Dog Goes From Digging Through Trash to Being Featured in a Hollywood Movie-and Happy Ever After
No one imagined a malnourished mutt would go from sifting through trash to being adored on the silver screen with millions of new fans.
No one imagined a malnourished mutt would go from sifting through trash to being adored on the silver screen with millions of new fans.
If anything can be said about this 31-year-old dogsitter from Georgia, it's that she loves animals and she loves Lord of the Rings.
Gary Sinise, the actor best known for his role as Lieutenant Dan, was recently given an emotional surprise thank you-video for his years of charity work.
The mastermind behind "The Lord of the Rings" is about to become "The Lord of the Ringos" following his recent cinematic announcement.
The 49-year-old Englishman was about to give up on ever catching a glimpse of the lights – but then the clouds parted just in time.
The Greeks never used to have hero issues. But heroes have been in short supply in the country's hour of need, which could explain the rush to cinemas to spend time in the company of an 18th-century pirate turned caviar tycoon.
Calling all supporters of happiness: Get your tickets for exclusive pre-release screenings of HAPPY, the new documentary by Academy Award winning director Roko Belic for one show only in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Special happiness experts will join Mr. Belic in person for a Q+A session after each event.
All my favorite romantic comedy films have two things in common, a happy ending and encouragement for those of us who may find it difficult to figure out who really is their proper soul mate. Here are 13 films that inspire us to find -- or appreciate -- our true love.
With its 13th major film in production, Pixar is, at last, turning to a female character to play the sole protagonist. And, like Disney's Mulan, she will turn out to be an inspiration, despite her sassy ways and nonchalance for the breaking of out-dated rules (which rains turmoil down on her kingdom).
Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy; a pioneer of the educational, industrial and documentary film, who contributed immensely to the field of audio/visual communications remains, unfortunately, forgotten. A young documentarian wants to change this.
DC Entertainment, home of some of the greatest super heroes, unleashed a giving campaign to help fight the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa. A multi-million-dollar commitment over the next two years by partners Warner Bros. and Time Warner will feature the Justice League characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern issuing a call to action, with 100 percent of the donations matched dollar for dollar.
16 year-old Laoise Nolan performs a really cool version of The Cup Song with 600 students (and staff) at a school in Ireland.
A house cleaning drop-out, Jon Foy, won the directorial award at the Sundance Film Festival for his homemade documentary, Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. During the 5 year odyssey of making his film, he learned how to write, shoot, and edit, mostly in the bedroom of a shared group house in West Philadelphia.
The 86th Academy Awards will be a celebration of movie heroes, the producers announced this week. The theme for the March 2 live broadcast, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will honor big-screen real-life heroes, like "Gandhi" and "Erin Brockovich," as well as super heroes and animated heroes, both past and present.
In this delightful family movie based on a true story, a family of gray whales, stranded beneath the ice near the northern-most Alaskan town of Barrow, brings together old foes in an inspiring rescue operation that catches the attention of the whole world.
Optimism is something Hanks has never been shy about bringing to his movies, whether it is Forrest Gump's naïve faith in people or the dogged determination to survive in Cast Away, In his new film, Larry Crowne, opening Friday, he goes back to Community College after losing his job. Searching for something positive, that is what he finds.
"42" is an inspirational and ultimately uplifting drama about perseverance in the face of turbulent opposition. And the greatest credit to writer-director Brian Helgeland is that none of this is shown through grand melodramatic movie monologues, but through simple restraint on the screen.
A mysterious package arrived last week at the University of Chicago addressed to Henry Walton Jones, Jr., which looked like it had been postmarked in Egypt. Admissions officials had no clue who Jones was, but a student snapped out of his finals-tired haze realizing who Dr. Jones was: the fabled archeology professor, Indiana Jones. The mystery grew deeper when they realized the postage was faked and inside was an incredibly detailed replica of "University of Chicago Professor" Abner Ravenwood's journal from the film, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Weta Workshop, the special FX house behind the costumes and props in the Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia films, have given a double leg amputee the ability to swim.
The first videl production diary from The Hobbit, as posted by Peter Jackson on his facebook page.
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