





Dr. Donna Kornhaber and Dr. Ellen Christine Scott have been named 2016 Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy's Educational Grants Committee will award Kornhaber and Scott the scholars' $25,000 grant awards on the basis of their proposals.
Academy Award® winner Ben Affleck will star in Robert Rodriguez's mind-bending action thriller Hypnotic. Production is scheduled to start in April. This is the first green lit film under the Studio 8 and Solstice Studios strategic partnership.
The Vault, from Saban Films and Paramount Entertainment, presents a fast action, globetrotting, entertaining heist film complete with all the impossibilities, ingenuity, technological wizardry, gizmo's, and gadgets necessary to access the most secure vault in Spain.
Entertainment One (eOne), a global independent studio that specializes in the development, acquisition, production, financing, distribution and sales of entertainment content announced that Katie Rollings has been appointed as Head of UK Licensing for eOne Family and eOne Licensing.
John Bailey was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Tuesday night (August 8) by the organization's Board of Governors marking Bailey first term as president and his fourteenth year as a governor.
Sycamore Pictures announced today that Academy Award® Winner Geoffrey Fletcher has signed on to pen I Am a Man, which is based on Michael K. Honey's book, Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign.

Acclaimed living legend of Afro-Cuban music, seven-time GRAMMY Award winner and six-time Latin GRAMMY Award winner Chucho Valdés celebrates his lauded 60-year recording career with an instant-classic, "Cuba & Beyond," set for release on Friday, September 20, 2024.
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart will release their new album, Looking For The Thread, January 24 via Thirty Tigers, an exciting debut collaboration from the trio. Pre-order HERE. The first single, "Hold Everything," is out now.
McQueen, from Bleecker Street, presents the rags to riches story of iconic Fashion Designer Alexander "Lee" McQueen, whose unbelievable journey could never have been imagined bringing him from his working class East London home to the House of Givenchy.
"God Help The Girl," from Amplify and Barry Mendel Productions, presents a message of hope as the ravages of anorexia, and destruction of lies are told in musical form through the eyes of a contemporary Euro underground rave band.
Loren & Rose, from Wise Lars, LLC, presents a story of an unusual friendship between a budding director and an aging actress who, influenced by worlds beyond his frame, passes on the wisdom of her life.
The Absence of Eden, from Roadside Attractions and Vertical, presents an explosive immigrant drama that follows a young woman forced from one slavery existence to another as she runs for her life hoping to escape after killing a cartel hitman.





