Are real celebrities now taking self-parody cues from an unusually trite episode of Entourage? The same morning that Paramount announces a major acquisition for producer Brad Pitt and the production company Pitt started with former wife Jennifer Aniston, Aniston announces that she’s starting her own production company! Through which she’s going to make movies “about [...]
Documentaries that don’t suck! An interview with AJ Schnack, founder of new doc award the Cinema Eye Honors. Plus an interview with Cinema Eye winning director Jason Kohn of MANDA BALA.
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Ellen Burstyn and James Cromwell have been hired to play Barbara Bush Sr and George H.W. Bush in Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush drama, which is currently being called W. All along, the trades have been saying that the goal is to get this sucker distributed around the time of the November elections; today’s Variety [...]
A California appeals court has refused to force the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to give a “retroactive Oscar” to Bob Yari for producing Crash. Yari was excluded from the film’s 2005 Best Picture win when the Academy changed qualification rules the same year, limiting a film’s eligible number of producers to three. [...]
The new alternative documentary awards launch tonight at the IFC Center. I’ll be there, reporting back in 140-character segments.
February 28, 2008 – 3:33 pm
Yes, The Rock wants an Oscar. Do YOU want to be the one to tell him he can’t have one?
February 27, 2008 – 3:00 pm
Interview with Stefan Ruzowitzky, winner for the Best Foreign Film: THE COUNTERFEITERS.
February 27, 2008 – 8:57 am
Is it too “gory,” or did the filmmakers want too much money? This Variety story offers both as potential reasons for why the Amy Adams/Emily Blunt Sundance comedy Sunshine Cleaning, which was pegged before and during the festival as an almost sure-thing candidate for a sale, is only now closing a distribution deal with Overture [...]
February 26, 2008 – 8:45 am
Rick Kissell says we shouldn’t be surprised that Sunday night’s Oscar telecast earned its lowest ratings, um, ever: “A batch of films with mostly grim themes, combined with an awards season that lacked any real momentum thanks to the writers strike, contributed to this year’s alarming 20% falloff.” The people, they just want to laugh! [...]
