WebProNews » cinema http://www.webpronews.com Breaking News in Tech, Search, Social, & Business Fri, 24 May 2013 19:48:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Now Streaming: Rare Hitchcock Film “The White Shadow” http://www.webpronews.com/now-streaming-rare-hitchcock-film-the-white-shadow-2012-11 http://www.webpronews.com/now-streaming-rare-hitchcock-film-the-white-shadow-2012-11#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:00:50 +0000 Josh Wolford http://www.webpronews.com/?p=203385 Thanks to the efforts of the National Film Preservation Foundation, you can now watch a recently-recovered mid-twenties Alfred Hitchcock film for free online.

Well, kind of and kind of.

Hitchcock is not the credited director of the film, called The White Shadow. That honor goes to Graham Cutts, a popular British director of the era. Hitchcock worked with Cutts on the film, and is the writer, assistant director, editor, and production designer of the 1924 drama.

And the film is incomplete. All that survived were 3 of 6 reels, making for a 42-minute running time. Still, a lot of it is there and it is definitely worth a view for any Hitchcock fans or simply fans of classic cinema.

Originally made in six weeks as a vehicle for star-of-the-times Betty Compson, The White Shadow follows the success of 1923′s Woman to Woman. It didn’t receive the same box-office take, however. From the NFPF:

“Dazzled by their own success, producers Michael Balcon and Victor Saville rushed a second Compson picture into production — The White Shadow — and whisked it to theaters with a conspicuously clunky advertising tag: ‘The same Star, Producer, Author, Hero, Cameraman, Scenic Artist, Staff, Studio, Renting Company as Woman to Woman.’ It also had the same Paris setting, and again Hitchcock’s scenario was based on a work by Michael Morton, this time his unpublished novel Children of Chance. The box-office results were definitely not the same, however: ‘It was as big a flop,’ Balcon wrote in his memoir, ‘as Woman to Woman had been a success.’ This notwithstanding, plans proceeded for three more Cutts-Hitchcock pictures, commencing with The Passionate Adventure in 1924.”

Thought to be lost, the film was discovered in August 2011 among a bunch of nitrate prints which were said to have been left at the New Zealand Film Archive in 1989.

You can watch the film on the NFPF site.

[h/t The Verge]

]]> http://www.webpronews.com/now-streaming-rare-hitchcock-film-the-white-shadow-2012-11/feed 1 Alexa Vega, Spy Kids Star, Gets Divorce, Posts Revealing Pic http://www.webpronews.com/alexa-vega-spy-kids-star-gets-divorce-posts-revealing-pic-2012-07 http://www.webpronews.com/alexa-vega-spy-kids-star-gets-divorce-posts-revealing-pic-2012-07#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:57:53 +0000 WebProNews Staff http://www.webpronews.com/?p=184010 Alexa Vega, the star of “Repo! The Genetic Opera” and several films in the “Spy Kids” franchise apparently got married to 36-year-old producer Sean Covel when I wasn’t looking. Now, less than two years after tying the marital knot, the two are calling it quits. Although neither Vega, 23, nor Covel have commented on the split, the boys and girls working behind-the-scenes at TMZ managed to get their hands on a copy of the court documents.

According to the paperwork the “Sleepover” actress recently filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the couple sited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for their split. The documents also state the two decided to separate on March 5th, 2012, which means they’ve spent several months apart before making their decision official. Honestly, it’s a little hard to imagine Vega being old enough to get married, as I still toss in the third “Spy Kids” flick from time-to-time as background noise. And, no, I’m not ashamed to admit it.

In other Vega news, the actress was recently cast in director Robert Rodriguez’ “Machete Kills”, the sequel to the surprisingly successful action epic “Machete”. Alexa will reported portray a character named Killjoy in the upcoming flick. If you’re curious to see the actress dressed as the curvy vixen, direct your attention to the photo below. Again, it’s hard to believe this is the same girl from “Spy Kids”. Stuff like this makes me feel old.

Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of love to be found for Alexa Vega on Twitter, most of which are centered around her recent Instagram post. You can check out some reactions to both the divorce and the aforementioned Instagram photograph by taking a look at the posts below. Try not to stare too long at Vega’s bikini pic, especially if you’re at work.