Crash

Release Date: Feb. 27
Director: Wayne Kramer
Writers: Wayne Kramer
Cinematographer: Jim Whitaker
Studio/Run Time: The Weinstein Company, 140 mins.
Crossing Over, the new film from writer-director Wayne Kramer, highlights what was good and what was bad about Paul Haggis’ 2006 Oscar winner Crash. Haggis told us that Los Angeles is a haven for racists, and Stacy Peralta told us, in Crips and Bloods, that it’s essentially a gang town, and Kramer gives us a third version: Los Angeles is the land of illegal immigrants. You’d think that since these views overlap a fair bit, they might all acknowledge worlds beyond their own myopic perspectives, but Kramer’s sweeping aerial shots imply that he’s giving us a total picture, just like Peralta’s carved up maps and Haggis’ recurring ironies wove dubious Californian quilts of their own.

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By Cathy Schulman (to Eric Estrin)
Cathy Schulman’s rise from Yale theater studies major and playwright to her current position as president of Mandalay Pictures included stints in film production, development, acquisitions, financing and three years programming the Sundance Film Festival. She won an Academy Award as producer for best picture “Crash,” and suffered through a much publicized legal battle with Michael Ovitz, whose one-time production company, Apg, she briefly headed. Schulman talks with Eric Estrin about going from the depths to the heights -- and how it feels to be sued by the most powerf...
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Sci Fi Wire st down with Terrence Howard to discuss what he thinks happened regarding his deal with Marvel that included Howard returning for two more "Iron Man" film as James "Rhodey" Rhodes. As many of you know by now, the studio brought on Don Cheadle to replace him. "They made a choice. They made a very, very bad choice," said Howard. "They didn't keep their word. They didn't honor our contract. They sent everyone out into a field and told them to work and produce a great bounty. You produce a great bounty, and then when it's all in the storehouse, you are not allowed into the storehouse." He continued: "They did the same thing with Gwyneth [Paltrow], from what I've been told. They did it with almost everyone, I think, except Downey throughout the thing. One of the things that actors need to learn to do is take a

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