NEW YORK — First-time writer/director Meera Menon (“Farah Goes Bang”) took home the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize at the 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday. Menon was selected out of eight 2013 TFF filmmakers to receive a cash prize of $25,000 for work and talent that embody the spirit and vision of Ephron. “We’re [...]
CULVER CITY, Calif. — A few months before the bones of Richard III were discovered below a parking lot in Leicester, England, the infamous British monarch was the focal point of a very different type of reclamation project halfway around the world in Culver City, California. There, Colorworks, Sony Pictures’ digital intermediate facility, applied the [...]
NEW YORK — Focus Features has picked up the domestic and Latin American distribution rights to Jean-Marc Vallée’s ”Dallas Buyers Club,” Focus CEO James Schamus and Focus president Andrew Karpen said Tuesday. currently in post-production, has been acquired by Focus Features for domestic theatrical release in the second half of 2013. The company has also acquired [...]
LOS ANGELES -– Animation buffs, movie fans, and memorabilia collectors will all have the chance to own unique hand-crafted materials from Academy Award nominee, “ParaNorman.” The internet auction is coordinated through Profiles in History, the world’s largest auctioneer of original Hollywood Memorabilia, and will begin on Friday, February 22 and will end Monday, March 4. [...]
Steven Spielberg’s period drama about Abraham Lincoln’s noble quest to emancipate the slaves looms largest in the 2013 Oscar picture with 12 nominations. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science announced the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards Thursday, and they featured a few surprises. Chief among them: No directing noms for Ben Affleck, [...]
The Online Film Critics Society has announced the winners of its 16th annual movie awards. The winners in each category are listed below: Best Picture “Argo” Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson (“The Master”) Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis (“Lincoln”) Best Actress Jessica Chastain (“Zero Dark Thirty”) Best Supporting Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (“The Master”) Best Supporting [...]
Paul Thomas Anderson has a taste for the epic. It was always there, from the sprawling spectacle of “Boogie Nights” (1997) to the experimental spider web narrative of “Magnolia” (1999) and the magnificent fireball of ambition and greed that was “There Will Be Blood” (1997). “The Master,” Anderson’s sixth feature, is epic, but in its own [...]
Ramin Bahrani, the New York-based auteur responsible for such indie darlings as “Chop Shop” (2007) and “Goodbye Solo” (2008) shot a curious little short in 2009 called “Plastic Bag.” It follows a plastic shopping bag, voiced by Moving Arts favorite Werner Herzog, on an existential journey. Let me say that again: Werner Herzog plays a [...]
Director: Steven Spielberg Writer: Tony Kushner Studio: DreamWorks Pictures Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn Release: November 9, 2012
Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated “Lincoln,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the titular prez, is set to debut in epic fashion, via a live-broadcast in Times Square on September 13 at 6pm CDT. It will also be available to you non-New Yorkers via Google+ Hangout the same day. Spielberg and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Robert Todd Lincoln) will also have [...]
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