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When I saw on Deadline that filming has wrapped on an action thriller called Turbulence, my first thought was, “Is it a remake?” This despite the fact that there have been multiple films with the title Turbulence over the years. I thought it might have something to do with the 1997 film with the title, which starred Lauren Holly as a flight attendant stuck on a plane with a serial killer played by Ray Liotta. As it turns out, the new Turbulence doesn’t have anything to do with that franchise… but it is a hot air balloon thriller that stars Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) and Kelsey Grammer (Frasier), so it might make for an interesting viewing experience.

Coming our way from the team behind the recent action film No Way Up, including director Claudio Faeh (Northmen: A Viking Saga) and writer Andy Mayson, who is also producing the film,...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the action comedy Ace of Hearts, starring Dean Cain. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Directed by David Mackay from a screenplay by Frederick Ayeroff, Ace of Hearts has the following synopsis: A police officer tries to save his beloved partner, a German shepherd, from being put to sleep. Ace is wrongly accused of mauling a suspect, and his 13-year-old daughter steps in to prove the dog’s innocence.

Cain is joined in the cast by Britt McKillip, Mike Dopud, Anne Marie DeLuise, David Patrick Green, Burkely Duffield,...

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After Addams Family Values struggled at the box office, another film still followed a few years later. But Addams Family 3 this was not...

Were the world right, then in 1993, Addams Family Values would have got both the rich acclaim and enormous box office it merited. A deliciously playful sequel, it’s 94 minutes of tightly put together comedy, with a bunch of performers that come close to defining ‘perfectly cast’. Christina Ricci, clinging to a fence as she’s threatened with the Harmony Hut, remains a comedy highlight of 1990s cinema.

But the film didn’t really hit. As much as it was liked, its box office was less than half of the original. It was released the week before Mrs Doubtfire in the Us, and it was the latter that become the widely seen family comedy of Christmas 1993. Addams Family Values would do okay at best, but...

Helen Gurley Brown, the pioneering author of Sex and the Single Girl, the 1962 book which scandalized America with its stories of women having sex before marriage, and the founder of Cosmo magazine, died Monday at age 90. Two of her friends, who also helped change America’s view of sex, talked with The Hollywood Reporter about the influence of her life and work. Hugh Hefner founded Playboy magazine in 1953, spurring on the sexual revolution. Erica Jong coined the term “zipless f---” in Fear of Flying, her controversial 1973 novel about sex and relationships, and went on

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Erica Jong, author of the best-selling 1973 novel Fear of Flying (and many books since), has often courted controversy by saying in public just what she thinks.

Now 70, she is still happy to speak out, as a Us-based website called The Slant - slogan: there's always more to the story - discovered.

Here's Jong on the refusal of Arianna Huffington to pay writers for contributing to her blog sites:

"The idea that everybody's writing for free is hurting writing as a profession. I wrote many articles for Arianna when she was establishing her aggregator blog and attracting all those eyeballs.

When she got $300m from the AOL acquisition, I said, 'Ok, Arianna, we all helped you get there so now you're going to pay writers.' She said, 'No, I pay my editors.' I've known Arianna for years...

I knew her when she was anti-feminist. I knew her when she was right wing.

I couldn't get away from it. My girlfriends were talking about it; columnists were writing about it; Saturday Night Live was spoofing it. It was all I heard about.

Then I was getting my hair cut in the quiet sanctuary of the salon I go to, but there was an unusual buzz all around me -- and it was unmistakably those same four little words.

"Fifty Shades of Grey..."

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Erotica has been alive and throbbing since the days of Ancient Greece and Rome, when someone scrawled those first steamy, toga-ripping words on a piece of papyrus. But in my lifetime, I've never seen a public reaction quiet as breathless (as in panting) as the collective sigh inspired by E.L. James's erotic S&M series. Is it possible for an entire nation to have a simultaneous orgasm? Apparently so: the "Fifty Shades" trilogy now occupies the number one,...

