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ALAMOGORDO -- Governor Bill Richardson today announced DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures and director Michael Bay will return to New Mexico to film major sequences for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The next installment of the box office hit Transformers is expected to hit theaters next summer.

“Transformers was a huge success and I am pleased that Dream Works, Paramount Pictures and Michael Bay have decided to return to New Mexico to film the second installment,” said Governor Richardson.

The first film, starring Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox and John...

Monday, June 9, 2008
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Governor Bill Richardson today announced that Spanish film company, Origen PC, committed to explore the possibility of doing business in New Mexico following a meeting in Madrid.

Origen executives told the Governor they would visit New Mexico in about a month and scout locations for co-production opportunities. They will also look at possibly relocating one of its productions to New Mexico.

“Origen was looking at doing business in North America and its executives were astonished that an American governor would personally meet with them,” said Governor Richardson, who is in Europe this...

Monday, June 9, 2008
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Application Deadline: June 2, 2008 @ 5:00 PM

The New Mexico Film Office is pleased to announce NM FILMMAKERS MENTORSHIPS, made possible by JTIP for Film and Multimedia. The Mentorship Program is open to New Mexico residents age 18 and older, who wish to advance their film careers by shadowing professional above-the-line or specialty talent on major productions. Mentorship is available for the following positions:

• Director
• Producer
• Writer
• Editor
• Production Designer
• Line Producer
• Unit Production Manager
• Production Supervisor
• Script Supervisor
• Casting Director

A world-class film studio proposed for construction in south Santa Fe took a major step closer to reality Tuesday with the purchase by Santa Fe County of 65 acres from the State Land Office.

The move clears the way for the county to begin negotiations with Santa Fe Studios, which is hoping to build a 172,000 square-foot, eco-friendly facility on the land off N.M 14 south of town.

Officials at the Land Office Tuesday accepted a $1.82 million check from the county. An additional $480,000 was credited toward the purchase for infrastructure improvements on the site, which has been leased by the...

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
by Kiera Hay • Journal Santa Fe

The 80th annual awards show will be held Feb. 24 at the Kodak Theatre and will feature a host of A-list stars. Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus, George Clooney and Nicole Kidman will be among the presenters. Others include Denzel Washington, Martin Scorsese, Cate Blanchett, Cameron Diaz, Harrison Ford and Tom Hanks.

John Stewart will be this year’s Oscar host. Stewart has been host and executive producer of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, winner of four consecutive Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series, since 1999.

Friday, February 15, 2008

Directed by Joe Wright. Screenplay by Christopher Hampton. Based on the novel by Ian McEwan. Starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy.

“A young girl… sees something from her bedroom window that she doesn’t understand, but that she thinks she does.” So 18-year-old Briony Tallis describes the story she’s writing that about an incident that happened five years earlier, an incident that forever changed the lives of Briony’s sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley), Cecilia’s lover (James McAvoy), and Briony herself.

The tap-tap-tapping of a typewriter is woven into the movie’s soundtrack and...

Friday, February 15, 2008
by Annie Lux

Directed by Jason Reitman. Screenplay by Diablo Cody. Starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, and Jennifer Garner.

Finally, a Best Picture nominee in which no one gets shot, there is no blood, and no one does anything reprehensible. Instead we have the story of Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page), an offbeat teenager who finds herself pregnant after her first and only sexual experience—an encounter that’s more experiment than romance with her best buddy, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). She plans for an abortion but can’t go through with it, so she and her friend Leah (Olivia Thurlby) find...

Friday, February 15, 2008
by Annie Lux

Written and directed by Tony Gilroy. Starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton.

From the very first moments of Michael Clayton, the stress level is high. The urgent ranting of a desperate man is heard over the lit-up skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan. In the boardroom of a prestigious New York law firm, an army of attorneys labors through the night. Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) is sweating bullets in the ladies’ room. And then we see Michael Clayton (George Clooney) in a seedy, high-stakes card game. He’s losing, and not just at cards: he’s recently lost his shirt in a bar...

Friday, February 15, 2008
by Annie Lux

Written and directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem and Kelly Mcdonald.

No Country for Old Men, the newest offering from the prolific Coen Brothers, has already collected a slew of awards from various film critics’ societies as well as a handful of Golden Globe nominations. It’s also at the top of my own list of best films I’ve seen this year. Not everyone may agree: as I left the theater I heard more than one of my fellow moviegoers grumbling, “ That was the ending??” True, viewers expecting a standard Hollywood thriller with clear-cut...

Friday, February 15, 2008
by Annie Lux

Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Based on the novel Oil by Upton Sinclair. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, and Dillon Freasier.

As the last days of Gilded Age fade into the early 20th century, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) works his way up from silver miner to oil man, taking his baby son H.W. from place to place as he buys up drilling rights in small towns. When a young man sells information about an oil deposit on his family’s ranch, Daniel heads out to Little Boston, California, to scope out the land, pretending to be on a camping trip with H.W., now a little...

Friday, February 15, 2008
by Annie Lux