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Catholic Online's TV Review

A Monumental Man of God: Two Takes on the Life of John Paul II
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
From The New York Times, December 1st, 2005

ABC's Prayers Answered With It's Pope Movie
By ADAM BUCKMAN
From The New York Post, November 30th, 2005

Offer Competing Views of John Paul II Respectful Miniseries, Special
By Mark A. Perigard
From The Boston Herald, November 30th, 2005

Two Visions of the Man Who Would Become Pope
By ALAN RIDING
From The New York Times, September 28, 2005



June 26, 2003

He's more than just a salad. Hold the parmesan and croutons, because Caesar isn't merely for lunch anymore. He's now one of those two-night, four-hour miniseries jobs that lay on the costumes and period details particularly heavily. In this impressive TNT production, Julius Caesar is also a lot of other things: friend, statesman, orator, ruler, epileptic, nobleman, jerk. In short, he's painted here as a particularly complex guy, which lends considerable historical fuel to an epic that moves beyond cheese to search for the soul of a man painted in great cultural ambiguity. "Caesar" is ambitious and, perhaps even more surprising, perfectly literate and watchable. Click here for full article.



July 18, 2002

11 Emmy Nominations for James Dean!

James Dean garnered 10 nominations during 54th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards announcements made July 18, 2002. In addition to a nomination for Best Made for Television Movie, nominations for James Franco as Best Actor and Michael Moriarty as Best Supporting Actor were announced. Additional nominations were as follows:

Best Make-up, Best Hairstyling, Best Single Camera Picture Editing, Best Director, Best Costumes, Best Cinematography, Best Casting, and Best Art Direction.

Read more about James Dean.



May 1, 2002

JULIUS CAESAR

IT'S A WRAP GATES HAVE BEEN CHECKED!!!!!!!
Five Mile River Films thanks Jeremy Sisto, Christopher Walken, Richard Harris, Chris Noth, Valeria Golino, the Director Uli Edel, the Writers Peter Pruce and Craig Warner, the Director of Photography Fabio Cianchetti, the Cast Director Jeremy Zimmermann, the Costume Designer Simonetta Leoncini and the Production Designer Francesco Bronzi, all the cast and the entire crew for the immense efforts that have allowed the Executive Producers Lorenzo Minoli and Russell Kagan to WRAP Principal Photography of this huge and magnificent movie. Five Mile River Films thanks TNT for the support as coproducer.


May 1, 2002

Nick Mayer to write "Emperor of the City. A Story of Rudy Giuliani."




January 22, 2002

"Giuliani to be subject of TV movie"

NEW YORK (Reuters) --After producing such TNT Bible telepics as "Abraham," "Moses," "David" and the Emmy-winning "Joseph," Five Mile River Films partners Lorenzo Minoli and Russ Kagen will next mount a telepic on former Gotham mayor Rudy Giuliani, Variety reports.... Click for article.




Wednesday, 23 January, 2002, 16:55 GMT

"Giuliani's life to become movie"

He has been out of the mayor's office for just three weeks, but the film rights to the life story of former New York City politician Rudolph Giuliani have already been bought by a movie company.... Click for article.





New York, January 23, 2002

"TV Producers Option Rights To Book About Former Mayor Giuliani"

A film company has purchased the rights to a biography of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and is expected to make Giuliani's story into a television movie.... Click for article.





January 23, 2002

"Television producers buy rights to book about former mayor Giuliani"

NEW YORK -- An independent film company has purchased the rights to an unauthorized biography of former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for a television movie....Click for article.


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