Grounded in a current day realism about sex, friendship, and work for recent college grads, HBO's much touted series Girls, airs this weekend. To focus on one aspect of its satire, in Girls, sex is free and freely given, an unsatisfying service by the girls, done with bewildered cads, happy to get what they can. Is this hooking up the logical extension of what Erica Jong extolled in her landmark 1973 novel Fear of Flying: "the zipless fuck?" Freed, women should pull down their pants at whim the way men do, right? For women who grew up with these "joys of sex," watching Hannah (Lena Dunham of Tiny Furniture fame who also writes and directs) and her twenty-something pals is an untoward vision of what many suspected back in the day, that liberation did not necessarily bring enlightenment. Viewers can watch Hannah's guy (Adam Driver) enter her from behind, with...

Irish short animation, 'Fear of Flying', has completed production in preparation for its premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh this July. Shot at Dublin-based South Studios, 'Fear of Flying' was funded by the Irish Film Board's Frameworks project, with RTÉ and the Arts Council. Conor Finnegan wrote and directed the short, while Ifta Award-winning producer Brunella Cocchiglia (Foxes) produced for Lovely Productions, flanked by cinematographer Ivan McCullough (The Eclipse). Mark Doherty (A Film with Me in it) voiced main character Dougal, while breakout actress of 'Behold the Lamb' Aoife Duffin co-starred...

HollywoodNews.com: You’ll read a lot about Sue Mengers today. In the 1960s and 70s she was a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood. A super agent before there were any, Mengers guided the careers of Barbra Streisand and so many A list names. In Julia Phillips‘ infamous memoir, “You’ll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again,” Mengers figures largely in the failure of Phillips to make Erica Jong‘s “Fear of Flying” into a movie with Goldie Hawn. But Mengers also figures largely in a lot of movies that were made, like Peter Bogdanovich‘s classics “Paper Moon” and “What’s Up Doc?” as well as the remake of “A Star is Born” with Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, among others.

Mengers’ clients included Cher, Michael Caine, Ali McGraw, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Bob Fosse, Peter Bogdanovich, Tatum O’Neal, Ryan O’Neal, Candice Bergen, Ann-Margret, Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd.

Christain Als Erica Jong

When Erica Jong published her first novel, “Fear of Flying,” almost 40 years ago, critics called it a watershed moment in the sexual revolution.

Today, Jong says that revolution has come and gone, and a new generation of female writers don’t always acknowledge the work of the women that came before them.

“They think of the sexual revolution as their parents’ revolution,” Jong, 69, said.

Jong has just released a new book titled “Sugar In My Bowl:...

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Architect, designer, and the advertising impresario behind Tronic, GoldRun.

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Big idea: "I want to turn every aspect of our lives into a game," says the 35-year-old entrepreneur, "by marrying the digital and the physical." Using video, animation, mobile apps, and now augmented reality, Rosenthal creates interactive advertising campaigns for brands ranging from H&M and Yahoo to Esquire magazine and shoe company Airwalk. Some of her projects seem like conceptual art, some like high-tech marketing. But at heart, they're architecture, she asserts. "What is architecture? It's about crafting experiences."

Credentials: After Rosenthal graduated...

Fear of flying and fear of large, tentacled sky beasts are just two of the themes explored in the film Altitude, released on Blu-ray and DVD this week. The film is the debut feature from acclaimed comic book artist Kaare Andrews and stars a number of young faces from Us TV’s ‘90210’, ‘Glory Daze’ and ‘Degrassi: The Next Generation’.

Rookie pilot Sara (Jessica Lowndes) offers to fly her four friends out to a Coldplay concert in a rented plane. Shortly into the flight, the plane’s instruments inexplicably begin to malfunction and a mechanical failure results in the plane heading into a steady, unstoppable climb. As the plane continues to ascend, a massive electrical storm closes in on their flight path and emotional tensions begin to rise within the confines of the small aircraft. But the problems onboard prove to be the least of their worries as outside, hidden in...

We were recently invited to the first Now Playing gig by the kind people over at Three to celebrate its partnership with Spotify. The first in a series of exclusive and intimate live music events, Now Playing London(#threenowplaying) has a stellar line-up – headlining are White Lies, accompanied by hotly tipped newcomers Everything Everything and I Am Arrows – needless to say we were quick to accept the invitation. DJ Eddie Temple Morris will also be at the decks throughout the night keeping the music flowing in-between sets.

