September 14, 2010
IBJ StaffThe award-winning filmmaker behind such giant-screen gems as “The Ultimate Wave” and “Super Speedway”
is developing an IMAX 3D movie focused on the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race and the evolution of motorsports.
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August 31, 2010
IBJ StaffKokomo-based Bach Morris Technologies Corp. will spend $2.4 million to produce “Whoever Heard of a Herd of Fird?”
a movie based on company co-founder Othello Bach’s 1984 best-seller “Whoever Heard of a Fird?” A Ball State
University commercial spinoff will provide production and design services.
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August 2, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinHeartland Truly Moving Pictures is well on its way to raising $12.5 million to use for numerous film-related projects, the
group announced Monday morning during a press conference featuring director Rob Reiner.
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July 10, 2010
Anthony SchoettleAt a time many local advertising agencies are struggling, one firm is growing with an unusual new division aimed at measuring
the effects of social media on movies and actors. Bradley and Montgomery late last summer launched Fizziology as a stand-alone
enterprise.
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June 24, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinDirector Rob Reiner will be at Hilbert Circle Theatre in Indianapolis Aug. 2 for the premiere of his latest film, "Flipped."
The big-screen debut will be hosted by locally based Heartland Truly Moving Pictures.
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May 25, 2010
IBJ StaffAMC divested the property in order to proceed with its $275 million deal to buy 93 theaters operated by Kerasotes Showplace
Theatres.
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May 24, 2010
Bloomberg NewsThe U.S. Justice Department said AMC Entertainment Group Inc., the second-largest U.S. movie theater owner, must sell some
cinemas to proceed with plans to buy most of those operated by Kerasotes Showplace Theatres.
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January 20, 2010
IBJ Staff and Associated PressKerasotes, the nation's sixth-largest movie house chain, has four theaters in the Indianapolis area; AMC, the No. 2 player,
has two.
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December 26, 2009
Lou HarryHere are the 10 offerings that I most enthusiastically recommended to friends and readers in the past year.
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August 17, 2009
IBJ StaffLocally based Sandor Development Co. is looking for a new tenant for the old AMC Loews College Park 14 movie theater, after
the screens went dark for good in July after a 25-year run at West 86th Street and Michigan Road.
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July 6, 2009
Anthony SchoettleA locally born initiative to make a movie about the first Indianapolis 500 has cleared a major obstacle to getting its project
to big screens nationwide by May 2011in time for the race's centennial.
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May 18, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinNational CineMedia, the dominant player in movie video feeds, has worked with Indianapolis-based Drum Corps International
and many other nonprofits to allow people to view the organizations' live shows in a theater setting.
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April 13, 2009
A feature film—written, produced and financed by a locally based production company—is gearing up to
roll cameras at numerous locations downtown.
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February 9, 2009
Angel investor Bob Compton has produced a pair of sequels to his 2007 documentary film "Two Million Minutes,"
which examined the differences between education in the United States, India and China.
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January 12, 2009
Anthony SchoettleA local group headlined by the creator of the movies "Hoosiers" and "Rudy" is spearheading an effort to bring the story of
the very first Indianapolis 500 to the silver screen.
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November 24, 2008
Bruce HetrickThe movie, "The Visitor," is a good reminder to be open to change because it can instill hope for the future.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.