Every year, the summer movie season offers a host of big-budget, popcorn-popping blockbuster movies. Last week, “Jurassic World” smashed box office records by becoming the first film to take in $1 billion in just 13 days. Here, Daily Bruin A&E discusses five other movies which promise to make this summer one of the biggest-grossing in […]
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Q&A: UCLA alumna Joannie Burstein talks success in entertainment industry
In 2008, UCLA alumna Joannie Burstein was invited to stay at the Versace home in Milan with her client, “Grey’s Anatomy” star and the face of the brand’s ad campaign, Patrick Dempsey. Not knowing that her career would lead her to such places, Burstein landed an assistant job at a talent agency 31 years ago, […]
Screenwriting lecturer retires, reflects on teaching experience
When senior lecturer Hal Ackerman was first asked to teach at UCLA, he was terrified. He said he had no confidence that he could offer students any advice that merited real value. Now, 30 years later, Ackerman sits in his office where movie posters cover the walls. On these posters are personal insignias from the […]
India Carney recounts final performance on ‘The Voice’
Wearing a flowing red dress, India Carney performed Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” onstage for NBC’s “The Voice” in front of dramatic projected backdrops of scenery ranging from shores to meadows. The fourth-year music performancestudent sealed a position in the semifinal with coach and Grammy Award-winning singer Christina Aguilera in the eighth season of the reality […]
Movie Review: ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’
“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Fox Searchlight Pictures 4.0/5.0 Paws “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” pays tribute to the youth culture it portrays. Its trailer alone features an awkward panda suit, a steampunk classmate, movie references and ironic cancer sympathy cards. While the young adult dramedy does […]
Entourage Red Carpet Premiere
Movie review: ‘Entourage’
“Entourage”Directed by Doug EllinWarner Bros.2.0 / 5.0 paws SPECTRUM GALLERY: Entourage movie premiere In some far off, destitute fantasy landscape known as 2004, Doug Ellin decided to create a television show that should have done for men what “Sex and the City” did for women. That is, provide a quirky analysis on gender traits and […]