The Newbery-winning book The Giver is something like a children’s super-novel. More than 10 million copies of The Giver have been sold, with dozens of translations (Czech, Hungarian, Thai) and the title is a staple on the middle schooler’s English syllabus. Lowry, who is now 77-years old, still receives fan mail for the book on a day-to-day basis. While…
Much like the world of art and literature, the world of cinema appearance as a rainbow-flag-wielding protestor outside the gates would be nothing without its female muse to inspire and admire. With hollywood’s cutthroat environment making it an immensely challenging industry in which to succeed, it takes a special talent, irrespective of gender, to break…
The Untitled Magazine releases The “Legendary” Issue 7 The "Legendary" Issue 7 of The Untitled Magazine is now available in over 30 countries, with a release on May 7th in the UK and May 30th in the United States. The special collector’s edition presents a cross-over of the most inspirational talent in music, film and fashion…
The 13th annual Tribeca Film Festival launched April 16th. For the opening night at the Beacon Theatre, the festival presented a screening of the Nas documentary "Time is Illmatic," followed by a performance by the rapper. Some of the more anticipated films that are slated to be screened at the festival include: the Bjork concert film…
Photo courtesy of Gucci The ever-multifaceted James Franco and Gucci have collaborated again in a new video short promoting the designer's spring eyewear campaign. Franco takes both directing and starring roles in the the film, appearing alongside Italian supermodel Natalia Bonifacci. The retro-inspired advertisement, entitled Techno Color Sunglasses, was shot at the iconic Chateau Marmont…
Yinka Shonibare MBE @ Brand New Gallery Milano, Italy March 26, 2014 - May 10, 2014 Brand New Gallery will host the first solo exhibition in an Italian gallery of British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE, opening on the 26th of March and running through May 10th. In this multi-part exhibition of sculptures, photography, and film, Shonibare…
From scintillating stories of 1970s con artists to cruel tales of pre-Civil War slavery, the past year proved to be a wonderful year for film lovers. Ticket holders were treated to Martin Scorsese's corporate greed-driven The Wolf of Wall Street, David O. Russell's star-studded crime flick American Hustle, Steve McQueen's epic historical drama 12 Years a Slave, and many…
Warner Bros. Records will release the original motion picture soundtrack to Endless Love on February 11th, 2014. The romantic drama will hit theaters nationwide on Valentine's Day. The movie stars Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde in the story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying…
Vampire Academy, based on the worldwide bestselling series, tells the legend of Rose Hathaway and Lissa Dragomir, two 17-year-old girls who attend a hidden boarding school for vamires. Rose, a rebellious Guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa – a royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St.Vladamirs…
Auteur director Wes Anderson has joined forces with Prada to produce Castello Cavalcanti. The eight minute short film features Wes Anderson regular Jason Schwartzman (Moonrise Kingdom, I Heart Huckabees) in the starring role, and is set to simultaneously premiere at today's Rome Film Festival and Prada's website. Anderson is on writing and directing duties, with Alessandro Casella…
Few sentences inspire less confidence than “based on real events.” The second these four words crawl across a title card it becomes clear that the film has something to defend. In Philomena’s case it’s a shield for craftless, naked, emotional manipulation. Philomena is the herald of Oscar season, when the pretense of heart and wit…
Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Simon LeBon and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran at the premiere of 'Duran Duran: Unstaged' during the 6th Annual MoMA Contenders Series at MoMA, NYC. Boasting a formidable jukebox of Top 10 singles including ‘Hungry like the Wolf’, ‘A View to a Kill’ and ‘Ordinary World’, Birmingham's legendary rock foursome Duran Duran teamed…
It’s fairly common for industry-thrived stars to include several titles towards their already extensive IMDB profile these days. Amanda Peet is no different. New York native, Peet has been polishing her expertise on “The Good Wife” since 2012 and fine-tuning her much anticipated play, “The Commons of Pensacola”. The forty-one-year old actress is no new…
"Words are life." Filming a novel whose sole purpose is to defy the death of books and liberate actual reading, The Book Thief is a rarity in the neverending book-to-movie influx. Armed with a whole off and onscreen team of Oscar-winners, calculated cinematography, Schindler's List composer and costume designer and a genuinely wholehearted cast, Downton Abbey director…
With the advancement of film technology, movies became an untapped resource, from which designers could not only market and sell their fashions, but also from which they could attach a certain cache and iconography from the film to their clothing. The costumes these designers made for the blockbuster films of their day have gone on…
ASVOFF 6 Centre Pompidou 19 Rue Beaubourg, 75004 Paris, France October 11 - October 13 In the sixth edition of her landmark fashion film festival, ASVOFF founder Diane Pernet has cast her net wider than ever before to capture the most globally diverse, panoramic and intercontinental programme to date at the Centre Pompidou. Once again,…
Perez Hilton talks about The Untitled Magazine's Vanessa Hudgen's cover shoot on Coco Perez: "Untitled is great way to describe this HAWTNESS…we're almost SPEECHLESS! Vanessa Hudgens smolders on the cover of Untitled's Cinema issue and there were any shreds of innocence left on her, they have surely evaporated by now! Inside, the Spring Breaker shows…
Long before she was the Baywatch vixen and MTV personality that we know today, Carmen Electra was Tara Leigh Patrick, the small-town girl from Ohio whose singing chops caught the ear of rock demigod Prince, who, incidentally, was the one who suggested she change her name. “We decided Carmen Electra was gonna be it. I…
In its seventeenth year, the New York International Fringe Festival will take place August 9 - August 25 in venues across Manhattan. FringeNYC is the largest multi-arts festival in North America, with more than 200 companies from all over the world performing for 16 days in more than 20 venues. A production of The Present…
Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios @ MOMA The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters MOMA 11 W 53rd St New York, NY 10019 June 5 - July 8, 2013 Allan Dwan (1885–1981), dubbed “the last pioneer” by Peter Bogdanovich, had a 50-year career as a director (from 1911 to 1961)…
