IMAX coming to Baywalk next month
By TIMES WIRES
Published April 26, 2007
Add St. Petersburg's Muvico Baywalk 20 to the growing list of theaters showing IMAX movies. The large-screen, bold-audio format is being installed and is expected to be ready May 4, when Spider-Man 3 swings into theaters. Baywalk 20 is the first of two Muvico multiplexes in Florida adding IMAX capabilities in 2007. Parisian 20 in West Palm Beach is expected to employ the process by July 13, when Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is released in the oversized format. Baywalk becomes the first Pinellas County theater with IMAX projection, and the third in the Tampa Bay area market, joining Tampa's Channelside 10 and the Museum of Science and Industry's IMAX Dome Theater. Nearly 300 such theaters operate worldwide.
Scholarship for promising filmmaker
St. Petersburg native and University of Central Florida film student Erin Kitzinger has received the Dr. John Welch Scholarship awarded by the Sarasota Film Festival. Kitzinger's short film, The Girl Who Couldn't Dream, was shown at this month's festival, and her $1,000 prize was presented at last weekend's Filmmakers Tribute Dinner. The scholarship is annually presented to a promising student of Florida's college film programs. Kitzinger is using the money to finance her thesis film, Hope for a Thorn, beginning principal photography in June in Orlando. The film is based on her original screenplay that earned a UCF screenwriting award in 2005.
Jolie adds 'Pitt' to newest son's name
Angelina Jolie has filed legal papers to change the name of her newly adopted son to Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt. A petition filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court says Jolie wants to change the 3-year-old boy's name so it will include "the last name of her partner," Brad Pitt, and be the same as that of the couple's other three children, the Associated Press reported. Jolie adopted Pax in Vietnam last month; she filed papers as a single parent since she and Pitt are not married.
'Tudors' actor enters rehab
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who plays Henry VIII in Showtime's miniseries The Tudors, has entered rehab for alcohol abuse. "After a nonstop succession of filming, Jonathan Rhys Meyers has entered an alcohol treatment program," his publicist, Meredith O'Sullivan, said Wednesday in a statement to the Associated Press. "He felt a break was needed to maintain his recovery." No further details were provided.