Entries tagged with “Steeltown Entertainment Project” from In The News

As the state budget is being reviewed, it looks as if arts funding might see enormous cuts this year, and may be completely eliminated in the 2010 fiscal year.

As the state budget is being reviewed, it looks as if arts funding might see enormous cuts this year, and may be completely eliminated in the 2010 fiscal year.

Pittsburghers everywhere are invited to come home this Thanksgiving weekend for a special red-carpet screening of the film “My Tale of Two Cities,” November 28th at The Byham Theater, Downtown Pittsburgh, as part of the city’s Homecoming Weekend and 250th birthday celebration. The evening will benefit Steeltown Entertainment Project’s “Youth & Media Initiative” in partnership with the Holy Family Institute.

The theme of Pittsburgher's coming together played a prominent role during the events surrounding the premiere of Carl Kurlander's documentary "My Tale of Two Cities" at last week's Sonoma Valley Film Festival.

Monday, March 3, 2008

This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the North Hills Monthly Magazine which is available for free at local area establishments.

According to Pittsburgh Councilman Bill Peduto, creator of the council on the arts in Pittsburgh, "The arts revitalize neighborhoods better than bringing in Walgreen's to street corners." As part of this credo, Peduto presented a city council proclamation at the Women in Film and Media's first Annual Opal Awards late last year. Women in Film and Media is an international organization with 47 chapters worldwide. The organization focuses on everything from education, mentoring, and resources for those involved in television, radio, video, film, videographers, and actors. WIFM has a very active chapter in Western Pennsylvania.

Originally published in the Blog, Burgh Diaspora
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

I'm blogging from a hospital in Boulder, Colorado. Yesterday at 3pm local time, my wife gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Pittsburgh's global extended family is now one member stronger. The Front Range may be my place of current residence, but it will never be home. The demands of economic globalization does scatter the members of a community, but these forces also have the ironic effect of strengthening our ties to one location.

By Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Filmed around Western Pennsylvania last fall, the direct-to-DVD release "R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It," was designed to be the first in a series of "Haunting Hour" videos potentially filmed here. The movie also aired on Cartoon Network in September.

Pittsburgh-based Steeltown Entertainment Project, which will ultimately invest more than $900,000 in the first film's more than $3 million budget, is hoping two more movies in the series will film here. The films are produced by independent production company The Hatchery and distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

By Timothy McNulty, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh will host another member of the "Superbad" troupe when director Kevin Smith's latest movie starts filming in the city in January.

The filmmaker announced that Seth Rogen, the writer and co-star of the hit, R-rated summer comedy, will play the lead in Mr. Smith's film "Zack & Miri Make A Porno," alongside Elizabeth Banks of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."

On Friday, October 26, 2007, at 4:00p.m in the Cathedral of Learning room 324, Hollywood special effects wizard Greg Nicotero (SPIDER MAN 3, PULP FICTION, CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, SIN CITY) and special guest actor/special effects artist Tom Savini (GRINDHOUSE, LAND OF THE DEAD) will talk about their craft and showcase some of their amazing Hollywood creatures. This will be followed by a screening of R.L. Stine's Haunting Hour: "Don't Think About It" starring HANNAH MONTANA'S Emily Osment and Cody Linley and SAW'S Tobin Bell at 7:00p.m. in the Frick Fine Arts building across from the Carnegie Library in Oakland.

Order of Events:
4-5:30p.m. Greg Nicotero and Tom Savini Presentation, Cathedral of Learning rm 324
7-8:30p.m. R.L. Stine's Haunting Hour: "Don't Think About It" screening, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (Rated PG)

By Joseph Sabino Mistick
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Here is cause for hope. Throughout American urban history, money and economic development have followed the arts. And in this realm, Pittsburgh is a blank canvas that welcomes the flourishes of all comers.

Our government structure remains flawed in a systemic way that can only be corrected by major reorganization. Pittsburgh's pension debt alone is enough to drive our sunniest citizens into the doldrums.

By Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Two teens stand in a dark lair, ostensibly hidden inside a storm drain. They hear a sound and turn toward it, their eyes widening in fear as they find themselves face-to-face with a two-headed monster. They gulp, twist their faces in disgust and scream. Director Alex Zamm couldn't be happier.

"Good first take," he said, as young actors Emily Osment and Cody Linley prepared to film the scene again. "I want juicy fear."

Creating fear but sparing young viewers from gore is the master plan for "R.L. Stine Presents: The Haunting Hours -- Don't Think About It," a direct-to-DVD movie due in stores next fall that will also get a TV airing in October 2007 (several networks are interested in the project). "Don't Think About It" filmed in Pittsburgh for the past month, wrapping production on Sunday.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06325/739950-60.stm