C-U Blogfidential

If TRON can spawn a sequel, why not PRESS START? Dark Maze Studios of Champaign reveals that PRESS START 2 CONTINUE is currently in production.

Several individuals would like to stand up in front of a local audience this week and tell us all about it. Are you game to listen and learn, dearest readers?

THE INFORMANT! collects $14 million at the U.S. box office during its first full week of release.

A series of presentations to showcase the creative, non-commercial output of post-World War II filmmakers in Europe to help the intercontinental “Marshall Plan” meet its goals will be held September 24-26, 2009, on the Unviersity of Illinois campus under the title, “Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948–1953,” hosted by Sandra Schulberg.

The eighth annual Route 66 International Film Festival presents the best in global independent cinema at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Springfield, IL, on September 19-20, 2009.

THE INFORMANT! is now playing in a theater near you.

It’s not often that one sees such a potluck served here at C-U Blogfidential, but here you go … all nine courses’ worth.

The Avon Theater in Decatur, IL, will start playing the Warner Bros. picture THE INFORMANT!, starring Matt Damon, on September 18, 2009.

A double-feature of locally-made short film thrillers will premiere under the umbrella title DOGHOUSE at The Canopy Club in Urbana, IL, at 4:45 p.m. on Sunday, September 6, 2009.

Champaign Movie Makers is on the move thanks to Johnny Robinson and club volunteers! Upcoming projects include a short film premiere and a mixer open to the public.

Here at C-U Blogfidential, we believe that your film has the right to be seen outside of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond. Click here for a hit list of opportunities to help your film do just that.

The Canopy Club in Urbana, IL, hosts this year’s Illini Film & Video Spring Film Festival tomorrow, Sunday, May 3, 2009, starting at 5 p.m.

They once called him the poor man’s Roger Ebert. They were right. Help him realize that it is not such a bad thing by attending the first-ever C-U Confidential local movie show, “Local Cinema @ Paradiso,” this Friday, April 17, 2009, from 6-10 p.m. at Caffe Paradiso in Urbana!

The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the movies to be showcased at the eleventh annual edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.

Anthony Zoubek finally explains it all for the C-U Blogfidential readership. In this sixth entry, he tackles Tarsem’s baroque sensibilities as evidenced in THE CELL.