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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation announced today several presenters and performers for the 3rd annual Patron of the Artists Awards benefit which takes place Thursday, November 8 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.
Oscar®-nominated producer Jennifer Fox will produce the 10th Annual Governors Awards, for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy President John Bailey announced. The ceremony will be held Sunday, November 18, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom.
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today the films that will play in the Special Screenings, Cinema's Legacy and Midnight sections at AFI FEST 2018 presented by Audi and showcases some of the most highly anticipated films and episodic series of the season.
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced the films that will play in the World Cinema section of AFI FEST 2018 presented by Audi. The World Cinema section showcases the most celebrated international films and features 28 titles from 27 countries.
Saban Films has taken U.S. distribution rights to Academy Award® Winner James Marsh's (The Theory of Everything) King of Thieves starring Academy Award® Winner Sir Michael Caine (The Quiet American), Academy Award® Winner Jim Broadbent (The Iron Lady).
Eighty-seven countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 91st Academy Awards®. Malawi and Niger are first-time entrants. The Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2019.
After an all-night negotiation, NEON is excited to announce it has nabbed US rights to Tom Harper's WILD ROSE which premiered to a rapturous standing ovation at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
Joe Gelchion's Tri-G, Matthew George's Savvy Media Holdings and Robert Katz under his Shine Box banner have joined forces to produce The Secret, a love story directed by Andy Tennant (Sweet Home Alabama, Hitch) and starring Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas.
HBO has acquired the U.S. and Canada television rights to Jeff and Michael Zimbalist's eye-opening feature-length documentary film Momentum Generation, which made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year and won the Audience Award.
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced the full lineup of Galas that will screen at AFI FEST 2018 presented by Audi are the World Premieres of Bird Box and The Kominsky Method also Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, Green Book and Widows.
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced that AFI FEST 2018 presented by Audi will host An Evening With Nicole Kidman. The event will include a conversation and with the Academy Award®-winning actor in tribute to her illustrious career.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in partnership with E! Entertainment and Swarovski, announced today the launch of Action: The Academy Women's Initiative, comprised of the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women, the Academy Directory and annual events,
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today the twenty-eight films that will be featured in the New Auteurs and American Independents sections at AFI FEST 2018 presented by Audi with a record number directed by women.
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today additional programming and speakers added to the line-up for the for the 5th edition of Produced By: New York, held on November 10 at One Time Warner Center in New York.
In Reality, Ann Lupo's unconventional exploration of love, the first feature film from Super Deluxe's won Special Jury Mention in U.S. Fiction at the 2018 LA Film Festival on Friday, making its fourth film festival win.
The LA Film Festival has awarded The Passage, Super Deluxe's original modern-day silent comedy, with the top prize in the Short Fiction category. Super Deluxe planned release for the Oscar-qualified film begins November 2, 2018 with limited engagements.
Today the LA Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, announced the winners of the 2018 Festival at the Awards Reception at the W Hotel in Hollywood presided over by Festival Director Jennifer Cochis and Film Independent President Josh Welsh.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation announced it will present its Patron of the Artists Awards to entertainment industry leader, WndrCo Co-founder and NewTV (working title) Founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and trailblazing Director/Producer/Writer Spike Lee whose most recent film BlacKkKlansman opened earlier this year.
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced that AFI FEST presented by Audi will close with the World Premiere of Focus Features and Working Title's MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, directed by Josie Rourke and written by Academy Award® nominee Beau Willimon.
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced the 32nd edition of AFI FEST presented by Audi will open with the World Premiere of Participant Media's ON THE BASIS OF SEX, in association with Alibaba Pictures and distributed by Focus Features.
Of all the divisions in America, none is as insidious and destructive as racism. The powerful documentary THE LONG SHADOW takes a shockingly candid look at America's original sin – slavery -- and traces the history of slavery.
NBA All-Star Baron Davis, founder of No Label Productions, has joined director Brett Fallentine’s documentary FIRE ON THE HILL as an Executive Producer. The film will make its world premiere this coming Saturday, September 22 at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF).
Screen Media announced today it has acquired all North American rights for Tilman Singer's audacious, psychotropic horror film LUZ, ahead of its US opening night Fantastic Fest Premiere and are planning a first quarter 2019 release.
Three individuals and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2018 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. For the sixth consecutive year, an ensemble of actors will read selected scenes from the winning scripts.
The LA Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, announced the Closing Night Film is the World Premiere of David Raymond's Nomis starring Henry Cavill, Sir Ben Kingsley, Nathan Fillion, Minka Kelly, Alexandra Daddario and Stanley Tucci.
Film Independent announced the 15 projects and 28 filmmakers selected for the 16th annual Fast Track film finance market. Held during the LA Film Festival, Fast Track helps producer-director teams advance their projects through meetings with top industry executives.
Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski announced today that Focus has set production on Harriet, a new feature chronicling the life of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Tubman will be played by Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award®-winner Cynthia Erivo (Bad Times at the El Royale, Widows).