Now Playing London (#threenowplaying) will be kicking off the series of gigs in style on Thursday 28th October at London’s Shoreditch Town Hall. We can’t wait to indulge in a night of music but we don’t want to go on our own – so we’re offering one lucky Blogomatic3000 reader the chance to bag themselves a pair of tickets.

So...

First a publishing sensation, now a Hollywood film, Elizabeth Gilbert's spiritual journey has plenty of followers. But does enlightenment come at a price?

Last week, Julia Roberts appeared on Us television to advertise her latest film, an adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's travel memoir, Eat Pray Love. Roberts, who while shooting the film in India became a Hindu, described it in terms of her character's spiritual journey and "the gambut" of emotions she runs, from divorce and despair to new love and happiness. It's an exciting gambut for the studio, too, which to promote the film's release yesterday in the Us (it is out in the UK next month) is offering three Eat Pray Love fragrances in conjunction with Fresh, and tie-in chakra beads from an Los Angeles-based jeweller.

Spiritual journeys are a basic requirement of good story telling, as marketing campaigns are of Hollywood films, so it is churlish get...

Hayden Christensen has agreed to star in director David R. Ellis’ (Snakes on a Plane, The Final Destination) upcoming thriller The Genesis Code, based on the novel by the same name written by John Case. Here’s the synopsis:

The story follows a former national security expert, played by Christensen, who, while investigating the murder of his only sister and her young son, discovers that a religious sect called The Shadow of the Cross may be involved. With the help of his sister’s friend Ana, they follow the clues to a clinic in the mountains of Italy, where a terrifying secret experiment has been conducted – successfully. The results are so threatening to the foundation of the Church that they will do anything to keep it from being revealed.

The film’s screenplay is written by Kevin Bernhardt. Myriad Pictures, who will co-produce the film, owns all rights worldwide, will...

Hayden Christensen joins The Genesis CodeHayden Christensen is on board for the lead role in director David R. Ellis' upcoming thriller The Genesis Code, based on the novel by the same name written by John Case. The film's screenplay is written by Kevin Bernhardt. Myriad Pictures, who will co-produce the film, owns all rights worldwide, will be selling the film at the upcoming Marche du Film in Cannes.

The producers are Tove Christensen, Myriad's CEO and President Kirk D'Amico, Michael Mailer and Alvaro Longoria.

The story follows a former national security expert, played by Christensen, who, while investigating the murder of his only sister and her young son, discovers that a religious sect called The Shadow of the Cross may be involved. With the help of his sister's friend Ana, they follow the clues to a clinic in the mountains of Italy, where a terrifying secret experiment has been conducted - successfully.

Jean-Claude Van Damme has become the latest celebrity to land his own reality TV show.

Following in the footsteps of The Osbournes, Snoop Dogg and Hulk Hogan, the martial arts expert will star in his own show to air on ITV1.

A show insider told The Sun: “Jc is an absolute legend and he’s great value.

“He’s had quite a life and he’s become a real character.

“You never quite know what he’s going to do or say next.

“The plan is for cameras to follow him at home and in the run-up to his comeback fight.

“So as well as his home life we’ll get to see his gruelling training regime, which with him being nearly 50 should be interesting.”

Jean is still considering which of his family members will star in the show alongside him.

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There was a lot going on last night on Private Practice, both in terms of patient stories and character drama. While tough to follow at times, it certainly didn't lack for drama.

"Fear of Flying" gets underway with Addison's pregnant patient, Elisha, who's about to marry her boyfriend, Esau, a Kenyan who needs a physical to get his visa renewed.

However, Sam finds he has tuberculosis - untreatable - and he is quarantined. The couple decides to make a run for it, but ultimately comes back when she goes into labor.

Immigration shows up to take him away, and it's very sad. Sam pretends he's sick long enough for him to see his baby, who will have to remain in the U.S. for treatment.

