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This week's box office offerings just not doing it for you? Well don't worry, kids, because the 2014 New Hollywood Online Film Festival is here to save you from the doldrums of the local cineplex. Read on for details.

From the Press Release

The 2014 New Hollywood (Nuho) Online Film Festival is a pioneering digital initiative which will allow worldwide film enthusiasts the ability to view features, docs and shorts in a daring web-based film festival platform.

Celebrated producer, director, writer Spike Lee will inaugurate the first annual Nuho Online Film Festival, which launches on February 7 and runs through February 28, 2014. Two new horror full length features, The Battery and ColdWater can be viewed individually for $2 each (or $14.99 for all-access pass), and all the short films are Free.

Founded by Keith Mitchell (Mr. 3000, Eddie, Like Mike 2) and Ivy League entrepreneur Chris Kanik, Nuho has been created to offer a contemporary alternative to the traditional film festival.

Spike Lee will inaugurate the first annual New Hollywood (Nuho) Online Film Festival - a pioneering digital initiative which will allow worldwide film enthusiasts the ability to view features, docs and shorts in a web-based film festival platform. The first annual Nuho Online Film Festival is set to launch on February 7 and run through February 28, 2014.Per the press release....The festival is founded by Keith Mitchell (Mr. 3000, Eddie, Like Mike 2) and entrepreneur Chris Kanik, in a mission to offer up an alternative to the traditional film festival. Along with the founders, the team at Nuho is comprised of an advisory board of Hollywood...

The filmmaker has got his weight behind the inaugural 2014 New Hollywood (Nuho) Online Film Festival.

Lee will help launch the event on February 7 with a keynote address.

Nuho’s founders Keith Mitchell and Chris Kanik say the event will deliver the full festival experience via its web-based platform.

The festival is set up to allow audiences to view films while granting filmmakers access to agents, distributors and other industry professionals.

Nuho films only screen during the festival so as not to cannibalise potential revenues steams for distributors. The festival runs until February 28.

Dignity Film Finance, the Los Angeles-based film and television production company headed by finance, marketing and distribution specialist and Dff President Maggie Monteith, unveils a dynamic slate of three films the company is financing and producing this year. The titles in active development are; an adaptation of Anthony Bourdain.s bestselling novel Bone In The Throat produced by Lenny Beckerman (Uwantmetokillhim?) and Peter Heslop (The King.S Speech); the romantic comedy Closer To Fine to be directed by Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote) and Spy Vs. Stu, an action comedy to be directed by Hervé Renoh (Coursier).

.I am thrilled about the titles we have on our slate and the caliber of talent that are already attached,. said Monteith. .As we are actively putting together all the other components on these four films I am delighted to say that the process has been a pleasure and they are all coming together exactly how I envisioned.

Angela Bassett has signed on to star opposite Bernie Mac in the Walt Disney Co. baseball comedy Mr. 3000. Being directed by Drumline helmer Charles Stone, Mr. 3000 centers on a retired Detroit Tigers player (Mac) who comes out of retirement when three of his base hits are disallowed, dropping him below the prized 3,000-hit plateau. Bassett will play a sports reporter who is Mac's love interest in the film. Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Maggie Wilde are producing the project, which was penned by Eric Champnella and Keith Mitchell. Frank Marshall, Johnathan Glickman and Steven Greener are executive producing. Disney production exec Jason Reed is overseeing for the studio. Bassett, who has starred in such films as The Score, How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale, also appears in the upcoming Sony Pictures Classics drama Masked & Anonymous. Bassett is repped by CAA.