Boston and Ben Affleck go together like the Red Sox and Fenway Park, so it makes sense that Warner Bros. would court the director for its latest Boston-based project. But Affleck, who set his first two films (“Gone, Baby, Gone” and “The Town”) in present-day Boston, might need to brush up on his Beantown history before he takes the helm of the movie — it’s based on a book about… Continue reading Ben Affleck for 'Bunker Hill'? Director May Return to Boston for Revolutionary War Film
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Steve Jobs wanted to create a fully integrated line of Apple TV sets with “the simplest user interface you can imagine.”
According to a report in The Washington Post reviewing Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the Apple co-founder, Jobs saw the company’s current Apple TV-branded set-top boxes as merely the starting point for conquering the home theater space.
The Post quoted from the book:
“He very much wanted to… Continue reading Steve Jobs planned revolutionary TV sets
Jackie Chan leads a revolution, a creepy urban legend comes to life, and Butch Cassidy rides again in this week’s roundup of independent film.
Opening This Weekend
Jackie Chan stars in 1911, which will open on 33 screens across the country. Chan plays Huang Xing, a military leader who returns from Japan to discover his homeland in turmoil; he then leads a rebellion against the despotic rule of the Qing