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"An Education" Leads BAFTA's "Long List"; "Nine" Snubbed
The "Long List" for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2010 has been released this morning. Lone Scherfig's "An Education" led overall mentions with a whopping 17, including picture, director and six for acting. Other films that found a considerable presence: Quentin Tarantino's "Inglouriou...
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SXSW 2010 Unveils "Kick-Ass" Opener
The world premiere of Matthew Vaughn's action-drama "Kick-Ass" will open the 2010 SXSW Film Conference and Festival, organizers announced this morning. The event, which takes place March 12 - 20 in the Texas capital, also announced five narrative and documentary feature premieres that will join the ...
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Hornby and "An Education" Joins List of Ineligible WGA Scripts (UPDATED)
Nick Hornby's work on major awards contender "An Education" joins a surprising list of screenwriters that have been deemed ineligible by the Writers Guild of America's annual awards. Hornby has been a member of WGA for 10 years, a representative for Hornby told indieWIRE today. But after production...
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USC Scripter Noms Announced
The nominees for the 2009 Scripter Award were announced this evening. The annual honor has been given since 1989 by the Friends of the USC Libraries to the best realization of an english language book adapted to film. It's often a decent suggestion as to what might come of the Academy's adapted scr...
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Box Office 2.0: Tracking The Awards Contenders
The awards-hungry specialty box office clusterf**k that was December is officially only a memory. The vast majority of the films attempting to stand out amidst a dozen other generally major releases all went into the months with high hopes for both financial retribution and awards contention. It tu...
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"Avatar," "District 9" Among PGA Nods; "Serious," "Nine" Snubbed
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today the ten nominations for the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures category that will advance in the voting process for the 21st Annual PGA Awards, which will take place on Sunday, January 24th at the Hollywood P...
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Film Movement Sets "MINE" For Theaters and iTunes
Film Movement has announced a theatrical day-and-date iTunes movie release with Geralyn Pezanoski's doc "MINE." The film will be released in theaters nationwide kicking off with its San Francisco theatrical premiere concurrent with its iTunes premiere on January 8th, 2010. MINE's San Francisco the...
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Box Office: Sony Classics Has Happy New Year With "Ribbon" and "Parnassus"
While "Avatar," "Sherlock Holmes" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks" continued to dominate overall business - grossing over $140 million between them - there was still room for some specialty fare to really flourish over the first weekend of 2010, with most posting weekend-to-weekend increases despite n...
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B.O. of the '00s: The Top Grossing Independent Films of the 2000s
The 2010s begin on Friday - and for the past two months, indieWIRE has been running a weekly Friday chart devoted to glancing back at the past ten years. With a current film as a starting point, iW has charted various sub-categories of this decade's films, focusing on their North American box offic...
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Box Office 2.0: The Biggest Stories of the 2009 Indie Box Office
Hollywood is in the midst of celebrating their first $10 billion year at the box office, with James Cameron's "Avatar" already the year's seventh $200 million grosser. But what of Indiewood? It's been a fascinating year at the specialty box office - both good and bad. There were success stories lik...
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