Three Actors Join Indie Dramedy 'Admissions'

Podcast: How Indie Game stayed “indie” and became a hit

We're triple indie on this podcast as we talk with the indie filmmakers of Indie Game about carving out their indie success.

gigaom.com (1 month and 25 days ago)

Tina Fey and Paul Rudd tackle issues of academia and adoption in 'Admission'

In the dramedy “Admission,” Tina Fey plays a Princeton University admissions officer named Portia Nathan, who leads a very straight-laced, “by the book” life. Her world is turned upside down when her longtime live-in...

examiner.com (1 month and 27 days ago)

The MBA admissions process should be about self-discovery and development

Pete Johnson, Advisory Director at Fortuna Admissions, was Executive Director of Admissions for the full-time program at Berkeley-Haas for over 10 years, and in 2010 became Vice President of Student Services at Central European University in Budapest. He shares his perspective on changes in the admissions to top business schools, and the importance of self-reflection which...

forbes.com (3 months and 2 days ago)

Gina Hall: Indie Filmmakers Should Consider Writing for Older Actors

Robert Redford's new film is the decent kind of drama we've come to expect around April before all the real special effects fireworks start in May. What's actually interesting about The Company You Keep, for independent filmmakers, is the concept of what I like to call the "old-people ensemble," and it looks like a viable strategy in getting an independent film made. Older...

huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 15 days ago)

The humor in college 'Admission'

Actors Gloria Reuben and Wallace Shawn on the funny side of the college admissions process in the new movie "Admission."

cnn.com (2 months and 1 day ago)

NYU Admissions ‘Ambassadors’ deluged by rejected demanding answers

A letter from a college admissions office can either send high school seniors soaring or crashing. These folk crashed and burned. The Office of Admissions at New York University fielded a flurry of calls from rejected applicants who just couldn’t understand why they didn’t get into the prestigious private university.

nydailynews.com (1 month and 18 days ago)

Q&A: 'Admission' Star Lily Tomlin on Playing Tina Fey's Mom

It's somehow fitting for comedy legend Lily Tomlin to play Tina Fey's mother in the new dramedy Admission opening nationwide Friday Tomlin portrays the Bella Abzug-worshiping Susannah who conceived her daughter Portia (Tina Fey) with a nameless man on a New Jersey Transit train Portia a buttoned up Princeton admissions...

rollingstone.com (2 months and 1 day ago)

Jennifer Lawrence, 'Silver Linings' Win Big At 2013 Indie Spirits

The 'Silver Linings Playbook' star's win was one of four awards the dramedy took home a day before the Oscars. By MTV News Staff Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and David O. Russel at the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards Photo: Getty Images

mtv.com (2 months and 27 days ago)

Brit Marling to Join Hailee Steinfeld in Daniel Barber's Indie Movie (Exclusive)

msn.com (27 days ago)

Carrie Anne Moss in town for MIFF

Carrie Anne Moss is fit and fabulous. The Matrix star strutted her toned stuff at the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Miami Saturday night. The Canadian actress and mother of three, 45, partook in a Q&A for her indie, Mexican dramedy The Boy Who Smells Like Fish, about a young man suffering from an odd malady, for the Miami...

miamiherald.com (2 months and 18 days ago)