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...homemade movie by the brothers Alex and Stephen Kendrick, who are ministers of a church in Albany, Georgia, Fireproof finished a surprisingly high fourth in box office receipts on its initial weekend, earning about $7 million. With their coup, the Kendricks beat out a movie by a slightly more renowned brother duo, Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading; and they did it without George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the cast. The next week's takings added $5.5 million, for a total of $12.5 million and counting. That's a nice haul for a picture with...
...Modena, Enzo Ferrari was the son of a metalworker. When Ferrari was 10, his father took the family to the first of many auto races. He became hooked after seeing Felice Nazzaro, considered the greatest driver in the world, win. In 1916, with the death of his father and brother, the family's business collapsed, and Ferrari had to find a new way to support his mother. So in late 1918 he took a job as a test driver with a small car company in Milan. By 1920, he was racing for Alfa Romeo, and he took first prize...
...Alex, 38, and Stephen, 35, grew up in metro Atlanta, the second and third sons of a minister. (Their older brother works at IBM). Both earned communication degrees at Georgia's Kennesaw State University, attended seminary and got ministerial jobs at Sherwood. After reading a study about the influence of movies on culture and the relative lack of influence of the church, the brothers decided to return to what had been an adolescent hobby, playing with a video camera. In 2003, they asked their church for $20,000 to form a production company, Sherwood Pictures, and make a movie, Flywheel...
...potentially mediocre comedy: a rough plot is introduced, star power is announced in big captions, and the majority of the movie’s jokes are revealed in less than three minutes. A casual once-over would divulge to the audience that Chris Farley’s brother was playing the role of fat, angry, and ultraliberal “Michael Malone,” who is joined in his onscreen shenanigans by stars like Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, James Woods, John Voight, Trace Adkins, and Bill O’Reilly. Before...
...years. Hammer was given the award for Best Director at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film, which will begin a theatrical run at the Kendall Square Cinema on October 17, revolves around the impact that a man’s suicide has on his twin brother, ex-lover, and young son. Utilizing three nonprofessional, local actors to portray the principal characters lends the film a sense of weight and realism. But the actors do far more in the film than act; according to Hammer, they were even responsible for writing the actual dialogue...