Auction of superhero memorabilia nets $70,000
The mementos were owned by Fishers collector Dane Nash, who operated the American Super Heroes Museum downtown.
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Local Superman auction to take flight this month
The collection of superhero memorabilia, once displayed at a downtown Indianapolis museum, is being auctioned to satisfy a court order.
LOU’S VIEWS: Grown-up movies dominate holiday multiplexes
Thoughts on “True Grit,” “The Fighter,” and more.
Indiana Film Journalists Association pick year’s best
Heartland Film Fest premiere “Paradise Recovered” joins “The Social Network” and “How to Train Your Dragon” among this year’s honorees.
LOU’S VIEWS: What to see at this year’s Heartland Film Festival
Not sure how to weed through the 100-plus offerings at this year's Heartland Film Festival? Here are some recommendations from IBJ movie buffs.
Blockbuster files for bankruptcy protection
Troubled video-rental chain Blockbuster Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday, saying plans to keep its stores and kiosks open as it reorganizes.
Film Fest leader leaving for documentary gig
Dorothy Henckel, president of the Indianapolis International Film Festival, has accepted a job as director of acquisitions for The Documentary Channel.
Filmmaker Low planning Indy 500 movie for IMAX 3D
The 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.
Kokomo firm taps state tax credits to make animated film
Kokomo-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.
Film advocate Heartland aims to raise $12.5 million
Heartland 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.
Ad firm unit studies impact of social media on movie biz
At 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.
Rob Reiner film to premiere in Indianapolis
Director 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.
AMC sells Greenwood theater to Regal Entertainment
AMC divested the property in order to proceed with its $275 million deal to buy 93 theaters operated by Kerasotes Showplace
Theatres.
Feds: AMC must sell some Indy theaters to make acquisition
The 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.
Kerasotes planning to sell theaters to AMC
Kerasotes, the nation’s sixth-largest movie house chain, has four theaters in the Indianapolis area; AMC, the No. 2 player, has two.
LOU’S VIEWS: A ballet blockbuster tops 2009’s list of favorites
Here are the 10 offerings that I most enthusiastically recommended to friends and readers in the past year.
Review: “Hatchi” opens Heartland Film Fest
New Richard Gere man-and-his-dog film remarkably restrained.
Polanski, the law, and the public
A 30-year-old crime sparks headlines again with the arrest of the famed film director.
IBJ Night at the Movies: “Fame”
Want to live forever? Light up the sky like a flame? Join us at a sneak preview.