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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.
On November 28th at The Byham Theater, as part of “Pittsburgh’s Homecoming Weekend” celebrating the city’s 250th birthday, there will be a special red-carpet screening of “My Tale of Two Cities”, a film about coming home and the city of Pittsburgh reinventing itself. The city of Pittsburgh stars in this often funny and sometimes moving “comeback story” where “St. Elmo’s Fire” screenwriter (and Steeltown co-founder) Carl Kurlander tosses a football with Franco Harris and his son Dok, goes shopping in the Strip with Teresa Heinz Kerry, has breakfast at Ritter’s diner with Paul O’ Neill, asking them and others how their hometown can once again become “The City of Champions.” Pittsburghers everywhere are invited to come home for this special Thanksgiving weekend event and then join Mr. McFeely and the cast in singing “Won’t You Be My Neighhbor?”. Go to www.mytaleoftwocities.com to see clips from the movie and email homecoming@steeltown.org for information on tickets to the event.
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.
Join Steeltown co-founder Carl Kurlander as he speaks about Shining a Light on Pittsburgh Through Film.
Carl will be speaking as part of the 2007-2008 Lunch & Learn Series sponsered by the UJF Young Adult Division and Shalom Pittsburgh.
Come here Carl talk about his experiences during a career as a Hollywood writer/producer. Carl will also talk about his work helping to bring film and television projects to Pittsburgh as part of the Steeltown Entertainment Project.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 @ noon
Location: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC
One Oxford Center, 20th Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
For more information on this event, please contact Suzanne Green at (412) 992-5222 or by email; sgreen@UJFpittsburgh.org
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Steeltown Entertainment Project
in cooperation with
The University of Pittsburgh Film Studies Department
PRESENT
January 26, 2008
10:00 am to NOON
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning - Room G13
Steeltown's own Board Chair, Stephanie Dangel!
This event is free and open to the public.
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.
The operators of Internet entertainment sites such as MyDamnChannel, Break, Heavy and others have a message for striking Hollywood writers -- give us a look.
Many writers are doing just that, with the hope of retaining total creative control over their work and collecting as much as half of all revenue -- a potentially sweet deal compared to a typical TV gig.
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."
Thursday, October 25, 2007
By Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nobody does the dead like Greg Nicotero. Just look at the zombies he helped to create for George Romero's most recent installments of his fright franchise.
Tom Savini, an effects wizard who occasionally steps in front of the camera, gave him his start on "Day of the Dead," and Nicotero has since worked on special effects for "Diary of the Dead" and "Land of the Dead," plus "Transformers," "Spider-Man 3" and "The Chronicles of Narnia," to name just a few titles.
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)
