Showing posts with label Lakewood Ranch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lakewood Ranch. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Tickets for Winterfest at Lakewood Ranch available

    Winterfest, the new music festival slated for Lakewood Ranch March 29-30.
   Regular one day tickets are $11.34 for kids ages 3-10, $16.52 for ages 11-17 with a valid student ID and $26.87 for adults.
   Two-day tickets are also available for $42.39. (No two-day tickets are available for kids or students, at least at this time.)
   You can also get VIP tickets for $259.74 per day, or $363.24 for both days. Those tickets get you into an air-conditioned VIP area.
Rick Derringer
   The lineup announced thus far includes Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane, Jeff Cook of country band Alabama, Manatee County resident Rick Derringer performing with his former musical partner Edgar Winter, "Key Largo" singer Bertie Higgins, country stalwart Billy Dean, 11-year-old guitar phenom Jake Castro and popular locals the Billy Rice Band.
    There's no word yet on which acts will play which days.
Jeff Cook
   Organizers say more acts will be announced later, and that they'll cover a broad range of genres, from blues and rock to jazz.
   The festival is scheduled to run from 10 a.m. until 11 p.m. at the Premier Sports Complex in Lakewood Ranch.
   Besides music, Winterfest will include more than 50 vendors and a kids' area.
    Winterfest officials predict about 20,000 people will attend each day. They say they plan to make Winterfest an annual event.
   You can buy tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/435550, and you can get festival information at www.lwrwinterfest.com.
   

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2013/06/19/4575800/winterfest-brings-major-rock-and.html#storylink=cpy

Monday, January 14, 2013

Bradenton-shot film 'Blind Pass,' starring Armand Assante, to be screened at Burns Court

Armand Assante in Lakewood Ranch on the set of "Blind Pass." PUBLICITY PHOTO

"Blind Pass," the Armand Assante movie I watched being filmed about a year ago in Lakewood Ranch, will be screened Jan. 26 at Burns Court Cinemas in Sarasota.

Sarasota-based independent film production company Midnight Pass Productions officially announced today that producers Steve Tatone and Danielle White are inviting members of the media, area film investors and select regional and government film supporters to the invitation-only private screening of their new feature length motion picture.

Yes, I'm attending.

The special event is designed to raise awareness of the new movie and upcoming MPP film projects and to encourage funding for the global marketing of “Blind Pass’.

Tatone, the writer/producer/director of “Blind Pass,” stated that his psychological drama, shot entirely on location in Sarasota, Bradenton and Lakewood Ranch as well as in Dublin and County Clare, Ireland, is set to be showcased on the 2013 international film festival circuit and to industry studio executives and distributors.

The Tatone/White producing team got their start with their collaboration on the musical-drama “Beautiful Noise,” a locally shot film also written and directed by Tatone that sold out an unprecedented six showings at the 2010 Sarasota Film Festival.

Other topics to be discussed at the Burns Court screening will be Tatone’s upcoming collaboration with White. “Serenade” is a new film expanding the “Beautiful Noise” storyline that will be shot later this year in Sarasota and Manatee counties as well as in Amsterdam and Greece.

Tatone also states there will be an update on a recent kickoff in Boston of a major film of his original screenplay “Turk.” He describes it as "a true-life sports/drama about the rise, fall and redemption of former Boston Bruin great Derek Sanderson."

The movie "reveals the incredible on and off ice exploits of Sanderson and his close relationship with hockey legend Bobby Orr."

Tatone is a member of the producing team bringing the film to the big screen and will be working with  Hollywood writer-director Doug Atchison (“Akeelah and the Bee”) and actor-writer Edward Burns (“Saving Private Ryan," "The Brothers McMullen"), who is playing Sanderson’s father and co-producing the film. “Turk” is scheduled to commence principal photography this spring in Boston and Canada.

In addition to Assante, “Blind Pass” features local resident White, past winner of Fox’s “American Juniors” reality show. Chris McKenna co-stars as her psychologist, with the pair spending about 80 percent of the film together, according to Tatone. He’s best known for his appearances on the CW series “90210.” Veteran Hollywood character actor Ed Lauter (“Leaving Las Vegas,” “The Longest Yard,” “Seabiscuit”), Mike McGlone (“The Brothers McMullen,” “She’s the One”), Tampa-based Mary Rachel Dudley (“Dear John,” “Free Ride”) and up-and-coming child star Sydney Rouviere, a South Florida native whose appearances include “The Glades” TV series, are also appearing in “Blind Pass.”

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2011/12/01/3691857/armand-assante-movie-filming-in.html#storylink=cpy


Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2011/12/01/3691857/armand-assante-movie-filming-in.html#storylink=cpy

Friday, October 22, 2010

Cine-World Film Festival in Sarasota/Manatee features potential Oscar winners

Danny Boyle's "127 Hours," Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" and John Cameron Mitchell's "Rabbit Hole"— all generating Oscar buzz — are among the 30-plus titles hitting screens at Cine-World.

"127 Hours" stars James Franco in the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston amputating his own arm in order to free himself from a boulder. Ouch!

Natalie Portman (big Oscar talk for her performance) Winona Ryder and Barbara Hershey are cast in "Black Swan," a thriller set in the ballet world of New York City.

Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart star in"Rabbit Hole," the film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning stage drama by David Lindsay-Abaire, who also penned the screenplay.

The Sarasota Film Society's 21st Annual Cine-World Film Festival takes place Nov. 5 through 11 at Burns Court Cinemas in Sarasota with special shows at Lakewood Ranch Cinemas in East Manatee.

Film passes available to SFF members Oct. 25; general public Oct. 28. Individual tickets go on sale Nov. 1.

Click for complete Cine-World schedule.