (or girl) leaves home and a stranger comes to town. Someone else said that every movie story is about the search for authenticity. In my book, I list thirteen plots, from the classic antagonists/strangers on a journey ("Wizard of Oz," "Midnight Run," "It Happened One Night," "Toy Story") to the ups and downs and sometimes ups again of romance ("An Affair to Remember,""Annie Hall,"...

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List: Siblings Who Make Movies

I loved the 80's-throwback Netflix series "Stranger Things," created by twin brothers Matt and Ross Duffer. And it made me think about the many other siblings working together to make movies.

The Russo brothers Joe and...

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Exclusive Clip: In-Lawfully Yours

The people behind Chistian Mingle present "In-Lawfully Yours," the story of Jesse (Chelsey Crisp), a fun-loving New York City girl, newly divorced by her cheating husband. Jesse graciously helps her recently widowed ex-mother-in-law, Naomi (Marily Henner), pack up her home in small-town Bethel Cove. Jesse’s candid wit, eccentric questions and big city ways clash with the local community, including the town pastor Ben (Joe Williamson), who also happens to be her ex-husband’s...

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Interview: Director Elia Petridis of Filmatics 360 VR Creative Services

Elia Petridis, CEO and Founder of the Filmatics 360 VR Creative Services, is at the forefront of technological and narrative innovation in storytelling, and I had a lot of fun talking to him about it at Comic-Con. "We pitch pure creative for virtual reality and/or 360," he told me, which means that they introduce filmmakers to new, immersive...

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Star Wars Cake with Light Saber and Death Star

At the Arlington County (Virginia) fair, the theme of the year was 1977, so of course one of the winning entries was this magnificent "Star Wars" cake.

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Trailer: Matt Damon in “The Great Wall”

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Screenwriters Max Brooks ("World War Z"), Tony Gilroy ("Michael Clayton" and the upcoming "Star Wars" movie "Rogue One"), Marshall Herskovitz ("thirtysomething," "Nashville") are part of the team behind this epic historical drama about the building of The Great Wall in China. ...

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Interview: Chad Hartigan on “Morris from America”

Being 13 is agonizing because of the upheaval that makes you feel like an outsider from kids, from adults, and from yourself. In "Morris from America," the title character is a 13-year-old who is an outsider. He and his father have just moved to Germany, where everything is different and he does not know anyone. He cannot speak the language, he is younger than the other kids, and he and his father are the only black people in the community, and, it seems, the entire country. Craig Robinson and...

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Breakthrough Actor: Ben Schnetzer

I've been a big fan of actor Ben Schnetzer since I saw him in "Pride" and "The Book Thief."  I didn't realize at first it was the same actor, and I certainly didn't realize that the actor who played a German Jew hiding from the Nazis during WWII and a gay Londoner raising funds for striking miners in the 1980's was an American.

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He appeared in the justifiably overlooked "Warcraft" this summer, but...

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