C-U Blogfidential

THE INFORMANT! proves not to be the most heard on DVD, Blu-ray, and VOD in its first week of availability, although it does not stop C-U Blogfidential from mildly doting on featured actress Melanie Lynskey.

Now that we know the hoped-for “sleeper” success of THE INFORMANT! turned out to be one extended yawner, we turn from the film craft to the box office and consider what exactly went wrong.

Springfield native and former Mahomet/C-U resident Laura Bynum returns to the area to read from her just-published first novel, Veracity (Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster) at 7 p.m. tonight, Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at Borders bookstore in north Champaign.

An article in The Pantagraph from Friday, December 11, 2009, tells of the Town of Normal’s votes to consider a rezoning plan to allow new construction on the current site of University 8 Cinemas as well as reject a plan to allow construction of a Family Video store.

Predestined Arts & Entertainment of Springfield, IL, will premiere their first short film production, THIS LIFE AIN’T PRETTY, on the campus of the University of Illinois at Springfield tonight, Tuesday, December 1, 2009.

THE INFORMANT! adds $8.7 million to its total earnings during its second full week of release in the U.S. Yes, we know its third full week of release just concluded. Tell it to the judge!

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.

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

GenDance.com profiles the (literal) movers and shakers behind the upcoming music-and-dance filled drama LEADING LADIES, filmed earlier this summer in Champaign-Urbana.

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.

Of course, The News-Gazette would eventually cover the indie film production shooting just down the street from their main offices. That your humble editor was allowed to slather the icing on the cake came as a nice surprise.

Multi-instrumentalist and studio engineer Jay Bennett of Urbana has passed away at age 45.

We can’t read it very well, but everything indicates that a hep Frenchman understood enough of the tomfoolery present in THORAXX II: THE BREEDING to recommend it.

Someone other than C-U Blogfidential found enough interest in C-U Blogfidential to write about C-U Blogfidential. Wonders never cease. We love our fans!