Birdman Starts to Fly while a Boy Watches, Wrestling its way to the Winner’s Circle. The New York Film Critics also put in their Two Cents. The Independent Film Project’s Gotham City Awards launched award season naming BIRDMAN winner for...
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Found in Translation. A few days before the Oscar Nominations are announced on January 15th, a list of nine films will be on a short list for nomination to Best Foreign Language Film. Winners of this “Academy Award of Merit”–bestowed...
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This is it. The final week to put up or shut up. A24, Dreamworks Animation, and Sony finally did put up. Perhaps Lionsgate, CBS Films, Dreamworks and Relativity will show up late at the ball, but don’t count on it....
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The First Major Nominations. With the noms for Independent Spirit, award season accelerates into high speed mode. Buzz from festivals and critics are deafening and all over, but focus is pulled on the contenders in the first week of December...
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Big Films Come in All Sizes, Independent of Parenthood. The Gotham City Awards kicked off high profile Indie nominations this season, followed by biggie indie award nom on November 25th when the Independent Spirit Awards nominations will be announced. Of...
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Award Season… and So the Long Trek Begins. For Your Consideration: Films from Disney, Fox Searchlight, Focus Features, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Universal, and Warner Bros. Missing as of Nov. 28th: Dreamworks Studios, Lionsgate, CBS Films, and...
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WEDDING CRASHERS. One of those movies you can see again and again. Always funny, a good refresher of a comedy well conceived and executed… Love it! From Wikipedia: John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) are divorce mediators...
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Movies up for Consideration in Award Season. Some studios have made up their mind publicly as to what movies to push for during Award Season 2014. Here is the list for two of these studios, with links to their movie...
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Congratulations to this year’s winners of the most prestigious screenplay competition out there, the Nicholl Fellowship, sponsored and organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The awards ceremony includes (besides a check) table reads of selected scenes...
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Inherent Vice Based on the book by Thomas Pynchon, no less (author also of Gravity’s Rainbow), and helmed by Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will be Blood, among others) this looks like a must see this holiday season. Expectations are riding...
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