Meanwhile, Sam is apparently good with Addison and Pete now. The reason for that? New girlfriend Vanessa. Even though he thinks about Addison while he's with Vanessa.

This week on Private Practice, Addison, Pete and Sam all come together on a complicated case involving a father-to-be who comes down with tuberculosis and thus threatens the future of his new family ... and anyone else he comes in contact with.

That sounds rather intense... and potentially fatal.

Meanwhile, with Violet having escaped to Costa Rica, Sheldon takes over one of her patients, Natasha, to get over her devastating fear of flying (the episode is called "Fear of Flying").

Lastly, Naomi finds herself in a bit of a love triangle and the two gentlemen we think are involved - Fife and her boss, William - should make things very interesting to watch play out.

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"Fear of Flying" airs Thursday, March 4, right after an all-new episode of Grey's Anatomy. What do you think of Naomi's romantic prospects? Or about Pete and Addison's future?...

Sundance Channel's 2010-11 lineup will include more Brick City, some fashionable new reality shows and the network's first foray into scripted programming.

Carlos, a three-part miniseries about terrorist Carlos the Jackal, will kick off Sundance's slate of scripted series this fall. Edgar Ramirez (Che, Domino) stars as Carlos, who's currently serving a life sentence for the killings of two French agents and their informant in 1975.

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Other scripted series in development include Triple Crossing, a crime drama set in South America; The Clinic, a suspense thriller set in the near future; Fear of Flying, based on Erica Jong's novel; and Shutterbabe, which chronicles ...

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New York -- Sundance Channel is entering the scripted-series arena with a slate of four projects in development from such auspices as John Malkovich and Tony To.

Following sister network AMC into original programming, the network will kick off its foray into original scripted programming in the fall with three-part French miniseries "Carlos," about terrorist Carlos the Jackal, which the channel acquired in November.

The channel's brass screened scenes from the mini starring Edgar Ramirez ("Che") and directed by French filmmaker Olivier Assayas ("Summer Hours") on Tuesday in New York.

In unveiling Sundance Channel's 2010 lineup and development slate, executive vp and general manager Sarah Barnett said the channel will focus on original shows, characters and stories that are "addictive, urgent and timely" and wants to be as adventurous as the Sundance festival is in film.

The goal is to present "a rebooted arts channel that makes noise" with flair and fun,...

How Sex In the City's Carrie Bradshaw did as much to shift the culture around certain women's issues as real-life female groundbreakers

She's not a brass-knuckled political figure, a Birkenstock-wearing Amazon or a breaker of corporate glass ceilings; she's just a sassy single girl in New York City. So why am I so sure that Carrie Bradshaw – the charming, ever-hopeful star of the longrunning HBO series and hit film, all based on Candace Bushnell's New York Observer column – is an icon and did as much to shift the culture around certain women's issues as real-life feminist groundbreakers?

I have written before about how radical it was that the narrative of Sex and the City centred not around a couple – let alone the traditional formula of hero-plus-beautiful-secondary-love-interest. Rather, the core of the tale was always the life-sustaining friendship among four women, as the men in their lives came and went.

Kate Winslet has emerged as the favourite to play married poet Isadora Wing in a new movie adaptation of Erica Jong's controversial novel Fear Of Flying.

Director Diane English, who has adapted the 1973 bestseller for the big screen, has revealed the Titanic star is the only actress currently reading the script for the movie.

She says, "I would love to see Kate Winslet in that role."

Jong hit the headlines with the novel because it chronicles a married woman's attempts to live out her sexual fantasies.

Iron Man director Jon Favreau was forced to confront his fear of flying in order to promote the new superhero movie.

The actor was so terrified of taking to the skies, he hadn't stepped on a plane for two years - but was called upon to travel the globe with the stars of the comic book hit.

Favreau says, "I'm not a good flyer. I hadn't flown in two years and we had to fly around the world."

He even took aviation advice from Dustin Hoffman's character in the film Rain Man.

Favreau explains, "We went to Australia. And I flew with Qantas. If you remember Rain Man - he liked Qantas, because it never crashed - so I was very comfortable."...