Film acquisition and distribution company, Saban Films has acquired, along with DIRECTV, the North American rights to Sarah Daggar-Nickson's A Vigilante, starring Olivia Wilde (Meadowland, Her, and the upcoming Life Itself).
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to present Honorary Awards to publicist Marvin Levy, composer Lalo Schifrin and actress Cicely Tyson, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.
Roadside Attractions, a sister company of Lionsgate, has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Todd Robinson's The Last Full Measure, which recounts an extraordinary, untold story about the heart and heroism of American soldiers in Vietnam.
Andrew Lauren Productions (ALP) and writer-director Brady Corbet will reteam for The Brutalist. Corbet, will write and direct The Brutalist, their third pairing, which chronicles 30 years in the life of one artist’s enduring monolithic vision.
Saban Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Ludwig and Paul Shammasian's Romans, starring Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean), Janet Montgomery (Black Swan), Charlie Creed-Miles ("Silent Witness"), Josh Myers (I am Soldier) and Anne Reid (Hot Fuzz).
Something "bookish" is going on, and PBS wants to encourage everyone to be a part of it. Launched this past April and continuing throughout the fall, PBS' THE GREAT AMERICAN READ is asking people to choose "America's Best-Loved Novel."
While remaining committed to celebrating a wide spectrum of movies, the Academy announced today that it will not present the new Oscars® category at the upcoming 91st awards. Key dates for the 92nd Oscars were also announced.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation announced today it will bestow this year's Artists Inspiration Awards to legendary actor Harrison Ford and superstar performer and actor Lady Gaga at the Foundation's 3rd Annual Patron of the Artists Awards.
The American Film Institute (AFI) has appointed industry veteran Juli Goodwin as its new Chief Communications Officer who brings more than 25 years of experience to AFI, most recently as Executive Vice President of Domestic Publicity for Warner Bros. Pictures.
The inaugural ReelAbilities Film Festival: Los Angeles 2018 announced its lineup of narrative and documentary features and short films. The festival runs October 11-14, 2018 at locations throughout the city. Tickets and passes will be available to purchase in early September.
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced that Kevin Feige will be honored at the 30th Annual Producers Guild Awards with the 2019 David O. Selznick Achievement Award recognizing the producer's body of work in motion pictures.
Film Independent announced today that the call for entries for the 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards is now open. The Regular Deadline is Tuesday, September 18, 2018, the Final Deadline is Tuesday, October 9, 2018.
Runaway Planet Content Group launches as a bold, new finance and production company headed by veteran director/producer Brett Donowho, seasoned film executive Anthony Callie, and Florida-based financier Mickey Gooch, with Donowho and Callie overseeing day-to-day operations from their Hollywood offices.
Recognizing the year's most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image, AFI AWARDS is the American Film Institute's annual almanac of excellence — celebrating works of significance in both film and television.
Today the LA Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that also produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, announced four additional Gala Screenings at the Festival to accompany the opening night gala, "Echo in the Canyon."
Saban Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Super Starring Val Kilmer (Top Gun) and Patrick John Flueger ("Chicago P.D."), the elevated genre film is based on an idea from "Law & Order" creator/producer Dick Wolf.
On the heels of the recent announcement of Frederick Wiseman's MONROVIA, INDIANA making its world premiere at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, the film will also play at the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.
Today the LA Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that also produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, announced that the Opening Night Film is Andrew Slater's Echo in the Canyon at the Ford Theatres.
David Carrico recently announced the launch of his Los Angeles-based film and television development, production and finance banner Valparaiso Pictures. The first project is After Perfect, written by Elizabeth Chomko (What They Had) with Matt Reeves to produce.
Evan Funke was one of the hottest young chefs in Los Angeles when he inexplicably walked away from his critically-acclaimed and wildly popular restaurant, Bucato, leaving behind him a wake of financial and personal upheaval.
Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism (MCST) and Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) will host Korea Festival in Los Angeles for three days starting from Friday, August 10th to promote Korea as a travel destination and attract U.S. visitors to Korea.
Freestyle Releasing has acquired U.S. theatrical distribution rights to Bee Holder Productions upcoming unique fitness drama Bigger, directed by George Gallo and starring Tyler Hoechlin, Julianne Hough, Aneurin Barnard, Victoria Justice, and Robert Forster.
Film Independent announced the fourteen filmmakers selected from the Middle East, Northern Africa and Turkey to participate in the third annual Global Media Makers, an international film exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today that it has named incoming AFI Conservatory Screenwriting Fellow Taryn Procsal as recipient of the Kirk Douglas Fellowship, a full-tuition two-year scholarship awarded to an AFI Conservatory Fellow.
Refinery29, the leading digital media and entertainment company for young women, today announced a new partnership deal with NEON, the award-winning studio responsible for the release of I, Tonya, Sundance- and Spirit Award Winner- Ingrid Goes West.
The 2018 LA Film Festival announces a diverse slate of 40 feature films, 41 short films, and 10 short episodic works representing 26 countries. More special screenings and programs will be announced in the coming weeks in addition to Opening and Closing Nights and Galas.
