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AP: Weinstein Tells Magazine Dench Snubbed

Harvey Weinstein says Judi Dench was snubbed by three network talk shows because of her age while promoting "Mrs. Henderson Presents," according to New York magazine. Dench, 71, was nominated Tuesday for an Oscar for her performance in the film, which was distributed by Weinstein's new production co...

A "Woman" of No Importance: Mike Barker's "A Good Woman"

"A Good Woman," the original title of Oscar Wilde's 1892 play "Lady Windermere's Fan," is a film about the same characters we've met in the play's previous incarnations, only this time many of them are Americans and they're on the shores of the Italian Riviera in 1930. This shuffle of accents, cost...

Production Report: "The Desealer", "Dirty Hands", "Have You Seen Andy?", "The Insurgents", "Sanctifi

[EDITOR'S NOTE: indieWIRE's monthly production report looks at independent films in various stages of production. If you'd like to tell us about a film in production for future columns, please contact us.]

Best Television Ever?

A Bull Market for "Tristram Shandy"; Rang De Basanti Goes Strong

The latest indieWIRE Box Office Tracker (iWBOT) is topped by Michael Winterbottom's post-modernist meta-adaptation, "Tristram Shandy" and an Indian film, "Rang De Basanti," that compares the disillusioned youth of today with that country's courageous anti-colonial revolutionaries. They finished firs...

Schnack's Docs and the Academy

DISPATCH FROM AWARDS SEASON: The Oscar Nominations: Serious Films Stand to Make Some Serious Money

Somehow it seems particularly fitting that the announcement of this year's Oscar nominations came on a day filled with numerous breaking news stories: the appointment of a new U.S. Supreme Court Justice; the same day a network television anchor was transported home in serious condition following a b...

The Lush of the Irish

Oscar non-watch