Chris Rock in Talks to Host Oscars
It seems that Chris Rock (Top Five) is mending the fences with the Academy, as reports surfaced earlier today stating Rock is in talks to return to host the Oscars for the first time in over ten years....
View ArticleOfficial: Chris Rock to Host 2016 Oscars
Late last night we reported that Chris Rock was in talks to host the upcoming Academy Awards. It has now been confirmed that Rock will host the awards ceremony for the second time in his career. Look...
View Article‘The Gone World’ Goes to Fox; Neill Blomkamp in Talks to Write and Direct
According to Deadline, Fox beat out other interested studios to land The Gone World, an as-yet-unpublished sci-fi time travel novel by Thomas Sweterlitsch. The novelist’s debut work, Tomorrow and...
View ArticleWriters Guild Names 101 Funniest Screenplays
The 101 funniest screenplays have been named by the Writers Guild of America. The awards were announced Wednesday at the Hollywood Arclight theater in an event hosted by Rob Reiner, whose This is...
View Article‘The Martian’ Is a Comedy Or So Says Hollywood Foreign Press Association
The awards season is underway and as it goes distributors, publicists and talent are all jockeying for a piece of the action. This year- a year in which a clear frontrunner hasn’t quite been sussed out...
View Article‘Black Mass’ Director Scott Cooper to Helm ‘White Knight’
Scott Cooper, director of this year’s Black Mass starring Johnny Depp, has a new task at hand. He has jumped on board to rewrite and direct the upcoming Warner Bros.‘ film White Knight, reports...
View Article112 Eligible for Academy Award Best Original Score Nomination
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences yesterday announced which film scores are eligible for an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score. A total of 112 made it to the list. In order to...
View Article88th Academy Awards Nominations Announced
The day has arrived! In the past couple of months, we’ve heard from the critics, the guilds, the Golden Globes and had our say over the best achievements in filmmaking of 2015 but now the big guns have...
View Article‘Creed’ Sequel Targets November 2017 Release
According to Variety, MGM’s planned sequel to the critical and box-office hit Creed will likely be released in November 2017. “That’s my goal,” MGM CEO Gary Barber stated, although the date has not...
View ArticleAcademy Takes Swift Action to Further Diversity
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has set plans in motion to help further diversity within their membership. Negative reactions, reported boycotts and endless think pieces have...
View ArticleMark Ruffalo Is Hollywood’s Best Supporting Actor
Mark Ruffalo has earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in the biographical drama Spotlight, which has already won multiple awards this year including a BAFTA Award for Best...
View ArticleEmmanuel ‘Chivo’ Lubezki: Oscar Winning Cinematographer
Emmanuel Lubezki is primed to win his third Academy Award for his achievements in cinematography this year. He has won the Oscar two consecutive years in a row for his work on Gravity and Birdman or...
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88th Academy Awards Live-Blog
The 88th Academy Awards are nearly underway. And what a year it has been: a year that finds one of the most aggressively contested Best Picture line-ups in many a moon (who will win, no one is certain)...
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Rising Stars In The New Feminist Hollywood
With 2016 being so-called the “Year of Feminism in Hollywood,” women are deservedly gaining ground by not only popping up more and more in the massive pool of cinema but also in the strength of the...
View ArticleLenny Abrahamson to Direct Adaptation of ‘The Grand Escape’
Oscar-nominated director, Lenny Abrahamson (Room), is taking on the feature film adaptation of Neal Bascomb’s upcoming book, The Grand Escape. Film4 and Element Pictures have optioned the true story...
View ArticleAMPAS Furthers Diversity Initiative; Invites Record 683 New Members
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) took further steps in attempting to further foster diversity within the film industry with their annual list of Academy invites. After two years...
View Article20 Visual Effects Contenders Advance in Oscars Race
On Friday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the 20 films in the race for the Best Visual Effects. Alice through the Looking Glass Arrival The BFG...
View ArticleOscars: 9 Advance to Next Round for Best Foreign Film Noms
Of 85 foreign films originally being considered, nine have advanced to the next round of voting for Best Foreign Film Oscar nominations. Check out the list below, in alphabetical order by country:...
View ArticleOscars: 10 Films Vie for Best Visual Effects Noms
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences yesterday announced the 10 films vying for Best Visual Effects Oscar nominations. The Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee of the Academy determined...
View ArticleOscars: 145 Films Under Consideration for Best Original Score Noms
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this past week announced that 145 feature-length films released in 2016 are under consideration for Best Original Score nominations. To be eligible, the...
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