Today the LA Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that also produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, unveiled the official U.S. Fiction, Documentary, World Fiction, LA Muse and Nightfall sections.
The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced today that the AFI Conservatory has named Academy Award®-nominated producer, and News and Documentary Emmy Award winner, Lianne Halfon as Producing Discipline Head and will oversee all aspects of the Producing curriculum.
NEON has acquired the worldwide theatrical rights to Todd Douglas Miller’s (Dinosaur 13) cinematic space event documentary, Apollo 11. Executive produced by CNN Films, the film features never-before-seen, large-format film footage of one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments.
The LA Film Festival, under the leadership of Festival Director Jennifer Cochis, announced new programmatic elements for the 24th edition, which has moved to fall, and will include an immersive storytelling program curated by Guest Director Jacqueline Lyanga.
Before I, Tonya and "the incident," there was Sharp Edges, the documentary made thirty-two years ago by Yale University student Sandra Luckow as part of her senior thesis, now acquired by NEON and set for a one week theatrical run.
Miami Love Affair, the award-winning romantic comedy starring Burt Reynolds, from writer/director/actor Ralph Kinnard, and his producing partner Julian Fernau of CoCo Productions, and Lance Paul of Ginger Knight Entertainment is currently on the film festival circuit.
The American Film Institute (AFI) today announces the Screen Australia-Onbass Fellowships, the initial two full-tuition scholarships to attend the AFI Conservatory, which will be awarded for the 2019 and 2020 academic years, for a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Missing Link, LAIKA's fifth animated film, will be released by U.S. distributor Annapurna nationwide on Friday, April 19, 2019. LAIKA is the producer of Oscar-nominated films Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), The Boxtrolls (2014), ParaNorman (2012) and Coraline (2009).
Glenn Frankel and Keri Walsh have been named 2018 Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy’s Educational Grants Committee will award both the $25,000 grant awards on the basis of their proposals.
In anticipation of the reissue of his pioneering work, The Blue Notebooks, originally released in 2004, and now re-released by Deutsche Grammophon with several bonus tracks and a Super Deluxe edition due on June 29, 2018.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that Jennifer Todd has won the runoff election for the open Producers Branch seat on the 2018–19 Board of Governors. Todd joins incumbents Albert Berger and Mark Johnson in representing the branch.
Michael Moore, Oscar®-winning filmmaker and Traverse City Film Festival founder and president, announced today that Jane Fonda will be honored with the festival's Lifetime Achievement Award. The award will be presented to Fonda during the festival's 14th annual edition.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced its newly elected 2018–19 Board of Governors, who assume their posts as of July 1. A runoff election is required for the Producers Branch.
The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the appointment of Michael Lumpkin as Director of AFI Festivals to oversee year-round programming and operations so to streamline efforts with studios, distributors, sponsors and cultural partners.
American Film Institute (AFI) celebrated this year's AFI Conservatory graduates, and newest filmmakers, at Hollywood's historic TCL Chinese Theatre with Honorary degrees conferred upon Academy Award®-winning actor/director Jodie Foster and Academy Award®-winning production designer Dean Tavoularis.
The American Film Institute (AFI) announces the inaugural AFI Cinematography Introductory Intensive for Women (CIIW), sponsored by 21st Century Fox. The tuition-free program, taking place on the AFI campus in Los Angeles, August 3-6, 2018.
The American Film Institute (AFI) today announced that Julia Roberts will present the nation's highest honor for a career in film, the AFI Life Achievement Award, to her longtime friend and colleague George Clooney.
The DOW Jones Industrial Average, avoiding the predicted Bear market for months took a hit over the past week and closed the trading week down with mild double digit losses setting a world tone despite split showings across the ten most watched market in the world.
The DOW Jones Industrial Average,in response to the poor showing from January’s Bureau of Labor Statistic’s jobs report, as well as eight of the top ten world markets, unable to rally, sustained heavy losses as investor confidence globally continued to fall.
Hank Brennan, lawyer for James "Whitey" Bulger the mobster convicted of leading Boston's notorious Winter Hill Gang, is preparing to argue why the court should reverse its original verdict and allow the aging mobster a second chance.
BURBANK, CALIF. (March 2, 2012) — Marvel Studios announced today that its new trailer for this summer’s most highly anticipated movie, “Marvel’s The Avengers,” has been viewed over 13.7 million times in the first 24 hours of its debut, setting a new record for the most viewed trailer on iTunes (http://www.apple.com/trailers) and the iTunes Trailers app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Saban Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Simon West’s (The Expendables 2, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) Gun Shy (formerly Salty), starring Golden Globe Nominee Antonio Banderas (The Mask of Zorro) and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace).
The 2015 OSCAR nominations were announced this week and immediately every media watcher, paid pundit, basement blogger and voyeur, has weighed in on the sensitive issues of race in Hollywood and the apparent snub of black talent.
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a Special Award to director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s virtual reality installation, “CARNE y ARENA (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible),” in recognition of a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling.
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