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Coming Of Age YouTube Video With 7.3M Views Filmed In NJ Will Become Hollywood Film Coming Of Age YouTube Video With 7.3M Views Filmed In NJ Will Become Hollywood Film
Coming Of Age YouTube Video With 7.3M Views Filmed In NJ Will Become Hollywood Film A young director's short film on YouTube with more than 7.3 million views that was filmed across New Jersey will soon be made into a major motion picture. According to Deadline, TriStar Pictures — a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment — purchased the rights to Wesley Wang's "nothing, except everything" following a bidding war. It will be produced by Darren Aronofsky and his company, Protozoa Pictures. The 12-minute 50-second movie is about a graduating high schooler navigating a "world of seemingly inevitable chaos by finding order in the number 7," according to the IMDB desc…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Stephen Colbert To Interview Martin Scorsese At NJPAC Stephen Colbert To Interview Martin Scorsese At NJPAC
Stephen Colbert To Interview Martin Scorsese At Njpac Stephen Colbert will be sitting down with Martin Scorsese later this month at NJPAC in an evening that will benefit the Montclair Film Festival. Scorsese, an Academy Award winner, is being honored at this year's event, which runs Oct. 20 to 29. Colbert, an Upper Montclair resident, will be sitting down with Scorsese at NJPAC in Newark, on Oct. 27, and ticket sales will benefit the MFF. The event description calls the event its 2023 Filmmaker Tribute to Martin Scorsese, "one of cinema’s greatest filmmakers.  Click here to purchase tickets to "An Evening With Martin Scorsese & Step…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Trailer Drops For 'Oppenheimer' Movie Filmed In NJ Trailer Drops For 'Oppenheimer' Movie Filmed In NJ
Trailer Drops For 'Oppenheimer' Movie Filmed In NJ The trailer has dropped for the star-studded Universal Pictures movie filmed in New Jersey about atomic bomb creator J. Robert Oppenheimer (scroll for video). The Christopher Nolan film titled simply "Oppenheimer" stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon.  The movie was filmed in New Mexico and Princeton, NJ, and is expected to hit theaters July 2023. According to Universal Pictures, Oppenheimer is an "IMAX®-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it." …

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by Cecilia Levine
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NJ Birthplace Of Moving Motion Picture Now Has Museum, Screening Facility NJ Birthplace Of Moving Motion Picture Now Has Museum, Screening Facility
NJ Birthplace Of Moving Motion Picture Now Has Museum, Screening Facility Hollywood isn't where the motion picture industry got its start — that would be Fort Lee. And the borough finally has the Barrymore Film Center & Museum to honor that. The newly-built facility will open Friday, Oct. 21, marking the beginning of unique film programming in the region. It features a 260-seat cinema, film museum and archive — dedicated to the role Fort Lee played as the birthplace of the film industry. Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich spearheaded efforts to build the BFC and ensure its success as a film center and museum, but also an economic boost for the region. C…

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by Cecilia Levine